The Record Newspaper 08 June 1995

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Page 2 - Archbishop's Perspective: Archbishop Barry Hickey begins an occasional column this week with a report on his stay with the martyrs and confessors of the Ukraine Also, a report on Perth Archdiocese's 150th birthday

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Farewell, Job the Builder

Students, teachers from all over WA gather to honour bishop Over 1000 students and ing Catholic education in the teachers, including students Kimberley. from schools all over WA, The first was Jesus Christ himcongregated in Broome last self, Bishop Healy said in his Thursday and Friday to homily, who came into the farewell their bishop of 36 world to teach people of all years standing, the leg- places and times to love one another. endary John Jobst.

Bishop Jobst: built on the work of education pioneers in the Kimberley

tines and Sisters of St John of God did - and to nurture it to the youthfulness it has today - as Bishop Jobst has done with the aid of many religious and lay people, has been a story that has had moments of deep suffering and pain," Bishop Healy said.

But, said Bishop Healy, there The spectacular Kimberley Catholic Education Festival, were also three other reasons "But, like Jesus in his Resurrich in the vibrant colour and why the gathering took place symbolism of Catholic educa- and they in turn took their own rection and Ascension, it has tion in the Kimberley, featured reasons from Christ. also had moments of great joy These were: the contributions and happiness. This day is one displays, ceremonies and activities designed especially for the to Catholic education in the of those moments of joy and Kimberley by Bishop Jobst, who occasion. happiness when we forget for a "One of the high points was is retiring as bishop of Broome; little while the pain and hard the opening ceremony where the Pallottine Fathers; and the children from each school Brothers and Sisters of St John work that has been endured to build the communities and brought a container of water of God. from their region which was The Mass, said Bishop Healy, parishes of the Broome diocese, poured into a large communal concluded a festival that had and thank God for what has font, which was used during the taken the theme of 'Looking been achieved through his celebration of the Eucharist on Forward, Looking Back' devoted servants," he said. the Friday," Perth Catholic Edu"To establish the Church in cation Office public relations the Kimberley - as the Pallotconfined on page 5 officer, Rosemary Penman, said.

Aboriginal students from Kimberley schools delivered messages in their own dialects while messages from the nonKimberley schools came from languages as disparate as African, Polish, Swedish and Maori. Their message? "We are happy to be here."

Bishop Robert Healy. chairman of the Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia, said there were four reasons why more than 1,000 teachers, students and other individuals came from all over the Kimberley and throughout WA to celebrate Catholic education in the Kimberley at Mass and honour Bishop Jobst, known as John the Builder for his pioneering work in expandBishop Jobst enjoying the company of Beagle Bay children

Seminarians need holiness, doctrine for family work: Vatican

By Cindy Wooden

VATICAN CITY (CNS) Seminaries must improve the way they train future priests to work with families and must ensure their students will uphold Catholic Church teaching on marriage and sexuality, a new Vatican document said this week.

"Families need expert spiritual guides and sound doctrine," said the document, released on Tuesday by the Congregation for Catholic Education, which has responsibility for seminaries.

The 21-page document, "Directives on the Formation of Seminarians Concerning Problems Related to Marriage and the Family," called for "a radical renewal of the preparation of future priests for the family apostolate."

Despite church leaders' increasing focus on the family as the priority for church pastoral work, very few priests had the theological, doctrinal, spiritual and practical training needed to help modern families, the document said.

An ambivalence toward or outright rejection of church teaching on marriage and sexuality among professors, seminary staff and the students themselves seemed to be the main reason why ministry to families was not given the attention it deserves in seminaries, it said.

"The danger in the church is that we will have guides who are not secure in their own thinking" regarding church teaching "and therefore can't guide the church with security," Cardinal Pio Laghi, prefect of the congregation, said.

Offering courses in moral theology to examine issues related to sexuality and training priests to celebrate weddings and to under-

stand canonical laws regarding valid marriages was not enough to prepare a priest to help modern families deal with all the problems they faced, the document said.

The church's concern for families and its conviction that its future depended on healthy families must permeate every aspect of a seminarian's education and formation, it said.

The congregation said it prepared the document after examining how seminarians were being trained for family ministry and after consulting with Catholic couples.

"We must conclude that this subject matter is not being treated with that accuracy and fullness which is necessary in order to provide the church with pastors who are well-prepared for this field of the apostolate," it said.

"On the subject of the family and married life, in fact, objections to

the magisterium of the church are not rare," the document said.

In addition, it said, traditional seminary courses dealing with marriage and sexuality had not changed enough to respond to the modern challenges facing families. The document referred to challenges as varied as raising children when both parents worked, the widespread availability and use of contraceptives, caring for a family member with AIDS, as well as the effects of unemployment and poverty on family life.

The document urged seminaries to take an interdisciplinary approach to family ministry, providing future priests the needed background in philosophical and theological issues related to the theme as well as structured pastoral experiences with families.

A particular concern of the document was preparing seminarians to deal with family issues in the

confessional, which, it said, must begin by encouraging the seminarians themselves to regularly receive the sacrament of penance.

As with most areas of the church's work, providing a good example of living a holy life was the key to helping others live a holy life in their chosen vocation, it said.

At the press conference, Cardinal Laghi rejected arguments that the church's ministry to families would improve greatly if married men were ordained to the priesthood.

"We, too, come from families.

We, too, have families and were born and raised in them," he said.

"And I think very little is hidden from us as we work with people, hear their confessions and serve as their pastors.

"We do not have to marry to know the problems of the family," Cardinal Laghi said.

Ukrainian Church teaches courage in Faith I have just returned from a week in the Ukraine as part of a delegation of six Catholic Bishops of Australia to the Ukrainian Catholic Church, which is emerging from fifty years of repression under Communism.

My experience has reminded me strongly that we still live in the age of martyrs.

The other members of the delegation included Sydney's Cardinal Edward Clancy and Bishop Peter Ingham, and Bishop George Pell, Bishop Hilton Deacon and the Ukrainian Eparch of Australia, Bishop Peter Stasiuk, all from Melbourne. We were also accompanied by Mr Michael Whitely of Australian Catholic Relief.

We had the opportunity to speak with members of both Catholic communities in the Ukraine, those of the Latin Rite, led by Archbishop Marien Jaworski, and members of the Ukrainian Eastern Rite (called Greek Catholics), led by Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky.

Both communities suffered under Communist repression,

now officially ended. However much still needs to be done to restore the rights and the property of the Churches before they become truly free.

It was the Ukrainian Church of Byzantine Rite that suffered most. In 1946, under Stalin, the Church was liquidated completely in a forced merger with the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Ukrainian Catholics rejected the merger and, as a consequence, they lost all their churches and their property.

They went underground. Those who protested, especially priests, nuns and bishops, were either killed, imprisoned or sent to labour camps in Siberia.

We spoke to a number of priests who had been imprisoned for many years. They are rightly regarded as heroes among the people, and are justly referred to as "Confessors of the Faith", an ancient title that comes from the days of the Roman persecutions.

It was their stories and their witness that impressed us so much. One can only wonder at

DPP says charges to be dropped

By Peter Rosengren The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended to the Commissioner of Police that the current cases against Christian Brothers accused of molestation of boys in their care not be proceeded with.

Senior crown prosecutor with the DPP, Gerard Ovarman, who confirmed that the DPP's office had advised the police that the cases be dropped, said that there was insufficient evidence to guarantee a successful prosecution of the case. "The matter arises out of the quality of the evidence and the rules governing evidence imposed on us by the courts in previous decisions," he said.

Mr Ovarman said that, in the end, the necessity was to make a judgement on the factors involved and, on that judgement, there were no prospects of success if the matter was to be proceeded with in court. The factors included matters like the age of

the evidence, that it was one person's word against another's and that all the allegations had been denied by the persons in question.

The decision was received angrily by members of VOICES, the organisation representing those who have alleged sexual abuse by Brothers against them while in institutions run by the religious congregation.

"Generally speaking the men are pretty angry. They're upset and frustrated," VOICES representative Bruce Blyth said.

"We're looking at the possibility of private criminal action.

Deputy provincial of the Christian Brothers, Brother Tony Shanahan, said the reasons for the decision by police not to prosecute reflected the views of the Christian Brothers opposing calls for an inquiry into the affair as it would not achieve the ends that its supporters had said it would.

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Perspective the strength of their faith as they lived through their years of trial, not knowing whether it would ever end, not sure even if the rest of the Church knew of their sufferings.

The head of the Church, Metropolitan Josyf Slipyi, spent 18 years in prison. He was finally allowed to leave for Rome in 1963 where he set up the Church in exile. He also attended the Second Vatican Council and was made a Cardinal.

After his death in 1984 his successor, Cardinal Lubachivslcy, was appointed. It was only in December 1989 at a meeting between President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Holy Father that the Ukrainian Church was promised the restoration of its rights.

After considerable negotiation, Cardinal Lubachivslcy triumphantly returned to Lviv on 3 0 March 1991 to lead the Church to its rebirth and restoration.

We Catholics who live so far away, and for whom persecution is not a reality, can easily be oblivious to the sufferings of the underground Church behind the Iron Curtain.

The brief visit by the Australian Bishops' delegation has

been an opportunity for the reality of the situation to impact upon us, and a chance for us to say to the Catholics of Australia that we have real living heroes of the Faith whose stories will be a source of inspiration for all of us.

I felt the pride of the people who had come out from the underground, that they had not c apitulated and that God had carried them through their trials.

In Australia we face opposition of another kind, persistent attacks on our beliefs and moral principles. Let us take courage from the example of the Church o f Silencc in standing firm under attack, and remaining true to our convictions, no matter the price to be paid.

On Sunday June 18 I will be visiting our local Ukranian Catholic Church in Maylands. I look forward to passing on the greetings and affection of their brothers and sisters in the Ukraine whose Faith not even the might of Communism was able to crush.

A celebration with panache

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard One hundred and fifty years of formally established Catholicism in Western Australia certainly didn't go unnoticed last weekend on Pentecost Sunday.

Subiaco parish for instance celebrated with a certain panache as colonially dressed wee small folk up to the more mature, aired hooped petticoat skirts, long skirts with soft folds, beautiful garden hats, eye catching bonnets, and frilly blouses and shawls, while the colonial gentlemen sported elegant tails and bow ties.

Mayor of Subiaco Tony Costa read the Apostolic Document declaring Pope Gregory's creation of the WA diocese, followed by commentator Marie Hebble's reading of the Illuminated Address of Loyalty text to be presented to "the present Archbishop o f Perth and Metropolitan of Western Australia, Archbishop Hickey."

Following the Mass, a very sprightly Len Boylson, who has been in the parish since his infancy 76 years ago, planted a pine tree commemorating the pioneers who had gone before and made all things possible.

At St Mary's Cathedral on Sunday, Archbishop Hickey said that, considering the turbulent foundations of the Church in WA 150 years ago, the Holy Spirit could clearly be seen at work.

"If it had been a purely human enterprise it would not have succeeded," he said.

Two children from the Farley family watch Mr Boylson plant the commemmorative tree.

Ecumenist new Brisbane auxiliary Desecration of Eddie The vice-rector and academic dean of Queensland's St Pius X seminary, Father Michael Putney, is to be consecrated as the third auxiliary bishop of Brisbane.

A noted ecumenist, Fr Putney's appointment has been welcomed by ecumenists especially - but without surprise by his mother.

Mrs Margaret Putney, a resident at the Anglican Symes Thorpe Home for the Aged in Toowoomba, said her son had been well prepared practically for his new role by his studies and travels. But more than that, he was a natural person who related well to people.

Bishop-elect Putney will relinquish his posts at Banyo Seminary before his episcopal ordination, expected late in July.

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Gladstone-born and ordained in 1969, he said that as few bishops were needed for the Church's ministry, it was an honour to be selected.

Archbishop Bathersby of Brisbane said he was delighted by the appointment. Since his ordination Bishop-elect Putney had played a significant role in the overall life of the archdiocese.

"As one of the top theologians in Australia, he is recognised both nationally and internationally, while his work in the field of ecumenism has been outstanding," said Archbishop Bathersby.

The President of Queensland Churches Together, Rev Han Spykerboer, of the Uniting Church, who has worked with Bishop -elect Putney in ecu-

menism and academically, said that if the Uniting Church had bishops, "we'd like to have one like Michael'".

"Importantly, he has a sound theological mind, so important in ecumenical dialogue. He is also someone who has the ecumenical movement at heart. His appointment will gladden the hearts of his many friends in ecumenism."

Bishop-elect Putney keeps fit by walking and swimming daily.

He is a keen supporter of the Broncos League team and friends also describe him as a movie buff. He subscribes to philharmonic and symphony orchestra concerts and likes mystery and detective novels for relaxation.

Mabo's grave condemned Bishop Kevin Manning, chair of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, yesterday condemned the desecration of the grave of Eddie Mabo.

"This is a blatant racist act of vandalism," said Bishop Manning.

"It is a calculated insult to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the memory of Eddie Mabo and what he stood for."

"The Catholic Church strongly condemns this action. The desecration of a grave is a deplorable act but even more so when stemming from racial bias. All racism is contrary to the mind of Christ and contrary to Christian love which recognises that every person is my brother and sister," said Bishop Manning.

"I extend my sympathy and consolation to Mrs Mabo and her family," said Bishop Manning.

Swastikas and racial slurs were daubed in red paint on the headstone and a bronze image of Mr Mabo was prised off the headstone.

The Prime Minister's wife, Annita Keating, had earlier unveiled the stone to mark the third anniversary of the Maho High Court ruling and the end of the official indigenous mourning period for Mr Mabo.

Mr Mabo died five months short of his historic High Court victory which recognised native title to land.

From Spain to Australia with great love

God 'finds' his Abbot

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Archbishop Hickey incenses Abbot Gregory's coffin

The monastery bells pealed a mournful, final salute and lament as the hearse carrying the last Spanish Abbot of New Norcia, Gregory Gomez OSB, followed a long white line of clergy and fellow monks from the New Norcia Monastery, led by Archbishop Barry Hickey, last Tuesday.

Leaden skies showed their empathy as the body of this urbane, charming, and intellectual leader was brought to the Requiem Mass, allowing the 400 people present to say their last farewell.

Inside the packed New Norcia Holy Trinity Abbey Church, his friends from far flung places listened as fellow monk. retired Abbot Bernard Rooney, told of the 91 year old's "kaleidoscopic life," peppered with "events, achievements, successes and failures."

Abbott Rooney said that during the 73 years he spent largely at New Norcia, since his arrival from Spain, Abbot Gregory made his mark with a substantial range of changes and achievements, within the monastery and beyond.

Monks and priests process in the rain at the Abbot's funeral

Bent on inculturation, he sAustralianised' the monastery and fittingly, as the last Spanish Abbot, straddled comfortably both cultures - that of his Castilian birthplace and his adopted Australia which he loved, speaking both languages fluently and for a bit of flavour - Italian.

