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Ancient light shines softly in Como church

By Nana Howard An art-form that has graced European churches since the Middle Ages has now lent its full charm to the Holy Family Parish church of Como with the completion of four stained glass windows this month.

The interior of the church is now lit with dappled colour as filtered light falls through the intricate glass panes.

The last of the windows was installed on June 19, depicting the Resurrection.

The themes of the other three are The Eucharist, The Holy Spirit and The Holy Family.

They are the work of Como artist Gerry Manson, and the result of an idea which came to parish priest Father Frank O'Dea one afternoon in 1990, as he sat praying in the church.

"I thought the church was somehow lacking colour," he says.

"And it occurred to me it would be nice to have some stained glass windows.

The 5m by 1m works of art were funded by sponsors, and each one took the equivalent of three months to complete.

The themes for the windows were chosen by Father Frank.

"Being a Blessed Sacrament Father, my first choice was a window on the Eucharist," he says.

"I wanted to choose the principal themes of our faith, so next I decided on the Holy Spirit - I guess I was influenced by having been involved in the Charismatic Renewal for a long time.

"The Resurrection is, of course, the foundation of our faith, so that was the third

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window - and as for the fourth, our church is dedicated to the Holy Family."

Based on the themes, Gerry would draw a sketch of the window and take it to Father, who would suggest additions and alterations.

The composition of each window would be refined until both were happy with it.

"We've had a few good fights over the content of the windows," says Gerry.

"But Father Frank is a lovely man. He's great to work with."

The two made a good team, and together were able to combine scriptural theology with artistic expression.

The results - visit and see for yourself are breathtaking.

Laden with symbolism and meaning, each window is rich in detail. and would talce several visits to fully appreciate.

The newest window, the Resurrection, depicts Jesus as Lord of creation,I risen I I from the tomb.

He is conveyed as creator of the heavens, with sparkling stars in a spiral nebula and a sun above His head.

He is carrying the resurrection banner, which ripples in red down to His shoulder.

"In this winclow we din't d want Christ depicted in an entirely realistic way," says Gerry.

"The accounts tell us that after the resurrection He wasn't recognised, so I wanted Him to be different from the figure of Cluist in the Eucharist window."

The woman at the empty tomb is present, with an angel above her holding the rolled away stone.

Below this in a vignette panel is a baptism scene, which speaks of rebirth, and new life.

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G-G wrong on euthanasia, homosexuals: Archbishop Archbishop Barry Hickey this week condemned Governor-General Bill Hayden's remarks supporting euthanasia and homosexual parenting.

He warmly welcomed the regret his fellow Australian Catholic bishops expressed at the intervention of the Governor-General in those issues.

The Archbishop's comments follOwed on from the release of a statement by the Australian Bishops' Committee for the Family and Life that criticised Mr Hayden's recent remarks that euthanasia and homosexual parenting should be recognised in law.

"It is, at very least, surprising that someone in his position should use his office to undermine respect for life and the integrity of maiTiage," Archbishop Hickey said.

"It is imperative for Australian society to resist the pressure to invest the power of life and death in the hands of individuals

with or without the assistance of doctors."

The Archbishop also said that for the health of society, as far as possible, children should be raised within the stable union of father and mother.

"Whilst the tragedy of family breakdown sometimes makes that very difficult, it is quite another thing to legitimise arrangements for children that make it impossible," he said.

Archbishop Len Faulkner of Adelaide, chairman of the bishop's committee, said Mr Hayden was a distinguished Australian whose views would command attention.

"This is unfortunate in this case because his personal feelings on euthanasia reveal a very limited perspective," Archbishop Faulkner said. He also objected strongly to the Governor-General's references to sick and elderly people as "unproductive burdens."

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The Resurrection window at Holy Family parish, Como, by local resident Gerry Manson

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Over the past few weeks Ihave the classification of publications , been impressed by the way and, of course, to me.

Catholics have risen in defence When I saw the poems I too of what they hold sacred. was very offended and disThe controversy was around gusted. A letter went off immeditwo poems in a recent issue of ately to the State Attorney-Genthe holistic journal called Nova eral, registering the anger and in which the imagined sexual outrage of those who hold dear activity of Mary and Jesus were the virginity of Mary and the graphically portrayed. Whatever purity of Jesus. the motives of the author, I am pleased to say that the Catholics and other Christians Attorney-Ge neral replied to my who read the poems were letter, agreeing that the poem deeply offended. had been most inappropriate for They did not simply let it pass, such a journal, especially one as one often does in such mat- that was available for general ters. They started writing to the and free distribution. She had editor of the journal, to the already communicated her disadvertisers that supported the pleasure to the journal, insisting journal, to the State Attorney - that such an incident not occur General who is responsible for again.

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Ihave been told that the letters impunity. Not so anymore. of protest were piled high on her I do not believe that my letter desk. would have elicited the response What do we learn from all it did had it not been supported this? by hundreds of other letters.

We learn that it is worth standWhen our beliefs are unfairly ing up for what we hold sacred. attacked, I suggest that you do Even in a plural society like ours not simply write to me hoping where almost all views are toler- that I alone can do something ated, and can be freely about it. Write to the source of expressed, it is not acceptable to the offence yourself because in target and hold up to ridicule these matters numbers do count. what a particular group holds in We are not perfect. We often reverence. deserve the attacks we get, espeWe learn something about cially if we have not been true to people power. The swift reac- the Gospel. tions of people on this issue However, when our Saviour brought about a rapid response. and our Heavenly Mother are We have taken a lot lately, as it treated in a manner we consider seems quite acceptable to attack o ffensive, then enough is the beliefs of the Church with enough.

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One of the most critical issues facing Catholic bodies in the United States is how to retain their Catholic identity in the face of political and legislative onslaughts and increasing commercialisation of traditionally Catholic institutions.

Professor William Barrett, a Jesuit academic currently working in the school of Law at the Jesuit University of San Francisco, said in Perth this week the Church urgently had to find a way to deal with such rapidly changing circumstances in its universities, schools, hospitals and other health care facilities.

"The regulatory state is taking over everything and its a new world," he said at the 29th annual congress of the Canon Law Society of Australia and New Zealand, a gathering of Professor William Barrett priests, religious and laity provide abortion services. involved in Church law.

Also speaking at the confer"Across the whole spectrum ence were a number of other of issues involving life, the experts, including moral health industry is locked in, I philosopher Dr Bernadette think, very mortal combat," Dr Tobin from the John Plunket Barrett said.

Ethics Centre in Sydney and "In February this year the Justice Robert French, Presi- American Medical Association dent of the National Native said that no medical school Title Tribunal. would be accredited which The American Catholic-run does not have courses and hospital experience showed instructions on how to perform just how big the attack was, Dr abortions. And if you lose your Barrett said. accreditation you not only lose When the Clinton adminis- your standing in the medical tration came into office its community, you lose your agenda included a plan that all money." hospitals were to he required to But Professor Barrett is also •

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The naming of the arts centre at Sacred Heart, Sorrento, in honour of Our Lady of the Missions Sister Molly O'Sullivan was the highlight of celebrations last week in honour of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Perth.

Goomalling, Mundaring, Thornlie, all named after the Sacred Heart had separate celebrations from Sacred Heart, Sorrento.

The O'Sullivan Art Centre was blessed by the College Chaplain, Fr Bob Carden OFM, and officially opened by the Director of Catholic Education, Mrs Therese Temby. Sr O'Sullivan for many years has encouraged students at the College in their artistic endeavours. Sr

Molly movingly thanked the school, the students and the teachers "whom I have grown to love so much."

At Sacred Heart's primary school concerned at the effect comin Highgate, the day started with mercialisation is having on the Mass, went on to a mini-fete and Catholic identity of institutions lunch time became "feast time" and how that identitiy can be with shared meals between differretained. ent classes.

In the case of hospitals this At Goomalling the school particihas affected things like the trapated in an evening parish celebraditional notion of religious ministry to the sick. tion and casserole tea. At Mundaring and Thornlie the students But the need for money and participated in school Masses and the presence of intrusive reguthe day was enlivened by special lation has meant that hospitals that thirty or forty years ago activities to commemorate the feast were quite evidently religious day. were now culturally sterile and without religious symbolism.

The ownership of Catholic universities raises similar questions.

"I am the only Catholic on a Jesuit law school faculty, which is very interesting. I'm the only one with any interest in pro-life issues. I'm the only one with any interest at all in what's going on in the Church and the (i.J ) law makes it impossible for a law school to be any different," he said.

Dr Barrett said that canon law had not forseen increasing secularisation of Catholic institutions. "Does the canon law Year 4 and Year 1 students at Sacred Heart, Highgate, left, hope provide for this? Is it written for more feast days. Right, Sorrento Year 10 students Rebecca Petale with the sensitivity to the legal and Martin Nicoletti dressed up as the Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter e ffect of independent non- for the day. profit corporate status and all the significance of that? . . . And Flame Ministries International the answer is no it doesn't, it doesn't even talk about these eitatiMpatie things," he said.

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Bishops attack Hayden

Continued from Page 1 "We want to assure our older people that they are loved and important to us," the bishops said.

"We don't want a new consensus that tells them: Yes. You would be better off dead."

On the question of single-sex couples, Archbishop Faulkner said the real concern was over the matter of adoption.

"The prime concern must be the good of the child, not the desires or needs of lesbian or homosexual couples," he said.

"The good of the child is best served by placing the child in a stable union with strong supportive models of both sexes."

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From horror to civilisation

By Peter Rosengren Refugee Week has brought home to Perth the stark human dimension of the trauma of being a refugee.

To be a refugee is to be wrenched from one's family, home and country, to be forced to flee by war, politics or disaster as four people who spoke last week at a St Vincent de Paul Society function reminded West Australians.

Thirty-five-year old mining engineer Drago Georgic, together with his wife and twelve year-old daughter, fled Bosnia to escape the fighting that we have seen for several years on the nightly television news.

From the central Bosnian town of Zelsa, 72km from Sarajevo, they left everything and finally managed to come to Perth 14 months ago.

"My background is Orthodox, my wife is Muslim. It's a mixed marriage and it was not good for living (in Bosnia)," he said drily.

Like many other refugees, Drago and his family feared for their lives. He also pointed out that he wanted nothing to do with the war.

Celestin Ngoga, an economist from Rwanda, has not been quite so lucky.

Although his wife and three-year-old son have recently joined him here in Perth he is still waiting for his daughter in Uganda to be given permission to come to Australia.

How gut-wrenching the experience of being a refugee is can be gauged from the

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - French Cardinal Yves Congar, a pioneering theologian whose works helped pave the way for the Second VaticanCouncil, has died in Paris at the age of 91.

Pope John Paul II praised the cardinal's life and work, particularly his contributions to the ecumenical movement.

A member of the Dominican order, thenFather Congar was named to the College of Cardinals as a sign of papal recognition last November.

In a telegram sent shortly after Cardinal Congar's death on June 22. the Pope said the French theologian had worked "with all his heart and all his intelligence" toward deepening understanding of the Church's mystery and serving the cause of unity.

"His work contributed remarkably to the blossoming of the ecumenical movement and brought much to the proceedings of the Second Vatican Council," he said.

The Pope called him "an ardent servant of the church even during his many trying years," an apparent reference to Cardinal Drago Georgic and his wife and daughter last week: not interested in fighting.

Congar's difficulties with the Vatican during the 1950s. At that time, his works on church reform drew Vatican criticism, and reports that individuals like Celestin can very difficult to get a job as local empoyers he was banned from lecturing for a time. relate. He said he had heard that more want local experience.

But Cardinal Congar once said he never than three hundred people from his But it is his final comment which was liked being labeled a progressive. "That is extended family had been killed in last most illuminating of why refugees choose totally absurd. I am completely in favour of year's massacres. to leave their country. tradition," he said in 1993.

