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Bunbury drives on to the information superhighway with an experiment in diocesan communication - Page 3 Archbisop Hickey spells out his concerns with the Taylor Bill on help for the dying - Page 6 Mother Teresa urges an end to the use of land mines - Page 3 Colleen McGuiness Howard talks to a local Christian from Palestine about the difficulties of the Middle East peace process - Page 9 How a US parish beat back a fundamentalist attack - Page 11

an leads in Beijing

By Cindy Wooden

VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II has chosen Mary Ann Glendon, a professor of law at Harvard University, to head the Vatican's delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women.

While Mrs Glendon was not among Vatican negotiators participating in the UN preparatory meetings for the Septembe 4-15 conference in China's capital Beijing, she reportedly met with Vatican officials in late July or early August for an in-depth discussion of the Vatican's position.

A professor of law at Harvard since 1986, Ms Glendon, 56, is married and the mother of three daughters.

An Australian, Monsignor Peter Elliot, formerly of the Archdiocese of Melbourne, who now who works for the Pontifical Council for the Family, is on the delegation.

Heading the Vatican delegation is not Ms Glendon's first papal appointment. In January 1994 Pope John Paul named her to be among the original members of the new Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a group of scholars conducting research on social concerns.

In March, the Pope also named her to the central committee charged with planning Catholic activities for the jubilee year 2000.

Ms Glendon is a founding member of Women Affirming Life and is also a member of the

Pope John Paul II board of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

Ms Glendon taught at Boston College Law School for 18 yearsbefore being named the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard. Author of the book.

Abortion and Divorce in Western Law, as well as eight others, she has focused much of her scholarly research and writing on the law as it relates to family life andabortion.

Addressing a Boston pro-life gathering in January, Ms Glendon said that "as long as the abortion industry continues to exploit the suffering of women, the pro-life movement will be there to speak the truth."

The Supreme Court's Roe vs Wade decision legalizing abortion was supposed to mark a great advance for women," she said. "But as we approach the end of this troubled century, violence against women and chil-

dren has reached horrifying proportions." The legalization of abortion -contributed to the cultural process of dehumanization" and lent the Supreme Court's prestige to "what was a weakness in us Americans - our impatience with complexity, our temptation to go for the quick fix when faced with a painful problem," Ms Glendon said.

In a 1989 speech to diocesan pro-life directors, Ms Glendon said her research on abortion in the United States and Europe led her to the conclusion that adding restrictions to legalized abortion does not necessarily reduce a country's abortion rate.

The cultural norms of the society seem to be much more influential, she said, so in order to reduce abortion rates the pmlife movement must "attack the conditions that foster abortion and the abortion mentality."

The United States generally ranks last among Western democracies in funding social programs for prenatal care and childbirth and in enforcing paternity and child-support responsibilities, she said. Addressing those issues would create a more "hospitable attitude toward children."

In a 1990 speech in Salt Lake City, Ms Glendon urged members of the pro-life movement to increase their outreach to women because "the Roe vs Wade decision promotes irresponsible male acts."

She also said the pro-life movement had "dropped the ball over and over again" by focusing

all of its concern on the unborn and failing to promote efforts to protect "born life."

'And the churches should promote social change that welcomes and supports motherhood she said. children," and Motherhood right now is a highrisk occupation."

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls had said in midJune that the Holy See delegation most likely would be led by a woman and that at least half of the members of its delegation would be women.

Within weeks, rumours were circulating that the Vatican's choice had narrowed down to two women, both of whom were university professors, married with children; one reportedly was from Europe and the other from the United States - Ms Glendon.

Professor Glendon is a respected scholar whose progressive approach to women's needs and concerns will place the Holy See and the Catholic Church in a leadership position at the conference," Raymond Flynn, the US ambassador to the Vatican said..

'In addition to her legal scholarship, she is noted for her advocacy of social and economic justice and for the rights of working women and single mothers,"Mr Flynn said, who knows Ms Glendon from his days as mayor of Boston.

The US government looks forward to working with Professor Glendon at the conference," he said.

If Hillary Rodham Clinton leads the US delegation, he said, "my guess is that you will not see a world conference in our lifetime where more dedicated and competent American women will lead delegations of two of the most influential public voices in the world today."

