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Former Mercedes College student and Rhodes scholar, Tanya Alpin, reflects on the effect of the information superhighway on education - Page 10 St Kieran's, Tuart Hill, celebrates 75 years of service with the launch of a history of the school and parish - Pages 8-9 A layman reminds Catholic laity they are called by God first to evangelise the world and then, maybe, not serve on the altar or as special ministers - Page 11 An occasional listing of US Catholic video classifications for harassed parents - Page 7

Special kids 'concern'

Parents' report hits at school access

"We acknowledge the enormous amount of work that has been put into this report but are somewhat saddened that our comments A report on the educational needs of have not been sought after," he said.

Catholic children with disabilities released Mrs Maureen Thomson, a special educaby the Catholic Association for Special tion consultant with the CEO, said the CEO Education Support has sharply criticised had a more comprehensive data base than the Catholic education system in Western CASES which included figures predicting Australia for failing to meet the needs of enrolments up to the year 2001. parents of disabled children.

The report said that high on the list of probWhile the report acknowledged the posi- lems confronted by parents with disabled tive aspects of Catholic education's efforts to children was the problem of enrolling dismeet the requirements of disabled/special abled children in Catholic schools needs children and their parents. the Catholic It said that from 1982 until this year the surEducation Office of Western Australia said the report took only a parents' perspective vey results reported 123 unsuccessful and had not balanced its comments with attempts at placing special needs children in comments from individual schools and the Catholic schools and that the number was rising annually.

CEO. Based on a survey of parents of 460 disRespondents reported that in 12 per cent of abled children both in and out of Catholic the cases no reason had been given by the schools, the report is entitled Invitation to the Catholic school for refusal of the enrolment.

Banquet and was commissioned by ArchMr King disputed the general thrust of the bishop Hickey as an archdiocesan initiative report's criticisms concerning provision of for the International Year of the Family in facilities for special needs students.

1994.

"This survey is very much of an historical The report said that in 1982 there were three reported unsuccessful attempts at nature and doesn't take into account what enrolment, while in 1995 the number had has happened over the last few years and what is in the planning over the next few risen to 27. he said. years."

The CEO, school staff, including sonic prinwere criticipals, and school communities "We have increased significantly the numcised for a perceived lack of support of stu- ber of children with disabilities in the system dents with special needs and their families. and, equally as important as that, the level of The objectives of the survey, the report disability of those children has significantly said, were to document the types of problems increased and we're now catering for that." experienced by families of disabled children he said. in the education system and to gain an idea of He also said that a number of special edutheir future needs and expectations. cation centres had been opened in Catholic CASES' membership is mainly made up of schools over the last five years. parents, friends and professionals interested Eleven per cent of respondents to the in the education of children with special CASES survey cited school and other parents' needs.

The CEO said that it would consider the attitudes as a reason for an unsuccessful report and its recommendations and then enrolment attempt .

Heading the list of reasons for unsuccessful report to Archbishop Hickey.

CEO Student Support Services Section attempts at enrolment was lack of resources head, Michael King, said he was puzzled by available to cater for the child, cited by 24 per cent of respondents. the data presented in the report.

Mr King's section directs the CEO's work "Parents have experienced rejection (parwith disabled children in Catholic schools, tial or complete), have been given the impres"I think the report is coming from one per- sion that any assistance from the parish and spective, that is, the perspective of parents," School Community is above and beyond Mr King said. what parents have a right to expect, and "I'm not saying that's not an important per- many have given up from sheer exhaustion spective, but it is but one perspective and the any hope that their child with special needs survey was aimed at parents and there was would ever be accepted into the Catholic no attempt to balance those comments with Education System," the report said. comments from schools and this office."

CASES recommendations included: All the people who work in Catholic • proportional representation of parents of CEO were the very much conand schools cerned for people handling children with dis- children with special needs on all diocesan committees developing educational policies; abilities and special needs, he said.

Invited to the Banquet comments strongly • the preparation and implementation of on the Catholic education system's treatment special education teaching programs at of students with disabilities and their parents. undergraduate and post-graduate level for all "Many Parents/Guardians are disillu- teaching staff; sioned and distraught with the way in which • the formation of a taskforce to examine they and their children have been treated by ways of increasing funds for use in schools; the Catholic school system, and the Catholic • the support of special needs children by Education Office," the report said.

Mr King said the CEO was informed of the parishes via mechanisms such as scholarsurvey by CASES at its commencement and ships; and had sought participation, but CASES did not • the recruitment and promotion of voluntake up the offer. teer assistants in Catholic schools.

By Peter Rosengren

Silvia Kinder and daughter Helena: training of teachers important.

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard "Hurt, anger, frustration and disappointment" are the reactions families experience when refused Catholic education for their disabled child, according to CASES (Catholic Association for Special Education Support) spokesperson Silvia Kinder.

"Or worse still when the child is accepted and it becomes merely a bottom on a seat because there were no structures put in place to support the child."

Feeling rejection and disillusionment, some had left the Church she said, and the necessity of finding alternative schooling not only separated siblings, but fragmented the family and caused hardship because the disabled child and parent were faced with long hours of travel.

It also damaged the child's self-esteem to be told that it wasn't wanted in the same Catholic school attended by their brothers and sisters, said Mrs Kinder.

"And after all, family unity is surely part of the Christian ideal.

"Our main message is that we are a Catholic organisation," emphasised Mrs Kinder, "and are part of the Church body too."

Mrs Kinder dismissed "lack of resources" as being the prime response for refusal, and said it was really a lack of a Christian attitude.

She said disabled children in Catholic schools thrived in the caring Catholic environment, even though there were very few resources, and cited their ten year old Downs Syndrome daughter Elena, who's been at St Thomas' Primary, Claremont, since pre-primary.

"And although she receives minimal government funding, with the great attitude displayed by the whole school community and the Catholic Education Office, she is doing really well."

Theirs is a good news story, Mrs Kinder concedes, and others are not so fortunate.

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Time to act for unity, to bury prejudice LTHOUGH Ecumenism is clearly that our disunity could not Eastern Churches. This move- which he was only too well A one of those topics that possibly be the will of Christ, and ment was welcomed by the aware. occupy the attention of intellec-

tual elements of the Church, with the production of learned papers and high level consultations on doctrinal areas that divide Christians, the rank and file of the Church is always very happy when they see their Church leaders become involved in ecumenical activities.

So it was last week when I invited representatives of other Christian Churches to join with Catholic people in a presentation o f the Holy Father's recent Encyclical Ut Unum Sint - That They May Be One. The enthusiastic gathering at St Thomas More College brought together the heads of the main Christian Churches, a number of theologians, students and many people from the parishes.

It is these latter, the "rank and file" of the Church who instinctively know that the divisions among us are wrong. They see

that those who have some influence should get together and work towards the unity that ought to exist.

When the Catholic Church entered the ecumenical movement in a major way about twenty-five years ago, in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, hopes were high for a speedy end of the historical divisions, and many expected that the rush of good will would rapidly pave the way for corporate reunion.

To quote the fourth Decree on Ecumenism (1964): "The restoration of unity among all Christians is one of the principle concerns of the Second Vatican Council". (No 1) The Council recognised the genuine faith of people of other Churches, their love for Sacred Scripture, their apostolic works of charity, their acknowledgement of Christ as Saviour, and the genuine Eucharistic worship of the

Catholic community who, while never ever really living in a "ghetto" separate from the rest of society, were in daily contact with relatives and friends who were members of other Churches, good people who wanted to come together.

As years went on the ecumenical movement staggered a little.

Hopes of reunion were dashed when a number of Churches went in different directions on important matters like marriage and divorce, sexuality, sacramentality and the question of ordination.

It seemed, as many commentators pointed out, that we were now in the "winter of ecumenism".

Then Pope John Paul II entered the scene with his amazing Encyclical Ut Unum Sint, urging the Church and all Christians to take up the challenge again, despite the new difficulties of

Cilia. delegates Beijing bound E Catholic Women's League of Australia will be sending two delegates to attend the non-government organisation forum associated with the United Nation's 4th World Conference on Women to be held in China's capital, Beijing, early next month.

They are Mrs Peg McEntee, a former New South Wales state president of the CWL, and Mrs Verena Butler, state president of the Queensland CWL. Mrs McEntee will report on the conference to the CWLA's conference in Perth in October. registration for which closes at the end of this month.

The main Beijing conference and the non-government organisations' forum will run concurrently with delegates to the NGO forum lobbying government-led delegations to the Beijing conference.

The CWLA said in a statement that it would use the Beijing opportunity to present the views of the Catholic Church and to make known its views on various proposals.

CWLA is an official Catholic organisation with some 15,000 women members across Australia. It is also affiliated with the World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations, an umbrella organisation

representing 67 groups and approximately thirty million members.

Previous UN conferences on women and population issues have been subject to debate between pro and anti-abortion and population control forces.

At the UN conference on world population held in Cairo last year, the Vatican joined forces with Muslim representatives to oppose the inclusion of language in conference resolutions that supported widespread use of government population-control measures, including abortion.

Non-government organisation delegates were able to extensively lobby and influence government delegations and, therefore, the final outcome of the conference.

The CWLA will support the Vatican delegation on their joint concerns which include the rights and responsibilities of parents in relation to education, sexuality and abortion. One of the issues to also be considered by the conference will be proposed definitions of gender. It is currently proposed that five separate genders be recognised.

China's policy of population control by forced sterilisation and abortion will also be a source of controversy.

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Happy result forContinued some kids from Page 1

She said a number of factors which influenced decisions on enrolment - the parents' approach was Important, and then the attitude of the principal, teachers, and students came into it.

"One thing I would like to stress however, is that our daughter is in a mainstream school and we are very aware that the teachers are not specifically trained to deal with a disabled child; so it's really important to encourage these teachers and give them the praise they deserve because they have displayed true Christian values.

His Encyclical contains not just words of encouragement. It is a theological treatise that opens up new areas of hope where union could be achieved, especially if we are faithful to the words of Christ and the traditions of Christianity laid down in the early centuries.

The Holy Father makes it clear that his commitment to ecumenism is an essential part of his Petrine office which he sees as a service to unity. He even deals with the apparently impossible hurdle of unity with Rome. Without compromising in the slightest the teachings of the Church, he places the office of St Peter in its historical and theological context, seeing it as a means of achieving unity, not an obstacle to it.

How his Encyclical will be received by the other Christian churches remains to be seen, However in his strong call for a union that goes beyond friend-

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Perspective ship and social interaction, he has rekindled enthusiasm for tackling the difficult issues, and has caught the deep desire of the ordinary members of the Church to draw together with their neighbours, friends and relatives in a unity that buries prejudice, and that recognises our unity in Christ.

Ecumenism encyclical presented to WA churches

Fr Kevin Long, left, Mrs Union Hadley, and Or Rowan Strong at the presentation.

There were five major reasons for the promulgation of Pope John Paul ll's recent encyclical Ut Unum Sint on ecumenism and unity Father Kevin Long said at the recent presentation of the encyclical at St Thomas More College.

Present for the formal presentation of the encyclical were laity and clergy from a large number of churches, including the Anglican Archbishop of Perth, Peter Carnley, the Roman Catholic Archbishop, Barry Hickey and the President of the Lutheran Church of Western Australia, the Reverend David Christian.

Fr Long said the present situation facing the Christian Churches was not a theological winter, but a springtime.

Fr Long, who is also chairperson of the Archdiocesan Ecumenical Affairs Committee, said Catholics needed to capture again the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, when the Church made an irreversible commitment to ecumenism, as well as strengthening the special relationship between the Orthodox Churches and the Catholic Church.

Reflection was also called for on the Catholic Church's reception of the work of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches. There was also a need to establish the ecumenical thrust of the jubilee celebrations called for by the Pope to mark the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ. Pope John Paul's personal contribution to the search for Christian unity was a reason for hope.

Fr Long said the encyclical was addressed to all Christians and was a mix-

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ture of theological, pastoral and practical reflections and responses. It was also meant to serve as an examination of conscience for the Catholic Church as to the seriousness of its ecumenical commitment.

Recent resolutions of matters such as Christological disputes and reciprocal excommunications between the Catholic Church and various Orthodox Churches constituted a challenge for the Catholic Church and the Churches of the Protestant Reformation and called for a translation of these events into a relationship, he said.

The goal of unity therefore made a number of demands, Fr Long said: that all Christians listen to one another, that they keep before them only the will of Christ for his Church; that they beg God for this grace; and strong leadership from Catholic diocesan bishops to revitalise the flagging ecumenical movement was also important.

All the baptised needed to be actively involved in the ecumenical search with a translation into concrete initiatives at a local level of the Pope's invitation to a renewed ecumenism.

Fr Long also advanced the possibility of establishing a common liturgical commemoration for notable Christians of different confessions, for example, of Blessed Mary of the Cross MacKillop and John Wollaston.

Dr Rowan Strong responded to the presentation on behalf of the Anglican Church as did Mrs Lillian Hadley, Moderator of the Uniting Church in Western Australia.