His problems with the Vatican ended Life for refugees once they reach Aus"I like Australia and I like the people of tralia is still likely to be difficult. Refugee Australia because they are very civilised," under Pope John XXIII, when he was allowed to resume his theological activities.

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Church's mission is spiritual first: Pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Although the church promotes human rights and justice in contemporary societies, its main orientation is toward spiritual salvation and the world to come, Pope John Paul II said last week as he began a new series of general audience talks examining the relationship between the Church and the world.

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TOMORROW TODAY

Ministry wins if community built

By Penny Ashcroft of the Youth and Young Adult Office

Andrew Muller adds a touch of class to the music at the Young Adult's meeting on Monday nights.

Youth lead youth to Jesus

By Rachael Christie The May Mayhem Camp was a great follow-up to a fantastic convention.

The fact that it was youth guiding youth gave the camp a whole new perspective.

Being young, the pressure from peers to be "cool" can be a great burden. Most people don't like to admit that they are religious or that they pray and go to Church.

It is considered "daggy" to believe in Jesus Christ and follow him, even at Catholic schools. I will confess that at times, although people knew I went to Church and believed, I would hardly ever involve God in my day, at least not in public.

After going to the convention and then, the camp, my life has taken on a whole new meaning. I feel better knowing that it is great to be able to express my faith freely and openly.Inever felt better than when I finally accepted God into my life and showed him how muchIlove Him. I wear the cross that I received at the camp with great pride and I never let it be far from my heart as it hangs on a silver chain.

The cross is a sign to everyone that this happy and more outgoing person is so because of my faith, and the knowledge that God will always be there.

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Youth Ministry, by its very nature is rooted in relationships.

As Christians we are called to "love one another", but it is difficult to be a Christian by oneself.

Youth Ministry can provide a framework, for bringing the relationships of young people into an experience of Christian community - community is not only what we do, but who we are and how we interact.

Creating and maintaining a sense of community is the mainstay of youth ministry - relationships are central to a young person's life. They are the way they experience the world around them.

As the nature of a young person's relationships expands, a caring Christian community can encourage the development of a healthy perspective of the joys and pains of relationships. It can also foster an attitude of welcoming and acceptance and an understanding of the call to "love your neighbour as yourself."

The support of a community united by faith brings about an

appreciation for the uniqueness of each individual.

When a young person says a place or experience is "okay", it usually means they were comfortable there. A feeling of comfort means a feeling of being safe. Young people need to know they are physically safe and feel that they are emotionally accepted. If the comfort and safety factor is present, they have a greater ability to be open and relaxed.

When teenagers and young adults attend church, how often do they experience it as a place for them? How many times have we said, "Youth are the church of the future, the leaders of tomorrow"?

We need to recognise that young people are a part of the Church today. They shouldn't have to wait until they are "adults" to be a part of our faith community.

If we want young people to respond enthusiastically, we need to create a warm, inviting and safe atmosphere and let them know we appreciate their energy and their gifts.

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Perhapsthe July Mayhem Holiday Camp is for you! Set in tranquil bush surroundings at "Eagles Nest", Gidgegannup, it will be a chance to relax, listen to great talks, play war games at midnight and generaly have a great time.

Rachel Christie from Northam a ttended the May Mayhem Camp and commented (see left) that the fact these camps are for youth and guided by youth gives them a completely different perspective. There are limited places, so register now!

Also, the Bedford-Inglewood Parish has started a social group

for Young Adults aged between 20-29. Each week actinities are organised such as ten-pen bowling. games nights, night-clubbing, ice-skating, winingand dining, tennis, movies,etc. Allare welcome. For more information, please phone Brendan on 271 1199.

And, come and join us at the Youth and Young Adult Office for Mass and lunch (BYO lunch) on Thursdays at 12.15pm. It's a grcat chance to chat with other young people and get to know the staff at your office.

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By Colleen McGuiness-Howard Leaving the Australian scene next month for an indefinite period of service in Pakistan is not everybody's choice, but it is for Sister Maria Salmon SIG who will join eight Australian and Irish Sisters there, plus eight Pakistani professed sisters.

Sr Maria came to Australia from Ireland in 1958 and is now about to embark on a mission venture that is totally alien to her way of life and experience.

But then is it?

On closer examination, this warm, bubbly and artistic sister who loves singing and dancing and generally celebrating life, is merely continuing with her lifelong work of empathetic caring and reaching out, which she's always done with such success.

Based over the years in Subiaco, Kalgoorlie, the Victorian towns of Belmont, Geelong and Ballarat, and recently Goulburn in NSW for the last four years as Director of Mission for the St John of God Sisters, Sister Maria has accepted another invitation and will be "continuing the healing mission into Pakistan which I have followed with interest for many years."

Challenges there will be in abundance, because of an overall population of 120.8 million people, only 2.25 million are Christian with even less Catholics. The gap between the few rich and the great number of very poor is enormous.

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Choir Scholarship The Basilica of St. Patrick Fremantle Sr Maria points to the work of the St John of God Sisters on a map of Pakistan. ter Maria's work will be at the Bethania Hospital, Sialkot, which has 112 beds for medical and surgical patients, plus another hundred for those with tuberculosis.

It also boasts a Primary Health Care Department with a mother and child clinic operating within the hospital and a growing outreach program to service

certain rural and urban areas.

"Wherever we go the St John of God Sisters take the Catholic ethos with its own special values," Sr Maria.

"Love too, changes everything. It touches and enriches you."

God is also there reaching out, she believes: "I see His face in everyone and He is usually smiling."

Wanneroo honours St Anthony Newman talks on euthanasia

The Newman Society of Western Australia has commenced a series of talks dealing with the current issue of euthanasia.

The society, an association of Catholic graduates, conducted its first meeting on the issue under the title "Is there a right to die?" at Notre Dame University in Fremantle.

The symposium included talks by three Sydney doctors, all leaders in the field of palliative care.

The next talk, which will discuss euthanasia from ethical and practical perspectives, will be given by Dr Frank Prendergast and leading Perth moral theologian Fr Walter Black at St Thomas More College on July 4.

Part of the large crowd that marched in procession with a statue of St Anthony of The legal aspects of the current Padua in St Anthony's parish, Wanneroo, last Sunday week to mark the 800th debate will be discussed by Mr Eric anniversary of the birth of the Franciscan preacher and miracle worker.

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The little angel of orthbridge Appearances can be deceptive, as Colleen McGuiness-Howard found when she talked to a little old lady who rummages in garbage bins to help a dog charity

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NY and frail looking, the slightly bent back hovers for a minute or two over a garbage bin with a thin hand searching among the rubbish.

And another aluminium can is thrust among the gathering numbers into a plastic bag.

Darkness has fallen and the street lamps reflect streaky lights across the wet streets, while the nearby park awaits her nightly visit.

Padding through the soft wet grass she stops, calls, and rustles In yet another plastic bag, bringing out handfuls of bread crumbs.

Hearing her familiar cry, small dark shapes, sometimes numbering 200, take form and emerge from the creek, waddling up the bank to gobble up confidently the bread she generously gives them, with a softly muttered, "They're hungry tonight."

She notices a 'bully boy' among the ducks who scares away others so he can eat the most and comments - "How like humans they are!"

The evening magpies too are hungry waiting for meaty bits from little Anne Phillips, but then so are the dogs at the animal Anne Phillips with her dog Kandi: a breath of country goodness in haven run by her octagenarian inner-city Perth friend - hence the nightly scavenging on their behalf for the cans to Folks were tough and resilient school." No local shops in those raise a few dollars towards their In those earlier years, said Anne, days, Anne recounted, and peounsubsidised keep. who described how the women ple had to make trips every six Neither heat in the late hours of had concrete tubs to wash in with months by horse and cart to hot summer nights, nor the early glass washing boards, a boiling Albany to get bulk supplies such fall of a wet winter's night deters copper of water to immerse the as sugar, flour and tea.

The trek took a week there this outwardly fragile but in fact whites, which then had to be "tough as an old boot" Western hauled out steaming hot with a (necessitating camping by the Australian who is now into her wooden stick, to be dunked into roadside), and a week to return. rinsing tubs before the heavy "No corner shops like the kids 93rd year.

She's of a gutsy, pioneering process of hand-wringing (or expect these days and with peobreed, who know not the meaning with a hand-operated wringer) ple complaining about the shops of the words "It can't be done," began before carrying the wash- being closed on Sundays."

And they all walked, Anne "It's best to quit" - or "acknowl- ing out to be pegged on rope lines. pointed out, "not like today edge pain."

Medicos didn't mollycoddle where kids expect a lift even Quite oblivious to danger, she roams Perth's bins as far as her either, Anne went on to say, down to the local shop."

Not that Anne's a grouch strength will take her accompa- when she remembered how her nied by Kandi, her partially deaf mother's festered finger had absolutely the opposite. undiluted Lysol poured over it She's in fact, a lover of people faithful dog.

Energy sapped, it's afternoon that took all the flesh off and left and kids in particular.

Back in those fresh, clean early before she's rested enough to the skeletal bone; "which didn't repeat the giving cycle - always on deter Mother from her chores pioneering days "when life was despite the pain." simple and rewarding," nobody behalf of God's creatures.

When 12, Anne and her sister had cars and one had to walk or Born in Bellevue in 1903 to a Cornish father (who worked in Nellie, were sent to board with ride a bike.

Finally, however, Anne's father Cornwall's mines from seven the Selkirk family of 12 children years of age), and a Welsh mother, in West Perth during their educa- bought her a car which, apart from the local taxi, was the talk of Anne Phillips had a sister Nellie tion at Perth Girls School.

Secondary school over, Anne, the town and delighted dozens of and 13-month-old brother Edwin, who died during a heat wave now 17, returned to her parents children "who'd pile on the bon"when many children died like at Deanmill "near Manjimup, not net and tailboards" of her little far from Fonty's Pool", where she Chrysler Towner, which in those flies."

They'd always lived out in the worked as a cashier and book- days had sliding plastic windows to keep out the weather, instead bush with their mother coming to keeper in the general store.

Later the family moved on to of glass.

Midland Junction to give birth, Up and down a hill or two for recalled Anne, and most of her their 48 hectare property "with childhood was spent in WA's tim- nice neighbours," where her fun, and then Anne would proceed on her way with the chilber towns because of her sur- father built a comfortable home.

Her father died, but Anne and dren walking back home. veyor father's work on country Sadly, the little Chrysler "with her mother remained to grow railway lines.

The family lived in the timber their own vegetables, milk cows it's tough little engine" came to a mill towns of Worsley - "closed for dairy products, and raise hens tragic end through the had driving of one young man who'd down years ago" - Marrinup and animals.

Those were the days of unso- brought his accident tally that "closed down after a year," and phisticated, undemanding young week to five by smashing into finally Deanmill.

Music instruction meant that folk, according to Anne, "where Anne's car with his truck - withAnne had to catch a train to be kids would get up at 5am or 6am, nary an apology or repayment.

Reminiscing over the years, taught at the Collie convent, and walk four miles each way daily to school, come home and help out Anne said that as children they then rejoin it on its return.

Many people were poor during on the farm - and think nothing of were never bored.

There was always a four-mile the years of World war I and Anne it!" or ride to a sporting event, a walk the at girlfriends Anne's of One told of mothers turning calico flour bags into pants for their age of six, "used to milk six cows picnic, or fun at the Donnelly before her four-mile walk to River which lw 1 a huge fallen sons.

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Anne Phillips: a Franciscan love for animals tree across it as a bridge, or the Home, Cat Haven, the RSPCA marvellous fun of riding to Pem- and various charities, or whether berton in open train trucks "with it's going out alone in the dark. the sparks flying out from the cold evenings to feed God's creatimber-driven engine onto our tures. clothes and hair."

Faith is very important to Anne Then the scene started to who says she cannot live without change and the familiar world it; she thanks God constantly for down south was no more. her own relatively good health.