The Vatican delegation, also includes: Archbishop Renato Martino, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, assistant head of the delegation; Janne Haaland Matlary, a senior researcher and associate professor at the University of Oslo, Norway; Irena Kowalska, professor of statistics at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and member of the European Community's coordinating committee on policies regarding children; Carmen del Pilar Escudero de Jensen, a professor at the Catholic University of Chile; Mgr Frank Dewane, a US canon lawyer and collaborator with the Holy See's permanent observer mission to the United Nations; Mgr Diarmuid Martin, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; Mr NavarroValls, a Spaniard; Teresa Choi, a Malaysian and vice president of the International Union of the Catholic Press; Claudette Habesh, a Palestinian who is president of Caritas Jerusalem; Kathryn Hawa Hookwap, president of Nigeria's National Council of Catholic Women.

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Schools continue Church's rich art tradition Archbishop Hickey last Monday underlined the importance of the Church's involvement in art over 2000 years as he opened the Angelico Art Exhibition at the Banlcwest Tower.

"Art, as much as words, and perhaps more so, has attempted over the centuries to capture the deepest religious feelings the wonder and awe of divine revelation and the often numinous and transcendental experiences of the human soul," he said.

"Art has flowered in the liturgical life of the Church, in the design and decoration of Churches, and in the illustration of sacred manuscripts.

Painting, music, movement, sculpture and architecture have come together in order to express human sentiments in response to the Divine call."

Concerning the particular relevance of art to Catholic education, the Archbishop said: "Schools wish to encourage their students in artistic expression and creativity Committed as they are to the full development of students as a central aim of Catholic education, the schools obviously see the merits of artistic expression in the context of development of the full person.

It is not sufficient to concentrate only

on intellectual achievements. The expression of the inner spirit is just as important."

The Angelico Exhibition features art and sculpture from Catholic secondary schools throughout the State. The 1995 Angelico Prize for Most Outstanding Work went to Ed Napoleao for his work entitled "Time" (right). Ed is a Year 12 student at Lumen Christi College, Gosnells.

The second prize went to Vincent Karlsson for "Self Portrait". Vincent is a Year 12 student at Christian Brothers' College, Fremantle. Third prize was shared between Michelle Domahidy, Year 12, John XXIII College, Mt Claremont, and Vanessa Thomas, Year 10, Ngalangangpum School, Warmun.

The following students' work was highly commended by the judges, Ted Snell, Head of Curtin University School of Art, and Sandra Murray, Curator, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of WA: Josh Alach, Yr 12, Servite College, Tuart Hill, Adam Cave, Yr 9, Mazenod College, Lesmurdie, Natalie Clements, Yr 12, St Brigid's College, Lesmurdie, Damien Martyn, Yr 12, Trinity College, Perth, Kasia Mierzejewski, Yr 11, Mercy College, Koondoola, Shannan Snowball, Yr 12, John XXIII College, Mt Claremont

Ed Napoleao's prize-winning work, Time, at the Anglelico Exhibition

Modem confessors of the faith here in Perth T t is not easy to be a commit1ted Catholic these days.

There is plenty of flak around.

To some extent I am protected from much of it because my life is spent mainly in Catholic circles. But the lay people have no such protection.

The Church calls on the people of God to be active in the world, to be part of society in order to hold up the values and standards of the Christian life.

It is a noble vision. At the same time I feel for committed Catholics who, in a very real sense, are often called on to suffer for their Faith.

They have to bear the brunt of a degree of criticism that unfortunately the Church has justly deserved because of the moral failures of some of its members.

The media seems to feel an obligation to highlight them.

The real pressure, though, comes from a conflict of ideologies and values.

Followers of Christ are called to a vision of life that goes beyond the purely material, yet the materialistic lifestyle that characterises our society influences us all and often places us in situations where we must choose between affluence and living for others.

The Christian is called to respect a vision of human sexuality where love, procreation and commitment are all intertwined.

In this it is in stark contrast with the secular Western view of sexuality which sees it mainly in personalist terms as one's "choice". It is hard to uphold the

Christian vision without appearing critical of others who reject that vision, and yet it must be done.

In trying to live and uphold the Church's teaching on sexuality one is treated often with condescension, as out of touch, or with hostility, as judgmental.

Then there are all the related life issues about abortion, contraception and euthanasia where the Church is often portrayed as hopelessly ignorant and unenlightened.

This is not a time to be fainthearted. It is a time for strength and courage.

It, therefore, gladdened my heart to hear a young woman tell me recently that in her position as a doctor's receptionist she

stubbornly refused to make appointments for what were euphemistically called "terminations".

She would have nothing to do with them.

Now I hear that she has resigned from her job because of the pressure she was under.

She is, in my book, a modern "Confessor of the Faith", a quiet and unsung hero.

I am sure there are many giving courageous witness of their beliefs in today's world of confusion and competing ideologies.