Many at the funeral voiced affection for Abbot Gregory, and among those were Josephite Sister Bridie O'Sullivan who recounted his days with her in Trayning in 1975, when she discovered he was "utterly charming, but hopeless in the culinary field" and needed assistance with that, plus clothing purchases; and from then on, "When should I wear this? And which Australian slang expression do I use now?" (a list of which he carried around in his pocket).

"Loyal and generous friend" of Abbot Gregory was Mrs Doreen Sheridan of Nedlands who was always available to drive, assist, offer friendship and to talk to; she described him as "a very intellectual man and a wonderful inspiration to me over many years."

Sister Visitation, who has spent 35 years in Kalumburu, was there during Abbot Gregory's time and described him as a builder and a much loved man of the people.

But who more appropriate for the final comment than Abbot Gregory's Prior Administrator Placid Spearritt in his homily, who saw him as "a good example to us of a Christian who had a healthy sense that he was not perfect, and that he needed the mercy of God." Saying he didn't believe that Abbot Gregory had "an over exaggerated sense of guilt, he certainly did however put his hope for salvation in the Lord, and not in himself."

After his accidental death, Abbot Gregory was found with "a couple of little plastic pouches - full of small pieces of paper with various bits of information."

There were idiomatic English phrases he was learning, some wise sayings in Spanish, a list of Australian prime ministers - "there's no accounting for tastes! and a few reflective thoughts, including this one: 'To seek day by day, to find, and be found by God' "I believe that each day he did find God... And of course, God found him."

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Man of good grace, impish humour able expansion and contraction, with many being admitted to try their vocation, and only some staying.

By Dom David Barry Dom Gregory was born to Marcos Gomez and his wife Claudia Cubillo on 9th May 1904, in the village of Villoruebo (Burgos), Spain. He was throughout his life proud of being Castilian.

At the age of ten he was recruited - he himself would sometimes say, only half-jokingly, "kidnapped" - by the Abbot of New Norcia, Dom Anse1m Catalan, and admitted with other aspirants to the monastery of El Pueyo, where he pursued his secondary studies.

At the age of fifteen he was sent to the Abbey of Montserrat to make his novitiate for New Norcia. Making his temporary profession on 15th August 1920, he was then sent to Rome for two years of philosophy at the Benedictine Collegio di Saint AnseImo, and arrived in New Norcia on 8th September 1922.

Dom Gregory was ordained t o the priesthood by Archbishop Clune in St. Mary's Cathedral, Perth, on 18th August 1928. Not long after ordination he was sent to supply in the parish of Goomalling in place of a sick Fr William OSB. and there began a fruitful pastoral life in the course of

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which he made many long-lasting friendships.

In 1930 he went back to Rome to do doctoral studies in theology, and on returning to New Norcia was heavily engaged in teaching theology in the monastery to monastic and diocesan students for the priesthood (1933-50), and attending to the parish of Bindoon-Gingin from the monastery (1934-1948).

Abbot Catalan retired in 1951 and Fr Gregory was elected by the monks of' New Norcia in May 1951.

The following years saw considerable changes inside and outside the monastery. The monastic community went through periods of consider-

As Abbot Ordinary of the Abbey Nullius he was responsible for a general reorganization of the parishes, and actively promoted the pastoral work of the Abbey's monastic and diocesan priests during the 50s and 60s. His name features on a number of foundation stones of churches and other buildings in parishes of the former diocese of New Norcia.

Religious sisters and brothers experienced his cheerful encouragement in their work of caring for white and Aboriginal children in schools and orphanages in the territory in his charge, or rather, territories in his charge.

In later life, he continued to enjoy very good health, and to relish life, though in recent years diabetes restricted his partaking of several types of food and drink he liked. He made a number of trips to Spain, and really enjoyed his visits there. He was often called on to entertain guests and visitors to the monastery, which he did with his accustomed good grace and sometimes impish humour.

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By Penny Ashcroft Catholic Youth and Young Adult Ministry As a result of our talks with people from various parishes, we have noticed an increased desire to gain a deeper understanding of young people - to break down the barriers that prevent good conununication.

One of the first steps to achieve this is to come to an understanding of how adolescents grow and develop.

Healthy adolescent development is a combination of internal growth (positive commitments, values, attitudes, social behaviour) and the external supports necessary for positive growth (family, school, church and community).

Ideally, young people's internal strengths will gradually develop through adolescence while their external supports are gradually being removed. However, often during teen years, supports are removed before adequate internal strengths have been developed.

It is important to remember that all of these changes have a great impact on family life.

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It is clear, if we focus on positive values and social interaction, that we as church can play a very important role in the development process.

Our Christian faith provides a value base from which young people can develop positive values, such as valuing sexuality and caring about others. It also can help promote responsible decision making and developing a positive view of the future. Young people who decide not to get involved in negative behaviour, often do so because of their value system.

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The peace that comes from serving God totally Sr Madeleine Lynch and Sr no wish to leave the people more than the times of B ernadette O'Connor have and the land they have come scarcity. spent almost their entire to love. adult lives serving the people At times their work suffered As they talked recently to great setbacks - natural and of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Srs Brian Coyne of the Catholic unnatural disasters hit both Madeleine and Bernadette's Education Office in Perth and their physical surroundings saga tells the wider story of Anne Burns of The West Aus- and the Aboriginal people many hundreds of sisters, tralian, one could hear in the whom they sought to elevate priests and brothers over the background the sounds of and serve. birds, a rooster crowing, and past 110 years.

Pervading their words today Neither Sr Madeleine, 83, the chiming of a cuckoo clock is a wonderful sense of calm. nor Sr Bernadette, 75, were on the wall of their convent. formally trained as teachers.

It is a serene setting for their To meet Sr Madeleine and Sr In their early years in the story. But in the context of Bernadette is to meet two Kimberley there was not the their life's work, it is surreal. people without a human time or the resources for For most of their working ambition in their being other training. In the words of Sr lives in the Kimberley heat, than to serve others and to B ernadette, they had to they sweltered in black serge serve the Lord. Their lives become "Jacks of all trades" habits. There was no electric- today radiate that deep inner because there was so much to ity, air conditioning or even sense of peace and contentbe done. They worked as fans. There was no shop ment that sums up why there teachers, nurses, seam- down the corner and for their are alternative satisfactions stresses, gardeners, cooks food they were dependent on in life to the often raucous and just about everything what was able to be grown pushing and shoving of conelse. and raised on the mission. temporary civilisation.

Today they live in retire- They remember the 'monotment at Beagle Bay and have ony' of an unchanging diet from Catholic Education Circular

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US bishops vote on liturgy

By Jerry Filteau

Eagle's player, Daniel Metropolis, autographs the back of Kandice Simpon's windcheater after training at Subiaco Oval.

Over recent weeks, children from Our Lady of Fatima school in Palmyra and Wandalgu Catholic primary school, Tardun, have been seeing a lot of each other as they play host to each other in an interesting cultural exchange: city and country; Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal.

First, Year 6 students from Our Lady of Fatima school, through the initiative of their teacher, Miss Nicola Baldassar, travelled up to Tardun by bus and spent three days learning about life in a country school. The students from Wandalgu were able to

share with them many of the different experiences offered by the country as well as an understanding of their own Aboriginal culture.

The city children experienced a slice of life at Wandalgu Hostel, administered by the Pallottines.

They also went on excursions and visited the nearby Christian Brothers' Agricultural College where they were treated to horse riding and a chance to see many of the chores that have to be attended to on a farm.

In the last week of May, the roles were reversed. Thirty children from Wandalgu came down to the city and were billetted with families from Our Lady of Fatima School.

In the mornings it was a chance for the country children to participate in the normal school activities at Our Lady of Fatima school. In the afternoons there were excursions to Scitech, the Zoo, to historic Fremantle and even a train trip to Subiaco on Wednesday evening to watch the Eagles in training.

W ASHINGTON (CNS) - The United States Catholic bishops plan to take another large step toward a revised. English version of the Mass when they meet in Chicago next Thursday.

Among some 500 pages of liturgical texts and instructions that they are scheduled to vote on are a new translation of the liturgical texts of the Order of the Mass, including revised texts for Masses with children, and American adaptations to the Order of the Mass.

Some changes the bishops are to vote on are: • A restructuring of the opening rites of Mass.

• A proposal to move the exchange of peace from before Communion to the beginning of the Liturgy of the Eucharist. * An option for the people to stretch out their arms as the priest does while saying the Lord's Prayer. That posture is called the "orans" or "praying" position. * An option to kneel during the penitential rite at the beginning of Mass during Lent, and

an option to stand during the Eucharistic Prayer when there are good reasons for it.

• Adoption of the Apostles' Creed as an optional alternative to the Nicene Creed at any Mass instead of only at Masses with children.

• Numerous changes in translations of texts, such as "for us and our salvation" in place of "for us men and our salvation" in the Nicene Creed.

From the advance written amendments for the June meeting, it appears that much of the bishops' actual debate will focus on such things as: instances where texts were changed to avoid use of male pronouns for God; some proposed changes in specific rites or actions during Mass; and certain changes in the traditional English versions of prayers that US Catholics have become accustomed to.

One proposed amendment is almost certain to attract media attention with its argument that a proposed change from "his people" to "God's people" in the Gloria "accedes to the feminist demand that the traditional and uniform masculine images of God be gelded."

School children farewell Bishop Jobst with tribal dance, music

School children celebrate the festival last week at Beagle Bay

Continued from Page 1 There was also a fifth reason for the gathering, said Bishop Healy, which was to express solidarity with the Aboriginal people and to bear witness to the fact that the Catholic Church continues to walk with them toward the vision described by Bishop Jobst in 1961: that the Aboriginal people must regain their pride and independence and fully realise their responsibilities and their rightful place in the connnunity and the Church.

During the Festival a variety of workshops in the Broome Civic Centre gardens, expressing a Kimberley theme, were conducted for all the children. These included Aboriginal music, percussion, reed-weaving and Kimberley bush foods, while in the afternoon an art exhibition featuring art from all over the region was opened.

In the evening a special concert 'Performance Under the Stars' was held which saw students dis-

play their creative and artistic talents - one highlight being the tribal dance performed by children from Gibb River.

The following day students spent most of their time making new friends and participating in sporting activities, both in Broome and on Cable Beach. For some who had never seen the ocean before the beach experience was the absolute highlight.

Finally, the Festival closed with a Eucharistic celebration and the presentation of gifts to Bishop Jobst from the children.

Perth CEO public relations officer, Rosemary Penman, said many good things came out of the Festival, not the least of which were the many new friendships formed. When it came time to leave many of the Kimberley students went out to the airport to farewell their friends from the South and there was much scribbling of telephone numbers on t-shirts and scraps of paper."

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Enterprise bargaining can hit low-paid workers, says ACSWC lion system. It also contained potential pitfalls. Therefore, when workers in service industries lost out in the process of enterprise bargaining, so did their families, he The dangers of enterprise bargaining said. have been highlighted by the Australian "Our message is that enterprise bargainCatholic Social Welfare Commission in its ing will lead to further inequality in Ausrecent statement on industrial relations. tralia and will cause serious social injustice Entitled "Is Inequality an Inevitable Out- unless a proper industrial relations system come of Enterprise Bargaining?", the 15 is kept in place," he said. page publication warns that low-income workers in service industries known as Fr Cappo said that an additional cause for external labour markets are disadvantaged concern was the recent insertion of limitaby operating from a general position of tions to the public interest sections of the Industrial Relations Act. weakness.

Father David Cappo, national director of The public interest had allowed industrial the ACSWC, said that while enterprise bar- tribunals to accord priority to low income gaining was commonly recognised as a earners in external labour markets when proper move in Australia's industrial rela- awards were created, said Fr Cappo.

By Peter Rosengren

Fr Cappo also said the commission was not opposed to enterprise bargaining.

However, he also pointed out that it could be exploited in situations where one party was disadvantaged.

"Enterprise bargaining itself relies on an enormous amount of trust between employers and employees. If trust is going to work, though, you have to have employers and employees on a fairly equal footing," he said.

"Employers and employees know that if they [the workers] don't accept [what's offered] then they can go, and there are plenty of other people who can fill their low skilled, fairly low paid positions," he said.

"We wrote on this because we have a view of Australian social welfare, we like to call it social protection, as incorporating

Margaret River classrooms blessed

Jonathan Doman, left, Rebecca Clifton-Pabst and Nathaniel Black hold crucifixes destined for each classroom for blessing by Bishop Quinn.

St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Margret River, is a school with considerable "spirit".

It is also a school that is expanding and the Stage 2 extensions were opened on Saturday, 26 May. It was an opening that proceeded with some difficulty following an outbreak of sickness that swept through the school community in the preceding days.

On the Friday only 67 of the school's full enrolment of 144 were well enough to attend. However, the spirits of Blessed Mary MacKillop of the Cross and St Thomas More prevailed, and on the Saturday a large and enthusiastic school community turned out. There was good reason: the Catholic community in Margaret River has a new school and a relatively new parish Church both of which can only be described as stunning.

The buildings stand as testimony to the importance of architecture and craftsmanship in providing a pathway to understanding the spiritual side of human nature. Any people visiting Margaret-River might profitably go out of their way to

St Joseph's bursar, Joe Galantino, left, discusses the plans with Colin Brown and Peter Field.

D.Brown and Sons of Albany successfully submitted a tender for $300,000 this week for the construction, which covers refurbishment of the former

convent building to upgrade of the college.

Architects for all stages have been Toni Rushton and Associates. The Brown family were responsible for erecting the first buildings on the college complex. The convent and chapel were built

by Don Brown and his two sons Eric and Colin. They continued on to build the threestorey school on the east side of the convent.

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In Mr O'Loughlin's opinion the most important form of support is prayer. But the advertisements that the centre runs in a variety o f newspapers and magazines each year cost a lot of money, so raising financial support is always an important part of his job.

Each year the Centre receives nearly 5,000 enquiries.

Kwinana parish members of the Louise Care committee: Jim Saunders, left, Chris Irks, Pat Miguel, Jo Thompson, and Brigid Bryce., setting up last month domestic, transport and home visitation services to parishioners and others.

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"It has two trajectories that it can take. It can take the 'value-added' trajectory, which is about maximising the proper conditions for workers to ensure that they are cared for in a just way in the workplace, and in that sense they are in a position to be productive and committed to their employment," he said. "Or it can be put on a trajectory that goes to the lowest common denominator, the 'low-wage' option." he said.

spend a little time in quiet reflection in the Church of St Thomas More or wandering around the grounds.

These days the best The experience is uplifting. place the Catholic The Stage 2 extensions at the Church can advertise school are four new classrooms itself is in the pages of which have been funded through a Woman's Day, Perth's Commonwealth Capital Grant of Sunday Times, New just over half a million dollars.

Idea and the Reader's In opening the extensions, the Digest.