World War II came. Anne had and talks to Him every day. now bought herself an eight She judges people for what cylinder Hudson Terraplane. But petrol was rationed and it meant they are, not who they are, and trading butter tickets for fuel to now looks back over almost a century at a society which has get anywhere.

One cheese and two butter and changed dramatically. factories moved in and swalWith definite views. Anne lowed up the little family dairy believes children are allowed too and orchard farming enterprises. many "junk and lollies" and says Apple trees were pulled out, they were never allowed any farms without a viable competi- except one after their weekly tive enterprise went to "wrack dose of castor oil. and ruin" ... and the little man's She said they had porridge, industry was no more. a healthy balanced diet and The days without 'phones, and was pure in the old days "which when crime was unheard of, had today - nothing is pure any gone forever, so Anne and her but mother came to West Perth to more."

While conceding that there are reclaim their rented house.

Bought from the Selkirk family, good, "lovely parents" who raise it had been rented out for one their children well, she admits Australian pound to a single ten- that an increasing percentage do ant, who then brought a family of not, and notes that many children relatives in who lived rent free "run their parents" in a world where "morals have all gone." for years.

Found to be in an abysmal People are money hungry and state of disrepair with no care not as unselfish these days, Anne from the tenants, Anne's city- believes, and as for politics? based sister Nellie drove over on she's disappointed. her motor scooter daily, frantiShe says that it is unfair that cally trying to get it liveable (there were seven layers of lino), newcomers to Australia get more before the arrival of Anne and financial help from the government than Australians who've her mother.

Despite plans to be a house- spent their lives working hard for mother with Sister Kate's Homes the country, and today she notes for quarter-caste Aboriginal chil- a rising crime rate "where once dren, the only work was taking there was virtually none, and car loads of them to and from now you have to lock everyGreenbushes where they'd been thing." relocated for safety during the She has seen this at first hand. war.

Her humble letterbox was conBecause of a chance encounter stantly stolen and finally with an old acquaintance, Jim replaced in resignation with a Thomas of State Saw Mills, Anne cardboard shoe-box. This too on rejoined the timber world for occasions has been stolen also. about 12 years until her retireHowever, regardless of the ment. reality of current times, this cold Much of the land around Newprinciples and high ideals lady's castle Street to the West Perth changed. haven't station was market gardening many wonderful Auslike a so and She, recollected, land, Anne daily sprint across the land to tralians, have clung on to the catch the train in a thin blouse in good things they were raised on the middle of winter, saw a per- despite the tarnishing effect of spiring but much fitter Anne join "rubbing shoulders" with the corrupting influences of modern the heavily clad commuters.

Anne's kind and gentle face society, thus representing a goal, reflects her life of helping young linchpin and beacon of light and and old alike, whether it was hope for those who aspire to playing the piano at Sunday higher ideals than that which School, helping out with the Dogs society offers today.

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Local euthanasia struggle intensifies . • • Taylor Bill 'dangerous'

believe, simply not true. But if some doc- equity in access to medical treatment, case in Western Australia where a health tors and patients are still asking for reas- including palliative care, requires us to be care professional has been found crimisurance, that reassurance could be pro- alert to any differential impact of pro- nally liable for the death of a person by vided simply and safely by adding to the posed legislation on the disabled, the withdrawing or withholding treatment.

Criminal Code two brief expalanatory elderly, the poor and the vulnerable.

Because of an intense involvement in I am aware of the particular fears clauses to make it clear, firstly, that no-one People who advocate change to West- is criminally responsible for not providing among Aboriginal communities in the politics for more than forty years, I am becomes law, not only ern Australian law on medical treatment medical treatment to a competent adult Northern Territory that doctors have now sure, that if this Bill passing of of worse legthe it facilitate will for the dying do not always know what patient who has not consented to it and, been given the power to la. Some comcontribute to estabcould islation, but it the present law is. secondly, that treatment for the control of munities are already avoiding health clin- lishing new "standards" of practice in the They imagine that doctors are in danger pain in a dying patient is lawful, provided ics because of these fears. care of the aged and infirm. of prosecution unless they continue treat- that the intention of the doctor is to kill the Similarly, disabled advocacy groups in It will "educate" secular health care proment aggressively and relentlessly until pain, not the patient the United States have been in the fore- fessionals to hasten the dying process of the patient dies.

But the Taylor Bill, now before the WA front of objections, not just to Oregon's those whose death is deemed to be "immiThey also imagine that a doctor who Parliament, goes far beyond clarifying the euthanasia legislation but also to court nent". This will be done by various means Provides competent and effective pain law. If it were to pass, it would change the decisions endorsing withdrawal of life- including killing by the deprivation of flucontrol to a dying patient is in danger of law, depriving patients of important legal sustaining treatment from disabled perids and nourishment. prosecution if the patient dies rather safeguards which they have now, and sons.

Mr Taylor may say that he is appalled at sooner than he might have done without exposing them to new and serious risks.

After carefully examining the Medical use of the 1972 decision to import Rmy the treatment.

Whatever the aims of Mr Taylor and his Care of the Dying Bill, introduced by Mr films as an example of incrementalrated fundamentally Both these fears are ill-founded. Profes- supporters, the Taylor Bill is a badly Ian Taylor, I find it to be I remind him that on November ism, but sor Glanville Williams in his Textbook on drafted, dangerous Bill, and should be flawed and fatally dangerous.

1983 he voted for the Indecent Publi22, Criminal Law says this about the duty of resisted.

Additionally, Mr Fred Riebeling has put Articles Amendment Bill and cations doctors to dying patients under the com- Dr Ted Watt on notice amendments to this Bill which moved

by David Parker.

(No.2), mon law: would allow agents or guardians to unilatClaremont passing of that Bill contributed to The behalf of treatment on erally refuse "A doctor must never do anything to the proliferation of "sex shops" to sell the incompetent patients. actively kill his patient, but he is not So already we can seethe "slippery massive amount of hard-core pornograbound to fight for the patient's life forever. phy. slope" in evidence.

His duty in this regard is to make reaAs a former Health Minister and legislaMr Taylor may plead that, like many sonable efforts having regard to custom- tor I have closely followed developments Keith Wilson other members of the Parliament at the ary practice and expectations, and in par- on legislation relating to the refusal of Palmyra time, he did not anticipate the conseticular having regard to the benefit of the medical treatment quences of the legislation. I vigorously patient to be expected from future exerIt is my considered view that, in a cliopposed David Parker's Bill and lobbied tions." mate where active euthanasia is increasagainst it. unsuccessfully 22) (Record, June Taylor, MLA, Mr Ian promoted as an acceptable in Ausingly being The best authorities on the law I am even more opposed to Mr Taylor's tralia regarding the withdawing of med- solution to illness and suffering, legisla- has missed or avoided the first and imporical treatment, Professor John Finnis of tors must be very careful to ensure that tant matter in my letter of 7 June. That is: Private Members Bill, because it is unnecOxford and Ms Karin Clark of Melbourne, any change to the law on medical treat- that the Medical Care of the Dying Bill, essary andI anticipate that it will facilitate agree that Australian law on this matter is ment does not serve as a catalyst to effect which he has introduced into the Parlia- the passing of worse legislation. quite clear and that Australian doctors at a shift away from our society's traditional ment as a Private Members Bill, is unnecIn its present form it could cause the present have adequate guidance in treat- commitment to the intrinsic value of each essary. untimely death of people.

The argument that it is designed to proing their patients within the bounds of the human life regardless of disability, age or tect health care professionals has no Brian A Peachy law. That competent and conscientious state of health.

Our commitment to social justice and weight, given that there has never been a Woodlands doctors are in legal jeopardy is, they

The slippery slope

Porn precedent

Lose yourself to find self What struck me in the feature article A Woman's Crowning Glory (Record, 15th June) is the concept that a woman needs to go out to work to feel self-fulfilled.

Fulfilment comes from accomplishing what you have set your heart on, irrespective of the location, or whether you receive financial reward.

If you have young children whom you truly love, turning your back on them to go out to work can be most distressing, and you rush home after work because that is where you most want to be. The same applies if you love your husband.

If, on the other hand, you have set your heart on financial success, fame, or whatever, then the family stands in the way of your 'fulfilment'.

I have not come across a passage in the Bible where God calls us to love ourselves, not in the sense of putting ourselves first, but only of looking after ourselves for God's greater glory, as in I Corinthians 6:18-20. I would welcome such a passage being pointed out, so as to salve my conscience when I find myself wanting.

However, Christ did say "Love one another as I have loved you," and that means sacrifice unto death. And when, at the Last Supper, Christ washed his disciples' feet and asked them to do likewise to each other, there is no reason to believe he was excluding women. Strangely enough, to achieve self-fulfilment you need to lose yourself in your involvement.

Mrs G Aquilina Lynwood

Clerical opinion I would not deny to a religious person an opinion on various matters of every day life or on the review of a book and neither I would brand it as clericalism.

Who can claim to be an infallible expert on interpreting other peoples' ideas?

That the world is in an ecological mess there can hardly be argument put up against it. Our land is being devastated by salt and the contamination is still expand-

ing; our fauna and even frogs are declining; flora are disappearing, some of which could have healing qualities; the ecological disaster in former communist countries; disappearing rain forest, etc.

The world is not only in an ecological mess but in a moral one as well. We are trying to save our ecology but who can arrest the moral decline? Is it in human power?

It is foremost human selfishness that is destroying the ecology.

Fr Paul Collins (Record, June 15) didn't grasp the point that love for one's neighbour is the ultimate cure not only for moral mess but as well for the ecological one and it appeared that this point escaped even Doris Martyr.

I studied certain works of Karl Rahner even in the German original.

We have even in WA in the English language some of his works, e.g., Our Christian Faith.

In no instance wouldI belittle Rahner as believing in a world from which God is absent.

A quote may help: "But faith is, as has been rightly said, where religion gets serious, because religion doesn't live on theoretical arguments and theological speculations; it lives from a real relation with God".

Francis Firubos Glen Forrest

Hungarian lament As a Catholic of ethnic Hungarian extraction and an Australian, I would like to comment on the Agostino Bono article (Record, June 22) dealing with the current visit of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Slovakia.

There are at least 600,000 Hungarians living in what today is Slovakia. They live in their ancestral homes as their region has been given away by those who had no right to give them away.

His Holiness is aware of a number of requests which sought the Pontiffs help to give them ethnic Hungarian bishops or at least one such bishop. After all, they represent some 16 per centof the Catholic population.

So far the Pope has not done so. The

Surely we cannot have too much devoyearning for a Hungarian language Mass and the leadership of a Hungarian bishop tion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. or prayers of intercession to the Blessed Viris justified.

"Slovakian nation building" seems gin Mary.I would think to encourage peoapparently endangered as none of the ple in such prayer would be more approthree future saints the Pope is to canonise priate than to discourage them.

I was interested to read in The Record of on his Slovak trip are Slovakian. They are listed as being of Croatian, Hungarian and 22 June, an article on Mother Teresa of of Polish origin. In fact the Hungarian, Ste- Calcutta. This humble person was seen fan Pongracz, a Jesuit father, was born in giving Miraculous Medals to some handicapped people who were close by.

Hungarian Transylvania.

To imply that people who practice variSlovak chauvinism sadly does also affect the thinking of the Church and not only ous devotions, or have a respect for sacrastate administration. Vatican advisers agi- mentals, are complying to a sort of magic tated, just as their friends from Romania is very damaging and could well be a ploy have too, against giving the Hungarian of the evil spirit. faithful Hungarian leaders.

Mrs Colleen Conlan The city of Kassa - now called Kosice - Albany was established by the Hungarian kings 1,000 years ago. The first mention of that city, in Church documents written in Latin Fr Noel Fitzsimons alarm regarding the date back to 1230, was as a place of note. spread of "dubious" devotions (Record, 15 The regions which today are called Slo vakia were as far back as 895 a part of June) would be well founded if such devoHungary when Arpad occupied the tions had been identified.