They have my full support take heart from the words of St Paul to Timothy: "God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but rather a spirit of power and love and self-discipline". (2 Tim, 7)

Church offers women a 'holistic feminism' to defend their role BOSITIN (CNS) - Better legal protection for motherhood and child-raising is one of the concerns that the Fourth World Conference on Women ought to deal with when it meets this September in Beijing, the Harvard law professor who will head the Vatican delegation to the conference said.

Mary Ann Glendon was named to the Vatican position August 25. In an interview with The Pilot, Boston's archdiocesan newspaper, she said the appointment made her feel "a heavy sense of responsibility because the Holy See may well be one of the very few voices speaking for women who have chosen to give their paramount priority to motherhood and family concerns."

Those women "constitute a majority of the women in the world - in developed as well as developing countries," she added. "Millions of women, regardless of their religious belief, are depending on the Holy See - as they did at the Cairo conference (on population and development) last year - to voice positions on women, motherhood, equality and family life which will be underrepresented among other delegations," she said.

The author of nine books, including Abortion and Divorce in Western Law, she said part of the background she will bring to the Beijing conference is her work in the field of family law.

"If there is one theme in this work, it is that it is time to start differentiating

between households where children are being raised and other adult living arrangements," she said.

"For instance, as things now stand in the United States, most divorces involve couples with minor children. And yet divorce law makes no distinction in principle between a childless couple and a couple with minor children.

"I think if you asked the man or woman on the street, he or she would find that preposterous. What needs to be affirmed at Beijing and in American law is that motherhood and child-raising families are entitled to special protection."

At a press conference on August 25 in Rome on the Holy See's approach to the Beijing conference, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls cited those issues as central in the struggle over what guiding philosophy the conference will have. He said the Vatican would oppose an ideology which, in the name of women's dignity and equality. adopted "a negative attitude toward the family, a critical support for abortion and an angry anthropology in which feminine problems are linked solely to sexuality and contraception."

The Church, Ms Glendon said, "has a unique perspective to bring to the international discussions" of issues such as the dignity and role of women and the place of family life in society "Unfortunately, the tendency of many rich countries has been to look at the circumstances of women and children

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in poverty and to offer approaches and solutions that are draconian as far as those affected are concerned but cheap as far as the rich countries are concerned," she said.

"The Church says we can offer something better to a woman in disadvantaged circumstances than draconian interference with her personal life," she added. "We can offer her and should offer her education and economic conditions that allow her to realize herfullest potential."

She said of all factors related to women's well-being, the two that consistently emerged as most closely connected are education and economic conditions. 'The Church is calling the rich nations to be a little more generous - a bit more ready to extend a helping hand rather than saying to the poor women, 'Here, fill your body with these chemicals, or, if that doesn't work, have an abortion."

She said the Church had a "holistic feminism" that "takes into account all of the complicated parts of women's lives and all of the roles women play in a complex modern society."

'The feminism of the Church respects women's dignity. It wants to cooperate with women in realizing their aspirations, reaching their full potential. It means not asking women to separate their desires to have a decent family life from their desires to develop their creative and intellectual potential," she said.

Beijing prayer plea

By Peter Rosengren

An Australian cleric working for the Pontifical Council for the Family in Rome has been named as part of the Vatican's delegation to the Beijing conference on the rights of women in September.

Monsignor Peter Elliot has worked for the Pontifical Council for several years.

Speaking to The Record from his office in Rome, Monsignor Elliot said that his role would he to work with delegations towards achieving consensus on the final documentation to be issued by the Conference.

He also appealed for prayers from the people of Perth for the success of the Holy See's delegation to the Beijing conference and for the

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causes of justice and truth for women to emerge from it.

The chief objective of the Vatican delegation's efforts at the conference would be to voice a strong emphasis on the rights of all women, but also to ensure that the Conference did not forget the importance of motherhood.

In so doing the delegation would be reflecting the theme of the Holy Father's recent statements on the dignity and rights of women in his Angelus messages.

However, he said that this was likely to conflict with a push to impose a variety of extremist feminist agendas and definitions through Conference documents which ignored the importance of motherhood as a valid role for women.

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The plan includes what Mr Sullivan described as a "massive financial hit" proposed by the Commission.

For nearly two years the Commission has conducted an inquiry into the operation, scope, nature and effectiveness of Australian charitable organisations and their operations.

One of the Commission's recommendations include what Mr Sullivan describes as a "GSTlike" blow to the future operations of charities.