Director of Catholic Education in These are some of the Western Australia, Mrs Therese magazines and newsTemby, thanked the Federal Gov- papers with the largest ernment for the continuing commit- circulations in Ausment to capital works in schools. tralia. As national direcThe Bishop of Bunbury, the Most tor of the Catholic Rev Peter Quinn, blessed the new Enquiry Centre, TerO'Loughlin classrooms. In his address, Bishop ence recently visited the Quinn emphasised the ethos of the Catholic school. He said this ethos Bunbury diocese from "is not just a civic value, it is some- which his Enquiry Centhing deeper, it is something spiri- tre has received 47 tual. It is an education that is holis- enquiries so far in 1995 tic. It is an education that takes us from people interested as we are: people with hearts, peo- in discovering what the ple with bodies, people with minds, Catholic religion is. people with community commitIn addition. Mr ments. And in the Catholic school O'Loughlin spent sevwe add to that a central theme: this eral days at St theme is that life, and all creation, is Dominic's parish, a gift from God the Creator."

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industrial relations as a key plank, but of course there was a lot of liaison with the Bishops' industrial relations committee in writing this and they're very aware of it," he said.

Fr Cappo said that enterprise bargaining had two possible outcomes.

Long-serving MSC brother dies Brother Kevin Bauer MSC, who died from cancer on May 23rd at Holy Spirit Hospital, Brisbane, his home city, had been a Missionary of the Sacred Heart brother for forty years, most of it spent in missionary work in Papua New Guinea.

More recently he had been stationed at the MSC Northern Territory headquarters in Darwin.

In the 1950s, Brother Bauer was part of a building team of brothers. One of their biggest achievements was the community wing at St Mary's Towers, Douglas Park After a Thanksgiving Mass at St Thomas Church, Camp Hill, in Brisbane on May 25, Brother Bauer was buried at Douglas Park on May 26th.

,Xe/kze4 /6, 14 &Vove Save our mums Brain food for the Body of Christ Give the bush a break W and dads I thank Archbishop Hickey for his Pastoral letter on Euthanasia and Our Holy I Father Pope John Paul II for his new

encyclical, The Gospel of Life.

Now that euthanasia has been legalised in the Northern Territory we must all join together with our archbishop and our priests to stop the same laws being passed in the rest of Australia.

I feel I have a special interest as my 89year-old father was told at age 80 that he had galloping cancer and the doctors could do nothing for him - he was dying.

His family and friends bombarded heaven with Masses and prayers and he was cured. There is no trace of cancer in him now. He still lives at home with my mother. They manage very well caring for each other. He still drives his car, looks after the garden, loves a chat, watching the footy and next year will celebrate 60 years of marriage.

If we don't join together in prayer now and write to our poiticians our dear old mums and dads could be killed.

God alone is the Lord of Life. He sent His Son that we may have life. When we die should be in God's hands not our doctors or politicians.

Mrs Joan Sunderland Greenwood

Kill the Bill

e Medical Care of the Dying Bill 1995, n Ti loved by the Member for Kalgoorlie, Ian Taylor, as a Private Members Bill, is a

matter of grave concern.

I have read the Bill. I consider it to be unnecessary and practically and philosophically defective. But more importantly,I am concerned that it would create a dangerous political precedent It should not be passed by the Parliament There are numerous examples of the passing of legislation or the altering of regulations to an Act which have created the conditions that enabled more drastic changes to be enacted. It is a deliberate tactic, called the process of incrementalism.

One of many examples is when in 1972, the then Minister for Customs, Senator Don Chipp, enabled the importation of R-rated films. He said that it would not result in the flood of worse hard-core pornography. But that is what has happened!

Mr Taylor has said that he is opposed to euthanasia and that this is not a Bill to legalise euthanasia. Apart from it being ethically wrong, if this Bill is passed it will facilitate the passing of legislation in the future that will make euthanasia legal.

The law is a most powerful educator. Mr Taylor's Bill, if passed, will influence the minds of politicians, the medical profession and the public to make demands for further legislation similiar to that which was recently passed in the Northern Territory.

Anyone who believes in the sacredness of human life should vigorously oppose this Bill.

Brian A Peachey Woodlands

would like to open by paying a tribute to Fr Pat Cunningham for his long editorship of The Record. 24 years is a long time for any person to stick at the one task.

While newspapers have been in decline throughout the world, there will always be a place for the written dissemination and debate of important issues. As the years go by, Western Australian Catholics will increasingly come to appreciate the work maintained by Fr Cunningham against considerable odds.

We are told that the Church is the Body of Christ. The defining quality of any "body" is communication. If we look at our own bodies, they are defined by the communication from the various organs to the brain and back Our hand touches something - an instantaneous message is sent to the brain and our brain sends a message back telling our hand how to respond. That flow of communication defines the shape our hand takes.

The Body of Christ is analogous to that A healthy Church is defined by open and efficient conununication, just as surely as those sitting in the pews need to know what the Archbishop or Pope is thinking, so also the Pope and the Archbishop need

reliable feedback from the hands reaching out to touch the poor person in the gutter and the researchers in our universities unravelling the mysteries of God's creation.

A good newspaper is a two-way street of communication. No, more than that, it is a freeway system. It encourages and sustains debate and co-ordination between the various organs that make up the body.

This cross-organ communication is as vital to a healthy life as the food we ingest to sustain life.

We might all pray that the channel of communication opened up by the incoming editor of The Record in the letters' page will lead to a vigorous and healthy flow of opinions to and from all organs and viewpoints in the Church in Western Australia.

I can only suggest to the editor that the determinant of healthy communication should be the strength of ideas rather than the succinctness of their expression. If Jesus had wanted to condense the gospels to no more than 250 words, nothing more need have been written and we might not be having this debate today.

Julian M. Scott Leederville

Vale Father Pat

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Father Pat Cunningham takes his inal curtain call as Editor of The Record, we in Albany would like to publicly record our thanks and appreciation for a job well done over many years.

It has surely been an artist's feat on a tightrope for Fr Pat to balance local and international in-put, news from the Vatican and the local parishes - keeping Marian devotees and ecumenists satisfied - and the diversity of expression of our Catholic Faith amongst conservatives and radicals in a unity of faith and a bond of love.

We in Albany hope that Fr Pat's leaving The Record will only be a change in direction and pace and that he will continue to promote and provoke the Church as he has done, in editorials over the years.

The recent controversy at The West Australian over the editor, Paul Murray, shows the power for good or otherwise an editor has at his or her disposal in the media expression of news, values and truth.

We congratulate Fr Pat that his editorial leadership of the The Record has preserved a paper that has become a weekly visitor to many Catholic homes and for many people a challenge and stimulant to their faith.

The availability of many other excellent regular publications like the English paper, The Tablet, and Australian publications such as the Jesuit quarterly Australian Catholics and magazines like Madonna, The Word. Annals and The Far East supplement our need as Catholics to be informed and challenged in our faith.

The Record under Fr Pat's leadership has amazingly tried to be many things to many Catholics. May The Record continue to be a regular visitor in our homes.

Fr Hugh D Galloway Parish Priest Albany

any thanks for publishing the story

by Brother Max McAppion on the M future of the Church and Catholic schools

in rural WA. Over recent years, we in the country have witnessed a severe population decline followed by the retreat of government services including health and education.

Rural Australia is in crisis with drought, low commodity prices and low morale.

Poverty is also more widespread in rural areas than in large regional centres and the cities. Yet, there appears to be little appreciation in the cities of the vital role that rural communities play in underpinning our national economy.

For this reason, and despite the population decline, there will always be families living and working in rural Australia with needs - especially in education.

Existing Catholic schools in rural WA, which are still catering for the needs of rural families, are coming under increased scrutiny by the Church authorities and are required to justify their existence solely on grounds of economic viability. Surely this cannot be allowed to continue? Surely there are other values to consider?

If economic rationale is the only measure used to justify a Catholic school's existence, how long will it be before we need another Mary MacKillop to re-open Catholic schools throughout rural Australia?

Rural Australia continues to have much to offer city-dwellers. City and country children are our future. I would like to suggest that a city school "adopt" a country school and, in a sense, become its big brother.

Information flows, camps, sporting contacts and other activities would be of enormous benefit to both schools.

John Hawkins Barra Barra Farm Pindar via Mullewa

at a surprise to see an article on he "Bush", where Brother McAppion gives a short resume of rural affairs.

Pardon me if there I show a little bit of skepticism, for one of the bush traits developed by countless examples of experiences is that the urban populations' idea of the bush is a Sunday drive through the Hills.

Brothers' article is a bit like that, superficial in the extreme, seeing that he carefully avoids mentioning politics, the prime cause of bush decline.

Technologies are not the cause and it is illogical to sheet the blame to it One simple example in our church will do to show how technology works in the bush and the city.

When priests or religious had only horses and trains for transport, one could count on every Catholic getting a visit and/or Mass on a regular basis, not often, but for sure.

Now that it is so much easier to move and communicate there is a dearth of personal contact apart from work by bush nuns.

One key element of the agricultural decline is the terms of international trade which are continually growing against agriculture. These pressures are enormous and never let up.

A couple of examples from two main inputs for production. In 1973 a tonne of wheat bought three tonnes of superphosphate, now it buys barely one tonne.

Every other input has moved in the same direction, forcing an increase in production, either by way of more land and more capital which, of course, equates to less farmers and people, and more capital mostly equals debt and a never-ending cycle of financial and production serfdom.

The socio-political financial system of Australia being such, the consequences have been a continual (and accelerating) decline in the bush.

Mining is not quite in the same predicament as agriculture. Mining is not as vulnerable to politics. Financial institutions are much more involved in the mining sector via shareholdings and financing. So the mining sector can wield considerable political influence on governments.

Out in the far-out bush, people are well and truly confused as to why and how agriculture is in serious decline.

Most farmers try to even up with the city by growing bigger, i.e., buy out others, borrow more, get bigger machinery, more cropping, bigger herds and flocks, actions which add up to land mining and degradation.

I very much doubt that these trends will slow or reverse with the wool growing industry in danger of disappearing. Grain may last a bit longer, although we are in the process of importing one million tons of grain, ostensibly to alleviate a shortage, but really to keep the price down so that city people can have cheap chicken or pork!

That's politics at work. Never mind the farmer equalising crops with a better price.

Peter Bertole Gairdner

A walk on the Vatican wild-side with Nova et Vetera

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - This spring brought an air of renovation to the Vatican, where the old and the new sometimes blend - or collide - in strange patterns.

A bird's-eye tour of the 130-acre state would find men at work, slowly modifying the unique landscape of fountains, frescoes and facades.

Take the new hole in the wall of the Tower of Nicholas V, one of the oldest parts of the Vatican complex beneath Pope John apartments. Workmen had to blast Paul through about 10 feet of brick and stone to create an entrance for the relocated offices of the Vatican bank.

In the spirit of modernisation, the bank entrance boasts electronic security doors: two glass cubicles that seal you into limbo for a few seconds before releasing you to the bank's inner sanctum. (Wait for the green light, please!) The rosary-slinging nuns and priests who make up most of the

bank's clientele look perplexed - but hey, The hill behind St. Peter's Basilica sprouts signal towers from Vatican Radio's techniit's progress.

Inside, one ascends marble steps to the cal office. Next door, an occasional cloisdome-like main chamber of the tower, tered nun strolls by, deep in meditation. where a steel chandelier now hangs from But the nuns are the novelty here; the the ceiling and 18 tellers do business. Six Pope moved them in last year. Radio towclosed-circuit TV cameras record it all on ers have been on the hill since 1931. video.

In the Vatican Bookstore, the updated Bank employees are proud of their new Vatican phone book finally arrived in May vault-like quarters, but some eyebrows after a three-year wait. The holdup was were raised when the historic tower came caused by an overhaul of the phone sysunder assault by jackhaimners and power tem, which included a switch from sevendrills. digit to eight-digit numbers.

"I'm surprised the United Nations didn't All this meant miles and miles of new intervene to try to stop this," joked one Vattelephone cables and circuitry, hidden ican priest.

Up the road toward the Vatican Gardens, below ground, along with an increasing workmen were finishing a little-publicised number of microwave drums and satellite underground project as they tarred a new dishes on Vatican rooftops. They are considered signs of the times. ground-level surface. to The old meets the new in other ways, too.

Was this another concrete "bunker" protect Vatican manuscripts? No, just part In the Vatican Museums, the solvents and of a magazine reading room for Vatican solutions that eat through centuries of dirt and grime are still being daubed onto Library visitors.

It's not always easy to tell the new from Renaissance frescoes after the spectacular the old inside the Vatican walls, however. cleaning of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

In the Chapel of Pope Nicholas, Fra Angelico's delicate 15th-century frescoes depicting Sts Lawrence and Stephen are coming back to life. Nearby, behind a shrouded scaffold, Raphael's fresco of 'The School of Athens" is also getting a cleaning.

Back at St. Peter's, the phrase "etched in stone" is losing some of its significance this are Workmen year. preparing to lift out a marble inscription from the basilica's porch, which commemorated the visits of two Orthodox patriarchs.

The inscription has only been there since 1987, but the Pope wanted it updated to include a reference to the third such visit in June, when Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I arrives at the Vatican. The chiselers are hurrying to finish the new stone; the old one will either go into storage or on the scrap heap. In fact, it's the second time the inscription has been redone in the last 30 years.

"Maybe they should write these things on paper, like we do," quipped one curial official.

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Pope John Paul's Encyclical on Ecumenism: That they may all be one E xcerpts from Pope John Paul II's encyclical "Ut Unum Sint" (That They May Be One). Naturally, they do not take the place of a reading of the full text.

Introduction "T p unum sint!" The call for

1 ..) Christian unity made by the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council with such impassioned commitment is finding an ever greater echo in the hearts of believers, especially as the year 2000 approaches, a year which Christians will celebrate as a sacred jubilee, the commemoration of the incarnation of the Son of God, who became man in order to save humanity.

The courageous witness of so many martyrs of our century, including members of churches and ecclesial communities not in full communion with the Catholic Church, gives new vigor to the council's call and reminds us of our duty to listen to and put into practice its exhortation.

These brothers and sisters of ours, united in the selfless offering of their lives for the kingdom of God, are the most powerful proof that every factor of division can be transcended and overcome in the total gift of self for the sake of the Gospel.

Christ calls all his disciples to unity. My earnest desire is to renew this call today, to propose it once more with determination, repeating what I said at the Roman Colosseum on Good Friday 1994 at the end of the meditation on the "via crucis" prepared by my venerable brother Bartholomew, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople. There I stated that believers in Christ, united in following in the footsteps of the martyrs, cannot remain divided. If they wish truly and effectively to oppose the world's tendency to reduce to powerlessness the mystery of redemption, they must profess together the same truth about the cross.

I. The Catholic Church's Commitment to Ecumenism God's Plan and Communion gether with all Christ's discir oes, the Catholic Church bases upon God's plan her ecumenical

commitment to gather all Christians into unity. Indeed, the church is not a reality closed in on herself. Rather, she is permanently open to missionary and ecumenical endeavour, for she is sent to the world to announce and witness, to make present and spread the mystery of communion which is essential to her, and to gather all people and all things into Christ, so as to be for all an "inseparable sacrament of unity.". . .