However, to talk of examples of dubious Carpathian-Danube Basin. as the devotions of the nine first Fripiety The "Annales Posoniensis" covering the period from 997 to 1203 show that the city days and the five first Saturdays was cerPozsony (today called Bratislava) was a tainly shortsighted, displaying a lack of understanding of the important spiritual very important city in Hungary.

In fact, countless Hungarian kings were bases underlying these religious practices.

Also, Fr Fitzsimons should have considcrowned there.

Ethnic cleansing during the past four ered the graces acquired by those who score and one years have seen Hungari- faithfully carry out all the required condians driven away to various regions and tions.

It would have been more appropriate if replaced by foreign inhabitants. had directed his derisory shots, not Father Sadly,the Slovaks deny Hungarians the right to make use of their language. It is at the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the OK to use German, French, Italian and Immaculate Heart of Mary, but at more fitRomantsch in Switzerland and in Belgium ting targets such as unapproved apparito use German along with the official tions and theologians and others who are Flemish and French language. In Spain it busily hammering away at subverting the is OK to use beside the Spanish, also Cata- Church from within by denying Catholic doctrine and disobeying the Magisterium. lan and Basque.

Archbishop Hickey has expressed a But in Slovakia, where "nation building" is attempted, only the Slovaks have any desire for the renewal of Eucharistic Adoration and is depending for the success of say... this venture on the personal example of John C Veszely the priests and "the opportunities they Nollamara afford for public veneration."

In fact, spending time before the Blessed Sacrament may yet see "Pastor Appoplexus" become "Pastor Tranquillus".

I was dismayed, to say the least, when I read Father Noel Fitzsimons's Letter to the Miss Diana E Fox Bicton Editor (Record, 15 June).

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A group of West Australian pilgrims led by Perth's Monsignor Michael Keating travelled to Rome last month to present a spiritual bouquet of prayers and Masses offeredfor Pope John Paul II. Mgr Keating talked to Record journalist Peter Rosengren about the joys of the pilgrimage.

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Top Left, clockwise; Fr Barry Walsh of Rockingham and Fr Pat O'Mara of Dianella inspect the manuscript mutilated in the Vatican library; happy Perth pilgrims outside the Vatican; Mgr Keating shows the spiritual bouquet to Pope John Paul; and Archbishop Hickey and Mgr Keating with the pilgrims in Assissi.

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CESS to an invaluable these pages), together with about the pricelessness of these very interested in both of them." who was there and when they gave Mgr Keating a gift to pre4th-century volume once birthday wishes and prayers things, that's the reality of it," he I V "He was wonderful. I spoke came to the Perth Archdiocesan sent to his friend, Father John owned by the Italian poet and from priests, religious and laity. said. to him about the various people Pilgrimage we all jumped to our humanist Petrarch, pages of which were recently stolen from the Vatican's library, was one of the highlights of the recent visit to Rome by Archbishop Barry Hickey, Monsignor Michael Keating and other Western Australian priests.

An American academic is currently being investigated for allegedly removing several pages from the priceless manuscript. The pages have since been recovered.

Mgr Keating and a delegation of WA Catholics were in Rome to present Pope John Paul II with a spiritual bouquet from the Catholics of Western Australia on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

In the bouquet were handmade cards from school children all over the State (some of these cards are shown here on

Following the presentation, Mgr Keating, Archbishop Hickey and seven priests of the Perth diocese were given a tour of the Vatican library, an experience not normally available to visitors.

"Fr O'Mara (of Dianelia parish) had arranged for us to be shown over the Vatican library by the Prefect, Fr Leonard Boyle," Mgr Keating said.

A Catholic news service report carried in the Record on June I said an American antiquities dealer had estimated the value of the Petrarch volume to be $1J5500,000. But, Mgr Keating pointed out, the value may well have been in excess of that.

"He (FrBoyle) said each page was worth at least $50,000," he said.

"This was just one book in this library so, when you talk

"Fr Boyle was very gracious to us and we saw that despite the fact that these books are old, the actual methods of preservation are very modern and up-todate," he said.

"It's a tremendous achievement."

The presentation of the spiritual bouquet to the Pope by the lay and clerical pilgrims was also a special experience, made even more special by the fact that the Pope spent half an hour of his busy schedule, chatting and talking to the group from Perth.

"The first thing he said to us was 'Oh, Perth! I've been to Perth twice,'" said Msgr Keating.

"Then I told him about the seminaries that we have and showed him the cards from the diocesan seminary and the neocatechumenate seminary, Redemptoris Mater. He was

lin the party] and, for example, when we came to Father Morris Toop I mentioned the work he has done among the Aboriginal people and when the Pope spoke to Fr Toop he said 'please give my special regards to your parishioners'".

"So he had a word for each person and at the end of it all he looked around and we all sang Happy Birthday to him He was really, really pleased.

"And we were all presented with rosary beads. It was a very uplifting meeting, hopefully also for himself.

"He wasn't going through the formalities, and it seems he has a genuine regard for Perth ...

Two days later we came to St Peter's Square for the general audience and were joined by Fr O'Mara, and Fr Morahan and Fr Walsh.

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feet and cheered, and the Pope waved to us like old friends."

One pleasant surprise was the friendliness extended by everyone to the Australian group.

"I felt the genuine regard that people seemed to have for our nation. People have no axe to grind with Australia - and a surprising number seemed to know Perth. Even when we were going to the papal audience, various Italian guards and policemen were coming up to us and saying things like 'I've got a cousin that's been to Perth' or 'I've got a relative in Australia'," Mgr Keating said.

After the audience with the Pope the pilgrims were joined

by Archbishop Hickey, who was returning from his trip to the Ukraine.

Before going overseas, the Mayor of Subiaco, Tony Costa,

O'Shannessy, an Australian monk living in the Subiaco monastery in Italy. When the pilgrims arrived in Italy they visited Subiaco and were shown around by Fr O'Shannessy.

At Assissi the pilgrimage was joined by Rome-based Perth priest Fr Joe Parkinson.

Also joining the group were three of the four Perth seminarians in Rome, Tizziano Bogoni, John Pumatti and Paul Fox

At Assissi, Archbishop Hickey and the priests concelebrated Mass on the tomb of St Francis, one of the great Church figures.

Last stop on the tour for the little band of intrepid West Australians was the famous archaeological site of Pompeii.

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Charity has its own reward

By Dan Luby, through the Catholic News Service He knew, abstractly, that justice was something to which Jesus' followers ought to be committed. But he'd also seen too much not to be skeptical.

The conflicts of the Vietnam era, scandals in government, corporate corruption and global poverty led him to doubt that much could be done. His rule was: "Don't get involved."

He'd built a summer job painting houses into a prosperous business with two dozen employees. But he didn't watch the news and changed the subject when people talked about social justice ("too depressing").

Then came a providential encounter with people living in apartments owned by a customer.

The units were appalling: roaches the size of mice, broken light fixtures, glass on the floor, peeling paint. He wouldn't even bid on the job.

As he was leaving that place, a toddler came rocketing around the corner and jumped when she saw him, right on to a shard of glass. She howled, and blood flowed from a foot-gash.

Instinctively, he picked her up and pressed a clean handkerchief to the wound. Then an old man hobbled into view, and the painter handed the crying child to her grandfather. The painter held on to her foot, though.

Then he drove them to the clinic.

They talked in the truck and back at the apartment. The grandfather's gratitude and the little girl's affection were great.

Conversation was animated.

The discovery that the painter knew the building's owner brought a frightened silence, and then piercing questions. In the end (asking himself, "How did I get into this?"), the painter offered to talk to his customer about promised repairs.

He made a deal with the landlord, offering, if the repairs were made, to do the painting at cost. He decided to head the

crew and hired three teenagers from the complex.

Although there were disappointments (a stolen CD player; one teenager quitting; the landlord stalling on lights), gains far outweighed losses.

He became a friend, was invited for meals and sought for advice. Residents took more responsibility for keeping the complex safe and clean. Some were looking into a tenants' rights organization.

He felt enriched, far beyond what he'd risked. And he maintained his friendship with the girl's family until the day he died.

That day came sooner than expected.

When the painter found he had a terminal illness, his health declined rapidly and his business more rapidly still.

He told his friends his news sadly. He had no more money, no more capacity to be their advocate.

But it was time for them to become his advocate.

He had lost his truck, so they drove him to the clinic. The girl and the grandfather

sat with him during long hours in waiting MOMS.

When his landlord wanted to evict him, the grandfather called a tenants' rights advocate for help. His daughter negotiated appointments with doctors and stared down a bill collector.

At his funeral, his priest movingly told the story of the man and his new friends as an example of ordinary Christian people making justice happen.

"We may not be able to influence great political movements," he said, "nor stop wars blazing half a world away. But we can make a difference here.

"And when we take the risk of speaking out for those who need our help, when we put our own comfort on the line for what is right, we lay the foundations for justice world-wide."

Dan Luby is the director of the division of Christian formation for the Diocese of Fort Worth. Texas. and a freelance writer.

Ignoring the poor can be as bad as physically oppressing them The prophets relentlessly condemned these breaches of justice.

Amos, the first prophet whose sermons were preserved in writing, set the tone for future preaching and is known, significantly, as the prophet of justice. He lived in a situation where the wealthy few became wealthier at the expense of the poor majority.

"They sell the just man for silver and the poor man for a pair of sandals ... For they know not how to do right, says the Lord, storing up in their castles what they have extorted and robbed" (Amos 2:6-7; 3:10).

This became a constant theme in Jesus' preaching. The Gospel of Luke especially portrays him championing what today is called a "preferential option for the poor."

Not that he was contemptuous of the rich, but His parable of Lazarus and the rich man was a powerful denunciation of selfish disregard for others.

The self-centered rich man

By Father John Castelot, through the Catholic News Service

Jesus' parable of Lazarus and the rich man: a powerful condemnation of selfish disregard for others.

The very first Christians were rooted in Judaism, and the law made ample provisions for fairness in dealing with others.

The law was explicit about treating helpless and disadvantaged people justly: widows, orphans, aliens. This was not a matter of what we call "charity," but of basic justice.

This was summed up in the Ten Commandments, all of which were concerned with justice. The first three commandments dealt with respect for God's rights; the other seven protected people's rights.

Later, kings would be lauded if they "judge the poor with justice and decide aright for the land's afflicted" (Isaiah 11:4).

But human nature being what it is, some people were faithful mainly to the laws that didn't interfere with their selfish interests or greedy pursuits.

lived luxuriously and feasted sumptuously "every day," while the homeless sick Lazarus lay in squalour at his gate. The rich man didn't physically abuse the poor wretch, but ignored him.

This callous disregard for an unfortunate human being was especially reprehensible (Luke 16:19-31).

Another parable told of a man who reaped such a bumper crop that he didn't know what to do with it all. His solution was to build larger storerooms and enjoy the proceeds. All around him people were starving.

But the man came to a sudden, sad end. And Jesus draws this lesson: "Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God" (Luke 12:16-21).

The early Christians learned this lesson well and put it into practice.

Fr Caste/of is a Scripture scholar. author, teacher and lecturer in the United States.

Cool Jansenist intellects peer down Christian ages

PARIS (CNS) - An exhibition of paintings by the Belgian artist Philippe de Champaigne at the site of a former convent near Paris recalls the time when it was the centre of a powerful movement in French Catholicism.

De Champaigne was pre-eminently the painter of Jansenism, an intellectual and religious movement in the 17th century that was eventually condemned as heretical by a papal bull (edict).

Many of de Champaigne's portraits of Jansenist nuns and notables have been assembled from around the world at the former convent of Port-Royal des Champs in the Chevreuse valley south-west of Paris.

Jansenists were, according to one contemporary but very incomplete description, "Catholics who do not like Jesuits."

Like the Calvinists of the French Reformed Church, they accepted predestination, believed in salvation by grace alone and denied freedom of will. All of these ideas were developed by Dutch Bishop Cornelis Jansen of Ypres from a mistaken understanding of the writings of St Augustine.