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Aussie courage, valour a 'matter of pride' THE commemoration of the end of the war in the Pacific had stirred the imagination of Australia and given reason for pride in the achievements of so many men and women, Archbishop Hickey said last Tuesday in St Mary's Cathedral.

Archbishop Hickey was concelebrating Mass on the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. It was also the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, Mother of God, into Heaven.

The flags of Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Australian Air Force and Among the priests concelebratthe Australian Army, left, adorn the sanctuary of the cathedral last ing was Monsignor Peter Tuesday as Archbishop Hickey prepares to incense the altar.

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Ban Pacific tests, say 90 bishops CATHOLIC Bishops from around the Pacific have called on the French Government to return immediately to a moratorium on all testing of nuclear weapons.

In a joint statement, aligning almost seven million Catholics in 23 Pacific countries, the 90 Catholic bishops described France's decision to resume nuclear testing on Muruoa as an "act of their, and warned that the protests of Pacific nations, especially of indigenous peoples. could no longer be ignored.

The use of the earth's resources to build, maintain and test nuclear weapons is, in the words of Pope Paul V1 an 'intolerable scandal.... It wastes funds which should be used to eradicate the poverty afflicting one fifth of the world's people. and

war as a warrant officer before becoming a priest.

The Mass, organised as part of the Australia Remembers campaign by the Knights of the Southern Cross, also marked the date when Mary, Queen of Peace, prevailed over the ending of hostilities.

Archbishop Hickey said he had been particularly struck during the commemoration by the emphasis given to the courage and valour of the men and women who fought in the war, also by the gratitude of Australians to those who fought, par-

ticularly to those who did not return.

However, a forgotten group were the 30,000 Aboriginal people in the armed forces who did their part for Australia, even though at that time they were not counted on official census forms.

There were also the chaplains, who played an important role in sustaining and providing support to those who fought and their families at home. There was a special recognition of the spiritual support and strength that they gave, he said.

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The bishops from New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and other Pacific islands asked for all nations with nuclear weapons to stop testing and take immediate in Our Lady's Assumption school, Diane/la's, perforsteps to dismantle all weapons of Year 5 student, Daniel Pin, centre, is the ringmaster Primary Creative Dance Festival at John XXIII College, Mount Clarethe in Circus the to Welcome of mance mass destruction.

Brian Coyne, publicity officer for the Performing Arts Festival, said there had been a Powerful nations, such as mont, on August 8. in the audiences at nearly all performance this year. increase noticeable France. should stop using areas distant from their borders to test their weapons and dump their wastes, and Pacific leaders should renew their commitment to building peace in our region. founded on justice and based on love.

The bishops' statement follows several protests against the Frenchplan made by individual bishops and justice and peace commissions earlier in the year.

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[Christian culture: where is it?

TOMORROW TODAY

Today's teenagers face a variety of pressures to do things or adopt lifestyles they would never accept if they were able to see into the future and discover what the cone world around us is constantly sequences would be. There is perhaps changing. This is demonstrated nothing more powerful than television nowhere better than in television, movies when it comes to portraying undesirable and music. lifestyles.

Teenagers are bombarded with media Television reaches us on two fronts, we every day. We can hope that they make the hear it and we see it. It's ability to attract right choices when it comes to the kinds of our attention is therefore doubled. things they receive from all forms of media Because of this, our teenagers need all the but many do not always make wise deci- help they can get to make decisions about sions. the TV shows they should be watching.

We have two daughters still living at Perhaps we can challenge them with the home, our youngest, who is twelve, and our questions " What are you really seeing?" third daughter, who is twenty. A constant "What are you really hearing?" challenge that we face is trying to find a balWe need to help them evaluate the ance in watching and listening habits. At impact that television has on their lives. twenty a young person will make their own Some shows present violence as a solution decision about the suitability of a program to problems, some present living together or music, at twelve, guidance is still needed. before marriage as the norm - leaving no Sometimes it is so difficult to mediate question in the minds of young people as between the two (no, we don't need another to the wisdom of choosing this lifestyle.

TV!, that we feel like giving up. That is the The more we hear it and see it the more real challenge, to hang in there and try and acceptable it becomes in our minds. When help them understand the importance of we sit through TV shows that promote negevaluating what they listen to or watch, ative messages, we are conforming to socibased on the faith they have grown up with. ety's standards. This doesn't mean televiBy Penny Ashcroft from the Youth and Young Adult Office.

sion should be avoided altogether, but we all need to learn to filter out what is worth watching and what isn't.

Movies and videos are also a great form of entertainment, and we can pick up a variety of messages from them. There are many factors involved in choosing which movies we would like to see. Often a movie comes highly recommended by a friend, or we see a great review. We may really enjoy the performance of a particular actor or actress.

Many movies today include elements that go against Christian principles, yet, if we avoid every movie that contains swear words or violence then we probably wouldn't get to see too many! It would be easy choosing movies to watch if they were rated "okay for Christians" or "not okay for Christians". But it's not that simple. Still, we do have to make some decisions and our faith life can help us with this.

Sadly, music also is becoming a very controversial issue. Often it can be a source of conflict between teenagers and their parents because some lyrics sound really questionable. Our challenge is to guide them towards selective listening.

Young people sometimes say they don't

listen to the lyrics of the music they like, yet if we asked them to sing their favourite songs, they could probably do it without too much trouble. Whether we realise it or not, the more we are exposed to the song, the quicker it gets programmed into our brain. Many of the songs that are popular with young people have very negative messages, but many also are quite the reverse.

To fully understand songs, we often have to look at what the group's philosophy is and what the lyrics are really saying. We might ask ourselves what is more important, the lyrics or the music and, although I might love the music, the lyrics convey the message that the singer is trying to get across. It is really important that young people choose carefully which songs they listen to.

Having written this, I have to say that while I feel the above is the ideal, we ourselves do find it a very difficult area of parenting. It really is a constant challenge that we face. We know our children can (and do often) make wise decisions - we just have to keep encouraging them to do so.

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Sr Anselm makes peace with Rosary beads THERE are two very distinctive attributes about 93-year-old Josephite Sister Anselm Conway the first is her remarkable age and health, and the second perhaps qualifies her for the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest and most prolific rosary beads maker in the world.

Taught when she entered the convent in 1921 by a German sister, Sr Anselm has continued to make the most beautiful rosary beads and has turned them out by the truckload.

Averaging around a hundred pairs annually, she has put thousands of people on the rosary prayer path by giving most of them away in her great generosity.

She is a big hearted lady who emanates contentment peace and happiness, perhaps on account of this wonderful hobby.

The links of her own beads, which were bought and not selfmade, have turned the characteristic gold of Medjugorje - a little gift from Our Lady to say thank you.

Sr Anselm was born in Geraldton in April 1902, one of six children whose American-born father was a chemist, and whose Aus-

Sr Anselm: says the rosary for peace.

tralian school teacher mother died With a great love for Our Lady, when the children were still whose rosary beads she makes young. "because I love her rosary and I Typical of the Australian attitude believe saying this prayer is the of family and helping out when way to find peace in the world" - Sr needed, an aunty helped her father Anselm went on to say that if more raise the three girls and three boys people loved Our Lady "and until their secondary education at prayed the rosary as she has asked New Norcia. us to do, there would be less evil in It was the Sisters of St Joseph's the world - and more peace." first major intake of boarders at St Expressing disgust at society Gertrude's College, New Norcia, with its permissiveness and resulwith students coming from the tant diseases, Sr Anselm considers Kimberley down to WA's south. society "has slipped, because they The close contact with the are forgetful of God; they must Josephites provided the nurturing depend on Him and ask for His ground for Sister Anselm's reliinspiration in their lives." gious vocation and she entered Regarding her foundress, their order in 1921 and professed Blessed Mary of the Cross: Well in 1924. seem to have a saintly all orders The Josephite postulants back in and yes, Mary MacKillop founder, the 1920's wore a black cap and inspiration is an which I think the dress and, after two years of the novitiate, they wore the brown general public are recognising, habit that has achieved world and seeking her out for help."

As for her long and healthy life, recognition through Blessed Mary she attributes this to God's will for of the Cross MacKillop.

Within the order she mostly her, "and my good parents, family taught musical theory, the piano, relations, and a life lived with good violin and mandolin, ultimately and happy people."

Stating with quiet conviction teaching for 19 years at New Northat she wouldn't have changed a cia.

Sr Anselm is the only remaining thing in her life, Sr Anselm member of her family, and she pointed to a life which has been continues threading and "telling "full of enjoyment, fulfillment ... her beads" at the Josephites' villa and in which I have always found in Como. peace."

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St Brigid's supports the environment

Year Five learns how to raise tree seedlings for WA Year Five students at St Brigid's primary school in Lesmurdie have ben given an insight into the vital role science and technology plays in West Australian agriculture.

The Year Five's have been raising native trees from seedlings.

The trees were planted last month at the Bickley Reservoir as part of the Landcare program.

The school also had planted native shrubs to conserve water use in the school grounds.

Peter Watt from the Department of Agriculture's Information and Media Services visited the school to speak about some of the latest work being done by the department's researchers and scientists to assist primary industry.

The research is recognised

internationally, with Western Australia leading the way in some areas.

The St Brigid's students are studying a social studies unit on farming in WA, and Mr Watt was able to outline the state's history of agriculture and future developments, He Watt said agriculture was a major contributor to Western Australia's economy, generating $3.5 billion a year for the state and that scientists and farmers were working shoulder to shoulder to keep West Australian agriculture at the forefront of technology.

Mr Watt also spoke about Landcare, and said he was pleased to see St Brigid's actively taking part in the program.

Peter Watt inspects trees at St Brigid's with Year 5 students and teacher Margaret O'Donnell

Maths happiness at Mazenod Project Compassion increases in 1995

Barbara HeeIan, left, with maths camp participants Anna Whitehouse of Mercedes College and Chris Markovic of Mazenod College

The inaugural maths enrichment, games and activities camp for Year 10 students, which took Perth Archdiocese Catholics have increased the amount of money place recently at Mazenod Colto Project Compassion this year, according to Australian Catholic donated lege, proved once and for all that Reliefs archdiocesan director, Margaret Collopy. maths can he fur.

"The amount of $450,000 collected so far this year - up on last year's total Surprisingly, this was the first - demonstrates once again the generosity of Perth people to those in need," residential school maths camp she said earlier this month when ACR issued the 1995 parish totals.

Parish 1994 (S) 1995(S) held in Perth. The two-day resi- • indicates an increase from 1994 1,292.00 600.00 1994(S) 1995(S) Kuhn dential camp was coordinated by Parish 16.960.(X) 20.328.00' Applecrass 664.00 1.841.90" Kwinana Mazenod's Head of Maths Depart- Armadale 6.375.00 5.541.00 6.000.(X) 6,059.00" Leederille 3.796.00" 2,001.00 Attadale Lesmurdie 5,044.19' 4.396.00 ment, Barbara HeeIan. Balcatta 3.800.00 4010.00' 3,837.00" Loc.kridge 3378.00 1116.00 4.212.48' Mrs HeeIan had felt for some BaIlajura 1,908.60 2.465.00 Lynwood ,477.30' Bassendean 8.408.00 8 time there was a need for a maths Bateman 2200.00" 1.800110 Maddirwton 8,707.00 10,468.00' 2,964.45' 2212.00 Maida Vale camp for Year 10 students, "to let Bayswater 1.815.30 1.80(100 3.881.00 4.000.00 Manning 2,769.00 3,400.00' them see that maths is not all bor- Beaconsfield 2.982.00 4.800.00' Maylands Bedford/Inglewood 6,182.00 7.073.35' ing, and to "capture' their interest Becher 1.937.00 1.811.90 Melville 1250.00 Park 1.884.00 1,092.25' in it before they make their sub- Belmont/Radcliffe 2,335.00 2,432.25' Merreciin 854.00 Midland 3.814.00 1.074.00 1.033.75 Bencubbin ject choices."

2.500.00 2.200.00 Mirratx)oka 7.701.00 10,132.00' Bentley The camp covered new territory Brentwood 85(189 Moora 12,256.00 11,600.39 5,343.00 6,741.50' Morley in the architectural and computer Willetton 827.00 845.60" Bruce Rock 2,656.45 3.027.00 Mcksman Park applications of mathematics and a Carina 580.00 470.00 6.006.00 5.684.75 Mt Lawley 3.641.00 4333.30' visit to the Perth Observatory was Carlisle 2,326.50 2.435.00 Mundaring Beach' also included in the program. The City 8,645.00 9.677.00' Nedlands 3,000.00 3.400.00 W Dovais 2.400.00' 500.00 New Norcia sponsors of the camp included the Claremont 5.072.00 3,321.85 12.216.00 11.882.27 North Beach 688.65' Institute of Engineers, Abacus, Clarkson 4,431.00 3,951.45 Northam 2.604.00' 2.383.00 Education Computing Services. Cloverdale 2.120.00' 1.840.00 6.00000 6.288.60' Ocean Reef Como/Ken.sington 7.151.00 Osborne Park 7,453.00 Bookland and Winthrop Educa- Cottesloe 4.175.00 5.162.00" Palmyra 5.110.00 4,750.00 9.520.00 8.035.00 tion. Help also came from Curtin, DianeIla 8,714.00 9,151.00" 974.70' Port Kennedy 0.00 Murdoch and Edith Cowan Uni- Doubleview 1152.00 East Fremantle Queens Park/ versity lecturers.