The Catholic Church affirms that during the 2,000 years of her history she has been preserved in unity, with all the means with which God wishes to endow his church, and this despite the often grave crises which have shaken her, the infidelity of some of her ministers and the faults into which her members daily fall.

The Catholic Church knows that, by virtue of the strength which comes to her from the Spirit, the weaknesses, mediocrity, sins and at times the betrayals of some of her children cannot destroy what God has bestowed on her as part of his plan of grace.

Moreover, "the powers of death shall not prevail against it" (Mt 16:18).

Even so, the Catholic Church does not forget that many among her members cause God's plan to be discernible only with difficulty. Speak8

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ing of the lack of unity among Christians, the Vatcan Council ll's decree on ecumenism does not ignore the fact that "people of both sides were to blame," and acknowledges that responsibility cannot be attributed only to the "other side." By God's grace, however, neither what belongs to the structure of the church of Christ nor that communion which still exists with the other churches and ecclesial communities has been destroyed.

Indeed, the elements of sanctification and truth present in the other Christian communities, in a degree which varies from one to the other, constitute the objective basis of the communion, albeit imperfect, which exists between them and the Catholic Church.

To the extent that these elements are found in other Christian communities, the one church of Christ is effectively present in them. For this reason the Second Vatican Council speaks of a certain, though imperfect communion. . .

In the teaching of the council there is a clear connection between renewal, conversion and reform.

The council states that "Christ summons the church, as she goes her pilgrim way, to that continual reformation of which she always has need, insofar as she is an institution of human beings here on earth. Therefore, if the influence of events or of the times has led to deficiencies . . . these should be appropriately rectified at the proper moment" No Christian community can exempt itself from this call.

By engaging in frank dialogue, communities help one another to look at themselves together in the light of the apostolic tradition. This leads them to ask themselves whether they truly express in an adequate way all that the Holy Spirit has transmitted through the apostles

The Fundamental Importance of Doctrine Taking up an idea expressed by Pope John )CXIII at the opening of the council, the decree on ecumenism mentions the way of formulating doctrine as one of the elements of a continuing reform. Here it is not a question of altering the deposit of faith, changing the meaning of dogmas, eliminating essential words from them, accommodating truth to the preferences of a particular age or suppressing certain articles of the creed under the false pretext that they are no longer understood today. The unity willed

by God can be attained only by the adherence of all to the content of revealed faith in its entirety. In matters of faith, compromise is in contradiction with God, who is truth.

In the body of Christ, "the way, and the truth, and the life", who could consider legitimate a reconciliation brought about at the expense of the truth? The council's declaration on r eligious freedom, "Dignitatis Humanae," attributes to human dignity the quest for truth, "especially in what concerns God and his church," and adherence to truth's demands. A "being together" which betrayed the truth would thus be opposed both to the nature of God who offers his communion and to the need for truth found in the depths of every human heart.

Even so, doctrine needs to be presented in a way that makes it understandable to those for whom God himself intends it. In my encyclical epistle "Slavorum Apostoli," I recalled that this was the very reason why Sts Cyril and Methodius labored to translate the ideas of the Bible and the concepts of Greek theology in the context of very different historical experiences and ways of thinking (among the Slav people).

They wanted the one word of God to be "made accessible in each civilization's own forms of expression."

They recognized that they could not therefore "impose on the peoples assigned to their preaching either the undeniable superiority of the Greek language and Byzantine culture, or the customs and way of life of the more advanced society in which they had grown up."

Thus they put into practice that "perfect communion in love which preserves the church from all forms of particularism, ethnic exclusivism or racial prejudice, and from any nationalistic arrogance." In the same spirit, I did not hesitate to say to the aboriginal peoples of Australia: "You do not have to be divided into two parts .... Jesus calls you to accept his words and his values into your own culture." Because by its nature the content of faith is meant for all humanity, it must be translated into all cultures. Indeed, the element which determines communion in truth is the meaning of truth. The expression of truth can take different forms. The renewal of these forms of expression becomes necessary for the sake of transmitting to the people of today the Gospel message in its unchanging meaning . . .

The Primacy of Prayer We proceed along the road leading to the conversion of hearts guided by love which is directed to God and, at the same time, to all our brothers and sisters, including those not in full communion with us. Love gives rise to the desire for unity, even in those who have never been aware of the need for it.

Love builds communion between individuals and between communities. If we love one another, we strive t o deepen our communion and make it perfect.

Love is given to God as the perfect source of communion - the unity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit - that we may draw from that source the strength to build communion between individuals and communities or to re-establish it between Christians still divided.

Love is the great undercurrent which gives life and adds vigor to the movement toward unity.

This love finds its most complete expression in common prayer.

When brothers and sisters who are not in perfect communion with one another come together to pray, the Second Vatican Council defines their prayer as the soul of the whole ecumenical movement. This prayer is "a very effective means of petitioning for the grace of unity," "a genuine expression of the ties which even now bind Catholics to their separated brethren."

Even when prayer is not specifically offered for Christian unity, but for other intentions such as peace, it actually becomes an expression and confirmation of unity. The common prayer of Christians is an invitation to Christ himself to visit the community of those who call upon him: "Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them" . . .

Ecumenical Dialogue

Dialogue is an indispensable step along the path toward human selfrealisation, the self-realisation both o f each individual and of every human community. Although the concept of "dialogue" might appear t o give priority to the cognitive dimension ("dia-logos"), all dialogue implies a global, existential dimension. It involves the human subject in his or her entirety; dialogue between communities involves in a particular way the subjectivity of each.

This truth about dialogue, so profoundly expressed by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical "Ecclesiam Suam," was also taken up by the council in its teaching and ecumenical activity.

Dialogue is not simply an exchange of ideas. In some way it is always an "exchange of gifts."

For this reason, the council's decree on ecumenism also emphasizes the importance of "every effort to eliminate words, judgments and actions which do not respond to the condition of separated brethren with t ruth and fairness and so make mutual relations between them more difficult." The decree approaches the question from the standpoint of the Catholic Church and refers to the criteria which she must apply in relation to other Christians.

In all this, however, reciprocity is required. To follow these criteria is a commitment of each of the parties which desire to enter into dialogue, and it is a precondition for starting such dialogue. It is necessary to pass from antagonism and conflict to a situation where each party recognizes the other as a partner. When undertaking dialogue, each side must presuppose in the other a desire for reconciliation, for unity in truth. For this to happen, any display of mutual opposition must disappear. Only thus will dialogue help to overcome division and lead us closer to unity. . .

Dialogue as Means of Resolving Disagreements . . . Love for the truth is the deepest dimension of any authentic quest for full communion between Christians.

Without this love it would be impossible to face the objective theological, cultural, psychological and social difficulties which appear when disagreements are examined.

This dimension, which is interior and personal, must be inseparably accompanied by a spirit of charity and humility. There must be charity toward one's partner in dialogue, and humility with regard to the truth which comes to light and which might require a review of assertions and attitudes.

With regard to the study of areas of disagreement, the council requires that the whole body of doctrine be clearly presented. At the same time, it asks that the manner and method of expounding the Catholic faith should not be a hindrance to dialogue with our brothers and sisters.

Certainly it is possible to profess one's faith and to explain its teaching in a way that is correct, fair and understandable, and which at the same time takes into account both the way of thinking and the actual historical experiences of the other party.

prayer is the "soul" of ecumeniI f renewal and of the yearning cal Full communion, of course, will for unity, it is the basis and support have to come about through the

for everything the council defines as "dialogue." This definition is certainly not unrelated to today's personalist way of thinking. The capacity for "dialogue" is rooted in the nature of the person and his dignity.

As seen by philosophy, this approach is linked to the Christian truth concerning man as expressed by the council: Man is in fact "the only creature on earth which God willed for itself"; thus he cannot "fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself."

acceptance of the whole truth into which the Holy Spirit guides Christ's disciples. Hence all forms of reductionism or facile "agreement" must be absolutely avoided. Serious questions must be resolved, for if not they will reappear at another time, either in the same terms or in a different guise.

Catholic teaching there exists an order or 'hierarchy' of truths, since they vary in their relationship to the foundation of the Christian faith.

Thus the way will be opened for this kind of fraternal rivalry to incite all to a deeper realization and a clearer expression of the unfathomable riches of Christ" In dialogue, one inevitably comes up against the problem of the different formulations whereby doctrine is expressed in the various churches and ecclesial communities. This has more than one consequence for the work of ecumenism.

In the first place, with regard to doctrinal formulations which differ from those normally in use in the community to which one belongs, it is certainly right to determine whether the words involved say the same thing. This has been ascertained in the case, for example, of the recent common declarations signed by my predecessors or by myself with the patriarchs of churches with which for centuries there have been disputes about Christology.

As far as the formulation of revealed truths is concerned, the declaration "Mysterium Ecclesiae" s tates: "Even though the truths which the church intends to teach through her dogmatic formulas are distinct from the changeable conceptions of a given epoch and can be expressed without them, nevertheless it can sometimes happen that these truths may be enunciated by the sacred magisterium in terms that bear traces of such conceptions. In view of this, it must be stated that the dogmatic formulas of the church's magisterium were from the very beginning suitable for communicating revealed truth, and that as they are they remain forever suitable for communicating this truth to those who interpret them correctly."

In this regard, ecumenical dialogue, which prompts the parties involved to question each other, to understand each other and to explain their positions to each other, makes surprising discoveries possible. Intolerant polemics and controversies have made incompatible assertions out of what was really the result of two different ways of looking at the same reality. Nowadays we need to find the formula which, by capturing the reality in its entirety, will enable us to move beyond partial readings and eliminate false interpretations. . .

II. The Fruits of Dialogue Brotherhood Rediscovered a t has been said above I about ecumenical dialogue since the end of the council inspires us to give thanks to the Spirit of truth promised by Christ the Lord to the apostles and the church. It is the first time in history that efforts on behalf of Christian unity have taken on such great proportions and have become so extensive. This is truly an immense gift of God, one which deserves all our gratitude. From the fullness of Christ we receive "grace upon grace". An appreciation of how much God has already given is the condition which disposes us to receive those gifts still indispensable for bringing to completion the ecumenical work of unity.. .

Approaching One Another Through the Word of God and Through Divine Worship

ignificant progress in ecumeniS cal cooperation has been made The decree "Unitatis Redintegra- in another area, that of the word of

tio" also indicates a criterion to be followed when Catholics are presenting or comparing doctrines: "They should remember that in

God. I am thinking above all of the importance for the different language groups of ecumenical translations of the Bible. . .

and communities which have their origins in the Reformation. Consequently these share the fact that they are "Western" in character. Their "diversities," although significant as has been pointed out, do not therefore preclude mutual interaction and complementarity. . .

growth of communion, cannot suffice for the conscience of Christians who profess that the church is one, holy, catholic and apostolic. The ultimate goal of the ecumenical movement is to re-establish full visible unity among all the baptized.

a brake on the ecumenical movement On the contrary, it means preventing it from settling for apparent solutions which would lead to no firm and solid results. The obligation to respect the truth is absolute. Is this not the law of the Gospel?. . .

In this regard, it must first be acknowledged, with particular gratitude to divine providence, that our bonds with the churches of the East, weakened in the course of the centuries, were strengthened through the Second Vatican Council . . .

The council, for its part, considered the churches of the East with objectivity and deep affection, stressing their ecclesial nature and the real bonds of communion linking them with the Catholic Church. The d ecree on ecumenism points out: "Through the celebration of the Eucharist of the Lord in each of these churches, the church of God is built up and grows in stature." It adds, as a consequence, that "although these churches are separated from us, they possess true sacraments, above all - by apostolic succession - the priesthood and the Eucharist, whereby they are still joined to us in a very close relationship.". ..

Furthermore, the sacrament of baptism, which we have in common, represents "a sacramental bond of unity linking all who have been reborn by means of it." The theological, pastoral and ecumenical implications of our common baptism are many and important. Although this sacrament of itself is "only a beginning, a point of departure," it is "oriented toward a complete profession of faith, a complete incorporation into the system of salvation such as Christ himself willed it to be and, finally, toward a complete participation in eucharistic communion."

In view of this goal, all the results so far attained are but one stage of the journey, however promising and positive.

Ministry of Unity of the Bishop of Rome

In the ecumenical movement, it is not only the Catholic Church and the Orthodox churches which hold to this demanding concept of the unity willed by God. The orientation toward such unity is also expressed by others.

has now become the subject of study which is already under way or will be in the near future. . .

In this perspective an expression which I have frequently employed finds its deepest meaning: The church must breathe with her two lungs! In the first millennium of the history of Christianity. this expression refers primarily to the relationship between Byzantium and Rome.

From the time of the baptism of Rus' (St Vladimir in 988 AD) it comes to have an even wider application: Evangelization spread to a much vaster area, so that it now includes the entire church.

The council document moreover does not limit itself to . . . spiritual, moral and cultural aspects but extends its appreciation to the lively sense of justice and to the sincere charity toward others which are present among these brothers and sisters. Nor does it overlook their efforts to make social conditions more humane and to promote peace. All this is the result of a sincere desire to be faithful to the word of Christ as the source of Christian life.

If we then consider that the salvific event which took place on the banks of the Dnieper goes back to a time when the church in the East and the church in the West were not divided, we understand clearly that the vision of the full communion to he sought is that of unity in legitimate diversity. . .

The text thus raises a series of questions which, in the area of ethics and morality, is becoming ever more urgent in our time:

(And) corresponding to the liturgical renewal carried out by the Catholic Church, certain other ecclesial communities have made efforts to renew their worship . . .

Dialogue With the Churches of the East

Dialogue With Other Churches and Ecclesial Communities in the West

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o its great plan for the re-establishment of unity among all Christians, the decree on ecumenism ,also speaks of relations with the churches and ecclesial communities of the West. Wishing to create a climate of Christian fraternity and dialogue, the council situates its guidelines in the context of two general considerations: one of a historical and psychological nature, and the other theological and doctrinal.

On the one hand, this decree affirms: "The churches and ecclesial communities which were separated from the Apostolic See of Rome during the very serious crisis that began in the West at the end of the Middle Ages, or during later times, are bound to the Catholic Church by a special affinity and close relationship in view of the long span of earlier centuries when the Christian people lived in ecclesiastical communion."

Doctrinal and historical disagreements at the time of the Reformation emerged with regard to the church, the sacraments and the ordained ministry. The council therefore calls for "dialogue to be undertaken concerning the true meaning of the Lord's Supper, the other sacraments and the church's worship and ministry.". . .

"There are many Christians who do not always understand the Gospel in the same way as Catholics." In this vast area there is much room for dialogue concerning the moral principles of the Gospel and their implications. . .