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TV link ends the tyranny of distance Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbury is taking the technological initiative for parish councils and will participate in the first ever televised linkup between diocesan officials and parish scattered councils through the length and breadth of his huge Bunbury diocese.

The link-up, through facilities provided by the State government's West Link service, will be conducted on the evening of 7 November.

"I think its very exciting. In a place like Australia, where we've got such scattered places and its so difficult to get people together, I think its got a great future," Bishop Quinn said of the facility which his diocese will be trailing for the first time.

He said he was delighted when Fr Tony Chiera, and Mark Stillman came up with the suggestion and presented it to the the diocesan pastoral planning committee. Fr Chien' is the parish priest at Donnybrook and chairman of the Bunbury diocese's Adult Faith Formation Committee. Mr Stillman is the

secretary of pastoral formation for the diocese. Impressed with the suggestion, the diocesan pascommittee planning toral thought it was worth trying.

Parish councils will be participating from places as far afield as Great Jeramunga, in the and Mandurah, Southern, Esperance, 700 kilometres away from Bunbury.

Bishop Quinn said he hope that all of Bunbury diocese's regional councils would participate.

"All the parishes, hopefully, will be linked up because West Link has centres even in smaller towns. We're giving out a list of the places where they can go," he said, "and all our parishes are within shooting distance of a West Link base."

The link-up will last for one hour and will be conducted on parish council activities.

The programme we're working to at this stage is, first of all, (I) will welcome everybody and give an introduction. Then the parish council workshop will be given

by Father Tony Chiera .... He will

give the input on certain aspects of parish councils (and) that will go for half an hour," said Bishop Quinn.

The major thrust of the inservice will be on ways to improve parish councils.

It is currently in the preparation stage and the Bunbury diocese has sent out a request for a contact person from each parish council that Mark Stillman can liaise with. Any interested parish councils should contact Mark Stillman.

The inservice will also be followed by a diocesan news roundup concerning information on activities and events occurring in the diocese, such as proposed summer schools and liturgy commission parish inservices.

At this stage, the technology does not allow two way audiovisual communication but those attending will be able to view the inservice on the television set provided by West Link and respond via fax.

At this stage we're not able to incorporate two-way conversation... but in each place there will

Mother Teresa: ban landmines Mother Teresa of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta has added her voice to the those thousands across the world urging member States of the United Nations to eliminate anti-personnel landmines from our earth.

"We are all God's children and have been created for greater things: to love and be loved ... Let there be no distinction of race or colour or creed.

"If everyone could see the image of God in His neighbour, do you think we would still have such destruction and suffering. How could we agree to produce or to use terrible weapons, such as landmines, to destroy one another? I join my

prayers with all of you who are working to eliminate landmines that God may grant success to your efforts to His glory and the good of His people."

A national Day of Action was held in all major capital cities by the Australian Campaign to Ban Landmines. As part of the protests minefields were simulated. while displays and speakers highlighted the 26,000 men, women and children who are killed or injured by landmines every year.

The Campaign has urged the Australian government to support a total ban on the production, stockpiling, transfer, and use of anti-personnel landmines.

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The twelve-member National Council of Churches in Australia also came out in support of the campaign, issuing a public statement calling on the Australian government to support all possible measures of defusing landmines.

The statement also demanded the government call for a total ban of landmines and brief its delegations to international meetings accordingly.

The acting general secretary of the National Council of Churches, Ms Christine Ledger, said the member churches of the NCCA felt very strongly urged issue the about Christians and all people of goodwill to oppose them.

be a fax machine and if they want to send in any messages or queries as the programme goes on they can fax that into Bunbury," he said.

"We will send out the inservice program for one hour, from half-past seven until half past eight in the evening and they will be waiting in West Link stations throughout the diocese," Bishop Quinn said.

West Link stations are located throughout regional centres such as town council buildings, shire councils, community centres and high schools.

Bishop Quinn said that he thought the use of this kind of Bishop Peter Quinn technology was exciting and aspects some for way paved the of future simultaneous communi- ment of State Services and cations to scattered regional cen- makes it possible for television programmes to be delivered to tres.

"I think its got a great future centres throughout the state.

Its main aims are to make it and I think we've got a lot to learn to know how to maximise easier for people living within the use of the new technology," remote communities or in rural he said. areas to access services and for West Link is a service provid- public and private agencies to ed by the Western Australian deliver these services in a costgovernment through the Depart- effective manner

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One of the lighter moments of the 791 performances during the Performing Arts Festival over the past month was a drama performance from two boys representing Mater Del College, Edgewater. James Arthur played Leonardo da Vinci and Brad Trpchev played the Pope of the time, Alexander VI.