East Victoria 4.192.35' East Cannington 3,987.00

Taize retreat scheduled for Middle Swan Heard of Taize? Well, it's an ecumenical community in France (seen right) in which community members and others from a broad representation of Christian denominations join together to broaden and expand their understanding of the Christian faith.

Anglican chaplain, the Reverend Paul Mitchell, will be running a weekend Taize retreat from August 25 to 27 at Swanleigh in Middle Swan.

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Dili vicar-general urges human rights DILI, East Timor (UCAN) - An East Timorese religious leader last month called on Indonesia's Government to improve human rights in East Timor and its respect for local culture.

Dili diocese's vicar-general, Father Jose Antonio da Costa, said that great progress in East Timor had been "tainted by prevailing human rights violations and disrespect for East Timorese socio-cultural and religious life." He deplored discrimination in government offices and claimed they recruit new civil servants from other provinces.

Antonio Freitas Parada, speaker of the East Timor provincial House of Representatives said that Jakarta should devise a development program involving local East Timorese.

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Irish court tube feeding ruling is 'unconscionable' HE Irish Supreme Court's decision to US Bishops Pro-Life Committee issued for Health Care Workers, which states in clear that the Catholic Church will not allow the removal of a naso-gastric statements which rejected this line.

T support the intentional starvation of any section feeding tube from a woman suffering person even if they are in a persistent 120:

These bishops taught that feeding and from so-called persistent vegetative state hydration could never be withdrawn in ( The Record, 10 August) is uncon- order to cause death but only if they scionable. imposed a particularly grave burden on a In the United States, a series of court dying patient. The Pennsylvania bishops cases has endorsed the deliberate with- warned that US court decisions and the drawal of tube feeding from patients clas- arguments advanced by some theolosified as being in persistent, vegetative gians for accepting the withholding of state or comatose. tube feeding from patients diagnosed as Father Richard McCormick, a Jesuit PVS, could be just as easily applied to theologian, defended the decision to deny other groups such as the retarded, the food and water to Nancy Cruzan whose elderly and the incurably ill. death from starvation took 12 days. Fr The debate reignited among British Kevin O'Rourke asserted in 1986 that, in such cases, the patient really dies from an Catholics in 1993 following the House of underlying pathology which prevents Lords decision requiring Airedale Hospieating and swallowing rather than from tal to cease tube feeding of Tony Bland, any new fatal pathology (that is to say, an ufortunate victim of the Hillsborough soccer stadium disaster. from starvation and thirst).

However, a decisive, official Catholic This theological position had some influence on statements produced by the position is in the 1994 Vatican document Bishops of Texas and of Florida. How- from the Pontifical Council for the Pasever, the Bishops of Pennsylvania and the toral Care of Health Workers, the Charter

Ecumenical hope blossoms

order that the "world may believe". In a world where so many scorn the Faith, how important is unity, and how tragic our disunity.

We are deeply grateful to Archbishop Hickey and to Father Kevin.

Dominus vobiscum.

ASI"Fuesday (August a large number L of people responded to Archbishop ilickey's invitation to meet at St Thomas More Former Moderator of the Presbyterian 8),

The Reverend Keith Dowding

When inevitable death is imminent in spite of the means used, it is permitted in conscience to take the decision to refuse forms of treatment that would only secure a precarious and burdensome prolongation of life, so long as the normal care due to the sick person in similar cases is not interrupted. In such circumstances the doctor has no reason to reproach himself with failing to help the person in danger.

"Feeding and hydration, even artificially administered, form part of the normal care always due to the sick person when they do not turn out to be burdensome for him; their unlawful suspension can have the meaning of true and real euthanasia."

The charter's warning that the unlawful suspension of feeding and hydration, including tube feeding, can be properly characterised as euthanasia makes it

the first place, for our Catholic forebears recognised that the immortal souls of our children could be in real danger in any other education system.

Yet over the past few years,I have looked in vain for any clear indication that our WA Catholic education is primarily directed to this divine aim of getting people to heaven.

So, if the real problems in Catholic schools are to be resolved, this absolute centrality of care for the eternal salvation of souls will have to be re-established. Again. Our Lord told us how: "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things will be added to you." (Matthew 6:33).

vegetative state. Only when death is otherwise inevitable and imminent and where the means of feeding is directly burdensome to the dying person can its withdrawal be considered.

Those Catholic theologians who advocate it in other cases must either endorse the intentional killing of a patient by starvation or put forward casuistic fantasies about the real cause of death.

Starving patients to death presently remains illegal in Western Australia.

Whatever the law says, Catholic agencies should ensure that they at least never countenance the abandonment of even the least of Christ's brethren. "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me drink: Richard Egan

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thought to their thinking. Except in exceptional circumstances I do not think it it would be right to lable such letters as "Dissenting from Official Catholic Teaching" at this early stage.

The English Catholic publication The Tablet is an excellent example of this type of forum.I would hazard a guess that The Tablet would be read by every bishop. the Holy Father included.

College to hear a presentation of the Papal Church in WA Maylands encyclical on ecunenism. Ut Unum Sint.

Father Kevin Long (chairman of the George Collopy Catholic Atchdiocesan Ecumenical Affairs Rossmoyne t a recent conference of the Association Committee) gave a masterly account of the for the Promotion of Religious Life, the encyclical and its purpose; and pointed to the way in which Christians of all denominations director of religious education for the Diocese can move closer to that unity for which our of Wagga. Gerard Gaskin, made this most per- Mrs Doris Martyr agree with the sentiments expressed by the Attadale Lord prayed just before He was arrested, and tinent observation: I 'various correspondents who uphold the then crucified - "that they may be one".

"The Catholic Church exists, in the final teaching of the Church. and who recognise its It is not so long ago that Roman Catholics instance, to provide salvation for all. Put simauthority to teach. and other Christians were separated by an ply, the Church's main aim is to get people to As for others who feature at times in articles agree with your editorial note in Invisible wall, at least as impenetrable and as Heaven. The central theme of the birth, life. their dissent can only dispel any published, (The letter Martyr's Doris I to response uncrossable as the notorious Berlin Wall. death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is sal- 1 might have of their loyalty to one thought Now, we who belong to the Reformed tradi- vation for human beings. The Church. too, Record 27 July).

Pope. their It is of great importance to have a forum tion rejoice with you in the approaching death sees its mission as the completion of that great Disloyalty breeds disobedience, and the of religious intolerance. act of redemption which Christ won for us on such as the "Letters to the Editor" column in disobedient can mislead others, if given the couraand conscientious gives It Record The I noted that in the excerpts you published the Cross to make possible the personal salgeous people an opportunity to express their means to publicly proclaim their own viewfrom the encyclical, this sentence: "Speaking vation of every individual human being." even at the risk of having them shot point views of the lack of unity among Christians, the VatUnderstanding this is crucial to understandIt does not augur well at all, for do we not ican Council ll's decree on ecumenism does ing Catholic education and its problems down. even "Who of you would hand his son a stone read. wrong, or right be could views Their not ignore the fact that 'people of both sides today. The role of the school in making well can them with disagreeing he asked for bread? Or hand him a when Anyone prophetic. were to blame', and acknowledges that educated citizens who can make their way in responsibility cannot be attributed only to the the world is important, but any good school respond accordingly, so long as we all do so in snake instead of a fish? or hand him a scorlove and with the intention of searching for pion instead of an egg?" We also read. "And 'other side'." We also acknowledge and con- can do that. the truth at all times. Surely this is how we all lead us not into temptation, but deliver us fess our share in the intolerance of old. • The preaching and spread of the Gospel. learn and grow on our spiritual journey. The from evil." (Luke 11:1-13). Dissent should be We also recognise, as does the encyclical. children is Church is no exception. named for what it is, so as not to mislead. that "reciprocity is required. To follow these and the Catholic formation of our to one geared be must it and else, something The Church needs to know what it's memDevelop good habits, read good books, nurcriteria is a commitment of each of the parties souls. As bers are thinking, right or wrong, just as par- ture the mind, the heart, and the soul, with which desire to enter into dialogue, and it is a vital end - the eternal salvation of profit a ents need to know what their children are that which is good. so that you be not tempted. precondition for starting such dialogue. It is Our Lord Himself said. "What doth it the thinking, right or wrong. Surely this the basis suffer and world, whole the gain he if man necessary to pass from antagonism and conAvoid evil. Evangelise. re-Christianise.

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(Matthew soul". own his of loss of good dialogue. flict to a situation where each party recognises The writer and responders and all readers Vince Heaton A clear perception of this principle was the the other as a partner". then given the opportunity to give more Kamilla are in education Catholic establishing for Our Lord prayed that we might be one in reason

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Video Classifications The following is a list of current videos, supplied by the United States' Catholic bishops' Catholic News Service which the US Catholic Conference Office for Film and Bmadcasting has rated on the basis of moral suitability. The first synibol after each title is the USCC classification.

The second is the rating of the Motion Picture Association of America.

USCC classifications: Al - general patmnage: All, adults and adolescents: All! - adults: MV - adults, with reservations (this indicates films that, while not morally offensive in themselves are not for casual viewing because they require some explanation in order to avoid false impressions and interpretations): 0- morally offensive.

MPAA ratings: G - general audiences, all ages admitted: PG - parental guidance suggested some material may not be suitable for children: PG13 - parents are stmngly cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13: R - restricted. under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian: NO - no one under 17 admitted (age limit may vary in certain areas). l'he Accompanist, AIII (PG) Angels in the Outfield, All (PG) Baby's Day Out, All (PG) Bad Company, AIII (R) Before Sunrise. Alit (R) Billy Madison, AIII (PG13) Blue Sky, AIII (PG13) Born to Be Wild, All (PG) Boys on the Side, AN (R) The Brady Bunch Movie, A111 (PG13) Bullets Over Broadway, A111 (R) Bye Bye, Love. AIII (PG13) Gimp Nowhere, AIII (PG) Clear and Present Danger. Ain (PG13) Cobb, 0 (R) Color of Night, 0 (R) Corrina, Corrina. All (PG) The Crow, 0 (R) A Dangerous Woman, AIII (R) Death and the Maiden, AN (R)

Disclosure, A111 (R) Drop Squad, AIII (R) Drop Zone, 0 (R) Dumb and Dumber, AIII (PG13) Eat Drink Man Woman, A111 (no rating) Ed Wood, Al!! (R) Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog, Al (PG) 1:m-rest Gump, AIII (PG13) Four Weddings and a Funeral.

AN (R) Getting Even With Dad. AIII (PG) A Good Man in Africa, AIII (R) Heavenly Creatures, AN (R) Higher Learning. AIII (R) Highlander: The Final Dimension, AIII (PG13) Hoop Dreams, All (PG13) Houseguest, A111 (PG) Imaginary Crimes, All (PG) Immortal Beloved, Aill (R)

Murder in the First. AIII (R) In the Army Now. AIII (PG) Nell, All (PG13) In the Mouth of Madness. AIII (R) The Next Karate Kid, Al! (PG) Interview With the Vampire. 0 (R) Nobody's Fool, Alll (R) (PG) AIII You, to Happen It Could On Deadly Ground, 0 (R) The Jungle Book. All (PG) One False Move, AN (R) Junior, AIII (PG13) Only You, All (PG) Just Cause, AIII (R) Outbreak, AIII (R) The Last Seduction. AIII (R) The Pagemaster. Al (G) Legends of the Fall. AIII (R) The Professional, 0 (R) Like Water for Chocolate, AIII (R) The Puppet Masters, AIII (R) The Lion King. Al (G) Queen Margot, AN (R) Little Giants, All (PG) Quiz Show, All (PG13) Little Women. Al (PG) Look Who's Talking Now, All (PG13) Rapa NW, AIII (R) Reality Bites, AIII (PG13) 'Awe Affair, Al! (PG13) Radioland Murders, AIII (PG) Man of the House, AIII (PG) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. AIV (R) Red, Al!! (R) Renaissance Man. All (PG13) Miami Rhapsody, A111 (PG13) Richie Rich. All (PG) Milk Money, A111 (PG13) The River Wild, AIII (PG13) Mixed Nuts, A111 (PG13) Mrs Parker & the Vicious Circle. AIII The Road to Wellville. A111 (R) Safe Passage. A111 (PG13) (R)

Second Best. All (PG13) Shallow Grave, AN (R) The Shawshank Redemption, AN' (R) Silent Fall, AM (R) Sleep With Me, 0 (R) Speechless, All (PG13) The Specialist. 0 (R) Speed. AIII (R) Star Trek Generations, All (PG) Stargate, AIII (PG13) Street Fighter, AIII (PG13) Striking Distance. AIII (R) The Swan Princess, Al (G) Tales From the Crypt Presents Demon Knight. 0 (R) Terminal Velocity, All (PG13) Trapped in Paradise, A111 (PG13) True Lies, 0 (R) Vanya on 42nd Street, Al! (PG) The Walking Dead. 0(R) The War, All (PG-13) The Record, August 17, 1995

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Story of St Kieran's school reflects growth of Tuart Hill parish The parents and parishioners of St Kieran's Tuart Hill in the early 1920s would not have thought they would be the subject of a well-produced local work of history.