Achievements of Cooperation . . . Social and cultural life offers ample opportunities for ecumenical cooperation. With increasing frequency Christians are working together to defend human dignity, to promote peace, to apply the Gospel to social life, to bring the Christian spirit to the world of science and of the arts. They find themselves ever more united in striving to meet the sufferings and the needs of our time: hunger, natural disasters and social injustice. . . , . .Before the world, united action in society on the part of Christians has the clear value of a joint witness to the name of the Lord. It is also a form of proclamation, since it reveals the face of Christ. . .

III. Quanta Est Nobis Via? (How Far Is The Way Forward On the other hand, with equal real- For Us?) ism the same document states: "At the same time one should recognize t hat between these churches and communities on the one hand, and the Catholic Church on the other, there are very weighty differences not only of a historical, sociological, psychological and cultural nature, but especially in the interpretation of revealed truth."

Common roots and similar, if distinct, considerations have guided the development in the West of the Catholic Church and of the churches

Continuing and Deepening Dialogue e can now ask how much W further we must travel until that blessed day when full unity in

faith will be attained and we can celebrate together in peace the holy Eucharist of the Lord. The greater mutual understanding and the doctrinal convergences already achieved between us, which have resulted in an affective and effective

Ecumenism implies that the Christian communities should help one another so that there may be truly present in them the full content and all the requirements of "the heritage handed down by the apostles."

Without this, full communion will never be possible. This mutual help in the search for truth is a sublime form of evangelical charity.

The documents of the many international mixed commissions of dialogue have expressed this commitment to seeking unity. On the basis of a certain fundamental doctrinal unity, these texts discuss baptism, Eucharist, ministry and authority.

From this basic but partial unity it is now necessary to advance toward the visible unity which is required and sufficient, and which is manifested in a real and concrete way, so that the churches may truly become a sign of that full communion in the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church which will be expressed in the common celebration of the Eucharist.

This journey toward the necessary and sufficient visible unity, in the communion of the one church willed by Christ, continues to require patient and courageous efforts. In this process, one must not impose any burden beyond that which is strictly necessary (cf. Acts 15:28).

It is already possible to identify the areas in need of fuller study before a true consensus of faith can be achieved: 1) the relationship between sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matters of faith, and sacred tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the word of God; 2) the Eucharist, as the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, an offering of praise to the Father, the sacrificial memorial and real presence of Christ and the sanctifying outpouring of the Holy Spirit; 3) ordination, as a sacrament, to the threefold ministry of the episcopate, presbyterate and diaconate; 4) the magisterium of the church, entrusted to the pope and the bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith; 5) the Virgin Mary, as mother of God and icon of the church, the spiritual mother who intercedes for Christ's disciples and for all humanity.

In this courageous journey toward unity, the transparency and the prudence of faith require us to avoid both false irenicism and indifference to the church's ordinances. Conversely, that same transparency and prudence urge us to reject a halfhearted commitment to unity and, even more, a prejudicial opposition or a defeatism which tends to see everything in negative terms.

To uphold a vision of unity which takes account of all the demands of revealed truth does not mean to put

t is nonetheless significant and I encouraging that the question of the primacy of the bishop of Rome

This service of unity, rooted in the action of divine mercy, is entrusted within the college of bishops to one among those who have received from the Spirit the task, not of exercising power over the people - as the rulers of the gentiles and their great men do (cf. Mt 20:25; Mk 10:42) - but of leading them toward peaceful pastures. This task can require the offering of one's own life (cf. Jn 10:11-18).

St. Augustine, after showing that Christ is "the one Shepherd, in whose unity all are one," goes on to exhort: "May all shepherds thus be one in the one Shepherd; may they let the one voice of the Shepherd be heard; may the sheep hear this voice and follow their Shepherd, not this shepherd or that, but the only one; in him may they all let one voice be heard and not a babble of voices ... the voice free of all division, purified of all heresy, that the sheep hear."

The mission of the bishop of Rome within the college of all the pastors consists precisely in -keeping watch" (episkopein), like a sentinel, so that, through the efforts of the pastors, the true voice of Christ the shepherd may be heard in all the particular churches.

In this way, in each of the particular churches entrusted to those pastors, the "una, sancta, catholica et apostolica ecclesia" is made present.

All the churches are in full and visible communion, because all the pastors are in communion with Peter and therefore united in Christ.

With the power and the authority without which such an office would be illusory, the bishop of Rome must ensure the communion of all the churches. For this reason, he is' the first servant of unity. This primacy is exercised on various levels, including vigilance over the handing down of the word, the celebration of the liturgy and the sacraments, the church's mission, discipline and the Christian life.

It is the responsibility of the successor of Peter to recall the requirements of the common good of the church, should anyone be tempted to overlook it in the pursuit of personal interests. He has the duty to admonish, to caution and to declare at times that this or that opinion being circulated is irreconcilable with the unity of faith. When circumstances require it, he speaks in the name of all the pastors in communion with him.

He can also - under very specific conditions clearly laid down by the First Vatican Council - declare "ex cathedra" that a certain doctrine belongs to the deposit of faith. By thus bearing witness to the truth, he serves unity.

All this, however, must always be done in communion. When the Catholic Church affirms that the office of the bishop of Rome corresponds to the will of Christ, she does not separate this office from the mission entrusted to the whole body of bishops, who are also "vicars and ambassadors of Christ." The bishop of Rome is a member of the "college," and the bishops are his brothers in the ministry.

Whatever relates to the unity of all Christian communities clearly forms part of the concerns of the primacy.

As bishop of Rome I am fully aware, as I have reaffirmed in the present encyclical letter, that Christ ardently desires the full and visible communion of all those communities in which, by virtue of God's faithfulness, his Spirit dwells. I am convinced that I have a particular responsibility in this regard, above all in acknowledging the ecumenical aspirations of the majority of the Christian communities and in heeding the request made of me to find a w ay of exercising the primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation. . .

This is an immense task, which we cannot refuse and which I cannot carry out by myself. Could not the real but imperfect communion existing between us persuade church leaders and their theologians to engage with me in a patient and fraternal dialogue on this subject, a dialogue in which, leaving useless controversies behind, we could listen to one another, keeping before us only the will of Christ for his church and allowing ourselves to be deeply moved by his plea "that they may all be one ... so that the world may believe that you have sent me"?

The Communion of All Particular Churches With the Church of Rome: The Catholic Church, both in her praxis and in her solemn documents, holds that the communion of the particular churches with the church of Rome, and of their bishops with the bishop of Rome, is - in God's plan - an essential requisite o f full and visible communion.

Indeed full communion, of which the Eucharist is the highest sacramental manifestation, needs to be visibly expressed in a ministry in which all the bishops recognize that they are united in Christ and all the faithful find confirmation for their faith. . .

Exhortation With God nothing is impossible. I am reminded of the words of St. Cyprian's commentary on the Lord's Prayer, the prayer of every Christian: "God does not accept the sacrifice of a sower of disunion, but commands that he depart from the altar so that he may first be reconciled with his brother.

For God can be appeased only by prayers that make peace. To God, the better offering is peace, brotherly concord and a people made one in the unity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit."

At the dawn of the new millennium, how can we not implore from the Lord, with renewed enthusiasm and a deeper awareness, the grace to prepare ourselves, together, to offer this sacrifice of unity? I, John Paul, "servus servorum Dei," (servant of the servant's of God) venture to make my own the words of the apostle Paul, whose martyrdom, together with that of the apostle Peter, has bequeathed to this see of Rome the splendour of its witness, and I say to you, the faithful of the Catholic Church, and to you, my brothers and sisters of the other c hurches and ecclesial communities: "Mend your ways, encourage one another, live in harmony, and the God of love and peace will be with you. . . The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all". Given in Rome, at St. Peter's, on May 25, the solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, in the year 1995, the 17th of my pontificate.

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After decades of Communist domination in Eastern Europe, millions are clamouring to know God People who suffered under Communism are in great need of help. Please help them to learn about God Who was so long hidden from them.

Never was the Church so much a Church of martyrs as it was, and still is, during this century. 60 million Catholics throughout the world were enslaved by Communism and suffered severely for their faith.

For many decades. Catholics have not been able to kneel before God's tabernacle, attend Mass, go to Confession and receive Communion. Many never saw a priest. Priests were banished, churches and convents closed and religious instruction forbidden.

For more than 73 years in Eastern Europe, intense atheistic propaganda, particularly in the schools, has tried to kill God in people's minds and in the hearts of children.

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People can do terrible things to each other in the name of ideology and power. Truth disappeared under Communism, a system that made lies into an institution. People are tired of lies, they are looking for the truth.

It is not the people's fault that they know so little about God and His love. In their search to find and know God they need your help.

For many people the atmosphere of shadowy fear still prevails. They lived in terrible fear for many decades.

People were fearful of the secret police, the informers amongst the workers, the neighbours and even within families. The injustice was so terrible. Millions were imprisoned for nothing, for trivial complaints or some disagreement with party policy. Many still have the habit of looking over their shoulders before commenting in public.

Life under socialism was supposed to be one big stretch of sunny happiness: there was not supposed to be a dark layer to anything. People still don't know how to trust each other, they still have this habit of waiting for the authorities to solve everything.

It is no wonder people are confused and don't know what to expect. Without outside help how can they raise themselves from their most tragic situation?

Since 1989 people in Eastern Europe are now free to love God, to pray openly and publicly. Many areas suffer an enormous lack of priests and equipment to provide the faithful with the Mass, the sacraments and catechetical instruction.

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New life for the Church in China Pictured above is the Catholic Church at Kinghsien, one of dozens of churches and chapels built and renovated every year in China by supporters of Aid to the Church in Need.

Today, new life is very evident in the Catholic Church in China. There are over 60,000 converts each year and a most encouraging spiritual hunger amongst the young people. New hope is dawning even in remote parts of China and, surely, we must do all we can to aid the Church in China today.

During the Cultural Revolution all churches, convents and seminaries were closed down. At the same time all female congregations were dissolved, their convents confiscated and the sisters were either dispersed to their home villages or imprisoned.

Sister Francisca, aged 78, was in prison for 10 years.

She now sits surrounded by 20 radiant young novices.

Elsewhere amongst more that 2,000 sisters in China there are many hundreds of young women consecrating their lives to God. The Bishop said: "These sisters will ask nothing for themselves. Can you help them in their catechetical work and their work with the sick and the dying?" It costs about S100 to help support a sister for a year.

Today there are still 1,400 priests in 123 dioceses, with 4,000 open churches, but thousands more are needed. In the country's 38 reopened seminaries over 1,500 dedicated young men are training for the priesthood. Most seminaries are vastly overcrowded and lack many basic necessities.

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Yet the Rector has over 100 young men studying at his village seminary: and the seminarians have to walk in from the barns and outhouses, where they secretly stay, to the centre which is officially used as a clinic. In this way these future priests are being trained.

Franciscus, a seminarian, spoke of his faith, realism and commitment: "I wanted to become a priest to share the love of Christ with others. I saw the desire and need for the love of Christ in so many people and I wished to reveal and minister that to people."

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On the ten small beads: For the sake of His sorrowful Passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.

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Ecumenism encyclical: the reaction

Chance for disunity among Christians to end Australian Aborigines show the way in planting faith in culture

By Wes Hartley, General Secretary, Conference of Churches of Western Australia

he new Encyclical Letter, "Ut T Unum Sint" is both timely and welcome. As the churches of the world prepare for the coming of the new millennium, it is appropriate that the exhortation of Pope John Paul II is taken seriously.

From the very beginning of the encyclical, constant reference is made to the initiatives arising from the Second Vatican Council under Pope John XXVII. Emphasis is on the fact that Christians of all persuasions share a tradition of martyrology - a willingness to die for the faith. Equally there is an awareness of the power of the cross to save.

In acknowledging points of common belief, the Pope indicates he is going to do all that is in his power to raise opportunities for achieving unity within the context of the millennial celebrations.

The encyclical emphasises that the church is "permanently open to missionary and ecumenical endeavour", and indicates that: "The Catholic Church embraces with hope the commitment to ecumenism as the duty of the Christian conscience enlightened by faith and guided by love".

An understanding of the Encyclical is, Perhaps best outlined using Ephesians 3:9 as the basis: "To believe in Christ means to desire unity; to desire unity means to desire the church; to desire the church means to desire the conununion of grace which corresponds to the Father's plan from all eternity."

The "separated" churches, so called, have "by no means been deprivedof significance and value in the mystery of salvation". In the teaching of the Second Vatican Council "there is a clear connection between renewal, conversion and reform."

Appropriate mention is made of the baptism of Kievan Rus more than 1100 years ago and the baptism conferred on St Vladimir of Kiev, which began the evangelisation of the Slav peoples. Linked to this is mention of the evangelising activity of Saints Cyril and Methodius. These saints introduced the Cyrillic alphabet to the Slav people enabling the faith to be conveyed (initially) in the vernacular.

The Pope uses this as an example of the way in which the church has responded to interpreting the faith in the culture of the people to whom it is directed.

It is interesting to note that Pope John Paul II uses the contemporary example of Australian Aboriginal communities expressing their understanding of Christian faith within the context of their own culture.

Much emphasis is given to prayer, through such activities as the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (which has just been celebrated as a prelude to Pentecost) and ecumenical meetings, such as those with Anglicans, Lutherans and the World Council of Churches.

In fact, the World Council of Churches is mentioned several times as the contemporary initiator of the modern ecumenical process, which began principally amongst those from the reformed tradition.

Ecumenical dialogue is urged as an "outright necessity" - no longer regarded as an optional activity for those with a penchant for such things. "The church's commitment to ecumenical dialogue, as it has clearly appeared since the Second Vatican Council, far from being the responsibility of the Holy See alone is also the duty of individual local or particular churches," the Pope said.

The Pope exhorts his brothers in the episcopate to be "especially mindful of (the) commitment (to unity). The two codes of

canon law include among the responsibilities of the bishop that of promoting the unity of all Christians by supporting all activities or initiatives undertaken for this purpose, in awareness that the church has this obligation from the will of Christ himself."

From an ecumenical perspective, one of the most exciting developments is under the heading of practical cooperation. "Relations between Christians are not aimed merely at mutual knowledge, common prayer and dialogue. They presuppose and from now on call for every possible form of practical cooperation at all levels: pastoral, cultural and social, as well as that of witnessing to the Gospel message."

Within the context of the "Sister Churches" of the East there is, "in accordance with the hope expressed by Pope Paul VI, (our) declared purpose is to reestablish together full unity in legitimate diversity."

To the churches of the West there is difficulty in dealing with them as one group due to the nature of their diversity. Yet there is emphasis on the common observance of baptism amongst several, where"the theological, pastoral and ecumenical implications of (our) common baptism are many and important."

The pinnacle point of the encyclical with respect to other churches is summed up as follows: "In the ecumenical movements it is not only the Catholic Church and the Orthodox churches which hold to this demanding concept willed by God (of full visible unity among all the baptised). The orientation toward such unity is also expressed by others."

The encyclical highlights the symbol which is the motto of the World Council of Churches - with the Cross of Christ as the mast of a small boat upon the sea of life; that it will not be too buffeted by the

storms of life and will one day reach its haven.