They were passionately opposed by the Jesuits, who insisted on the cooperation of men in the working of divine grace.

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Jacqueline was one of four Arnauld chilBut the nuns depicted by de Cham- dren whose lives were interwoven with paigne seem unperturbed by the setback. the history of Port-Royal and who They gaze out of the canvases with cool attracted the particular attention of the confidence and a hint of irony.

Jesuits.

While still a child, Jacqueline became De Champaigne, a contemporary of Poussin, Rembrandt and Velazquez, had nominal abbess of Port- Royal as Mother for 20 years been a successful court Angelique. In 1608, she said, "God touched painter, renowned for his portraits of Car- me" during a sermon on the sufferings of dinal Richelieu. At Port-Royal, he toned Christ. And later that year, she set about down his palette and portrayed his sub- reforming the convent, where the handful jects with realism and intellectual detach- of nuns had become lax in observing their ment. It was an attempt to achieve in paint vows of poverty and cloister. Soon dozens what French thinker Blaise Pascal alleged of women joined the community. was "the coldness with which Jesus Christ De Champaigne portrayed Mere speaks of the grandest things." It was an Angelique at the height of her fame and art of feeling and sincerity. influence, showing her as a woman of Pascal, one of history's greatest mathe- intellect, determination and high breeding. maticians, was also the leading thinker of In her starched white habit, she sits holdthe Jansenist tendency. His "Provincial ing a book - presumably a Bible, for like Letters" were a damning attack on the the Calvinists, the Jansenists believed in alleged casuistry and supposed moral lax- reading it regularly. The open window ity and relativism of the Jesuits. behind her opens on to a view of the conPort-Royal was a Cistercian convent sit- vent. uated in a marshy valley near Versailles.

Stung by Pascal's attacks, the Jesuits It probably would have disappeared fought back and obtained the definite confrom notice had it not been for the arrival demnation of Jansenism in 1653. The nuns of Jacqueline Arnauld at the age of seven steadfastly refused to sign a document ; '1

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condemning the propositions of Bishop Jansen. This was increasingly seen as resistance to the crown.

In 1709, Jesuit Father Michael Tellier urged King Louis XIV to exterminate PortRoyal des Champs, to which the nuns had long returned. He did. The nuns were dispersed, screaming and weeping, to other convents on 15 minutes' notice. The convent was razed the following year, but the farm buildings - the Grange - survived, and it is here that the exhibition of de Champaigne is being held throughout this summer.

The Jansenists continued long into French history. They became a pietist movement in the 18th century, noted for the miracles craze that attracted the disdain of the Enlightenment philosophers, and for their conservatism and intolerance.

The Jansenist bourgeoisie became predominant in the governing bodies of Paris and other cities and was largely responsible for the expulsion of the Jesuits from France.

Jansenism was also an important force in the French Revolution, and when the guillotine blade fell on the neck of King Louis XVI in 1793, some said it was a fitting revenge for the fall of Port-Royal.

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On the making of a modem patriarch Just as some women begin to doubt motherhood as a meaningful role, Anne Manne says, fatherhood has naturally come under scrutiny. But at what cost, especially to boys?

In commenting on the attempt to root out masculinity, Alan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind, observes that the old moral order attempted to deal with natural selfishness by expanding the scope of self-concern to include others, utilising in men a kind of natural fierceness and possessiveness.

He argues that the project of "ferninising" men to be more caring and sensitive "must fail because in an age of individualism, persons of either sex cannot be forced to be public spirited, particularly by those who are becoming less so".

I have seen many fathers and families who share the task of "parenting" in a way that contradicts Bloom's pessimism.

Where this occurs, I am reminded of the deep generosity in Hannah Arendt's remark about the responsibility of the older generation to the new, that in renewing the common world, they must "not strike from their hands the chance of creating something new".

However, this much seems to me to be true. In an age when the deepest value is self-fulfilment, that part of the feminist project which involves admitting women Into the possibility of fulfilment outside the home is likely to succeed. The success of that part which involves men in a giving up of certain privileges, and demands of them a sharing of burdens, is far less certain.

If women are to become more like men and, as Alice Rossi observed, are meant to switch parenting on and off as they come and go to work much as men do, it is worth considering what it is that women as mothers are to move towards.

My argument would be that if we are in the process of disinventing mothers, it follows a weakening of an imaginative conception of a father which has already occurred. I read of a father of young children recently, a career-minded engineer who boasted of his eighty-hour week, made possible by his "fantastic wife".

One feels especial sympathy for those women with family responsibilities who must compete with men who have "fantastic wives". Yet if both adults in a family work like this, then one sees not so much a reshaping of the nest, as an emptying of it.

In Western Christendom the ideal of the mother has been historically one of our deepest conceptions, but that of the father is much weaker.

What strikes one about the biblical story of the family at the centre of the New Testament is the paleness of Joseph.

In all the iconography of the Madonna and Child, the father exists outside the

frame. If this expresses a kind of universal, there is something about the way the father has vanished in modern times that is quite new. The paintings of the Madonna gazing down upon the Infant, such that her gaze seems to exclude the sight of all else, depict the relation of a mother not to a child, but to an infant. 'I'he relatively modern assumption, emerging at the time of companionate marriage, that women were the sex more suited to shaping a child into an adult, was not shared by Christian patriarchs.

When reading the English philosopher John Locke recently while thinking about the reasons offered for women's exclusion from the social contract I found myself startled. Why? It was because the modern sense of the father - as a kind of natural absentee from the daily business of a child growing up collided with his sense of fatherhood as a vocation. Ido not mean the humdrum work of physical care. It was to do with a sense of the father's importance in shaping the character and soul of the child, as a kind of offering to God. The reason, in John Locke, like so many of the early Social Contract theorists, was not, from a woman's point of view, very edifying. It was that women, as the inferior sex, were thought incapable of being exclusively in charge of the moral development of a child, which, in lives lived under the gaze of God, was about shaping the soul.

Fathers: has patriarchy really died?

But the old vision had an imaginative sense of the importance of the father as a an adult. For this he needs his father. vocation - as a Christian patriarch - as Harvey is revealed as a spoiled brat, selfbeing in the realm of the sacred. One of absorbed and indolent; a cheat who sufhis deepest duties to God was to fulfil his fers from the illusion that money will buy obligations as a father, moulding, amongst him anything. the dailiness of everyday life, a future But Harvey has a piece of extraordinary immortal soul. Such a task could never be good fortune. On an ocean cruise, he falls marginal to what it was that his God overboard during a bout of seasickness. asked of him. It was the sense of a father He is picked up by a fishing trawler, as intrinsic to the male Christian vocation, fished out of the sea by Manuel, a rough as part of his relation to God. and ready Portuguese fisherman. His The modern parable of the father is petulant demands that as the son of a found in a superb film of the 1940s with wealthy man they interrupt their annual Spencer Tracy - the adaptation of harvest of fish (which will provide for Kipling's story Captains Courageous. It is their entire yearly income) to ferry him a story of moral development, of redemp- home are met with derisive laughter. He tion and transformation. The boy, Harvey, must wait till the end of the season, and is the son of an immensely wealthy self- earn his keep. made man, whose energies are so deeply As the story of Harvey's struggle with sunk in his work, the work of making and his surroundings and with himself maintaining a fortune, that he has nothing unfolds, it is Manuel, the simple rough left over - no time or energy - for Harvey. man of the people, who does the work of It is a parable of the abandonment of the father. Harvey is sealed off from his family responsibilities for the modern own world, the world which might promale sacred of work. The mother is weak vide for remission, for a softening of the and fretful, allowing none of the risks and hardness of the task, by the ocean. He is hard tasks that might make Harvey into shamed for slacking, for cheating, and in

the rough wild world of the sea is initiated by his simple companions into the traditional virtues of courage and physical endurance. A deep love springs up between Manuel and the boy.

In a terrible storm Manuel climbs a mast to save the ship, and is severed in two when it breaks. Rather than let Harvey see what has happened Manuel slips into the sea. It is the ancient interdict against despair, the duty of adults to withhold certain knowledge from the young.

Even in the manner of Manuel's dying, there is a lesson. Harvey returns to shore, transformed. Reunited with his parents, his father realises not only that in the new Harvey is there much to respect, but that he has played no part in making him into a man, and what it is that through his selfpreoccupation he has lost.

For he may be admitted as a friend to Harvey's world but never as a father. For Harvey's true father, Manuel, is dead.

Anne Manne is a Melbourne-based writer.

This is an extract from an article in the current issue of Quadrant.

Modern Catholics must make moral stand, or be swamped

By Adrian Bertino-Clarke Mapplethorp's pornographic exhibition, photographic described euphemistically as contemporary art, has finally hit Perth's Art Gallery - although it is not a complete exhibition of his work.

Not included in the exhibition is a work by Mapplethorp of a Christ in a bucket of urine, related to a satanic worship practice, which would allow us an incisive insight into Mapplethorp's mental obsession with abnormal sex and his contempt for the sacred and for Christian morality.

The West Australian newspaper has been trying to down-play the moral scandal the photographic depiction of depraved homosexual sex themes, which in no way can be called artistic,has caused and continues to cause world-wide by giving the exhibition print coverage, insisting that "only three complaints

were received during the three month exhibition in the Eastern States", that no-one has yet complained in Perth and sarcastically stating that "the sky did not fall in" at the inauguration.

But "flesh is flesh though dressed in silk."

One cannot and must not conceptualise or rationalise impurity and concupiscence under the disguises of art, science, love or equal opportunity legislation; like the old Spanish adage says, flesh is flesh - no matter how it is presented.

The real problem is that if by lack of action Catholics fail to complain to the authorities and the media about attacks against morality and/or the Faith, even stronger attacks may be launched against them later on.

One must not forget that the Catholic Church is one of the last bastions of objective universal morality constantly challenging the world's moral standards.

Assaults against Catholicism will most certainly continue;

their impact will depend on the their actions. All of the above are amount of resistance they wrong non-Christian attitudes.

There is the misconception encounter.

If Catholics offer little or no that in some cases silence will concerted opposition, maybe mean that the attack will go next time the Art Gallery will unnoticed, with mininal controshow the blasphemous depiction versy, and hence will not attract of Christ in the bucket of urine much media attention.

However, assaults on the shown elsewhere. More films like 'Priest', The Last Temptation Church, sexual morality and o f Christ', and other Map- Catholic religious ridicule are plethorps will flood the cinemas, always noisy. The enemy will TV, art galleries and the West always make the most of the Australian. Perhaps Catholic opportunities.

Spiritual laziness, apathy, schools may be forced by law to teach that homosexuality is indifference, are all symptoms of equally as valid as monogamous lukewarmness. heterosexual relationships.

Christians should fear this There is no question that deadly spiritual disease more Catholics have a moral duty to than sin itself, given what Jesus Christ said of lukewarm people defend Faith and morals.

To be silent when depraved "I will vomit them from my individuals insult Jesus Christ, mouth" - though he never said His doctrine and openly promote that of sinners. For them, He contheir defiance to God with their tinues to be at the door, knockcondemnable morality can only ing.

On the other hand Christians have four explanations: love of human respect; lack of love for are told in Scripture that as long the sinner and for God; luke- as they are prepared to fight the warmness; and endorsement of good fight of the faith, as St Paul

put it, they are guaranteed victory. A priest friend of mine once said, "If we have failed Christ this time round, let us remember that on the way to Calvary Jesus fell three times ... and got up time and time again to consummate his mission. Christ has fallen that we may get up once and for all - Courage! Let's get up and go! ... and sin no more!".

Remembering that "faith without works is dead," matters such as this public exhibition of pornography, which depicts acts contrary even to nature, should not go without an avalanche of complaints from Catholics, lay, religious and priests.

If Christians organised themselves into a lobby group wouldn't they out-number the homosexuals? In fact, there is no reason why Christians can't convert the whole world ... again - it has been done once already; it is, after all, the same Lord who commands us and lead us into battle.