SW youth meeting big success: delegate Western Australia's St Vincent de Paul Society youth representative, Anthony RidoIfo, has just returned from the Society's consultation with young members held in Brisbane with the new president of the Society's national council, Mick Smith.

Anthony, who is 19 and works as an Estimator with Southcorp Packaging in Kalamunda, said: "One of the best things was that we got to meet all the other youth representatives, so they were not just names any more."

The consultation had been called by Mick Smith following his election as president of national council and was partly designed to hear from the youth of the Society as to where they saw themselves fitting into its work and spirituality.

Anthony said that the meeting had looked at where youth in the Society was heading, what the problems were and where, and identified areas that they needed to apply themselves in.

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TOMORROW TODAY

Student off for famine summit

By Penny Ashcroft from the Youth and Young Adult Office.

Rachel Christie, a Year 11 student from Northam Senior High School, who is also a participant of our 'Mayhem' Camps and a contributor to the Tomorrow Today page, has been selected as one of 18 students from around Australia to participate in the 40 Hour Famine Youth Summit in Canberra.

Rachel entered the World Vision Essay Competition which was run in conjunction with the 40 Hour Famine this year and w as the only West Australian student selected to represent her school. Rachel was chosen on the basis of her ability to demonstrate compassion for people in need and a desire to be actively Involved as an Australian citizen with a sense of global responsibility.

The opportunity to attend the Youth Summit is an Encouragement Award for her involvement in the community and for demonstrating how she cares for others. It will be a time of personal development, and Rachel will participate in a challenging four day program, including a tour of Parliament House, meetings with politicians and Aid Officials, debates and discussions.

As a participant, Rachel will be considered for one of the four possible places on a trip to Thailand during January 1996 to work in the field with World Vision staff.

Rachel is proving to be a young woman with exceptional talents, and we warmly congratuRachel Christie: to participate in the 40hr Famine Youth Summit late her.

The early bird gets the eagle's nest Eagles Nest is a youth forma- al and personal development. tion centre established and Excellent foresight has enabled administered by the Catholic the buildings to be shaded and Youth and Young Adult Ministry sheltered by large gum trees and under the auspice of the there is a swimming pool which Archdiocese of Perth. provides cool respite in summer It is essentially a retreat centre and (if you are keen), a brisk and was established by the swim in winter!

Catholic community for the spiriThe caretakers are a vibrant tual and personal formation of young couple who are at one young people. with the natural surroundings.

The buildings are nestled in Ingrid and Charles Roche probeautiful natural surroundings vide a breath of fresh air with and are blessed with having the their friendly and cooperative Walunga National Park at the manner, and if required will confront door. Incredible views duct Wilderness Awareness overlooking valleys and hills are workshops or guided bush walks. a feature of the living areas and There are tennis courts for the winter streams and waterfalls energetic and extra curricular contrast sharply with the dry activities such as 'Star Parties' summer landscape. (amateur astronomy nights) or a There is an abundance of nat- workout on the Adventure ' ural wildlife and birdlife, some Leadership course at 'Bill's Place' fed by the caretakers, and kanga- are available if desired by roos can be observed quietly by groups. night as they surround the buildCharles and Ingrid are acceptings. ing bookings for 1996 from this Surrounded by trees and week and your school or organilocated on a quiet country road, sation can secure a place by Eagle's Nest is perfect for spiritu- phoning them on 574 7030.

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Antiochers: rattle the can and raise the dough Youth Appeal Sunday August 20 saw 80 young Catholics from the Antioch communities take to the streets of Perth for the annual Door Knock Appeal.

The majority of the groups collected around their Parishes, but one group, FMP - Fremantle Mosman Park decided to try something new. Some took their guitars and their voices to South Street

in Fremantle to entertain the Sunday strollers and bring focus to their cause, whilst other members of FMP walked the street shaking their tins!

Overall it appears the 80 collectors averaged $23.00 each from 12 Antioch groups, a considerable jump on last year, and a great achievement.

Congratulations.

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A special vote of thanks to the few ex Antiochers and adults who walked the streets with the young. Their contribution in time, energy and witness were invaluable.

Please return all used and unused receipt books to the Youth Office at 30 Claverton St. North Perth immediately, they are urgently required for auditing.