Prom a non-Catholic perspective, what are some of the essential highlights on this important encyclical? There is a degree of disappointment that this encyclical has come so late in the papacy of John Paul II. With the amount of emphasis placed on the Second Vatican Council much greater emphasis could have been placed on those initiatives in the three decades since they were first announced.

Whilst the theological discussion on the primacy of the Bishop of Rome is logical from a Catholic perspective, it does not sufficiently acknowledge the change which has taken place in the intervening millennium. It is as though the Church was unified within during the first millennium of the Christian era. The second millenium appears to be characterised by growing diversity, disunity and different ways of expressing Christian truth.

As the dawn of the third millennium is upon us, there is the opportunity for much of the division within the church to come to an end. Whether offering the model of unity under the Bishop of Rome is the most helpful model to be put forward is the stuff of debate once the encyclical is brought into more detailed discussion.

The invoking of the responsibilities of all bishops in the ecumenical endeavour is indeed welcome and is reflected in the decision of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference to join the National Council of Churches in Australia, with the initiative taken earlier in Western Australia to be committed to the ecumenical process.

It is my personal hope that the release of this encyclical will stimulate, to a much more heightened degree, serious dialogue and action on the things which unite all Christians in our common affirmation of Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.

Pope keeps Catholics' hand to the ecumenical task

By Fr Kevin Long, chairperson, Archdiocesan Ecumenical Affairs Committee

The most recent encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint, published on Ascension Day 1995, is the fullest and most radical statement ever made by the Catholic Church about her commitment to the ecumenical movement.

Since the heady days following the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) ecumenism seems to have fallen on hard times. It must be admitted that the initial enthusiasm and progress, experienced in the late 1960s and early 1970s, has given way to what some ecumenists describe as an ecumenical winter.

The ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopacy, the practice of lay presidency, unresolved differences over questions of authority, ecclesiology, mariology and moral theology, have tended to highlight the significant theological and pastoral tensions confronting ecumenical dialogue in the 1990s.

In the face of such serious obstacles, and the often unacknowledged psychological, historical and linguistic barriers inherited by our different traditions, the immediate future of the ecumenical movement seems at best precarious.

Pope John Paul, however, cannot be placed amongst the ecumenical prophets of doom. Ecumenism has been one of the pastoral priorities of his pontificate. In the encyclical, he boldly enunciates the tensions - theological, psychological and historical -confronting the ecumenical enterprise.

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He refuses to allow the Catholic Church to draw back from the urgent challenge of seeking full communion (koinonia) with other Christians.

"At the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church committed herself irrevocably to following the path of the ecumenical venture," the Pope says, "...The present Encyclical Letter is meant as a contribution to this most noble goal ... To believe in Christ means to desire unity; to desire unity means to desire the Church; to desire the Church means to desire the communion of grace which corresponds to the Father's plan from all eternity. Such is the meaning of Christ's prayer."

The Holy Father describes the papal primacy as essentially orientated towards the Church's unity: "the bishop of Rome is the first servant of unity."

However, the historical relationship between the Papacy and the Orthodox Churches, the other ancient Churches of the East, the Churches of the Anglican Communion and the Churches of the Reformation, has not usually reflected this rich theological truth.

The Pope accurately captures the ambiguous experience of the papal primacy which lingers in the collective memories and histories of the Churches of the East and West.

Pope John Paul's is convinced that ecumenism demands a profound conversion of heart and behaviour. Christians can only engage in dialogue after they have shared the experience of receiving together God's mercy and forgiveness.

Do not many of those involved directory provides a detailed outin ecumenism today feel a need line of how the Catholic Church for such a ministry? A ministry wishes to organise its ecumeniwhich presides in truth and love cal effort at diocesan, national so that the ship - that beautiful and international levels. symbol which the World Council of Churches has chosen as its Many of its prescriptions are in emblem - will not be buffeted by place within the Australian the storms and will one day Church. The Catholic Church is reach its haven. a full member of the National Second, the Pope affirms his Council of Churches in Australia. own commitment towards find- Here in Western Australia, Arching a way of expressing the papal bishop Hickey is an active memministry in a theology and praxis ber of the Association of Heads which, while respecting the Catholic dogmatic tradition, will of Churches. The four Catholic also address the urgent needs of Dioceses of Western Australia are full members of the Conferthe ecumenical quest. ence of Churches of Western This commitment should be Australia. welcomed not only by Orthodox, Fr Kevin Long Anglican and Protestant ChrisThe Perth Archdiocese has a Each Church community needs tians but also by Catholics. The small but enthusiastic Ecumenito examine its history and pas- delicate balance between papal cal Affairs Committee that toral practice in the light of primacy and the life of local undertakes most of its work Christ's prayer for unity, he says. Churches remains a lively and through on-going membership of Those who have experienced controversial question in many the Executive of the WA conferGod's creative forgiveness are parts of the Catholic Church.

The dialogue, requested by the ence of churches. Courses in then moved by the Holy Spirit to Pope, will not only enrich ecu- Catholic Ecumenical Theology seek reconciliation with their menical theology but will also are offered at Notre Dame Uniestranged brethren when Orthoallow the Catholic Church to cri- versity and the Maranatha Instidox, Anglican and Protestant tique its Christians see Catholic Chris- practice own articulation and tute. A unit on the history of the of primacy and collesolidarity with standing in tians ecumenical movement will be giality. them under the Cross, the theotaught next year in the Theology So what is to be done? At the Department of Murdoch Univerlogical claims of the papacy, although still problematic, can international level the Pope sity. urges and invites other Church be seen in a new light. leaders and their theologians to But much more needs to be The Holy Father then reflects enter into a renewed dialogue on on two contemporary theological the question of papal primacy: done. Pope John Paul's concludrealities. First, within those "This is an immense task, which ing exhortation captures the churches and ecclesial commu- we cannot refuse and which I urgency of the ecumenical challenge: ".... and I say to you, the nities separated from the cannot carry out by myself."

Catholic Church, he perceives a faithful of the Catholic Church, Ecumenism is also seen as a new willingness to consider the and to you, my brothers and sisparticular concern and priority papal ministry. ters of the other churches and for the local church. In March After centuries of bitter contro- 1993 the Pontifical Council for ecclesial communities:' Mend versies, the other churches and Promoting Christian Unity pub- your ways, encourage one ecclesial communities are more lished The Directory for the another, live in harmony, and the and more taking a fresh look at Application of the Principles and God of love and peace will be this ministry of unity.

Norms of Ecumenism. This with you.' (2Cor 13:11)

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St Anthony: 800 years young in teaching Gospel make the honey on which it feeds, he said.

Mary is the bee. Little by virtue of her humility, round because she contemplated heavenly glory which has neither beginning nor end, sound in the love with which she bore Jesus in her womb for nine months, compact on account of her poverty. She gives birth to Jesus without requiring a human partner and he, honey of the angels and sweetness of the saints, became her source of life. Perhaps we wouldn't use the same example t oday but one can certainly appreciate its charm. l that Anthony learnt, all hat he studied, had but one Studious by nature, Fernando goal, the proclamation of the was able to satisfy his enormous gospel. He studied the entire appetite for knowledge of every bible, searching in his scholarly kind. In addition to the ancient medieval manner for ways in writings of Greek and Roman which the individual books and St Anthony with the Child Jesus. authors, he devoured the writ- texts could help to explain the ings of the church fathers and the great gift of Jesus Christ and the spiritual writers of his time. The mystery of his incarnation. the assembled friars and comThe pontiff was so impressed world of nature, science and pletely amazed them by the with the "original and profound Our saint-to-be was a man of depth of what he had to say and meanings" which Anthony drew medicine also fascinated him.

Later on in life he peppered his the scriptures. Pope Pius XII the way in which he said it. His from the scriptures that he nicksermons with the most amazing recognised this when he gave preaching apostolate had begun. named him "Ark of the Testaexamples and it is easy to under- him the title "Evangelical Doctor" He set out to preach to orthodox ment". stand how he must have held his in 1946.

Christians and heretics alike. audiences spellbound.

The Church of Saint Anthony's Despite an illness which was The friars, realising the imporday was in crisis. Politics, power tance of being properly educated gradually getting worse, the saint For example, in a sermon writ- and wealth, had blighted the continued to preach and adminten for the feast of the Purifica- gospel enthusiasm and responsi- if they were to respond effec- ister the sacraments during Lent tion, he compared Our Lady to a bility of many in the hierarchy tively to the pastoral needs of the 1231. However, keeping in mind people among whom they were bee because, according to the sci- and among the clergy. l iving and working, begged him Saint Francis' warning about the ence of the time, bees did not problem. major to become their teacher. Saint importance of prayer and devoa was Heresy require a partner in order to fast-growFrancis, and writing to Anthony, gave tion in a friar's life, he had a small new of the Many reproduce. The bee, little, round, his permission on condition that hut built in a walnut tree and of Europe and cities towns ing sound and compact, is the most the friars' devotion capable to study did retired there for long hours of priests educated lacked neat and tidy of all winged creaand not interfere pastoral with their spirit of prayer and meditation. His love the addressing of tures. It gathers pollen from a of nature, never purely academic, prayer people in a and devotion. needs of spiritual flower and returns to the hive to well with his love of blended rapidly changing society.

Armed with this approval. Saint God. In 1220, the bodies of the first Anthony taught in Bologna five Franciscan martyrs were between 1223 and 1224. NatuSaint Anthony died on 13 June brought back from Morocco to rally, the knowledge he had 1231 and he is buried in the Coimbra and buried in this gained as an Augustinian, basilica in Padua which bears his monastery. Fernando, impressed together with the insights from by the lives of the local friars, and his own pastoral experience, name. He was canonized by even more impressed by the were the foundation of his teach- Pope Gregory IX on 30 May, 1232. He was declared Doctor of story of the martyrs, decided to ing method. the Church in 1568. leave the Augustinians and join In 1226 he became Provincial of the new Order of Friars Minor. Northern Italy but continued to However, it is not his scholarTo mark the occasion, he preach to the people and teach ship that has made him so popuchanged his name to Anthony. the friars. It was during this lar over the centuries. Rather it is At the end of 1220 he himself period that he paid his first visit his common touch, his ability to went to Morocco. He travelled to Padua. Three years later, hav- introduce ordinary people to the with a companion, Fra Filippo. ing retired from office because of word of God. That was what Together they hoped to witness ill health, he returned to Padua to made him so popular during his and die for the faith just as their live. lifetime and perhaps that's why older brothers had done.

Shortly afterwards, he visited some people still murmur a However, that was not to be. Rome on Order business and prayer to him when something Soon after arriving at their desti- preached to the Pope, Gregory IX. goes missing or things go wrong! nation, Anthony fell ill for the whole winter. Eventually, he boarded a boat to return to Portugal. When unfavourable winds blew the vessel to Sicily instead, he stayed with the friars in some of them priests Messina before walking north to all of them brothers Assisi and attending the Chapter which was being held there at Pentecost 1221.

Like the original followers of Francis we friars are called to be men of prayer Once the Chapter was over, Teacher involved in a variety of ministries.

Anthony approached the ProvinFRANCISCAN Our charism is not to any specific task cial of northern Italy and asked if Pastor in the church he could become a member of FRANCISCAN that province. but to being brothers among ourselves and to the entire world.

Missionar he Provincial knew nothing FRANCISCAN of Anthony's hidden talents.

F or information about sharing your talent as a These came to light at a small Social Worker Franciscan living in brotherhood, please write to: gathering of Franciscans and FRANCISCAN • Friar Paul Smith °Fro Dominicans on the occasion of a Franciscan Vocation Office Youth Minister St Anthony with Bible and lily — The Bible signifies his Reluctantly, priestly ordination.

47 Victoria Street, Waverley NSW 2024 FRANCISCAN preaching of the Gospel, the lily his purity. but obediently, he preached to

St Anthony of Padua, the 800th anniversary of whose birth is celebrated this year, is more than just the saint for those who have lost something, as Franciscan friar, Maurice Carmody OFM, tells. aint Anthony of Padua (or "of Lisbon" as the Portuguese prefer to call him) had a reputation in popular piety for being on hand to help people in difficult situations, and especially the sick.

I first heard about him from my grandmother whose unfailing remedy for finding that lost sixpence she'd only just given me for an ice-cream was: "Say a prayer to Saint Anthony". And somehow it seemed to work! He is one Of the Church's most popular saints.

This year we are celebrating the 800th anniversary of Saint Anthony's birth. The actual date is not known but it was in Lisbon and, according to recent studies, probably in 1195. His parents called him Fernando.

He received his early education at the cathedral school dedicated to the "Holy Mother of God" and during that time appears to have been greatly influenced by an uncle who was an Augustinian Canon.

At the age of fifteen, he entered the Augustinians at the monastery of Saint Vincent just outside the walls of the city. Two years later, he was transferred to the monastery of the "Holy Cross" in Coimbra, a famous center of studies in the region.

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Bishop hits college for identi tysaid . lost

Hong Kong Catholics ready

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In recent years, diocesan hodies, individuals and groups have made contacts and conducted exchanges and cooperative programs with the church in China, assisting theological and liturgical renewal, seminary formation sanctioned churches - as the and the renovation of churches 1997 return of Hong Kong to and seminaries.

China's jurisdiction In his report, Cardinal Wu said approaches, church officials his November 1994 visit to China, the first since he became a Cardinal John Baptist Wu cardinal in 1988, underscored established friendship Cheng-chung of Hong Kong deals previously and dialogue. with the issue in a document In addition, Caritas Hong Kong, "Pastoral Exhortation abortion laws during the past 20 Ititled nterim Report the social service arm of the dioand Proposals," years." released recently. cese, has been invited to organize Spokeswoman Eileen S. One of Hong Kong's vicars-gen- training courses in China on subTownsend said the college in an jects ranging from English and earlier statement had explained eral, Father Dominic Chan Chi- management to social services ming, said that besides reviewing that it rented the conference cenfor mentally impaired children ter to community organizations diocesan relations with China and the elderly, the report said. and the church in China, the carmore than 200 times each year as Father John Tong Hon, Hong "a revenue-generating opera- dinal's interim report deals with education, social affairs, lay for- Kong's other vicar-general said tion."

The college's statement called mation, mass communication, the diocese would continue to Ms Steinem, co-founder and con- small faith communities and for- assist dialogue between the Vatisulting editor of Ms Magazine, mation of priests, brothers and can and China. There have been increasing contacts between the "one of the most influential sisters. women of our time.' Archbishop Quinn also disagreed with the college's earlier statement that "in leasing facilities, the college does not seek to judge nor endorse a speaker's comments or the politiThe agency also said the boyONDON (CNS) - A major cal positions of a sponsoring orgaCatholic aid agency has cott was aimed at protesting the nization." said it planned to boycott the decision of the Chinese GovernAccording to Archbishop ment to locate the forum for Quinn, the statement implied September United Nations non-governmental organisations that "while the Catholic Church Conference on Women in - which is held in conjunction may object to abortion, the colBeijing because women with the main conference and lege does not." would have virtually no which will give women the best "If a Catholic college adopts a opportunity to be heard - 64km voice in the meeting. stance of neutrality on abortion, from Beijing, the site of the UN The Catholic Fund For Overwhich is perhaps the most searconference. seas Development announced ing moral issue in our national the boycott late last month.