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Proclaiming justice 'from the gut', says Jesuit

By Maria Ruiz Scaperianda OKLAHOMA CITY (CNS) - Proclaiming justice as a "radical dimension of the Bible," Jesuit Father Walter J. Burghardt challenged more than 150 Catholic evangelists gathered in Oklahoma City to "see justice as the lens through which we see all of reality:, Father Burghardt, author, editor and lecturer on preaching, and senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington, led a training day on "Preaching the Just Word." It opened the 12th annual national conference of the National Council for Catholic Evangelization.

The theme of the June 21-24 conference was "Evangelization and Catechesis: Companions on the Journey."

Biblical justice, Fr Burghardt said, "is the demand that we love our sisters and brothers as if we were standing in their shoes without it the claim to love God is a mockery."

Looking over the assembly of clergy, reli-

gious and lay men and women from all like another self, as if you were standing in over the country, the priest told them that another's shoes." "sheer knowledge and abstract scholarship The Jesuit suggested that "there is an in preaching is not enough. I must appro- inclination among Christians to see justice priate the Bible text so that it's something I as an ethical activity." live in, something I breath. God's written "Those who preach Christ," however, word must take hold of me - as it did in the must find justice in the demand to love Scripture prophets and disciples. The word found in the second commandment, he I study has to be the word I live." said.

According to Fr Burghardt, a listener "When we preach justice in the Christian must "sense from the way I speak that context, ethical justice barely scratches the Jesus' own preference for compassion has surface. Our law is not Aristotle or (English gotten into my gut." jurist Sir William) Blackstone, we preach Acknowledging that preaching as an act Christ and what he was crucified for - to of witness cannot be taught, he added that show how precious each human person is." it is nevertheless essential not only to proQuoting Pope Paul VI's apostolic exhortaclaim the word but to "make Scripture my tion "On Evangelization in the Modern own."

World," Fr Burghardt pointed out that the Effective preaching also "calls for conver- Pope insisted on two realities utterly insepsion within the preacher - a ceaseless turn- arable in evangelization: Jesus Christ and ing to Christ" and must persuade the faith- God's people. ful that justice was based on the second "While Jesus Christ is always the focus, great commandment to "love others as one- evangelization is incomplete without jusself," he said. tice to God's people," he said.

"When Jesus said, 'Love your neighbour Fr Burghardt pointed to what he called as yourself,' he meant love your neighbour the "social focus of Scripture" that provided

Bishops set up English text forum

By Jerry Filteau CHICAGO (CNS) - The United States' bishops have approved a proposal to hold a special forum at which nine to 12 US bishops and a similar number of scholars would discuss translation and other issues surrounding the development of liturgical texts in English.

The forum design was presented to the bishops at their spring meeting in Chicago by Coadjutor Archbishop Jerome Hanus of Dubuque, Iowa, chairman of the ad hoc committee on the forum.

Despite the objections of some bishops who felt any such forum should be international in scope and others who said they thought it should involve a much larger group of bishops, the bishops adopted the proposal by a vote of 127-66.

Archbishop Hanus said some international dimension was included in the proposal in that one or more representatives of ICEL, the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, would be among the invited experts. The proposal also said that Vatican representatives may be invited to attend.

But he said his committee felt that it was beyond the scope of the US bishops to host an international

justice as a lens through which all of reality should be seen.

"We've been taught that sin is an offense against God," Fr Burghardt added. "It is more, it involves the thundering of community. It is a refusal of responsibility that dismembers the body. All sin is social, just as grace is social."

Fr Burghardt suggested every community could begin by asking three questions: "What are the injustices within our own territory?" "What resources lie at our disposal?" "What concrete things can we do about it?"

Much like the first commandment to "love God with all your heart, mind and soul," Jesus' second commandment to love others as yourself "is not an invitation, but a command - to love as Jesus loved," Fr Burghardt said.

"The faithful who listen to me preach must somehow sense I agonise over every single injustice; if not, I am little more than a noisy gong. With a sense of justice, I can declare with confidence, 'This is the word of the Lord."

Lifenet could cover US

CRANSTON, RI. (CNS) - A P hone tree system called Lifenet developed by the prolife coordinator of the Providence Diocese may soon become a model for the country.

The Lifenet system created

by Maria Parker makes it possible to sort out Rhode Island voters by legislative district and parish when contacts need to be made in a hurry on legislation related to pro-life issues.

Gail Quinn, executive director of the Secretariat for Pro-life Activities for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, was in Providence to study the system with Michael Taylor, executive director of the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment.

Ms. Quinn said the members of the bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities asked her to

gathering of bishops, and that any international initiative should come from the Holy See. To some bishops who urged that the forum go beyond just the issues of liturgical translation to areas of inculturation and theology, he said t hat the committee proposal included those elements.

The forum proposal became a political football at the bishops' meeting before it even reached the floor. During an earlier debate on the revised Sacramentary, several bishops who have been fighting VATICAN CITY (CNS) unsuccessfully to get numerous Israel has named a forest changes made in it urged the bish- after Pope John Paul II and ops to delay any further sacramen- wants him to come there and tary votes until after the forum was plant a tree. held and its results distributed to During a papal audience on the bishops.

June 21, Israel's Ambassador ICEL, a joint commission of bish- to the Vatican, Samuel Hadas, ops from English-speaking coun- said his government was dedtries that is responsible for devel- icating the forest to the Pope oping common liturgical texts for as a sign of friendship and the English world, began to revise closer ties with the Vatican. the Sacramentary, the book of all The tract is located near prayers used at Mass, in the mid- Nazareth, where Christ grew 1980s. up.

The plan adopted by the bishops "The tree for Israel is a symcalls for distribution of the pro- bol of friendship, co-existence ceedings and results of the forum and peace," the ambassador by publication and videotape. said.

It said the results would be "I hope Your Holiness will reported to the US bishops and "to soon have the opportunity to other bishops' conferences and to plant a tree in your forest in the appropriate (Vatican) congre- Israel," he said. In the meangations in Rome." time, the Pope was given a

set up a similar phone tree to disperse information about Congress.

Taylor's group has relied upon postal campaigns in the last two years and has between 600,000 and 700,000 names to incorporate into a database that could work as a phone tree.

He said he frequently receives request for information on bills from pro-life activists around the country.

"People are just hungry for information about what these bills are," he said.

Meanwhile, the American Life League said its own challenge to a 1994 federal law protecting access to the entrances of abortion clinics would not be a ffected by the Supreme Court's decision June 19 not to consider another group's challenge to the law.

The court without comment

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repeatedly by the Polish bishops as a sign of disrespect for Polishborn Pope John Paul II. Polish business at the Vatican has been in the hands of a charge d'affaires since July 1993, when Mr Kupiszewski became ill and returned to Warsaw.

The past two governments, both dominated by ex-communists, have said that the problem had been in finding a suitable candidate.

Church and opposition leaders have said the appointment had been deliberately blocked.

One candidate, however, was

reportedly blocked by President Lech Walesa after church opposition.

Before editing Wiez, the new ambassador spent 10 years as co-editor of the Polish weekly edition of the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper.

Since 1990, he also has been the Foreign Ministry's chief adviser on Vatican relations.

During a confirmation hearing before Parliament, Mr Frankiewicz discussed the stalled concordat covering relations between the Church and the Government. He said he

Sicilian strengths 'hidden'

potted olive tree.

The 75-year-old Pope remarked during the ceremony that he would like to see the forest when he visits Jerusalem. The Pope has long VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope wanted to visit the Holy City, John Paul II last week condemned but political problems have the Mafia as a sign of spiritual failmade it impossible. ure, and urged Sicilians to live up to The dedication was their strong religious and civil tradianother in a series of events tions. marking the first anniversary "The Mafia was generated by a o f official diplomatic ties society spiritually incapable of between the Vatican and Israel. During the audience, recognising the richness that the Pope was presented with belongs to the people of Sicily," he the Hebrew edition of the told a group of Sicilian pilgrims at book, -Letter to a Jewish the Vatican on June 22.

Friend," sponsored in Israel The Pope said Sicily's notoriety as by the Anti-Defamation the birthplace and stronghold of the League of B'nae B'rith, which Mafia had overshadowed its other details the life-long friendship gifts for far too long. The southern between the pontiff and Jerzy Italian island was often "scorned Kluger, a Polish-born Jew. and denigrated, as if the criminal organizations were its most significant expression," he said.

Poles defuse diplomatic embarrassment in Rome WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Poland's newly appointed ambassador to the Vatican hopes to repair the diplomatic damage caused by a virtually two-year vacancy in the post.

Stefan Frankiewicz, 54, editor of the Warsaw-based Catholic monthly, Wiez, was approved as ambassador on June 6 by the Polish parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission.

The absence of a Polish ambassador to the Vatican since the April 1994 death of the last o ffice-holder, Henryk Kupiszewski, has been deplored

rejected an appeal of a ruling that said the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, known as FACE, does not infringe on anyone's free speech rights.

The case rejected by the high court involved a lawsuit filed

by Concerned Women for America and one of its members. Joyce Woodall, who was arrested and threatened with prosecution under FACE "for peaceful praying on an abortion clinic's steps."

That suit and the American Life League's challenge to the constitutionality of the clinic access law were filed May 24, 1994, the same day President Clinton signed it.

A U.S. District Court judge threw out the Concerned Women for America suit and the appeals court upheld her ruling.

thought the Vatican would not accept a renegotiation of the treaty.

Vatican and Polish negotiators have agreed to terms, but approval has stalled in Parliament, where ex-communists have demanded tighter wording o f several clauses and want assurances that the treaty will not prejudice a still-to-beenacted Constitution.

Mr Frankiewicz said he believed most outstanding disputes over the concordat could be resolved.

The pontiff recalled his visit to Sicily in 1993, during which he delivered an emotional condemnation of the Mafia. That appeal, he said, "burst from my heart" because of the obvious contrast between the island's criminal activity and the Christian and human qualities of most of its inhabitants.

Today, he said, Sicily had made important economic advances but, like much of southern Italy, remained behind the rest of the country. He urged Sicilians to make an "examination of conscience" and commit themselves fully to renewal of their society.

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Pope, Patriarch in historic meeting

By John 'Mavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - After several years of sometimes rocky relations between Catholics and Orthodox Christians, Pope John Paul II is preparing to welcome the spiritual leader of the Orthodox churches to the Vatican.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople was due to arrive last Tuesday on his first official visit to the Holy See, which will include several private meetings with the Pope as well as meetings with Vatican officials and Rome church groups.

The highlight of the visit is a Mass in St Peter's Basilica today, celebrated by the Pope and attended by the Patriarch, followed by a joint blessing by the two leaders from the central balcony of the church.

During the Mass, the Pope and the Patriarch each will deliver part of the sermon

and will recite together the profession of faith, the Vatican said. "The event is part of the process begun after the Second Vatican Council, aimed at reconciliation between the Church of the East and the Church of the West, and the re-establishment of the unity that existed among them in the first millennium," a Vatican statement said.

The Pope was looking forward to the visit as an opportunity to highlight the importance of efforts for Christian unity.

In several recent documents, he has emphasised that ecumenism is a main task for the Church as it approaches the year 2000, with special reference to the Orthodox.

Patriarch Bartholomew was elected as Ecumenical Patriarch in 1991. His predecessor, Dimitrios I, made a similar visit to the Vatican in 1987.

Over the last eight years, however, Catholics and Orthodox have faced new

Vatican runs up budget surplus a second time

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican has announced a small budget surplus for 1994, the second straight year it has run its operations in the black.

It was good news for Vatican economic planners, who cited a combination of increased contributions from Catholics around the world and belt-tightening measures at the Vatican.

United States Cardinal Edmund Szoka, the Vatican's chief budget official, said that after more than two decades of budget deficits, he was hopeful the Vatican had turned the corner and would continue to show a profit in coming years.