But this is what Fran Italiano and her band of helpers have done. Here is a short version of the story they have told of St Kieran's school.

ILEEN Kennedy, aged six and a half, disaster, the school still progressed as the E from Roberts Street, Osborne Park, is community rallied behind it. the first name to appear at the top of the admission register for students enrolled at St Kieran's parish school, Osborne Park The date of her enrolment is February 2, 1920 - seventy-five year's ago.

Together with fifteen others, little Eileen became one of the first group of students to attend what was to grow into one of the more remarkable Catholic educational enterprises in the Perth metropolitan area.

Like so many others, it was established by the Sisters of Mercy, that great pioneering congregation initially based in Perth that did so much educational work from the beginnings of the Swan River colony to serve Western Australia's Catholics and their children.

The enrolment of Eileen and her classmates was taken and recorded by Sisters Mary Mechtilde Cullen and Emmanuel McMahon, the first two sisters to conic to Osborne Park The details of admission, recorded in fine old formal handwriting with a pen and ink, are simple and bare date of admission to the embryonic school, surname, Christian name, address, date of birth and where the child was born.

The details are recorded in Built in Faith, a History of St Kieran's Primary School compiled and written by St Kieran's current assistant principal Fran Italian°, Who researched it with Tony Cosentino and Maria Mordini.

Published by Vanguard Press, Built in Faith will be launched at 7pm on 22 August at the school in Morgans Street, Tuart Hill.

Statue of St Kieran donated to the parish in 1961 by Michael Healy

And regardless of young Eileen's opinions about the benefits or otherwise of a formal education, the little school grew rapidly.

Following the original complement of sixteen, sixty children were enrolled by Easter and one hundred by December.

Classes were held in St Kieran's church with students using pews folded over to form long desks.

Despite adversity in the form of natural

In June 1923 a freak storm severely damaged the brick church, destroying the roof and most of the walls and smashing mat the furniture inside.

To rebuild it, parishioners supplied materials and labour and the parish spent one thousand, one hundred pounds - a princely sum in the 'Twenties.

One early photograph from 1925 shows approximately twenty students in a bare. wooden little schoolroom that is open on one side to the elements. Built to house the excess enrolment of the growing school, it is highly evocative of the work typically done by the Western Australian Mercys in education, spreading it wherever they could under conditions that would not be tolerated today.

Although the surroundings might have been pioneering territory, the education was not. Music was taught to excellent standards at the school, partly because of the Mercys' commitment to its necessity for the development of the "whole child."

And the nun's days was a long one.

Music was taught in the morning, followed by a full day of teaching.

St Kieran's primary school banner, At the end of the day, fulfilling their redesigned in 1994 apostolic vows, the sisters visited the sick, the poor and the lonely of the parish, as more families moved into an area that offered an attractive and peaceful setting. required.

The new school in Cape street was offiThey also provided much-needed nourcially opened and blessed by Archbishop ishment for invalids, and other necessities Prendiville in August 1934. This marked such as grain, tea and sugar for needy the formal beginning of St Kieran's lessons families. They prayed with and consoled being taught away from the parish church the bereaved, provided religious instruc- site. tion to those in need, took books and small As numbers grew, the main priority of Items to those in jail, and visited institu- the Sister's, as ever, was religious educations such as the poor house, homes for tion which. in turn matched parents' young women, hospitals and the lunatic expectations. Children were taught the asylum.

Catechism and fully prepared to receive As pressure of enrolments mounted, it the Sacraments. At seven years of age was decided in 1930 that an actual school they were prepared to make their first building was needed, as opposed to the Confession and receive first Communion, church and infant shed used since the while at eleven or twelve they were preschool's foundation, and the decision was pared for Confirmation. taken to purchase land.

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How a tram and a pub helped found a parish

phasing out its secondary classes, while Servile phased out its own primary classes.

The first lay principal in the history of the school, appointed in 1976, reflected the increasing lay component of teaching staff as the numbers of the Mercys began to decline. In addition the school opened DO pubs follow parishes or vice versa? in February that year as a complete coan interesting question and there's no It's educational primary. answer. In the case of Osborne Park certain In 1978 the St Kieran's parish education latter rather than the former, but, the was it committee became the school board, with there's no harm in that - many of again, then a primary responsibility for financial manthe early parishioners were Irish. agement.

Immigration was hard to attract to the In 1979, the last Mercy sister at St Park area - the site where St ending Osborne resigned, Kieran's, Sr Mary Angela.

Kieran's parish was later established. a remarkable era of Mercy education.

Today, St Kieran's is a bustling innerAn area covering the present day subsuburban primary school whose funda- urbs of Osborne Park, Tuart Hill and Balmental character and spirit were imparted catta was first granted to Thomas Walter to it by the Sisters of Mercy. It was formed following his arrival in the colony in 1830. by the pursuit of two traits - faith and In turn, part of it was sold to William excellence - and it has been this emphasis Osborne, a butcher, in 1847. which has given the school its distinctive In the early 1900's, part of the Walter character - its ethos. Little Eileen Kennedy was offered for sale in moderate property would be proud. but, despite being good land blocks sized In 1995 - it's 75th year of existence - St gardening, it was difficult to sell. market for the up Kieran's vision statement sums Perth was a probcentral from Remoteness unique tradition that the school embodies: lem.

"The St Kieran family welcomes each In an attempt to maximise settlement, member into a safe accepting. Christian environment, where each person's indi- developers provided an extension to the viduality, uniqueness and cultural back- electric tram service and subsidised fares. ground is recognised, respected and val- And, of course, someone thought that erecting a hotel on the corner of Main and Royal ued.

We offer security in a centre of compas- streets opposite the tram terminus to attract settlers would be a good idea. It wasn't, at sion, forgiveness and love.

We provide spiritual, intellectual, physi- first. cal and social opportunities to enable peoStruggling along on sales of five gallons a ple to achieve their potential through life's 1,veek, with beer kept cool by a wet bag, the journey."

Osborne Park Hotel was built in 1903 - but did eventually manage to survive.

Many of the early settlers were Italians, Yugoslays, Irish and Chinese escaping established tyrannies, poverty or injustices and seeking freedoms and opportunity in a new land. By 1910 there was sufficient demand to warrant the Right Reverend Monsignor Fagan of St Brigid's church in West Perth to come out to Osborne Park on a regular basis to celebrate Mass - but only every few weeks. Initially, Mass was celebrated in private homes but later parishioners were given the luxury of using the Osborne Park State School.

1910 was also the year the Sisters of Mercy, the founding force behind St Kieran's school, began travelling out to the new area to instruct children in their faith.

As demand for regular Mass and Catholic education grew, plans were drawn up to build a church, and land was purchased at the corners of Waterloo. Cape and Tyler Sister Teresa Daly (Alphonsus) in 1954 with some of the 84 second standard (Year 3) streets. Catholics cleared the land, assisted with the building, and donated money for students in her class. convent This marked their first residence in the area - previously they had travelled dally by whatever means available from LeederviIle.

By September 1942 a total enrolment of 133 children was listed, but from 1945 St Kieran's accepted secondary students, taking girls up to year 10. As the years progressed so too did the gradual process of building and extending classrooms. The need for a boy's school meeting the needs of the northern suburbs was becoming paramount.

The tradition of parishioners pitching in to help was as strong as ever and, by 1951. when a clear need to expand further and construct new classrooms was apparent, they did. Total cost of the extensions was 10.635 pounds.

Numbers expanded quickly, almost too quickly. Between 1955 and 1957 the total number of children enrolled rose to 435, making St Kieran's school one of the largest metropolitan Catholic schools in the Perth area. The following year - 1958 saw the establishment of St Phillip's boys school at long last.

The school continued to grow throughout the sixties (enrolments still recorded in copperplate handwriting) and, with the growing number of sisters, a new convent was built in Tyler street. It was opened and blessed by Bishop McKeon in 1966.

The seventies were notable more for the changes than for what did not change at St Kieran's and in other Catholic schools.

Nearby Servile College became the first co-educational Catholic secondary school in Western Australia in 1973. St Kieran's became Servite's main feeder school,

the costs involved. So it was that on August 14, 1914, just six years before the school's foundation. that Archbishop Clune laid the foundation stone to commence the building of St Kieran's Church. It took five year's of voluntary labour to build and was completed in 1919. Monsignor Maloney, from the parish of Leederville, visited daily and was the first priest to celebrate Mass in the new church.

Meanwhile, parishioners supported the church in any way they could - Mrs Flynn is recorded serving as chief sacristan in this period and also made the altar bread for use at Mass. And, when a freak storm destroyed much of the Church in June.

1923, parishioners rallied with labour and costs. The cost of refurbishment was kept t o 1,100 pounds and the church was reopened in October of the same year.

By 1934, 24 years after thoughts first centred on a parish for the area, St Kieran's named after the sixth-century Irish saint consecrated a bishop by St Patrick - was a bustling parish serving the needs of the families and the people of Osborne Park.

Three years later, incoming parish Priest, Fr Langmead, built a presbytery so that at last the parish priest of Osborne Park had a home in the parish.

Like all great pioneering ventures, St Kieran's served as a base for expansion and, throughout the forties and fifties, the parish established parish centres in Scarborough, North Beach, North Doubleview, Wanneroo, Joondanna and Balcatta.

By the 1980's however, the old church was bursting at the seams in trying to meet the needs of a parish and finally the decision was taken to erect a new building. The new St Kieran's was consecrated by Archbishop Goody in July, 1983.

Today's St Kieran's parish is a busy inner suburban parish like many other's throughout Australia, and the unmindful visitor would do well to remember that behind the appearance of ordinary every-day life lies the story of history - sacrifice, labour, dedication and commitment to the Church.

Built on the sweat of pioneers, lay, religious and clerical alike, it is a testament to those who have gone before. They might have been giants.

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Lay involvement is in the world

By Adrian Bertino-Ciarke T is the vocation of the lay person? How is the lay person supposed to answer Christ's call to perfection ... to sanctity? If eternal bliss or beatitude is the reward for sanctity, what must we do to inherit eternal life?

There can be no question in any Catholic mind that we are all called to perfection, to sanctity. It is also clear that priesthood, religious life or laity are vocations or callings, in other words, means through which to attain that perfection, that same sanctity.

They are different vocations, different means to the same holy end. To deny this common sense results in a total confusion of roles: no-one would know what pertains to a priest, or to a religious or a lay person ... and confusion breeds anarchy and chaos, all of which are characteristic of irrational behaviour.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines laity as:"... all the faithful except those in Holy Orders [the clergy] and those who belong to a religious state approved by the Church ... By reason of their special vocation it belongs to the laity to seek the Kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and directing them according to God's will ... It pertains to them in a special way so to illuminate and order temporal things with which they are closely associated that these may always be effected and grow

according to Christ and may be to the glory of the Creator and Redeemer," quoting Vatican ll's Lumen Gentium.

The message inspired by the Holy Spirit, spoken via the Church through infallible teaching is simple: a lay person must work and do apostolate. But this apostolate must be consequential to the work performed as children of God. Work like Christ would if He was in our positions - as He in fact did during the 30 years of hidden working life as a carpenter. Do apostolate by example first and then by word to those who ask for reasons of our hope - paraphrasing St Peter's letter and his successor Pope John Paul II's repeated message.

The role of the lay person is not to preach, it is not to mimic the priests or religious, it is not to live quasi-conventual lives of Perpetual devotions to the detriment of engaging in temporal things, fulfilling in all the will of God. Lay perfection is not in becoming a special minister, an altar server - boy or, now, girl. Lay perfection is not attained through long hours of daily contemplative prayer in the local church or preaching to the multitudes.

The laity finds their perfection in just that, being lay; engaging in temporal affairs, directing and illuminating them according to Christ's teaching to His greater glory. For sure, a great deal of interior contemplative prayer life

and mortification are needed in order to achieve this perfection, but it must be ordered and directed according to its own end, that is, of being lay, which entails, as quoted above, working in the world and transforming it from within through example and word - in that literal order.

A lay person must have a lay spirituality. The lay spirituality must include working in the temporal order just like monks and nuns do work as part of their conventual life, although in a different order of importance.

Human work must be part of the means to a Christian's pursuit of sanctity. If we were to assume that perfection is attained only through prayer, mortifications, devotions, to the exclusion and detriment of temporal work, work would become an obstacle to sanctity. Under this assumption, working to sustain our ever demanding families would be an obstacle to sanctity. This assumption is totally wrong because it clearly contradicts Christ's and His Church's teaching and would have us believe that God is placing absolutely absurd demands on us laymen and laywomen in calling us to perfection.