"Women world-wide will lose public life, that college makes its claim to Catholic identity An agency spokeswoman said out because of this appalling sittenuous in the extreme," the women were poorly repre- uation," said Cathy Corcoran, archbishop said. sented by their governments, head of projects at CAFOD. which are the participants in the "This is an attempt by the ChiMs Townsend said May 30 that conference. "the college realizes that further nese Government, for its own discussion is necessary."

ONG KONG (CNS) - The Hong Kong Diocese is preparing to expand its contacts with Catholics in mainland China - both those in the underground and in the state-

AN FRANCISCO (CNS) - By allowing a Planned ParentS hood fund-raiser on campus and

an appearance by feminist Gloria Steinem, a local Catholic college has shown it has "clearly and with deliberation abandoned the Catholic identity," according to San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn.

He issued a statement late last month after the board of trustees o f Dominican College of San Rafael said it supported the college's decision.

The archbishop said Ms Steinem's appearance "has raised questions in the minds of many Catholics about the college's position on perhaps the most critical moral issue facing our society today - the sanctity of human life."

The archbishop wrote to the college president, Joseph Fink, on May 22, saying the scheduled event could give the impression that the school was either in favour of or neutral about abortion.

He said Ms Steinem was a "leading advocate for virtually unrestricted abortion in the United States," and described Planned Parenthood as "the primary vehicle for providing abortion and seeking ever broader

two, but critical issues such as papal authority over Chinese church matters, the election of bishops without papal approval, and the status of the pro-Vatican underground church remain unresolved. The church in Hong Kong was working toward "reconciliation and communion," Father Tong said. He described Catholicism in China as one church divided into governmentsanctioned and underground communities. Around eighteen of the approximately 70 government-recognized Catholic bishops in China were "building up their loyalty" to the Pope.

"The (Hong Kong) church adopts an optimistic and positive attitude toward the 1997 issue," Father Tong said.

"Though anxiety exists among Catholics, the political change is a crisis as well as an opportunity for the church, because we have a greater mission to fulfill in education and social services," he said.

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domestic political reasons, to derail an international conference which depends crucially on the participation of women," she said.

CAFOD predicted the conference would be a "fiasco," with 40 percent of the draft action platform still under dispute.

Contentious areas include human rights, health and poverty.

CAFOD is the official aid agency of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.

Non-believers It said the hopes of all Sri OLOMBO, Sri Lanka The Tamil rebels, waging a 12- norms of humanitarian law," said can be saved: Lankan communities "were shat- year war for an autonomous the statement from the Tamil C (CNS) - Amid mounting Pope John Paul deaths in Sri Lanka's rekin- tered once again due to the Tamil homeland in the north and United Liberation Front. unreasonable demands, unilat- east, broke a 14-week truce with dled ethnic war,

Catholics appeal for peace in Sri Lanka including a massacre of Catholic villagers, Sinhalese priests have appealed to Tamil Catholics in the rebel force to push for renewed peace talks.

Twelve priests of the Colombo Archdiocese signed the appeal sent to bishops, clergy, religious and laity in war-torn northern and eastern Sri Lanka, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

The appeal urged Tamil Catholics to try to persuade the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to resume the aborted peace process.

eral withdrawal from the truce, and declaration of war by the LTI E."

However, it also blamed "the delay on the part of the Government to progress toward talks on a political solution, and slow implementation of supplying essentials to the people of the north," who have been under an economic embargo.

"Hardness of heart cannot bring about change or newness," the appeal said. "We feel that the present deadlock demands your mediatory role to avoid further escalation of war and violence on innocent lives."

the Sinhalese-dominated Government April 19. More than 500 soldiers, civilians have been killed since.

In a midnight attack on May 25 on the mostly Sinhalese Catholic village of Kallarewa Tamil rebels killed 44 people, according to official reports. Unconfirmed reports gave higher numbers.

Men, women and children were killed, survivors said.

Tamil political parties condemned the killings in statements issued on May 27.

"We wish to strongly condemn all attacks against civilians, which are in violation of all

It noted that defenseless Tamil, Muslim, and Sinhalese civilians have all become targets since fighting resumed.

The Colombo appeal urged "fortitude" in standing for "truth, justice and peace."

"Let's all join hands and give peace another chance," it said.

In the first week of May, a 25,000-signature petition that urged peace and was endorsed

by Bishop Rayappu Joseph of Mannar was delivered to the Tamil rebels and Government leaders. The bishop also appealed for peace over rebel radio.

The only viable tender, but Opus Dei misses out

By Heidi Schlumpf Kezmoh HICAGO (CNS) - The Chicago C Archdiocese has announced it will not sell its former college semi-

nary in Niles to an all-boys high school affiliated with Opus Dei. Following a vote by the Archdiocesan Finance Council and consultation with the Archdiocesan Presbyteral Council, the archdiocese decided to no longer consider the SUS8.75 million offer submitted by Northridge Preparatory School for the seminary property closed since last September.

"The underlying issue is the fact that Northridge Preparatory School is closely related to Opus Dei, a world-wide institution which has 12 The Record, June 8 1995

been officially recognized by the Catholic Church," a statement released by the archdiocese said.

"While its stated purpose is to spread in all sectors of society a deep awareness of the universal call to a life of holiness" according to Second Vatican Council teaching, "Opus Dei has been the subject of considerable controversy," the statement said.

Although Opus Dei does not own or directly fund Northridge Preparatory School, members of Opus Del founded the school in 1976 and comprise two-thirds of its faculty.

Despite the decision not to sell to Northridge, Chicago Cardinal Joseph L Bernardin said he would like to promote dialogue between representatives of Opus Del and

those who have concerns about its The decision not to sell to Northvision of the church. ridge was confirmed at the May 16 Father William Stetson, delegate special consultation meeting of the vicar of Opus Dei, said he wel- presbyteral council, where only four comed the opportunity to sit down of the 47 council members present and clear the air about misconcep- supported the sale in an informal tions people might have about Opus show-of-hands vote, according to Dei. But he regretted that he was not Father James Kaczorowski, council allowed to address such concerns at chair. the May 16 presbyteral council Father Kaczorowski, who said meeting. He compared voting without input from Opus Dei members there should be room for everybody "like the jury that hears the prosecu- in the church, said he had received many letters and phone calls from tion but not the defense." priests who feel they have been The archdiocesan statement said the bidding process had been con- unfairly criticized by Opus Dei ducted fairly and the Northridge members. But according to Father offer was not only financially justi- Stetson, most complains about fied but also the only viable offer Opus Dei members lack credibility under consideration. But, the state- because they are made anonyment continued, "other factors" mously or they incorrectly identify were also taken into consideration. people as members.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Because eternal salvation comes through Christ, even for those who do not believe in him, the Catholic Church must seek to make him known and loved, Pope John Paul II said.

"God wishes all humanity to be saved through the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ, and so in some way he makes it possible for every individual to attain salvation," the Pope told at his weekly general audience on May 30.

The gift of salvation, he said, was not limited to those who explicitly professed faith in God and entered into the church.

The Second Vatican Council taught that God's saving grace was at work in every person of good will and that through the Holy Spirit, God has made it possible for every person to be saved.

"Even for those who through no fault of their own do not know Christ and do not call themselves Christians, God's divine plan has provided a way of salvation," the Pope said.

But Pope John Paul said the Catholic Church could not be content simply with a dialogue with believers of other religions and with non-believers. It could not act as if one religion was just as good as another. "The church's missionary activity, carried out in obedience to Christ's command, seeks to lead all people to the fullness of faith through the knowledge and love of the Redeemer, and to the salvation communicated by his Holy Spirit, who leads us into all the truth," he said.

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Many Catholics forget Mary's Jewish bac ound: priest DAYTON, Ohio (CNS) - Catholics who the people of Israel both in her own gen- meals, he said. "Natural nourishment think of Mary in terms of New Testa- eration and all the way back to Abra- for the body would be accompanied by ment Scriptures alone may miss some of ham and Sarah." spiritual nourishment." the depth of her significance for ChrisSuch an awareness and emphasis on As part of the Jewish community, Mary tianity, according to Father Lawrence community echoed the Jewish heritage would have been familiar with the Frizzell. itself, he said.

Scriptures and the common prayers said Fr Frizzell, the director of Seton Hall "When we want to study the Jewish University's Institute of Judaeo-Christian family," the priest continued, "we have in the temple. Her familiarity with one Studies, told the Mariological Society of to recall the very harsh realities of Jewish prayer in particular, the Amidah, America's 46th annual meeting on May ancient life - the quasi-nomadic exis- shows up in her Magnificat, according to 25 it was important that Catholics recog- tence of people in the generations of the Fr Frizzell. nised the connections between Mary patriarchs, the exodus from Egypt - to "The prayer gives us one way of seeing and her Jewish heritage. see that solidarity among members of how the prayer of Mary comes not just "Many Catholics seem to have forgot- the community." from knowledge of the Greek Bible, but ten the Marian interpretations of Jewish To belong, each member of the Jewish from the lived experience of Jewish faith Scripture, or perhaps they don't con- community had certain duties to fulfill articulated in prayer," he said. sider this a part of the heritage relevant that reflected the importance of the temto modern piety," Father Frizzell said.

Other references to Mary can be found ple. as part of the biblical tradition in titles To help this understanding, Fr Frizzell As dictated by Jewish tradition, Mary talked about the biblical and historical would have followed the customs typi- such as "Daughter of Zion." Luke also practices of Jewish society and how cal for Jewish women to fulfill, such as begins and ends the text with the temple Mary's life reflected its influence. adhering to menstruation restrictions, and also follows through on another "The Luke infancy narrative portrays lighting the lamp to signify the begin- biblical tradition - the prophetic call, as Mary as someone who is responsible to ning of the Sabbath and tithing meals. shown by the revelation to Zechariah the community and responsive to the "The home was the setting where peo- about his role as John the Baptist's divine presence in her life," he said. ple would try to experience the pres- father and the annunciation of the incar"She is also acutely aware of her bond to ence of God as they prepared for their nation of Christ to Mary.

Catholic schools need 'zeal for the Gospel' DENVER (CNS) - Catholic schools must be alive with a zeal for the Gospel, the

merely by-products, not the primary goals of Catholic schools, he added.

The archbishop also stressed the role of parents, encouraging them to "take an active handson role in building the Catholic culture of the school."

Eucharist and the teachings of "Catholic schools exist to prothe Catholic faith, and not be claim the lordship of Jesus satisfied with a religious exte"A Catholic education cannot he said. "(They) must Christ," FranArchbishop J. rior, Denver be bought," he added. "It is salstudents to all bring above cis Stafford has said in a pasalways a community effort, toral letter to Catholics and "all vation through a Gospel-and- hingeing first on the parents persons of good will" in north- sacrament-centered life. Every and the Gospel example they other good is secondary." ern Colorado. set within the home."

"Understanding the proper In order for a Catholic school The role of pastors is also identity of our Catholic schools, to be to true to its mission, the he said, insisting that crucial, more firmly building even the need to and archbishop stressed the liturgical "enliven pastors on their religious foundation is look to church documents on that ensuring of schools, life" so urgent," the archbishop said education, particularly from the and regfrequent have students on May 25.

Second Vatican Council or the ular access to the Sacraments He said a Catholic school Vatican's Congregation for of Penance and the Eucharist. must never be viewed as Catholic Education.

He said, "daily ongoing reli"merely a good private acadThe archbishop also sug- gious instruction and catechemy" with a religious exterior. gested several practical ways Instead, he said, "the heart of for Catholic schools to foster esis should have primacy," and every Catholic school must be the life of faith in their students. "religion should be the first alive with a zeal for the Gospel, For example, he said, schools subject taught each morning." the Eucharist and the teachings should "take great care to Students should also be of the Catholic faith." recruit religion teachers and required to memorise particuThe fact that Catholic schools catechists who are energetic, lar documents of the faith, such promote good citizenship, com- intellectually adroit and deeply as essential prayers, key doctrimunity service, civic leadership committed to the authentic nal ideas or Bible passages, he said. and ethical public conduct, are magisterium of the church."

Sudanese Christians still persecuted

By Barry James PARIS (CNS) - In a Pentecost message, the Catholic bishop of

Toni in southern Sudan has advised his flock to always travel with a hoe and a spade so that they can bury any dead they find.

In his letter, Bishop Taban described some of the sights he saw on a recent journey by car to his diocese, the southernmost in Sudan: a group of women reduced to living skeletons and crazed with terror, vultures pecking at a corpse, and a road littered with bleached human bones.

Bishop Taban, whose sprawling diocese of more than 3 70,000 Catholics borders Uganda and Kenya, told reporters at a Paris news conference last week that Sudan's Muslim-led Government was

continuing a brutal campaign of racial and religious persecution against the predominantly Christian and animist population in the south.

With relief flights halted because of the danger of being shot down, Bishop Taban accused the Government of a campaign of genocide against the southern population. Food was rotting in warehouses in Kenya while people were dying of hunger in Sudan, he said.

Sudan's Government has denied that Christians in Sudan are persecuted, but southerners have accused the Islamic fundamentalists running the country of seeking to enslave and destroy their population.

"The worst thing is the cultural destruction of the south," Bishop Taban said. "People are told that to be Africans, they must be Muslims."

"Southerners are not called people, but property," he said.

"Well, they don't want to be property. They want to be sons and daughters of the same country."

Bishop Taban said that despite the persecution, the number of Christians in Sudan had doubled in the last 12 years to more than 3.5 million, compared to about 17 million Muslims.

The United Nations Human Rights Commission condemned Sudan in unusually s trong terms in March for human rights abuses, including summary executions, slavery and systematic torture." The commission said it had evidence that the government was rounding up children from Christian families and sending them to camps for indoctrination and conversion to Islam.

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Missionaries fire-bombed ENDE, Indonesia (CNS) - About 70 religious brothers and priests and 43 elderly people were left homeless after a fire destroyed their Divine Word community house in Ende under suspicious circumstances.

The rector of St Conrad's Divine Word community house, Father Fidelis Kewuta, and community members said the fire was no accident, according to UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

For one thing, Father Kewuta said, "we detected the smell of gasoline" in the wreckage.

He added that their community house was recently stoned by "unidentified perpetrators."

Catholics who live near the religious house linked the stoning and burning to an April riot in Maumere, 149Iun east of Ende, in eastern Indonesia.

Catholics in Maumere rioted over the sentencing of a man convicted of desecrating a host.

They were angered when the prosecutor asked for a 42-month jail term, which they thought was too light. Two people died and

hundreds were injured in rioting that required the intervention of army troops.

The convicted man was a Muslim and the Muslim district of Maumere was the target of the rioting. Hundreds of homes and shops were burned.