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By Rosemary Penman, CEO Public Relations Officer An innovative program aimed at helping disadvantaged young people culminated recently in a dream come true for the students involved. After a year's participation in the Sports Challenge program, these students challenged some of their basketball heroes in matches played at the Midvale Leisure Centre. Playing basketball with the opposition twice their size and in an atmosphere of celebration with music, cheer squads and huge support from their school peers - the students showed no signs of the earlier lack of self-esteem or motivation which gave them entry into the program.

Conceived in 1990 by its current Director, Dr Garry Tester, and Chairman, Dr Ian Rouse, the program has been extremely successful in addressing the needs of students who underachieve, or manifest negative behavioural traits.

Research has shown that students participating in the Sports Challenge program have increased levels of self-esteem, motivation, better relationships with family and more appropriate social behaviour.

The Sports Challenge project involves the participation of the selected students in a 15-week program, consisting of two 40-minute sessions per week Small groups, (8 to 14 children) have received instruction on both individual and team aspects of basketball in classes conducted by specially trained high-profile players from the State Basketball League Men's and Women's teams, NBL Teams Men & Women (Wildcats & Breakers), AFL players and Olympians.

Norman Moore (left) with basketball adversaries

"Peace is not merely the absence of war," said Father the Gerard Dickinson at Kelleberrin 18th Day of Reflection, "but what is needed is an inner peace of souls, hearts, minds and wills to make an exterior peace possible."

It was August 24, the eve of Our Lady's Assumption, and Marian devotees had come from the suburbs of Perth and various country districts as a solidarity gesture of love for Mary and to receive an input from each other, the invited speakers, and accompanying priests.

Welcoming Kelleberrin basked in sunshine surrounded by the lush green of the grain filled fields, while Father Dickinson spoke on two topics Mary, Mother of Peace, and The Truth will set you Free.

He pointed to the need for consecration and re-consecration of ourselves, families, and Australia to Mary in these times of upheaval and to ask her intercession for strayed souls "because her task is to lead souls to her Son who in turn leads them to the Father."

In accordance with Our Lady's desire at Fatima, "and at Father today," Medjugorje Dickinson urged people to say the Rosary daily in order to find peace in a war torn world.

Then drawing an analogy between St Paul's urging of Timothy to hold steadfast to the Faith he'd been taught and believed in, and the struggle between truth and falsity inside and outside of the Church, Father Dickinson said St Paul built on the original teachings taught in the home.

He described how from our earliest Bible story readings by our parents, and then the progressive gaining of knowledge through priests and catechists, we discerned the message of the Bible and gained wisdom through the Scriptures which helped build our faith in Jesus.

"God revealed himself to us through the life of Jesus who said that if we make the Word our home, we will indeed be His disciples. In so doing we would learn the Truth and the Truth will set us free."

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Politicians: a heavy responsibility lation that would pave the way Following the commencement for euthanasia. of debate in WA's state parliaArchbishop Hickey: I would ment last week on proposed leg- say that morally the issues are islation regarding medical care clear. One has to use political for the dying, Archbishop Barry judgement as to whether they Hickey issued statements in The should be contained in law or Record and the press on both the not. There are some who have Bill's good aspects and those told me quite strongly that this aspects which he sees give cause Bill should become law because for concern. He spoke to Peter it will prevent euthanasia legislaRosengren about the Bill and tion, and if it is not passed the how he thinks legislators' way is open for legislation that responsibilities in the matter will go far beyond this and legitshould be exercised imise euthanasia.

There are others who say that Question: You have issued if we disturb the status quo and two statements in the last week define the medical conditions on the Medical Care for the under which medical treatment Dying legislation currently being can be used, we are opening a debated by the Western loophole as legislation already Australian parliament. What is passed can be amended and your position on that legislation? open the way to euthanasia Archbishop Hickey: I just even if it were not intended in want to make it clear that the two the initial Bill. So that is not a statements which I have issued question about moral judgement are very, very similar. They say of the content or wording of the virtually the same thing. What Bill. It's a matter of political they are saying is that the Bill judgement and people differ in contains some positive values their assessment of it. about the treatment of the termiI am very cautious in my nally ill. They also raise some approach to the Bill because I fairly serious reservations that I have no crystal ball, I can't tell have. I call them ambiguities. whether its going to prevent They are of such a nature that euthanasia legislation or facilithey make me very cautious tate it. about the Bill itself. It's one thing Question: In that case do to look at a Bill and say 'well, its you think that it is the responsiwording is very close to wording bility of Catholic politicians in that the Church herself uses in state and federal parliaments talking of treatment of the termi- who are pro-life in their attitude nally ill and the conditions under to do everything that they can to which medical treatment could ascertain as far as they can what possibly be withdrawn.' It's a particular piece of legislation's another thing to say that its a likely consequences will be politically good move to put it in before making a decision on how at all. Because we don't know they vote? the consequences of legislation, Archbishop Hickey: Catholic we can't predict them, and it politicians and politicians who might have consequences that are pro-life in their attitude we never intended in the first would want to prevent euthanaplace. sia legislation. But I can't make Question: Is there a possibil- up their minds for them. They ity that this legislation should not need to hear from the Church be put forward? It's still a very what the moral position of the grey area. The major criticism Church is on these matters, and I that's been made is that it effec- hope in my statement and in my tively constitutes the sort of legis- earlier pastoral letter on