How are we then to be perfect?

Imagine yourself at work in the office, in the factory or in the home. You are always genuinely cheerful, kind, generous, patient, never boastful, efficient, diligent, hard working, honest, trustworthy, always ready to do more, long-suffering - especially when carrying somebody else's faults and burdens. People will ask, "Where do you get the strength from? The hope? The happiness? etc, and you will humbly but assertively respond: "Well, I am Catholic - I believe God is my Father, He looks after me and I do everything for Him." To work like this - not stealing one single minute from your employer's time, putting things away neatly as you finish with them, etc, and to display all these virtues despite your health, mood or personal difficulties - is hard.

It requires a lot of involuntary mortification, constant little prayers to keep the presence of God in order to gather strength.

It is a Cross, a daily cross, one that comes our way despite our own will, one which is waiting for and wakes us up in the morning - that's probably why we refuse to get up quickly in the morning, particularly during winter. But ... hang on, that sounds familiar - a daily cross ... sent to us ... with our name inscribed on it ... The sound of a manly but sweet voice saying softly: "...renounce yourselves, pick up your cross and follow me" - Jesus says that to us if and when we want to be His disciples and attain eternal life.

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Most of us live a double or triple life - interior, apostolate and temporal life - not realising this is insanity: we are called to he saints not schizophrenics! We ought to live one fully integrated harmonious Christian life.

Lay perfection: doing the job accurately and honestly Unfortunately, in our pride, we want to define our own vocations. We want to design our own crosses, we want to be our own spiritual directors with our own plan of life, prayer time, type of penance ... the blind leading the blind.

Lay perfection is not being a special minister or an altar server Jesus, on the other hand calls us to be humble, imitating Him, watching Him do exclusively the will of the Father, carrying the cross He Himself gives us to shoulder - which is the lightest for us to carry... and to follow Him ... all the way up, to Heaven through Calvary.

Many who would willingly let themselves be nailed to a cross before the astonished gaze of a thousand onlookers cannot bear with a Christian spirit the pinpricks of each day. Think then which is the more heroic. God's calling is simple. It is the world which complicates everything.

The world admires only spectacular sacrifice, because - in its pride - it does not realise the value of sacrifice which is hidden and silent.

The founder of Opus Del, Blessed Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, once said: "You don't conquer yourself, you don't practice self-denial, because you are proud."

"You lead a life of penance?

Don't forget that pride is compatible with penance ... Furthermore: your sorrow, after your falls, after your failures in generosity - is it true sorrow or is it the petty disappointment of see-

ing yourself so small and helpless?

"How far you are from Jesus if you are not humble ... You are humble not when you humble yourself, but when you are humbled by others and you bear it for Christ ..."

When I look at what we have been taught through Revelation and how we measure up to it, it r eally shocks me to see how much more in need of conversion we are as opposed to the pagans. I do not mean to say by this that we should paganise our sacred Religion - as some are certainly trying to do. I refer mainly to the greater responsibility we have to live according to the gift of Faith we have received.

Conversion is a fruit of humility. It is simply the realisation that we are finite, fallible creatures and that He is God, infinite in Wisdom; that we are the followers and He the leader; that He is the Head and we are the body: and that as laity we are the outstretched arms of the Church immersed in the clay of this world to transform it into sculptures pleasing to the eyes of God. Conversion is the matter of a moment, sanctification is the loving work of a lifetime. Part of that work of personal sanctification involves correcting ourselves a little each day in the things that we do and that we say - transforming in that manner not just ourselves but, in consequence, the world around us because, as philosophers would say, Good is diffusive of itself.

The answer to the starting questions of this essay revolve around a simple attitude - that of being true to our vocations, as God has designed them as the shortest and surest way to Heaven.

It involves being honest when we call ourselves followers of the Crucified and Risen Carpenter. It means doing what has to be done with Christian perfection, with purity of intention.

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Superhighway: blessing or curse?

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HE two most important jargon terms I will be using in this paper are T I nternet" and "Multimedia". Let me explain what they mean.

The Internet, or "Net" as it is commonly known, is simply a global network of computer networks. It originated in the United States in 1969 when the US Defence Department set up a network of four computers to allow scientists and researchers to exchange military information. From that point, the network kept evolving and expanding until it became what it is today - a network that joins thousands of other networks and links up approximately 30 million users. The number of users of the Net is increasing by one million per month.

So what is available on the Internet? The most popular feature of the Net is electronic mail, which is abbreviated to e-mail.

It is simply a means of sending letters from your computer along the computer network Unlike the ordinary post, it takes seconds to reach its destination no matter where in the world it might be and it is generally much cheaper.

The Net is much more. It involves using your own computer to browse for information and retrieve it from large computer databases world-wide. A good example of a database which can be accessed by students using the Internet is the library catalogues of universities from around the world.

Multimedia E other buzz technology for education is multimedia. Multimedia refers to software that combines text, sound, images and video in the one package. It seeks to involve and interact with the user, rather than just project a stream of information onto them. Currently, there are a multitude of multimedia programs available. These include programs which teach languages, spelling, maths and social studies. The overall reception by students is positive because it is perceived to be more exciting than reading a book or listening to a teacher. These programs can allow students to work at their own pace.

The issues OW I would like to examine the N serious issues which this technology presents for education. The first, and

perhaps most fundamental point, I would like to make is that parents, schools and the government have a duty not to blindly accept technology. Do not be mistaken in thinking that technology is the saviour of education and that it won't have any negative consequences. It will. It is therefore crucial that these pitfalls be appreciated and the use of technology debated, in order to avoid making us its slave.

Computers: A tool that rules, or serves?

the hardware and soft-ware becomes obsolete very rapidly. In addition, wealthier schools will be able to have more sophisticated equipment.

While we should be conscious of equity OW the big question is, will children be smarter thanks to technol- issues,I think it is perhaps overstated for a ogy? With all the hype surrounding tech- number of reasons. First, it will not be nology in the media and politics at present imperative to always have the latest techyou could be forgiven for thinking this is nology - newer models may be more the case. I would suggest that it is not nec- sophisticated but they don't always add essarily the case. The reason being, tech- that much more to overall usefulness. (The nology only allows us to access huge "tennis racket doesn't make the player" amounts of information - it does not equal sort of argument). wisdom, knowledge or understanding.

Second, the concept of information As Neil Postman in his book titled Tech- "haves" and "have nots" is premised on the nology writes: "We are a culture consum- assumption that access to such informaing itself with information, and many of us tion makes students smarter or better off. do not even wonder how to control the As I have already discussed, this is not necprocess. We proceed under the assump- essarily the case since students must still tion that information is our friend, believ- know how to think and comprehend and ing that cultures may suffer grievously reason - skills which can be fostered withfrom a lack of information, which, of out technology. course, they do. It is only now beginning to be understood that cultures may also suffer grievously from information glut, information without meaning, information without control mechanisms."

The risk which we face in the education system is concentrating too much on information, for information's sake, and not on using or processing that information. Students must still be able to think, a skill which is critical before unlimited information can become a beneficial source.

So education must be conscious of A means of minimising the disparity of ensuring that it challenges students to to technology between schools is to access think. One suggestion that I have for purcomputer classrooms. This mobile use suing this aim is that maths should be a main part of the curriculum. It is impor- has happened in Queensland, with an initant to remember that some of the world's tiative called Computer Gym. There are greatest philosophers were mathemati- vans that are mobile computer classrooms cians. The benefits of maths is that it that visit schools and conduct tutorials encourages discipline, logical and abstract supplementing the school curriculum. thought.

The beauty of Computer Gym is that the available is always current, software And we shouldn't underestimate the which schools find expensive something but thinking not students of possibility merely cutting and pasting different bits of to maintain, and it has been selected careinformation together. Already, in the USA. fully by people in the know. So there are plagiarism has become an issue in schools considerable savings in terms of funds. which access the Internet. Because stu- staff time and school facilities. dents can access a mass of information, it Perhaps, the Government needs to focus is much easier for them to copy it without on this concept, which provides the benedetection. fits but without the duplication of In addition, it is easier for students to resources rather than promising to have swap assignments and answers without every school with its own comprehensive detection. Teachers simply do not have computer facilities. the time or energy to try and find whether This brings me to my next point. Incoror not the information has in fact been porating technology effectively within the copied. In order to cope with this prob- education sector is an administrative challem, the projects we set for students may lenge. There has to be coordination have to emphasise the critical aspect and between government, schools and parents. the reasoning and arguing processes. It is heartening to see that this has been Guidelines and policies on plagiarism will realised by the Government by its recent also have to change. agreement to establish Education Network What about the types of information Australia. available using technology? How can we One of the aspects of this agreement is ensure that students are not exposed to that the purchasing of computers by eduthe pornographic or violent discussions cational agencies be rationalised. This and images that are available on the Inter- means that there will be greater consisnet? tency and compatibility of technology The bad news is, there is nothing at pre- between schools. Hopefully, it will also sent that can be done with the technology avoid poor selection of technology. to prevent users from accessing this mate- Schools and parents should also liaise rial. about what technology is being used in The good news is that it is reasonably schools, so that any technology in the difficult to find this information when you home is compatible with technology in the are surfing the Net. It is not as though school and parents don't go throwing when you log on, there is immediately the money away. option of perusing pornography.

There should also be a conscious effort In any event, parents will have to take to inform parents of how the technology is more responsibility for instilling those val- being used in schools, especially since ues and standards in children which technology is so foreign to many parents. makes them disinterested in accessing this Concepts like open days or voluntary information, and schools will have to be assistance in schools may be developed to more astute in the supervision of material facilitate this awareness for parents. In addition, the onus will also be on parents being accessed by students. to make a point of better understanding what their child is learning through using technology.

There are no easy answers to the quesI have raised. The best we can do is tions major issue that arises from the use f technology in education is equi- be interested, think and debate the issues, table access. We do not want to create a and encourage research into these areas situation where there are information of concern. "haves" and "have nots".

Technology will not disappear. It will Like most things in life, this problem will change our lives and the lives of our chilarise largely because of limited funding. dren. The challenge is to ensure that the Technology is expensive to implement in change is for the better - that we control schools on a large scale, especially when technology and not have it dictate to us.

Will technology make children smarter?

The role information technology will play in future family and school life is not clearly known. Will the superhighway be a blessing or curse? The Western Australian Rhodes Scholar for 1995. Tanya Alpin, a former student of Mercedes College in Perth and an arts-law graduate from Murdoch University, canvassed the issues earlier this year in an address to the Parents and Friends Federation of WA. The following is an edited version of that talk

Tanya Alpin One of the first questions which arises is at what stage in the education sequence do we introduce the use of technology - do we have students learn how to type and watch the screen before they read and write? This also raises a further question, do we want to make traditional literacy second to computer literacy?

To answer these questions properly, more studies need to be conducted into what exactly are the benefits of traditional literacy skills versus computer skills. My own view is that reading and writing cannot be replaced. I believe that reading and writing provide invaluable skills which cannot be gained through computers.

There is a quality of attention and intellectual plasticity that comes with reading and writing - you have to be able to focus for considerable time on a text and comprehend each successive sentence. It creates a disciplined mind. With computers, students are encouraged to jump around mentally - bits of information are received in bursts and their eyes dart all over the screen. Some people are of the view that technology will only exacerbate the phenomenon known as attention deficit disorder.

The role of teachers A NOTHER question is how much do I we want to rely on technology delivering the lessons as opposed to the teacher? Do we want the role of teachers to change to become facilitators, supervisors and pastoral carers?

In order to answer this question, we need to think really hard about what are the qualities of a teacher, what it is that they do and achieve. My opinion is that they will never become redundant because nothing can substitute for personal interaction and the relationship of teacher and student.

I have my own experience in support of this belief -Iknow how important it was to me to get feedback from the teacher, to see them as a role model and to learn how to deal with an adult figure.

In addition, teachers will have a vital role to play in filtering and processing the mass of information that will be at the student's fingertips.

A related issue is: will we actually need physical places called schools if information can be at our fingertips? Will students simply log on from home to the day's lessons and communicate with their friends over the Net? "I hope not" is probably the sentiment of most parents.

This type of scenario is quite a way offbut, nevertheless, we have to start thinking now about whether this is where we would like technology to take us. Again, we have to assess what is the importance and benefits of having children attend school? One obvious benefit is that it builds relationships. It permits children to socialise and this is absolutely fundamental to the process of acquiring human virtues such as honesty and respect for others. So, in my view, schooling should not, in all cases, he conducted solely from the Net in isolation from others. However, where, because of geography and other inconveniences, students cannot attend schools, then technology may reduce the disadvantage that these students encounter.

Equitable access

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Priest numbers world-wide stabilise

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - With many Vatican offices dosing and most curial officials from Pope John Paul II to the lowliest porter - out of town, the Vatican gave journalists some summer study material.

During the second week of August, in the barely air-conditioned Vatican Press Office, reporters thumbed through 449 pages of numbers.