The 1994 surplus was $US412,000, reflecting income of $US174.3 million and expenses of $US173.8 million. The surplus was smaller than the $US1.5 million posted in 1993, but was still gratifying, Cardinal Szoka said.

Cardinal Szoka said the real key to balancing the budget has been the increase in contributions over the last few years, following a Vatican appeal in 1992 to bishops' con-

ferences, religious orders and special foundations.

The cardinal said that Pope John Paul II, who was shown the 1994 budget report, was pleased and grateful at the generosity of the faithful.

He said greater Vatican openness about its finances was an important element in the economic turnaround. Bishops and religious orders are now routinely mailed the complete budget reports and are encouraged to cite them in appeals to the faithful.

Another important element was the Pope's personal popularity, Cardinal Szoka said.

An important factor in the 1994 budget surplus is that it left untouched Peter's Pence, an annual world-wide collection that is normally destined for special papal charity projects. For many years the Vatican had to use up Peter's Pence to pay off the budget deficit.

The budget figures cover the operations of the Vatican's administrative offices, including missions; they do not include operations of Vatican City State and its attached institutions, such as the Vatican museums.

ecumenical tensions, especially in former communist countries where the re-emergence of local Catholic churches has led to disputes over property and methods of evangelization.

Vatican officials say they believe those problems have been largely defused through dialogue and recent agreements on pastoral practices by both churches.

Patriarch Bartholomew will be met at the airport by a high-profile Vatican delegation and will stay as the Pope's personal guest in a residential tower inside Vatican City.

In addition to four private meetings with the Pope, he was scheduled to meet with members of the Roman Curia, Rome youths and a group of United States' Orthodox Christians. He leaves Rome tomorrow.

Patriarch Bartholomew's four days in Rome and at the Vatican mark the third visit by a Patriarch of Constantinople to

Sudan agony continues LONDON (CNS) - A priest from southern Sudan visiting Britain has pleaded for help for people in his diocese who are dying because of lack of food and medicine.

Father Akille Malueth, vicargeneral of the Wau Diocese, said large numbers could die unless there was urgent action to get vital supplies to people who have been cut off from the rest of the country during a 10year civil war.

He was speaking during a visit to the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, the official aid agency of the bishops of England and Wales.

"The people of Wau are suffering because of the war in Sudan," Fr Malueth said.

"While we call on Christians here to show solidarity with those who are suffering in

Clinton, who had nominated Foster in February. Dr Foster, a 61-year-old Tennessee obstetrician and gynecologist, had said he performed 39 abortions during his medical career. He also was criticised for his connections with Planned Parenthood and for having overseen a study of an abortion drug.

On June 23, Dr Foster said on the CBS Good Morning television show that abortion "was clearly a factor from the very inception of this process. Within 7 2 hours (of the nomination) there were senators who had staked out their claims that they were against me.

"They knew nothing about me, they knew nothing about hundreds of kids I had taken care of in my programs, the thousands of babies I had delivered, the hundreds of students I had trained. They knew nothing," he added. "Their minds

Wau, we also call on the British Government to do more to promote peace in Sudan.

"In the short term we desperately need more aid, but what the people really need is peace and an end to the isolation that has left Wau cut off from the rest of Sudan."

Reports from Wau indicate that for more than 10 years people have been unable to travel outside the governmentcontrolled town because the surrounding rural areas are under the control of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army.

This has left more than 150.000 people confined to an area of 26 sq km, who cannot get the seed they require to cultivate their land, and hunger is the norm.

Mexico expels three priests MEXICO CITY (CNS) Three foreign-born Catholic priests expelled from Mexico last week for allegedly engaging in "illegal activities" in the southern state of Chiapas were not allowed to consult a lawyer nor were they informed of their right under Mexican law to appeal the expulsion order, the vicar-general of their diocese has said.

The arrest and deportation of the priests occurred while their bishop, Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia of San Cristobal

Abortionist fails to get top job WASHINGTON (CNS) Opponents and supporters of the nomination of declared abortionist Dr Henry Foster as United States surgeon-general reacted to his defeat last week according to where they stood on the abortion issue.

"Dr. Foster's destructive policies would have shred the moral fabric of our nation," said Beverly LaHaye, president of Concerned Women for America.

"Americans are praising the Senate for taking dynamic action to preserve the innocence of our children," she added.

In identical 57-43 votes on June 21 and 22, the Senate failed to cut off debate on the Foster nomination, effectively killing the possibility of a vote on the nomination itself.

"It's wrong for a man as qualified and committed as Dr Foster to be denied this chance to serve our country," said President Bill

the Bishop of Rome in the past 30 years.

The visit is already seen as a historic event. A plaque commemorating the visit is expected to be placed in St Peter's Basilica. In 1964, Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I met in Jerusalem in a symbolic ecumenical breakthrough.

The following year, meeting at the Vatican, they annulled the mutual declarations of excommunication that had divided the two churches since 1054.

Since then, theological dialogue has continued, along with regular visits by officials of both churches.

The Mass today marks the feast of Sts Peter and Paul, the patron saints of Rome.

Each year, the Ecumenical Patriarch sends a delegation to Rome for the event, and the Pope in turn sends one to Istanbul, the modern Constantinople, on the feast of St Andrew in November. St Andrew is recognised by the Orthodox as the founder of their church.

had been made up, and it was because I was an obstetriciangynecologist who had protected the right of American women to choose."

Republican Senator Dan Coats said those who opposed abortion were unfairly characterised during the debate over Dr Foster's nomination.

"They are not fanatics to be demonised," he said. "They understand that this administration disagrees with them, but what they do not understand is why this administration has chosen to actively assault their deepest beliefs."

White House spokesman Mike McCurry said Mr Clinton would now begin the process of looking for another nominee to succeed Dr Joycelyn Elders, who was fired as surgeon-general in 1994 after she said it might be a good idea to teach school children about masturbation.

de las Casas, was outside the country on speaking engagements in Spain and Germany.

Upon his return to San Cristobal, Bishop Ruiz said in a homily last Sunday the deportation of the three priests was a sign that the Government was now taking a hard line with regard to the peace process which the bishop is mediating in Chiapas between the Government and rebels of the Zapatista National Liberation Front.

Salesian Vigano dead ROME (CNS) - The head of the Salesian religious order for nearly 18 years, Italian Father Egidio Vigano, has died in Rome at age 74.

His death on June 23 came after a long illness, Salesian officials said. Until recently he had been preparing the Salesian congregation for its 24th general chapter scheduled for 1996.

Father Vigano was a noted theologian with a particular interest in the consecrated life. He participated as an expert in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council and, over the last three decades, in the three major Latin American episcopal conferences.

He took part in six sessions of the Synod of Bishops, either as an elected representative of religious superiors or as a papal appointee.

Father Vigano was elected in 1977 as the seventh successor of St John Bosco, who founded the Salesian order in the mid-1800s.

The order's work, carried out by 17,500 members in 113 countries, focuses on education and missionary ministry.

The Salesian headquarters in Rome said Argentine Father Juan Edmundo Vecchi, Salesian vicargeneral, had assumed interim governance of the order.

Pope calls again for humane labour policy VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II, addressing Brazilian bishops, has again warned against economic policies that view human labour as a mere instrument of capitalism.

Human work "cannot be considered just a means of production, reducing the labourer to the condition of simple manpower," he said at the Vatican on June 24.

"The intrinsic value of human work must be recognised by societies and by states, which have the responsibility to make laws that reflect the centrality of the human being in relation to capital and profit," he said.

He said a system of equal pay and benefits was essential to guarantee family stability, the possibility of educating children and the enjoyment of one's well-earned spare time.

He noted that the Church views daily work as a way of holiness for all Christians. At the same time it insists on respect for workers' human dignity.

The Pope encouraged the bishops to keep promoting the Church's strong social teaching on these points. Brazilian bishops, who have travelled to Rome throughout the year for their "ad limina" visits, have told the Pope that major economic projects in their country continue to marginalise or exploit the poor.

The Pope also had pointed words about what he termed "pressures of every kind" on the family in Brazil. He said these attacks had one objective: the "break-up of the fundamental nucleus of society."

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International News

Let Christians worship: Pope

By John Thavis ROME (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has said that he hopes the inauguration of a Rome mosque, the largest in Europe, will promote similar respect for Christian minorities in predominantly Muslim countries.

The Pope, speaking at the Vatican on June 21, made the unusually blunt appeal for religious freedom as religious and civil authorities were presiding over the official opening of the mosque, a large domed structure flanked by an Islamic cultural center and a 37m-tall minaret.

Financed largely by Saudi Arabia. the $50 million mosque will serve the estimated 38,000 Muslims living in and around Rome.

The Pope said the mosque, constructed in a city that represented the centre of Christianity, was an "eloquent sign of religious freedom."

"Unfortunately, corresponding signs of respect for religious freedom are lacking in several Islamic countries. And yet the world is waiting for these signs," he said.

He noted that religious liberty was considered an essential right in many international documents and could be said to be a "pillar of contemporary civilization."

"While I am happy that Muslims can gather and pray in their mosque in Rome,I express the strong hope that Christians and all believers in every corner of the globe will have the right to freely express their own faith," he said.

Government restrictions con- ing religious values and offering tinue to be imposed on Christ- a distinct contribution toward ian activities in several Persian peace and justice," Vatican Gulf states, notably Saudi Ara- spokesman Joaquin Navarrobia, where Christian worship Valls said on June 22. remains illegal. Over the last He said such a committee several years, the Pope and had been suggested by various o ther Vatican officials have Muslim organizations with been increasingly plain-spoken which the Vatican had held in asking that the situation be talks in recent years, including corrected. the Muslim World League and Father Maurice Borrmans, an the World Muslim Conference. expert on Islam, said that while He said the committee was most Muslim countries respect due to meet at Rome's new Christian rights, there were Islamic Cultural Center June 23 painful exceptions. to discuss issues raised by the In an article that appeared on draft document for the Beijing June 21 on the front page of the conference on women.

Italian Catholic newspaper, Dr Navarro-Valls has played Avvenire, he said Saudi Arabia, down talk of a "holy alliance" Sudan, Qatar and Malaysia con- between the Vatican and Mustinued to discriminate against lim nations at the conference, Christians. saying the two religions have Problems of religious intoler- common concerns but also ance also existed in Iran and some important differences in Pakistan, he said. their approach to women's role The opening of the mosque in society. and cultural center should help The differences include provide an opportunity to social, cultural and religious review these situations and find areas, he said. the "necessary courage" to The "holy alliance" accusaresolve Christian-Muslim prob- tion was made during last year's lems, he said.

United Nations Conference on The mosque, designed by Ital- Population and Development in ian and Iraqi architects, was Cairo, Egypt, with some delefirst proposed in 1973. In 1974 gates saying the Vatican was the city donated the building teaming up with fundamentalist site in a wealthy residential Islamic countries to block conneighborhood, but work was sensus language on abortion, held up for 20 years after a legal birth control and family issues. protest by local residents, and Vatican delegates in Cairo construction problems. said there was no alliance with Meanwhile, Vatican and Mus- Muslim countries, but some lim representatives have estab- overlapping concerns. They lished a joint liaison committee also pointed out that in the final to explore their respective posi- days of the Cairo conference, tions on religious and social compromise language on many issues. points was worked out in sesThe move was aimed at "pro- sions between representatives moting mutual understanding of the United States and those of and collaboration, strengthen- fundamentalist Iran.

Host sacrilege leads to beating and death sacristy to protect him from public anger. They then turned him over to police.

LARANTUKA, Indonesia (CNS) A man who desecrated a consecrated host during Mass in East Flores, Indonesia, died two days after parishioners caught him and beat him.

The man was severely injured and died of a cerebral haemorrhage on June 13 in the local hospital, said Father Franciscus Aliandu, the bishop's secretary in Larantuka. His remarks were reported by UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

Parishioners at Queen of the Rosary Cathedral Church in Larantuka, nearly 1,760km east of Jakarta, caught a non-Catholic man named Taman crushing a consecrated host in his hands during Mass on June 11.