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Archbishop Hickey: Bill contains good principles and "ambiguities"

euthanasia I have given that.

Question: But, in essence, They have to look at their own Catholic politicians first need to consciences and their own politi- be guided by what the Church cal judgement to assess whether teaches in terms of moral princithis Bill will implement those ple - as opposed to making a principles or will open the way to political judgement about a departure from those princi- whether legislation will effectiveples. ly result in euthanasia?

It's a heavy responsibility that Archbishop Hickey: Indeed, politicians have, to make laws that's the point I'm trying to that defend our traditional values make, that we can and do advise about the sanctity of life, but it's about the moral principles. But essentially a political judgement political questions and the quesand I'm not the most qualified to tions of the effects of legislation: make political judgements. That they are in a better position to burden is on their own shoul- assess than I. ders.

Interestingly, my statement If it were obviously euthana- has been picked up in two ways: sia legislation then I would attack as support for the Bill by those it with all the force I could who want it passed, and as oppomuster, and that would be on sition to the Bill by those who moral grounds, not on political don't want it passed. And I have grounds. avoided giving political advice. I This particular Bill is unique. have simply stated that the prinIt reads well, it contains good ciples contained in the Bill as it principles. But what are the long now stands are quite in accord term effects? The answer to that with Catholic moral statements is not known yet. about respect for life. But at the

same time I have to say that I have serious misgivings because there are ambiguities which, if exploited, might allow all sorts of abuses. Beyond that I'm not sure what I can say.

Question: Well, do you think, then, that the major task for the framers of this legislation and those involved in the debate around it in Parliament is to address the ambiguities and 'iron them out"?

Archbishop Hickey: I hope that the parliamentarians are allowed plenty of time to discuss this Bill and to think it over; to see what amendments are brought forward and to assess them. And if the trend appears to be in favour of liberal interpretation of some of the provisions then I think we're well-warned and can move to oppose it.

On the other hand if the Bill appears to be very tightly written and 'shores-up' the defences against euthanasia, then I think the pro-life politicians need to assess whether it will work or not.

Question: Do you think the Bill could, perhaps, benefit from a 'waiting' period? After all, one could argue that there is no immediate rush to put this legislation into action. Perhaps those who are involved with the whole process could benefit from waiting for a period of time to look at similar acts around the world or in other parts of Australia, to frame their thinking about it?

Archbishop Hickey: I think the delay would be beneficial.

There's absolutely no rush. As things stand, doctors are rarely accused of wrong-doing, if they act according to the principles already in possession. So if they act according to the law as it now stands, they are safe, so I don't really see what the rush is. But if there is a Bill being presented one has to have an attitude towards it. So given that there is a Bill one has to take one's time, examine it very, very closely and eventually, after making the moral judgements, make the political judgements. And that is where the politicians must judge according to their own consciences in the light of the Church's teaching.

I would just add that my statements have been clear and cautious and well thought out. It's possible that if events take a different turn, if the legislation is so amended that it allows things that are quite unacceptable. I may well come out again and say that in its present form it is no longer morally acceptable.

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L'ellers 10 lAet C01110P Taylor Bill needs close scrutiny, says supporter s one MP who intends supporting my mind on this when I see the form of A ACT shows the way the so-called Taylor Bill on the words, and the impact they will have.

I make no secret of the fact that at all medical care of the dying, may I

point out that in a statement issued by Right times I have taken advice on this whole To Life (RTL) on August 24 to all public issue from Fr Black.

Finally I quoted to the House the media that the Archbishop has been stance of Pope Pius XII who as far back misquoted.

The Archbishop did not warn that the as 1957 seemed to deal most adequately, Taylor Bill ". . . paves the way for euthana- and with great foresight, with this most serious and delicate topic. sia".

I will continue my support of this Bill.

As well, the RTL statement said in its heading that the Archbishop's "opposiPhillip Pendal MLA tion" to the Bill was welcome.