The Statistical Yearbook of the Church is a treasure trove of macro and micro details about the Catholic Church's membership, organisation, work force, sacramental life and charitable activity.

It provides a comprehensive view of the Church throughout the world. But best of all, one doesn't have to go out onto the sweltering summer streets to gather the information.

The latest statistics, for the year ending December 31, 1993, show a world-wide Catholic population of almost 965 million an increase of 6.3 million over the previous year.

The Vatican statistics also give some reassurances that the situation of the priesthood throughout the world is stabilising.

The yearbook reports a total of 404,560 diocesan and religious-order priests ministering around the world, a decline of only 76 from the previous year.

The Vatican Secretariat of State estimates the true number of Catholics in the world to be at least 4.5 million higher than reported.

because the yearbook's figures are a collec'The percentage of the Brazilian population of information provided by dioceses and tion which is Catholic has remained very other Church jurisdictions, some of which constant" at about 87 percent, he said. operate under circumstances that make The number of diocesan priests at the end reporting difficult. of 1993 was almost exactly the same as it was Turning in the figures is not something at the end of 1978; the decline in the overall dioceses take lightly; facts were missing from number of priests was due mainly to the cononly 146 of the Church's 2,825 jurisdictions. tinued drop in the number of priests who All of the missing data is from S-E Asia or the belong to religious orders.

Far East, including mainland China, which Ten countries reported ordaining more alone has some 140 dioceses. than 200 new diocesan priests: Poland led The yearbook reported the percentage of the way with 760 ordinations, followed by the world's population that is Catholic hold- Italy with 506; the United States with 487; ing steady at about 17.5 per cent Mexico with 355; Brazil with 344; India with The five countries with the most Catholics 315; Spain, 295; the Philippines, 266; Gerkept the rankings they have had since 1990. many, 233; and Colombia with 226 ordinaThe five are: tions.

• Brazil, with a Catholic population of 132.5 In 1978, only five countries reported more million; than 200 diocesan ordinations. The United • Mexico, with almost 87 million Catholics; States led with 635 and was followed by Italy • Italy, with slightly more than 55.7 million; with 431, Poland with 405, India with 265, • the United States, with 55.7 million; and Mexico with 215.

• the Philippines, with 55 million.

Although the number of diocesan priests is Simply comparing the figures to those about what it was in 1978, the higher numreported one year ago could provoke alarm ber of Catholics means the leadership of and great concern: Brazil appears to have more and more parishes is being entrusted lost 5.2 million Catholics. And looking fur- to permanent deacons, religious men and ther, it would seem the overall population of women and lay people. the South American country declined by The Statistical Yearbook of the Church for some 2 million.

1978 reported 81 parishes in the world Nothing to worry about, said Enrico entrusted to permanent deacons; 43 Nenna, an official in the Secretariat of State's entrusted to religious brothers; 464 to relistatistics office. Brazil's Government just fin- gious women; and 458 to lay leaders. ished an official census, which showed that Figures in each category have shown steep years of rough estimates based on birth and increases over the past 15 years. The Vatican death rates had. indeed, been rough. now reports 349 parishes entrusted to dea-

Comiskey will not budge on celibacy DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - Lack of openness in the Church is the primary concern today rather than debate or disagreement over a specific issue, according to controversial Bishop Brendan Comiskey of Ferns.

Bishop Comiskey's June call for continued debate on mandatory celibacy for Latin-rite priests has drawn a Vatican reprimand and a request to go to Rome to discuss his views with Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, head of the Vatican Congregation for Bishops. But the bishop said in a statement on August 9 that he favours neither a married nor a celibate clergy. Both forms should have an honoured place In the Church.

Pope John Paul II has repeatedly and strongly asserted the Latin-rite rule on priestly celibacy. He calls it a timely challenge for contemporary society and indicated he believes that allowing a married priesthood may create bigger

problems than those it intends to solve.

Bishop Comiskey said the controversy was "not debate or even disagreement on those things which are not of the core of our faith which will kill our Church, but apathy signalled by the absence of footsteps of those no longer walking with us."

The challenge was to change from being a church of maintenance to one of missionary outreach, from an inward-looking church fearful of change and of the modern world to an outward-looking, confident church, the bishop said.

Diocesan press officer, Father Walter Ford, said Bishop Comiskey was not expected to visit the Vatican to discuss his support for a married Latin-rite priesthood until September or October.

The bishop did not plan to alter his views or remain silent on church issues, he said.

In a newspaper interview last June, Bishop Comiskey said an end to obligatory celibacy would help stem the vocations decline In the Latin-rite church. He asked for continued debate on the issue.

The bishop noted that the church already made exceptions by allowing some married Anglican converts to minister as Catholic priests. He said obligatory celibacy was not an issue of faith but a matter that can change with the times.

Leading the supporters of obligatory celibacy was Cardinal Cahal Daly of Armagh, Northern Ireland, president of the Irish bishops' conference.

"Celibacy is above all a matter of faith," the cardinal said.

"Where the faith is in decline, vocations will decline, and celibacy will find itself under pressure."

cons; 131 to religious brothers; 1,068 to religious women; and 1,614 to lay people.

The United States, which has more than half of the world's 20,456 permanent deacons, led the country-by-country list of parishes administered by deacons.

Spain led the list of countries for parishes headed by religious brothers. Canada has the most parishes led by women religious.

And France was far in the lead of countries with parishes led by lay people.

The average number of Catholics in each parish, mission and station around the world is 2,281, according to the yearbook, but there is a huge variation among nations.

For example, in El Salvador the average is 16,773 Catholics per "pastoral center."

At the same time, St Helena - in the south Atlantic off the coast of Angola - reports an average of only 40. But then, St Helena has a Catholic population of slightly more than 100, and they can choose from one parish and two missions.

The lack of choice in some countries of the Middle East accounts for their high ratio of Catholics per pastoral center.

The 105,000 Catholics in Kuwait have five parishes; the 35.000 Catholics of Qatar have just one parish; and Saudi Arabia's 550,000 Catholics have 35 parishes. Italy, on the other hand, has more than 30,000 parishes and pastoral centers. Dominated by an architectural style small on windows and big on marble, they are popular places for rest and reflection out of the summer sun.

Please return: Croat hierarchy ZAGREB. Croatia (CNS) - Croatia's military retaking of Serb-held territory opens the way for the return of 100.000 Catholics and the resumption of normal parish life. according to the Croatian bishops.

But initial inspection of the area by church officials showed widespread destruction of church and personal property, requiring a massive rebuilding effort, the permanent council of the bishops' conference said last week The statement also asked the tidal wave of Serbs fleeing the reconquered area to return.

"We support the statements and attempts by the Croatian authorities that urge the citizens of Serbian nationality to remain in their homes, where they are guaranteed personal and civil safety as well as the inviolability of their property," the bishops' said.

United Nations and humanitarian agencies estimated that as many as 200,000 people have been displaced by the early August fighting, in which the Croatian military defeated the forces of the self-proclaimed Serbian republic of Krajina, a strip of land along Croatia's southern border with BosniaHerzegovina.

Representatives of UN and humanitarian agencies also have reported that columns of Serbian refugees have been attacked by

Croatian and Bosnian armed forces as they headed for Serbian-controlled Bosnian territory.

The Croatian bishops said that the former Serb-held territory once contained 68 parishes and 97,358 Catholics. most of whom were forced to flee the area in 1991.

The bishops have morally justified Croatia's military action as a case of legitimate self-defense.

Meanwhile, thousands of Croatian Catholics and other non-Serbs are being expelled from Serbianheld northern Bosnia-Herzegovina to make room for Serbian refugees from Croatia, said Bishop Franjo Komarica of Banja Luka, the capital of Serbian-held northern Bosnia near the Croatian border.

"We do not see any necessity for solving the urgent problem of Serbian refugees coming from other regions by expelling us, the domestic population," he said in an August 10 letter to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

"Many thousands of persons without basic prerequisites for life safety, lodging, food, medical care have been expelled from their ancestral homes. Among them, 80 percent are elderly," Bishop Komarica said.

Assistant bishop for controversial Mexican prelate ROME (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has appointed a special assistant with the right of succession to controversial Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia of San Cristobal de Las Casas in southern Mexico's conflict-ridden state of Chiapas.

The new assistant, called a coadjutor, is 50-year-old Bishop Raul Vera Lopez, formerly of Ciudad Altamirano. His posting was announced last Monday.

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Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas state where the San Cristobal Diocese is located.

"Our fundamental concern is that the local church continue to be served," Father Gonzalo Ituarte, San Cristobal diocesan vicar for justice and peace, said in a letter on the appointment released in Mexico the same day the new coadjutor bishop was announced at the Vatican.

Bishop Ruiz, 70, came under Vatican scrutiny in 1993 for what Archbishop Girolamo Prigione,

papal nuncio to Mexico, called "a Marxist analysis that reduces Christ's work" in the bishop's approach to social problems.

There were reports at the time that Bishop Ruiz was close to being removed from his diocese.

But on New Year's Day 1994, the rebellion in Chiapas broke out and the bishop soon became a key figure in the peace negotiations.

Since then there had been virtually nothing said publicly about the Vatican inquiry.

Bishop Ruiz has been an out-

spoken activist for the political and economic rights of indigenous people who make up the impoverished majority in Chiapas. He has been vigorously criticised by the region's major landlords and government officials.

The bishop was scheduled to attend the August 17-20 fourth Ontario Native Kateri Conference at Toronto's York University in Canada, but cancelled his appearance due to illness, diocesan chancellor Sister Eva Soto said on August 11.

"Bishop Ruiz is a little bit ill and the doctors have ordered him to rest through the end of the month," Sister Soto said.

Following his ordination in 1975, Bishop Lopez was a chaplain to university students, master of Dominican novices, and a member of the Dominican's provincial council.

Bishop Vera Lopez was one of three bishops elected by the Mexican bishops' conference to participate in the 1994 world Synod of Bishops on religious life.

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Roe vs Wade now Roe for Wade WASHINGTON (CNS) - Many in the pro-life movement hailed the announcement by Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" in the 1972 Roe vs Wade US Supreme Court abortion case, that she was switching to the pro-life cause.

The switch was not total; Ms McCorvey, now 47, said in one interview that she still supported the right to a first-trimester abortion, particularly in cases of foetal deformity.

ABC News broke the story on August 10 of Ms McCorvey's August 8 baptism as a born-again Christian, by Operation Rescue director Reverend Flip Benham, and of her renunciation of the abortion rights movement Immediately, pro-life leaders cheered, while abortion rights supporters tried to minimise the importance of her defection.

"We are heartened by Norma McCorvey's reconsideration of her position on abortion," said Gail Quinn, executive director of the United States bishops' Secretariat for Pro-life Activities, in a statement.

"One hopes that the US Supreme Court, which gave this nation the most liberal abortion law in the Western world 23 years ago in the Roe case, will reconsider and revise the Roe ruling."

"Today Norma McCorvey dispelled the myth that abortion liberates women," said Serrin Foster, Feminists for Life of America executive director.

"Her acknowledgement of emotional distress over abortion is the first wave in the turning tide of sentiment among women who realize that the toll abortion exacts on women's lives is simply too

Abortion: whole society suffers ARLINGTON, Virginia (CNS) The author of a new book examining 20 years of abortion in the United States said his work "goes beyond the religious point of view against abortion" to consider its social, economic and demographic consequences.

Lawrence Roberge, who describes himself as a biotechnology consultant and information broker, has written an analysis of those effects in 'The Cost of Abortion', just published by Four Winds Publishing in LaGrange, Georgia.

Mr Roberge told the Arlington Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Diocese of Arlington, that the biggest difference between his book and previous analyses on abortion is that he tells exactly where he has obtained all of the data.

He uses numerous tables and

graphs to explain data compiled from such federal government sources as the Center for Disease Control, the Department of C ommerce and its Census Bureau, the Department of Education, the Internal Revenue Service and the Congressional Budget Office.

Cumulative CDC figures, he said, showed there were 22.7 million abortions performed between 1970 and 1990. He said a true total could exceed this by as much as 6 per cent.

Mr Roberge covers the impact of abortion on US birth rates; the fertility rate of US women; adoption; population growth; student enrolment and teacher employment; domestic economic and personal income growth; and taxation. He also considers abortionrelated deaths.

Mr Roberge said his research Indicates that the fertility rate of US women declines "as abortion numbers increase throughout the

'This decline in the fertility rate below replacement levels will eventually lead to a shrinking population," he wrote, adding that this has many economic consequences, including a smaller tax base and work force.

According to Mr Roberge's comparison of cumulative abortions and cumulative immigration numbers from 1965-91, abortions began to outpace immigration in 1977, and the gap has been widening since then.

"Perhaps this knowledge about the effects of abortion on the US will move those who scoff at the spiritual and philosophical arguments, but cannot ignore the effects of lost jobs, weakened national defence and declining economic growth," he said. 'The cost of abortion affects all of us."

The ripple effects of this will still be felt in 100 years," he said.

high," Ms Foster said in a statement.