"Almost every night since the riot in Maumere, we hear the stoning of roofs in the religious house compound," said Mantianus Simeon, an Ende lay Catholic.

The fire began while community members were in the chapel praying. It destroyed two main buildings and property valued at 500 million rupiah (SU5225,225).

Community members and the elderly with whom the religious shared their compound have temporary shelter in St Joseph's convent and boarding house at a local Catholic high school run by the Divine Word congregation.

Ende is about 1600km east of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital.

Consecrated virgins 'fulfill their feminine identity'

By Cindy Wooden

riage, the consecrated virgin is able to live and express a spousal love: with such a love she becomes, in the church, a gift for God, for Christ the r edeemer and for every brother and sister," the Pope said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) Consecrated virgins are c alled to join their lives completely to Christ's by loving him and by loving others the way he did, Pope Wedded to Christ and his John Paul El has said. church, the Pope said, conseaudience, During a June 2 crated virgins were called to the Pope marked the 25th "share his style of a life promulgaof the anniversary tion of the renewed "Ritual marked by humility and for the Consecration of Vir- meekness - of love and gins," an ancient rite in the mercy, service and joyful church that fell into disuse in availability, of untiring zeal the years before the Second for the glory of the Father and Vatican Council. the salvation of humankind."

Consecrated virgins are Consecrated virgins were a women who take vows of chastity under the direction "visible sign of the virginity of of a bishop but do not join the church, an instrument of religious orders. its fruitfulness and a witness The papal audience was of its fidelity to Christ," he held in conjunction with an said.

International meeting in He encouraged the women Rome of consecrated virgins. model their lives on that of to The Pope told the women that they could fulfill them- Mary, truly becoming "virselves and their feminine gins in heart and body, brides Identity through their conse- with a total and exclusive cration. attachment to the love of "Just as with the woman Christ, mothers for the gift of who follows the way of mar- the Spirit."

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Controversial madonna again on public display

CIVITAVECCHIA, Italy (CNS) - nesses first said they saw it cry on The decision to return the A controversial Marian statue February 2 this year in the gar- statue was made after consultatthat several eyewitnesses said den of its owners. ing with church experts from sevcried tears of blood will return to eral countries, he said, to proSeveral days after the reports, mote devotion to Mary. public display June 17, Bishop Girolamo Grillo of Civitavecchia- the bishop took possession of the "In the meantime, research and statue. He reiterated that he saw Tarquinia said. studies by experts will continue."

The bishop said his decision the statue cry on March 15 while he was holding it in his hands.

The bishop also asked that peowas not a judgment on the possiple refrain from trying to take bility that a supernatural event The statue will be put on dis- economic advantage of the had occurred. A church investiga- play in St Augustine Church in statue's return. tion is continuing on that ques- Civitavecchia, the parish church tion, he added.

Its return has "nothing to do of its owners, the Fabio Gregori Local legal officials also are family, said the bishop. The with economic and financial investigating the possibility of statue would be placed in a niche interests," he said. fraud in relation to the statue, in the church after an evening After reports of the crying which has drawn widespread Mass in the plaza outside the statue began surfacing in Februnational attention since eyewit- church, he said. ary, vendors and self-proclaimed

Pray-TV comes to Dallas, the world

By Ken Eppes DALLAS (CNS) - An international Catholic television network is to be established in the United States with the aim of providing around-the-clock Catholic television for North America and eventually the world.

"This will, in some way, allow Jesus to walk the highways and the roads and alleys of our world today in a much more visible way than we can do just by proclaiming his word in the pulpit," said Bishop Charles V. Grahmann of Dallas.

Scheduled to broadcast its first programs in December, the network plans to air dramatic presentations, Christian teaching, music and liturgical programs, and live coverage of events.

Viewers will be able to call in at no charge for prayer, counselling and interaction with the hosts and guests during programs, said ICN officials.

"We're trying to appeal to a younger audience than most religious television," said Chris Cavnar, business manager for the new venture.

ICN will not be a replacement for the Catholic Telecommunications Network of America, a satellite network established by the US Catholic bishops.

At the US bishops' meeting in.

Chicago on June 15-17, a special committee on CTNA will recommend that its programming be suspended.

In its 13-year history, CTNA has never broken even financially and has received more than SUSI() million in grants and subsidies from the bishops.

According to Pat Martin. former director of the Archbishop Sheen Center for Communications in Dallas, CTNA produces training, development and continuing education programming for parishes. It was never intended for home audiences and uses hardware that is incompatible with most home entertainment systems.

ICN is operated by the television ministry of Catholic Charismatic Services of Dallas, better known as Christian Community of God's Delight.

Operating independently, the ministry has produced Christian television shows for more than 15 years.

"What the bishop expressed to us is what we had been trying to do on a smaller scale for years," Mr Cavnar said.

Bishop Grahmann is chairman of the ICN board, whose other members have not been announced. The new network will receive no diocesan funds and will begin efforts soon to raise the estimated $US12 million start-up costs from private benefactors.

ICN is negotiating to begin broadcasting in three or four cities. Besides providing television programs, Mr Cavnar said ICN would maintain a video library to support Catholic centers around the world and would train personnel from those centres at the request of their local bishops.

seers descended upon Civitavecchia.

The tiny, plaster statue was brought to Civitavecchia from Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, by a priest who gave it to the Gregori family. Medjugorje is the site of alleged Marian apparitions and has drawn millions of international pilgrims.

Earlier this year, the bishop and legal authorities ordered parallel sets of scientific tests on the statue. Both series of tests found no cavities or devices inside the statue that could have contained or squirted liquid.

Meanwhile, a Marian expert on the bishop's investigating commission said his initial impression was positive.

French Father Rene Laurentin, author of more than 100 books and an expert on the Marian apparition at Lourdes, France, told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that he had confidence in the Gregori family and the bishop.

"But we could be dealing with a deception. As always, I'm open to the possibility," he said.

Swiss bishop confesses VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation of a Swiss bishop who said the pressures of his job led him into getting a long-time woman friend pregnant.

Bishop Hansjorg Vogel of Basel, 44, explained the situation and his continuing conviction that it is possible to live a happy and celibate life in a letter last week.

Bishop Vogel said when he was elected bishop of Basel in February 1994, "I drew attention to my limits and said we could not walk together without experiencing some hurt and some disappointments."

"My limits have been manifested in a way in which I would not have thought then," he wrote.

"After my election as bishop, I experienced an emotional difficulty which was harder and harder to bear. I then sought support from a woman whom I have known for a long time. This relationship led to a pregnancy," Bishop Vogel said.

"I know that my weakness will disappoint many pastoral workers ordained and lay - and many of the faithful," he said. ".... From the heart, I ask the forgiveness of all those whom I have disappointed and hurt."

Bishop Vogel also asked opponents of mandatory celibacy for Latin-rite priests not to use his situation as a rallying point as he was "still convinced a fulfilling life is possible with celibacy.'

Pope to visit Africa VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II will make his 11th trip to Africa in September, when he plans to issue a document on the conclusions of the African synod held in Rome.

He is expected to cross the continent north to south, with stops in Tunisia, Cameroon, Kenya and South Africa.

The papal document, based on the propositions adopted by the

synod, is expected to offer a pastoral evaluation of the church in Africa and ideas for a new missionary push on the continent.

It will be the Pope's first stop in predominantly Muslim Tunisi and marks the pontiff's first official state visit to South Africa, where he is expected to praise efforts at dialogue and harmony in the country's post-apartheid society.

Any Vocations Crisis Fault of American cardinal leads Dissenting Catholics, says Prelate from the vocation front

By Catholic News Service OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) - Any crisis in vocations to the priesthood is the fault of "people who want to change the church's agenda," according to Archbishop Elden F. Curtiss of Omaha.

Such people, he said, "do not support orthodox candidates loyal to the magisterial teaching of the pope and bishops" and "actually discourage viable candidates from seeking priesthood and vowed religious life as the church defines these ministries."

They are aided by vocation directors and teams and admission boards with a "death wish" for vowed celibate ministry, Archbishop Curtiss said. "They undermine the vocation ministry they are supposed to champion."

"I personally think the vocation 'crisis' in this country is more artificial and contrived than many people realize," he said.

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Archbishop Curtiss' comments appeared in his weekly column, titled "From My Perspective," appearing in the May 26 issue of the Catholic Voice, Omaha's archdiocesan newspaper.

The archbishop said there is a link between an increase in vocations in some dioceses and the fidelity to the magisterium the church's teaching authority.

He reported that in his state, the rural Diocese of Lincoln, which numbers 84,000 Catholics, has 45 seminarians.

In Omaha, Archbishop Curtiss said there would be "at least" 36 seminarians come autumn, 28 of them in theology and pretheology studies.

Archbishop Curtiss said, without disclosing any names or dioceses, that he was "personally aware" of certain vocation evaluators "who discourage candidates who do not support the possibility of ordaining women or who defend the church's teaching about artificial birth control, or who exhibit a strong piety toward certain devotions, such as the rosary."

He added, "When there is a determined effort to discourage orthodox candidates from priesthood and religious life, then the vocation shortage which results is caused not by a lack of vocations but by deliberate attitudes and policies which discourage certain viable candidates.

"And the same people who precipitate a decline in vocations by their negative actions call for the ordination of married men and women to replace the vocations they have discouraged. They have a death wish for ordained priesthood and vowed religious life as the church defines them."

The cardinal said he could not talk anybody into becoming a priest.

"God forbid that I would ever try," he wrote. "I can, however, and unapologetically do try to talk eligible men into thinking, and praying about the possibility that God wants them to become priests."

Cardinal John O'Connor.

Cardinal O'Connor, a former Navy chaplain, recalled that "the most successful recruiting ad the Marine Corps ever ran in modern times" was one that challenged potential recruits with the theme,

"We Don't Promise You a Rose NEW YORK (CNS) - Cardinal John O'Connor of New York will Garden." personally conduct an August "The priesthood is not the retreat for men who are consid- Marine Corps," he commented. ering the priesthood, he "It's tougher. Not macho tough; announced in his May 25 col- integrity tough, self-discipline "If we are not willing to recog- umn in the archdiocesan tough, self-sacrifice tough." nize and accept the reasons for weekly, Catholic New York. their success and incorporate But enumerating the ways a them in our own local efforts, priest can help people through "If I don't hear from anyone, I'll then we allow ourselves to preaching the Gospel, providing become supporters of the self- make a quiet retreat myself and the sacraments and fighting for fulfilled prophecy about the pray for an increase in voca- the poor, he said that "I can't shortage of vocations." tions." he said. imagine a more thrilling life."

"We have to learn from the dioceses and communities who are experiencing an increase in vocations," Archbishop Curtiss said.

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THE PARISH SCENE MAYLANDS. PENTECOST SUNDAY ECUMENICAL SERVICE OF THE WORD OF GOD Queen of Martyrs Parish Church Maylands was the venue for an ecumenical worship service to celebrate Pentecost Sunday in a special way.

The order of service used the theme, the bible readings, and much of the text prepared by an international group for the 1994 Week Of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Members of the Church of Christ, Uniting Church, and the Anglican and Catholic Church, planned the service and took an active role in the presentation of this very special event A highlight was the music and singing of the Highgate Vietnamese Choir.

The service was very well attended, and was followed by refreshments and fellowship in the parish hall.

This is the second of these Pentecost Sunday special services, organised by the Maylands Churches, and plans are already in place to ensure the service becomes an annual event NEWMAN SOCIETY Vatican II Group, Tuesday June 13 at 11 a.m. Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity, Chapter 3. Section 9. "The Various Fields of the Apostolate". Page 500 in Abbott. Page 776 in Flannery.

Venue: Our Lady of the Missions Convent, 40. Mary St. Highgate.

Open to all interested. Contact No: 446 7340.

SEXUALITY AND UFE A workshop to enable you to touch and reclaim your sexuality for fuller life. We will process some of the different stepping stones of our sexuality on the unfolding pathway of life.

Presented by Celia Joyce by Fullness of Life Centre (Inc).

When: Friday 23 June 7.10 p.m. and Saturday 24 June 10 a.m.4 p.m. Venue: Oasis Lotteries House, 37 Hampden Road, Nedlands. Bookings and enquiries phone (09) 389 8550.

HEALING MASS A Healing Mass in honour of St Peregrine, patron of cancer sufferers and helper of all in need will be held at the Church of SS John and Paul, Pinetree Gully Rd., (off South St.) Willetton, on Friday, June 16th at 7 p.m. There will be Veneration of the Relic and Anointing of the Sick. For further information please contact Noreen Monaghan, Tel No. 332 8292.

LAST THREE FAMILY DAYS AT SUBIACO The Family Mission Novena, the Redeptionists' newest form of Mission, is under way in St. Joseph's Subiaco. It is the Family's celebration of faith and sacredness. Children especially love its atmosphere - one Family Hour, 7.30-8.30.

Six of the nine evenings have gone. Three remain.

1)Sunday is Adoration Day, Reconciliation Day. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Confessions continue non-stop for these 5 hours.

2) Monday is Our Blessed Lady's night in the best R edemptionist tradition Shrine Resplendent, Consecration of Families to God's Mother.

3) Tuesday - the final night of loyalty, allegiance and public pledge of fidelity to family and faith.

Come early or stand. Bring the family. Phone 381 1248.

CHARISMATIC A VERY SPECIAL MASS FOR ALL A Mass for all BABIES, past and recent, who have died before b aptism, e.g.

Stillborn, Miscarriage and Abortion - Will be held on Friday 16th June at 8.00 p.m. - at Our Lady of Grace.

This Mass will be one of Celebration and Grieving for the life that was but did not survive.

The Mass will be that from the Rite of Funerals for those who died before Baptism and will conclude with the Final Farewell at the conclusion of Mass.

ALL WELCOME - Parents, sisters, brothers, grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends etc.

"ADORATION/ TALK/HEALING" Benediction in the Convent of Mercy Chapel, Victoria Sq., 2.30 p.m. 11th June, will be followed by refreshments (plate please), a Conversion Talk by Carver Alan Ames, and prayers for Healing.

All welcome. Russel 274 6018, George 275 6608.

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND MASS Date: Tuesday 13 June 1995.

Venue: Convent of Mercy, 113 Tyler Street, Tuart Hill. Time: 7.30 p.m.

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R SVP to Sr Mary Berry (Ph: 444 5750) BROTHER ANDREW Perth workshops by Br Andrew: Queen of Apostles - Tudor Ave R iverton. 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.

Archdiocesan Calendar June 9-11 Visitation and Confirmation Floreat/Wembley - Bishop Healy 14-16 "Asia Knocks" (Catholic Migrant Centre) - Notre Dame University Visitation to Catholic Engaged 16 Encounter - Archbishop Hickey 16-18 Visitation and Confirmation Mt Lawley - Bishop Healy Ukranian Catholic Church, 18 Maylands, 9.30 Mass Archbishop Hickey Anthony's St Day Celebrations, Wanneroo Monsignor Keating

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

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