Churchgoers beat Taman until Catholic leaders got him into the

Later, some 3,000 Catholics took to the streets in protest.

Learning that Taman, who said he had converted to Christianity 20 years ago, had an Islamic background, the protesters torched dozens of kiosks and shops owned

by Muslim traders.

Just six weeks earlier in neighbouring Maumere, a similar riot caused two deaths, and troops had to be called in to quell the crowds.

Lieutenant Colonel Santoso, head of the local military district command, told UCA News the security agency would thoroughly investigate the incident and make efforts to completely settle the case.

Philippines measles drive runs into pro-life MANILA, Philippines (CNS) - The Philippine Health Minister has blamed Church groups for the rising incidence of measles in the country this year.

Health Secretary Jaime GalvezTan attributed a rise of over 50 percent in the number of measles cases, including 95 deaths, to religious groups' interference in the Government's immunization program.

UCA News said Mr Tan was referring to the furore church and pro-life groups had raised by claiming the tetanus toxoid vaccine used by the Department of Health caused abortions.

The campaign against the tetanus vaccine resulted in the failure of the March 15 national immunisation day that aimed to immunise women and children against tetanus, polio and measles, Mr Tan said.

However, Pro-Life Philippines, which led the campaign, disputed Mr Tan's charge, saying the health

department's inefficiency caused the increase in measles cases.

Good Shepherd Sister Pilar Versoza, the head of Pro-Life Philippines, said the tetanus toxoid issue had nothing to do with the increase in measles.

"Why blame us for their inefficiency? How could they be so sure that the cases were due to the tetanus toxoid issue?" she said. Sr Versoza suggested the health department improve the delivery of health services instead of passing on the blame for its failures.

The health department claimed the vaccine, administered to women of reproductive age, was intended to save thousands of children from dying of neonatal tetanus shortly a fter delivery, especially when mothers give birth at home attended by only a midwife, paramedic or traditional medicine practitioners.

South African Catholics, Southern Baptists repent together bishops sack ATLANTA (CNS) - Shortly menical and Interreligious ern Baptists to "denounce of the messengers was greeted before America's Southern Bap- Affairs. racism, in all its forms, as with a standing ovation. tists approved a resolution askAIDS worker ing Fr Ruff told the messengers deplorable sin."

The Reverend Gary Frost, pasforgiveness for the racism that he attended his first South"We apologise to all African-

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PRETORIA, South Africa (CNS) - An AIDS awareness co-ordinator for the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference has been fired for showing people how to place a condom on a plastic penis.

Chrys Matubatuba, 31, whose contract was due to expire in December, received a letter in June from the bishops' conference secretary-general, Brother Jude Pieterse, terminating his three-year service with the conference.

The Vatican opposes the use of condoms or any other contraceptive device, whether for preventing AIDS or pregnancy. It teaches faithfulness in marriage and chastity outside of marriage as the moral - and most effective means of avoiding AIDS. Br Pieterse said Mr Matubatuba would not attend numerous meetings to discuss his work and, consequently, the bishops had no option but to dismiss him.

The bishops do not condone the use of condoms.

Defending his position, Mr Matubatuba said he did not devise his method of teaching condom use and said the equipment was donated by AIDS awareness agencies.

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that they were responsible for past and present, a Catholic representative apologised to participants in the annual Southern Baptist Convention "for times your brother and sister Catholics have not treated you as family."

Father Frank Ruff's brief address on June 20 to the 20,000 "messengers", as delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention are called, marked the first time that a Catholic had addressed an annual meeting of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.

A priest of the Diocese of Owensboro, Kentucky, and a Glenmary Home Missioner, Fr Ruff has worked since 1992 as a field representative for the US bishops' Secretariat for Ecu-

ern Baptist Convention in 1967 and had "come to love Southern Baptists" in the 28 years since then.

He was applauded when he said, "I apologise for times your brother and sister Catholics have not treated you as family, and I ask your forgiveness."

"I pray that God will bless your efforts to promote the message of Jesus Christ around the world," he added.

Later on June 20, participants in the convention voted overwhelmingly to approve a resolution that said many Southern Baptist congregations "have intentionally or unintentionally excluded African-Americans from worship, membership and leadership" and called on South-

Americans for condoning and/or perpetuating individual and systemic racism in our lifetime, and we genuinely repent of racism of which we have been guilty," the resolution said.

The meeting marked the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Southern Baptist Convention, established in 1845 in a split with the American Baptist Convention over whether slave owners could be missionaries.

Of the more than 39,000 Southern Baptists congregations today, only about 1,200 are primarily black.

There are approximately 15.6 million Southern Baptists in the United States.

Approval of the racism resolution by an estimated 95 percent

tor of Rising Star Baptist Church in Youngstown, Ohio, and the highest African-American officer of the Southern Baptist Convention as second vice-president, said he could not speak for all African-Americans or AfricanAmerican Christians.

"I do speak on behalf of all those African-American believers in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who are committed to be obedient to the word of God and long to see healing and unity in the body of Christ," he said.

"On behalf of my black brothers and sisters, we accept your apology, and we extend to you our forgiveness in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ," Mr Frost said.

Walesa apologises for his parish priest's sermon WARSAW, Poland (CNS) - Polish President Lech Walesa, r esponding to international protests against a sermon by his parish priest, has condemned anti-Semitism.

"I am convinced that all manifestations of anti-Semitism in Poland and in the world should meet with universal disapproval

and condemnation," he said.

"The memory of the terrible crime to which millions of sons and daughters of the Jewish nation fell victim in World War II is still fresh. As a Pole and Christian, I consider the Star of David the great sign of Jewish faith and community, which should be fully esteemed."

Speaking by telephone on June 20 to the Polish-born chairman of the Israeli Knesset, Szewach Weiss, Mr Walesa pledged to resist "manifestations of antiSemitism in Poland," adding that he also wished to apologise to Jews who had "felt touched" by the controversial sermon.

In a sermon on June 11,

preached in Mr Walesa's presence, Father Henryk Jankowski said Poles should "no longer tolerate governments by people who have not said whether they come from Moscow or Israel," adding that the Star of David was "inscribed on the swastika and hammer and sickle."

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

B.Y.O. Tea/coffee supplied.

Please wear name tags.

Contact No. Keller (090) 454 021.

CARMELITE MONASTERY JUBILEE

A Mass for the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mr. Carmel and in thanksgiving for the Diamond Jubilee of the Carmelite M onastery, Nedlands, will be celebrated at the monastery, A delma Rd., on Sunday, 16th July, at 11.00 a.m. Archbishop Hickey will be the principal Celebrant. A public invitation is e xtended for the Mass and afterwards. r efreshments Priests are welcome to concelebrate.

NEWMAN SOCIETY

APOSTLES OF CHRIST PRAYER GROUP, WILLETTON

Charismatic Healing Mass with anointing of the sick will be held on Friday, 7th July, 1995, at 7.30pm at the Sts. John & Paul Catholic Church, Pinetree Gully R oad, Willetton (Praise & Worship starts at 7pm). There will be fellowship and refreshments thereafter. All are welcome!

Euthanasia: On Tuesday July 4th, at 7.30pm in the Senior Common Room, St. Thomas More College Crawley, Rev. Fr. Black and Dr. Frank Prendegast will hold a discussion on this subject, Fr. Black enunciating the general principles and Dr Prendegast dealing with their practical application in medicine. Newman meetings are open to all interested. Contact No. 446 7340.

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Continued from Page 1 A DNA spiral twists within the panel's border ... the building block of life; creation in all its minescule perfection.

Various animals, birds, insects and plant life drawn in around the border represent the diversity of created life.

"I wanted to depict even more of creation," says Father Frank enthusiastically.

"That included dinosaurs for the past, and radio waves, black holes, and quasars t o represent the world as we know it today.

"But Gerry didn't think we could do that in a way that would be fitting, so I submitted to her artistic judgement"

Those who look closely at the bottom border will see an inscription which reveals this to be a memorium window.

Two hidden angels are sketched into the border beside it Gerry Manson, a mother, has been working professionally in stained glass for 18 years.

She used to be an illustrator, but grew interested in stained glass 20 years ago when writing a dissertation on stained glass at Southport Art College in England.

Her work is inspired by classical music and art, and she says one of her greatest influences has been her mother.

"She exposed me and my two sisters to music and art from a very early age," she says.

"Though she wasn't musical she always played music to us. We were always taken to art galleries, and had lots of books around the house.

Gerry believes children need such stimulation, and she tries to provide it for her ten year old daughter, Sophie.

"Children absorb things, and they need to be exposed to things they don't even know they're interested in," she says.

The Last Supper window depicts Christ with people of all races and walks of life gathered before Him, including a young mother with a small child clinging to her dress. Various nationalities, including aboriginal, are shown, and the rich and poor are there too.

The rich man's ring was created from a specially cut chunk of glass that sometimes throws off a shaft of faceted light.

Christ breaking the bread is the window's centrepiece, and his long white robe falls amidst the people below, becoming a tablecloth. Wine ripples down the robe.

Grapes and wheat sheaves decorate the top of the window, and a uniquely Australian touch is the yellow flowering Christmas Tree.

The figure of Christ is surrounded by delicate Frangipanis, whose name means "broken bread", and whose insides are lent their delicate yellow blush by applying silver nitrate to the glass.

Gerry sees her work not as creating an artform, but creating an atmosphere.

"Since I started stained glass I knew I wanted to work with churches," she says.

"I like the old-style churches, and the ambience their stained class windows created.

"Years ago a church was a refuge for people, a place where they could sit in the hushed light in private.

"What I dislike is having churches lit almost like supermarkets, they're so bright "I suppose they're trying to remove some of the mystery, and I think that's a mistake.

"Churches should lend themselves to contemplation."

Stained glass has been used to create this effect for centuries.

The oldest stained-glass windows in existence are believed to be those in the cathedral of Augsburg, Germany, dating from about the early 1100's, each depicting a biblical prophet.

Stained glass windows never fade their colours actually become richer with time.

A distinguishing characteristic of the four windows is the Australiana theme integrated in them.

In the Pentecost window is a panel depicting 'the primeaval Australian landscape, where an Aboriginal stands as a tornado sweeps up the dust.

"The tornado represents the mighty

The Holy Family window, left, and, clockwise, the woman at the tomb of the Risen Christ from the Resurrection window; the flight to Egypt detail from the Holy Family window; Our Lady and the apostles at Pentecost; the DNA strand surrounding the baptism pool.

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wind of the Holy Spirit," says Fr Frank "The ancient Hebrew word `ruah', meaning wind, breath, and spirit, is inscribed in it." Evil is represented in this window using the Australian crocodile.

Fr Frank and Gerry wanted to portray the themes in ways relating to modem life.

The Holy Family window includes a panel on the flight into Egypt which is like a sepia photograph of a line of travelling refugees.

"We can take that as a depiction prototype of refugees," says Gerry.

"Jesus, Mary and Joseph were refugees 2000 years ago, and it happens on an Immense scale in our time.

"One little child is carrying a teddy bear - so the line of refugees represents that line of refugees from then to the present day."

Gerry hopes to continue creating works for churches, and perhaps one day to work with an architect in designing a church from scratch.

She dreams of creating windows for a church unique to our local area - built using local materials and designers, as the Margaret River and Augusta churches have been.

"I would also love to do a series of miniature Stations of the Cross set into a series of little openings along a western wall, where there is not so much light," she says.

Gerry gives full credit to Father Frank for making the windows possible.

"It is the priests who initially start things happening," she says.

"Without the Church there are many works of art that simply would not exist.

"The Catholic Church has been the greatest patron and protector of the arts ever, and the world would be far less rich without these things."

The windows will be solemnly blessed at a Mass in the Holy Family Church on July 23 at 9am.