Ms McCorvey told ABC, "I think abortion is wrong. I think what I did was wrong. And I just had to take a pro-life position on choice."

She added she was haunted by seeing empty swings on a playground.

'They were swinging back and forth but they were all empty and I just totally lost it," Ms McCorvey said. "And I thought, oh my God, the playgrounds are empty because there's no children

because they've all been aborted."

"As America begin to recognise the tragic error of abortion on demand, it is extremely heartening to see that Ms McCorvey is coming to the same realisation," said a statement by spokeswoman Michele Arocha Allen of the National Right to Life Committee.

"In spirit and in prayer, we are with her and all others who are moving away from the culture of death and toward a greater realisation of the sanctity of life," said a statement by Catholic Campaign

for America's executive director, Michael Ferguson.

Ms McCorvey's "conversion" is "a compelling witness to the power and truth of the pro-life message," said a statement by Paulist Father Robert Sirico, president of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.

Mr Benham moved Operation Rescue's headquarters in April next door to a Dallas abortion clinic, where Ms McCorvey was marketing director.

"When I first started talking

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1970s and plateau during the 1980s."

with Flip I would sit there and talk to him for hours, it seemed like, and he was never judgmental," Ms McCorvey told ABC. She resigned her job with the abortion clinic and is now an Operation Rescue file clerk, but said she would not take part in demonstrations.

"They are my friends. They accept me for who I am, not what I've done or what I can do for them. They genuinely love me," Ms McCorvey said of Operation Rescue.

Lawyer Sarah Weddington, who represented Ms McCorvey before the US Supreme Court, told Associated Press, "What really matters is what the judges on the Supreme Court think, what people in elected office think and what average citizens think - and I don't think this news about Jane Roe will change one mind."

The Roe case began in 1970, when Ms McCorvey agreed to become a plaintiff in a lawsuit that sought to overturn a Texas antiabortion statute.

Kate Michelrnan of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, told ABC she expected pro-lifers "will exploit this, take it out of context, blow it up and make it appear to be something it isn't."

Ms McCorvey's pregnancy in the case which reached the US Supreme Court did not end in abortion; the ruling came too late for that. She gave birth to a girl and gave her up for adoption. In 1989, the daughter, who is now 25, was located and she described herself as pro-life.

First 1000 years AD Vatican to clarify diaconate role 'shows unity possible'

By Cindy Wooden

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The first millennium of Christianity holds proof that Catholic and Orthodox churches can be in full communion, even though they have different ways of expressing the faith. Pope John Paul II said.

"Despite our current separation, one cannot forget the long journey we travelled together under the banner of fidelity to a common apostolic heritage," the Pope said on August 9 during his weekly general audience.

Continuing a series of talks about ecumenism, the Pope said the Orthodox churches and their Eastern-rite Catholic counterparts deserve special attention and respect from Latin-rite Catholics.

Not only do the Catholic and Orthodox churches recognise the validity of each other's sacraments, including priesthood and the Eucharist, the Pope said, they also have spiritual and liturgical gifts that can strengthen the life of the other church.

"The spiritual treasures of the Christian East," he said, begin with the liturgy, which is conducted with great love.

The Eastern churches also have a rich tradition of devotion to Mary, Mother of God, which sheds light on her essential role in the work of redemption and also gives meaning to the practice of venerating saints.

'The contribution of the East to the life of Christ's Church was and remains very important,- the Pope said. That is why the Second Vatican Council called on all

Catholics to become familiar with, show esteem for and support the rich heritage of Eastern Christians.

While not ignoring the causes for the split between the churches, Catholics and Orthodox must once again learn to appreciate one another's traditions, accept legitimate differences and move toward restoring full visible unity, he said.

Pope John Paul told people at the audience the Second Vatican Council and more recent church documents have affirmed that under certain conditions, Catholic and Orthodox may receive the sacraments from each other's priests.

"Any Catholic, when it is impossible to reach a Catholic priest, can receive from a minister of the Eastern church the sacraments of penance, Eucharist and anointing of the sick," he said.

"In the same way, Catholic ministers may licitly administer the sacraments of penance, Eucharist and anointing of the sick to Eastern Christians who ask for them," the Pope said.

In both cases, he said, "one must avoid every form of pastoral action which is not fully respectful of the dignity and freedom of consciences."

The Pope prayed that the Catholic and Orthodox churches would grow in knowledge and love for one another and that God would give them once again the gift of full unity.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The rapidly expanding ministry of the permanent diaconate is about to be put under a Vatican microscope.

"The diaconate is going through a moment of great expansion," said Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe, secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy.

"But we don't want this enthusiasm to be a result of some kind of fashion rather than the fruit of a true maturation of the church's understanding," he told the Italian newspaper Avvenire.

Last spring, the archbishop announced the congregation would dedicate its Autumn 1995 plenary session to drafting a directory on the selection, formation, spirituality and ministry of permanent deacons.

"There is a need for clarity," especially about how the diaconate differs from the priesthood and from the laity, he said in the Avvenire interview.

The Second Vatican Council suggested the re-establishment of the permanent diaconate in the Latin-rite church after centuries of ordaining men to the diaconate only as a transitional ministry before priesthood.

Pope Paul VI formally reopened the permanent diaconate in 1967.

According to Vatican figures released in early August, there were 20,456 permanent deacons in the world at the end of 1993, three and a half times as many as there were at the end of 1978.

The Vatican statistics on the

permanent diaconate also show a huge variation in the number of deacons ministering in various countries.

For example, more than half of the world's permanent deacons have been ordained in US dioceses. Brazil, which is the country with the largest number of Catholics, has only 715 permanent deacons.

Members of the Congregation for Clergy decided in 1993 that the Church needed more detailed guidelines on the diaconate and, in preparation for their work, sent a questionnaire to bishops throughout the world.

Archbishop Sepe said in early August that more than 1,300 dioceses - almost half of the world's total - had responded.

The results of the survey, which include proposals from bishops as well as reflections on their diocese's experiences with the permanent diaconate, will be the basis for the congregation's work on the directory, Archbishop Sepe said.

The diaconate is the "third level" of the sacrament of orders, behind the episcopacy and priesthood, he explained in the Avvenire interview.

'The deacon is not a 'major layman' nor a 'minor priest,— the archbishop said. But "the sacramentality of the diaconate and its state within the Church is a question that must be examined more in depth."

The diaconate, like other vocations and ministries in the Church, must have a distinct identity and spirituality, he said.

Archbishop Sepe said "the deacon blends in himself ways of being and of acting" that are sim-

ilar to a priest and a lay person.

"For example, he is close to the priest because of the sacramental grace he has received in ordination, while his living condition is closer to that of the lay faithful."

The vast majority of permanent deacons are married. Those who are not married before ordination must remain celibate, and those who are widowed after ordination are not permitted to marry again without leaving the ministry.

'The celibate deacon has a simpler and more precise appearance," Archbishop Sepe said. "I would say it is more linear because he has a greater availability for his ministry."

"Married deacons must involve their families in their spirituality and ministry. In fact, all the members of his family, and particularly his wife, are somehow involved," not only in activities performed on behalf of others but in the type of family life they model for others, the archbishop said.

Archbishop Sepe said that figures on the exit of deacons from the ministry show that "frequently there is not an adequate discernment in admitting candidates to the diaconate ... There is a superficiality in having promoted candidates who are morally, spiritually or psychologically weak with the hope that they would improve in the future."

The congregation's new directory, he said, should offer bishops and deacons better guidelines and explanations for their ministry.

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US Senate moves towards new land mine ban

By Jerry Filteau WASHINGTON (CNS) - The United States' Senate has called for an expansion of the US moratorium on anti-personnel land mines and sanctions against other countries that export them.

By a vote of 67-27, senators passed an amendment to a defence authorisation Bill that would sharply limit US military use of such land mines in three years and halt all US military exports to any other nation that continued to sell or export such land mines.

The amendment came to a vote on Capitol Hill on August 4, less than two months after the US Catholic bishops issued a major statement urging the US to take the lead in bringing about a global ban on all anti-personnel land mines.

The bishops -played an absolutely crucial role" in getting strong bipartisan Senate support for the amendment, said Tim

Rieser, an aide to the chief author of the automatically triggered by human contact amendment, Democrat Senator Patrick or proximity, not anti-tank mines or others, Leahy of Vermont. such as claymore mines that have to be trigThe amendment still has to survive a floor gered by the military forces that put them in vote on the whole authorisation Bill and be place. sustained when a conference committee Mr Rieser said Senator Leahy has been works out differences between the Senate involved in a campaign against the global and the House of Representative Bills. The proliferation of land mines since 1989, House version, adopted earlier this year, when he introduced legislation to assist in has no land-mine moratorium or restriction clearing land mines from areas where their language. original military purpose has ended.

An estimated 100 million or more antiIn 1992 the Vermont senator introduced personnel land mines are buried in more legislation to place a moratorium on the US than 60 countries around the world, often export and sale of anti-personnel land killing and maiming people and hindering mines abroad, and in 1993 he led a battle to development many years after the end of extend that moratorium. the war during which they were planted.

The new amendment's restriction on US Mines kill some 26,000 people a year, military use of anti-personnel mines does mostly civilians, and wound a similar num- not constitute a complete ban. It permits ber. their placement on borders and in demiliIn debate on the floor of the Senate, Sena- tarised zones within clearly marked areas tor Leahy emphasised the amendment under military supervision with adequate affected only anti-personnel land mines protection to prevent civilian access.

Embattled cardinal may retire next month VIENNA, Austria (CNS) - A growing chorus of church voices and Austrian news organisations have said that the Vatican will announce the retirement of controversial Cardinal Hans Hermann Gmer of Vienna next month.

Several Austrian church officials have said privately that they expect the announcement on September 14, the ninth anniversary of Cardinal Groer's installation in the Vienna post, but no one has said so publicly.

The cardinal, accused last March of having engaged in homosexual activities 20 years earlier, has refused to clearly deny the allegations against him, sparking widespread discontent among Austrian Catholics.

On August 9, Austrian Archbishop Alois Wagner, a Vatican diplomat, was quoted by an Austrian television station as saying that September 14 was the likely (late.

However, the following (lay he clarified to Kathpress, the Austrian Catholic news agency, that he was only repeating what he had read and heard in the Austrian media. He

When the US Catholic bishops met in Chicago in June, they were sharply divided on many other issues but unanimous in their call for a global ban on land mines.

Shortly before they met, Pope John Paul II urged such a ban, and several bishops spoke about having seen first-hand the effects of land mines on women and children in places like South-East Asia, Africa, Central America and Bosnia.

Afterward many bishops personally contacted their senators to urge support for the Leahy amendment, and by the time it came to the floor a total of 50 senators were signed on as co-sponsors.

Among bishops who asked their senators to back the legislation were Cardinals John O'Connor of New York and Anthony Bevilacqua of Philadelphia.

Mr Rieser said that before the bishops stepped in on the issue we fully expected to lose" the vote on the amendment.

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athway ORLANDO, Florida (CNS) Many people in the Catholic Charismatic movement talk about the powerful experience of renewal and the Holy Spirit but the movment sometimes lacks in Catholic theology. according to a prominent US Catholic charismatic.

Walter Matthews, director of Chariscenter USA, the headquarters of the National Service Committee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, said the movement had its own culture and language, and that sometimes it had been a struggle to keep a Catholic identity.

He was one of more than 4000 Catholics among some 7000 to 8000 people who gathered in Orlando for the 1995 Congress on the Holy Spirit and World Evangelisation. The National Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference was held in conjunction with the July 2629 congress.

Participants danced in the aisles, thrust their hands in the air at every mention of the Holy Spirit and chanted softly, some in tongues.

Mr Matthews said Catholic charismatics must ensure that the charisms of the Holy Spirit were not separated from the sacraments.

The sacraments of initiation baptism. Communion and confirmation - let in the Holy Spirit, Mr Matthews explained.

Followers of the charismatic movement believed that through reawakening or renewal of the relationship with the Spirit, faith was strengthened.

One reason the Catholic charismatic renewal had been so successful since its beginnings in the 1960s had been its strong ties to the institutional church, Mr Matthews said.

said he was in no position to provide information about the retirement date.

An announcement can only be made by the competent Vatican agency, Archbishop Wagner, Vatican representative to the Romebased United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation, said.

The Vatican has issued no statement about a possible retirement date. On April 13 it paved the way for the cardinal's replacement by appointing a coadjutor archbishop with the right to succession.

The cardinal turned 75, the normal retirement age, last October 13, several months before the scandal broke. At the time, he submitted a letter of resignation to Pope John Paul II, as is required by church law.

The Pope has yet to accept it.

If the Vatican announces the retirement on September 14, it would come on a day the Pope and many of his top advisers are scheduled to be outside the Vatican. September 14 marks the first day of the Pope's planned trip to three African nations.

Catholic Arabs wait 47 years for land

Catholics gain from exodus

JERUSALEM (CNS) - Residents of two Catholic Arab villages evacuated 47 years ago will find out by October if they can return to their homes.

DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - A new demographic study shows that Protestant emigration is likely to be the main factor in the increasing proportion of Catholics in Northern Ireland.

Changing economic conditions due to improved prospects abroad for the better educated will encourage more Protestants than Catholics to emigrate, the study's authors. Cormac 0 Grada and Brendan Walsh of University College, Dublin, said.

But the study did not predict when, or if, the Catholic minority would become a majority. This is a

An Israeli Justice Ministry spokesman said the parliamentary committee considering the situation would make a decision

by October. Ikrit and Bir'em, two Catholic Arab villages near Israel's border with Lebanon, were evacuated by the Israeli army in 1948 when the new state of Israel fought for survival against Arab forces. Although the 14 The Record, August 17, 1995

residents were promised that they would be allowed to return within two weeks, they have yet to do so.

In the first few years following the evacuation, most of the opposition to their return was based on security reasons. Later, residents of Jewish settlements built on parts of the villages' lands were opposed to returning the land.

Others were afraid that returning the land to the residents of Writ and Bir'em would set a dan-

gerous precedent for other Arab villages that lost land during the War of Independence. But supporters say this is the only case where Arab-Israeli citizens were evacuated. The Supreme Court, in 1951, ordered that they be allowed back to their homes, but the Government did not follow the Supreme Court order.

Meanwhile, representatives of lkrit met with members of the Jewish Ma'ale Yosef Local Council to discuss future cooperation on the rebuilding of lkrit in the area.

key issue in the British-ruled province of 1.5 million people: Catholics tend to favour union with Ireland, and Britain has pledged to respect the will of the majority regarding political alliance.

Since 1971, a higher percentage of Protestant than Catholic youths have left Northern Ireland. it said.

The trend was the reverse prior to 1971. it said.

An additional factor in the population trend is that the Catholic birthrate remains higher. the study said. Catholic women have an average of four children. while Protestant women average three, it said.

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Thank you St Jude pray for me and all who invoke your 0 HOLY Spirit you who aid. solve all problems light all roads so that I can attain G RATEFUL thanks to my goal. You gave us the Sacred Heart of Jesus, St divine gift to forgive and Clare and St. Jude for forget all evil against me prayers answered. AO.R. and that in all instances of THANK you to Holy spirit, my life you are with me. I Jesus, Mary and Joseph, want in this short prayer to St. Antony and Mother thank you for all things as I Mary McKillop. H.G.P. confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever in spite of all material illusions. I wish to be with you in eternal glory.

Thank you for your merc; towards me and mine TDG. MAY the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored and glorified, loved, praised and preserved throughout the w orld now and forever.

Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us. St Jude, hope of the hopeless, pray for us. Say this prayer 9 times a day for 9 days.

HOLY Spirit, thou who makes me see everything and shows me the way to reach my ideal. You have given me the divine gift to f orgive and forget the wrong done to me and who are always in my life with me. I want to thank you for everything and confirm I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desire may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in perpetual glory.

Amen. Say this prayer for three consecutive days a sking only one favour.

Thank you Holy Spirit.

THANK You St. Jude for f avours received in our prayers for help.

ST JUDE thank you for answering my request.

Libby.

THANKS to St Jude. 0 Holy St Jude, Apostle and martyr, great in virtue and miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in times of need to you I have recourse from the bottom of my heart, and humbly beg. you to whom God has given such great powers to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition (make your request) in return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked.

Say 3 Our Fathers 3 Hail Marys and 3 Glorias. Thank you St. Jude pray for me and all who invoke your aid, humbly in need or your intercession. Amen.

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church The Record continues its regular column publishing excerpts from The Catechism of the Catholic Church. Naturally, the excerpts do not take the place of an extensive reading of the Catechism

Mary and the Church 964 Mary's role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it.

"This union of the mother with the Son in the work of salvation is made manifest from the time of Christ's virginal conception up to his death" (Lumen Gentium, 57); it is made manifest above all at the hour of his Passion: "Thus the Blessed Virgin advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully persevered in her union with her Son unto the cross. There she stood, in keeping with the divine plan, enduring with her only begotten Son the intensity of his suffering, joining herself with his sacrifice in her

mother's heart, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim, born of her to be given, by the same Christ Jesus dying on the cross, as a mother to his disciple, with these words: "Woman, behold your son."(LG 58) 965 After her Son's Ascension.

Mary "aided the beginnings of the Church by her prayers." In her association with the apostles and several women. " we also see Mary by her prayers imploring the gift of the Spirit, who had already overshadowed her in the Annunciation."

Mary's Assumption 966 "Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed

to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death."(LG 59) The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians: I n giving birth you kept your virginity; in your Dormition you did not leave the world, 0 Mother of God, but were joined to the source of Life. You conceived the living God and, by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death."

(Byzantine liturgy)

Mother in the order of grace 967 By her complete adherence to the Father's will, to his Son's redemptive work, and to every prompting of the Holy Spirit, the Virgin Mary is the Church's model of faith and charity.

Thus she is a "preeminent and ...

wholly unique member of the Church"; indeed, she is the "exemplary realisation" (typus) of the Church.(LG 53) 968 Her role in relation to the Church and to all humanity goes still further. "In a wholly singular way she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope, and burning charity in the Saviour's work of restoring supernatural life to souls. For this reason she is a mother to us in the order of grace."(LG 61) 969 -This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfilment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation .... Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper,

Benefactress, and Mediatrix."(LG 62) 970 "Mary's function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. But the Blessed Virgin's salutary influence on men ... flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on his mediation, depends entirely on it. and draws all its power from it."

"No creature could ever be counted along with the Incarnate Word and Redeemer, but just as 0, the priesthood of Christ is shared in various ways both by his ministers and the faithful, and as the one goodness of God is radiated in different ways among his creatures, so also the unique mediation of the Redeemer does not exclude but rather gives rise to a manifold cooperation which is but a sharing in this one source."

(LG 60.62) The Record, August 17, 1995

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TO THE HEART THROUGH MEDITATION Dom Laurence Freeman OSB A World Authority on Christian Meditation will present two talks and a one day Workshop in Perth at the beginning of his Australian tour.

"JESUS AT THE HEART OF MEDITATION" Thursday 7th September 1995 7.30 pm - 9.00pm

Friday 8th September 1995 7.30 pm - 9.00pm

"TO THE HEART THROUGH MEDITATION" Saturday 9th September 1995 9.30am - 4.00 pm: One day workshop BYO Lunch. Coffee & Tea Provided.

Cost: $10 per evening talk. $20 Workshop.

(Concessions - Full program $35)

WESLEY CENTRAL MISSION AUDITORIUM Wesley Arcade, Williant Street, Perth Rediscover the ancient art of Christian Meditation detailed in the writings of monks and mystics as far back as the fourth century AD. Let Fr. Laurence demonstrate the relevance of this contemplative practice Jar all in need of Healing and Wholeness.

Let Fr Laurence start you on %our Journey 1011W HEART THROU:H MEDITATION Booking forms may be obtained from Christian Meditation Centre Phone Vesta or Sam on (09) 444 5810

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Applicants will be actively involved in the Catholic Church and be experienced educators committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education. Th, will have the requisite theological, pastoral and managerial competencies together with an appropriate four i'ear minimum tertiary qualification and will have, or be prepared to complete, appropriate Accreditation requirements Further information and official application forms are available from Sr Clare Rafferty, Consultant, School Personnel Team, Phone (09) 388 4268.

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BUSINESS PERSONS MASS Will be celebrated at All Saints Chapel, Allendale Square, Perth on Friday, August 25th, at 7am followed by a breakfast meeting a t The Venice Cafe, Trinity Arcade, Perth. Cost of Breakfast $8. Speaker Fred Frank.

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ST KIERAN SCHOOL 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Tuesday, 22 August 7pm, coinciding with annual open night.

Focus will be on book launch "Built in Faith", A History of St Kieran School.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE Rosary, Homily and Benediction will be held Sunday, August 27 at 2pm at the Church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" 36 Chittering Road, Bullsbrook. For bus reservations please ring 444 7565, 458 6302 for bus to a nd from Bullsbrook via Marangaroo, Tuart Hill, Perth, Highgate and Midland. 339 4015 for Fremantle Bus. Sacri Assoc Inc. P.O. Box 311 Tuart Hill WA 6060.

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CATHOLIC BIOETHICS COURSE The next Bioethics Course for Catholic doctors and medical students is being held at the LJ G oody Bioethics Centre from 6.30 to 9pm on the 22 August (Life & Death Issues) and 5 S eptember (Screening in Pregnancy) by the Catholic Doctors Association.

DEDICATION OF NEW CHURCH MADDINGTON After waiting 40yrs Holy Family Parish, Maddington are pleased to invite all former parishioners and friends of the parish to join with them for the Dedication and o pening of our new church.

A lcock St, Maddington at 2.30pm on Sunday, September 1 0 with Bishop Robert Healy and Fr Ted Hewitt pp. Mass of dedication followed by bun-fight SOUTHERN CROSS HOMES ANNUAL STREET APPEAL Southern Cross Homes, Caring f or the Aged Annual Street Appeal is being held on Friday, 1st September 1995. Collectors are urgently needed between 7 am & 6pm in the Perth and Fremantle areas. Tins will be available from the Perth Town Hall on the day. For enquiries please contact Helen or Chris on (09) 314 2499.

UNIVERSITY OF NOIRE DAME Sunday 27th August - Notre Dame Open Day for prospective students and all interested in Notre Dame.

10am-5pm.

Special session at 1.30pm "Surviving and Succeeding Year 12 and Beyond" presented b y Dean of the College of Business, Professor John Wood.

Thursday 31 August - Leading journalist from The Australian, Frank Devine will present a public lecture (60,000 Channels and Not a Bloody Thing to Watch) at The University of Notre Dame A ustralia, 19 Mouat Street, Fremantle. Cost: $10 at the door. All welcome.

Thursday 7 September - The Peter Slattery Memorial Lecture by leading Jesuit theologian Professor Gerald O'Collins at the University of Notre Dame A ustralia, 19 Mouat Street, Fremantle, 7.1 5pm. All welcome.

NEWMAN SOCIETY Euthanasia; On Tuesday August 2 2, at 7.30pm in the Senior C ommon Room, St. Thomas Moore College, Crawley, Mr Eric Heenan, Q.C., will give a lecture on the legal aspects of euthanasia.

Newman meetings open to all interested. Contact No. 446 7340.

SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION Archbishop Hickey will officially launch the Catholic Association for Special Education Support "Report on the Survey on Educational Needs of Children with disabilities/special needs" at St Josephs Parish centre, Salvado Road, Subiaco on Monday 21 August at 7.30pm.

PARISH PRIEST SAYS THANKS

The parish priest of Port Kennedy, Fr Richard Doyle, says thanks to all the offers of equipment received through "The Record". Special thanks to the Catholic Church Insurances.

The date for the official opening of the new parish Centre has been set for Thursday 24th August RESIDENTIAL WEEKEND FOR MID-LIFE MEN September 15th-17th at Safety Bay. The input and process work will follow the psychological and spiritual development of men in mid-life, and the tasks they need to address. Led by Marius Dawson, 0.Carm, Bridget Kayser, RSJ, Teresa Conneely, SJG. Enquiries/Bookings 451 2712. Cost S180.

Official Engagements AUGUST Confirmation, Mercedes 18 College - Archbishop Hickey.

Confirmation Palmyra Monsignor Keating.

Procession and 20 Benediction for Feast of Assumption, Mundaring Archbishop Hickey.

Confirmation, Kenwick Monsignor Keating.

Confirmation, Rockingham - Monsignor McCrann.

Confirmation, Kelmscott Rev Fr G Carrol.

Launch of Report 21 "Invitation to the Banquet" (Catholic Association for Special Education Support) - Archbishop Hickey.

23 Servite Mass, Feast of St Philip Benize, St Mary's Archbishop Hickey.

Mass and blessing of 24 Parish Centre, Port Kennedy - Archbishop Hickey.

25-27 Visitation and Confirmation/ Mirrabooka - Archbishop Hickey.

Confirmation, Armadale 27 Monsignor Keating.

Confirmation, Merredin Rev G Carroll.

Confirmation, Mosman Park - Rev G Holohan.

Confirmation, Rivervale Monsignor O'Shea.

Opening of The Angelico 28 Exhibition - Archbishop Hickey.

Visitation, Southern Cross 30 Homes Board Archbishop Hickey.

Visitation, John XXIII College, Rev G. Holohan.

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The College will be holding an Open Day for families interested in finding out more about the type of catholic education provided at Iona.

Guided tours will be conducted at 10am, 12 noon and 2pm. These will provide visitors with the opportunity to see the college 'at work', the nature and range of education in the 1990's and the facilities available for use by the students and College community.

Iona is a catholic girl's College of 600 students, 108 of whom are residents. There are a limited number of place available for 1996 and interviews have commenced for 1997. Further information regarding enrolments or Open Day may be obtained by contacting Mrs Lousie Creasy at the College., We welcome enquiries from interested families.

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