My reading of the plain words of the Member for South Perth Archbishop's statement was that he did not oppose the Bill.

So let's start afresh. The Archbishop did say that the Bill, which reflects some good principles, "needs to be treated with The Record deeply apologises for caution lest it have unintended consepublishing a letter from Dr Ted Watt quences."

With this I agree and when I spoke in under the heading "Ethics reform the House on August 23 I said as much urgently needed" which referred to two (indeed I expressed the Archbishop's priest directors of Catholic medical ethics institutes in two Australian cities cautionary message).

The Archbishop also demanded that and, which - in Christian and Catholic the Bill he subjected to the closest scruti- ethics circles - could have been understood as referring to Father Walter ny. Once again, this is supported by me.

As your readers might expect, I Black MSC of Perth and Fr Norman Ford oppose euthanasia. If the Bill did repre- SDB of Melbourne.

The Record acknowledges that both sent euthanasia I would be opposing it.

I went on to explain that certain Fr Black and Fr Ford have been severly amendments flagged by the Member for embarrassed by the publication of a letter which contained within it allegations A.shburton should not be supported.

I took my cue here from Father Walter that were not substantiated in the letter.

Black, head of the L J Goody Bioethics allegations which both priests deny Centre who believed that the Member for absolutely.

Ashbuton's amendments would muddy The Record retracts any imputation the waters of an otherwise clear Bill. that these priests or the centres they I am prepared to look at certain other direct are in urgent need of ethics amendments which seek to define the reform, or that the Church would be condition "terminally ill." I will make up better off without them.

Apology

Performing to your best

and preparation we do away from face-toface contact with our children. It is the time we spend thinking about these things.

The time we spend reflecting on what we are going to say to our children about these matters and how we are going to say it.

Sometimes we do not even have to say anything we can instead communicate the message far more powerfully by actions.

A pat on the shoulder, an invitation to a concert, a foot!" match or even some liturgical event - without any lecture from us can often communicate a message far more powerfully than all the words in the Bible.

And can I use this last paragraph to give an apology to the Year 3 and 5 children at St Paul's Primary School, Mount Lawley. The front page caption to my photograph of them last week was incorrectly captioned -Year 5 students giving a rendition of 'Come Fill My World-. The copy read well with the picture but the children pictured were in fact the Year 3 students performing the Christian Drama.

'Peacemakers'.

C ince my article for parents last week on Lithe Performing Arts, I have been asked by a number of parents for a few more tips on how they should encourage their children.

In the original article I wrote 'the hard work is up to you - and particularly your children". Let me expand this a little more: Obviously the 'hard work' for kids is in the practice, and learning to control their nerves before and during a performance.

The control of nerves comes through repeated performing experiences and the Learning of psychological discipline.

What is the 'hard work' for parents?

Our "hard work" is in two areas. The first is in learning to be encouraging without being pushy. A child whose parents are -all over him/her like a "rash" can become as emotionally disadvantaged as a child who is given no encouragement.

The error was made by myself and not Our 'hard work' is to learn to control our maternal and paternal protective the Editor of The Record. instincts and to learn not to "get rid of our Brian Coyne hang-ups through our kids lives."

We need to give our children "space to Publications Officer be themselves' - space in which to grow Catholic Education Office emotionally, spiritually and intellectually.

The -hard work" for us I was referring to is in finding this nice balance between not enough encouragement and too much °There is currently some confusion encouragement.

It is not as easy as it sounds. What we 1among Caholics with regard to the gain from our 'hard work through less magisterium. Catholics are bound to work' is growth in the cardinal virtues of accept the infallible decisions of the magisterium in faith and morals, otherwise patience and tolerance.

The second area of "hard work" for us they commit the sin of heresy.

Refusal to accept the non-infallible again has something to do with 'balance'.

We have to find the correct balance teachings of the magisterium is not a sin between the encouragement we give our against faith, but against obedience and reverence due to the Church, unless that children in all facets of their lives.

The encouragement has to be not only refusal is justified by serious reasons.

However, one may sin against faith by in the Performing Arts, but it has to be in their sporting endeavours, their academic credulity. The credulous person accepts endeavours and, above all, in their spiritu- and defends doctrines as of divine faith al endeavours - the growth of that "power- which are of mere human origin. All house part of themselves" from which kinds of private revelations are readily accepted because of a desire for the extraeverything else gains its momentum.

We need to "balance" our encourage- ordinary and sensational. The Church's approbation of private revelations only ment over all areas of their lives.

Like a teacher, for a parent the really signifies that they contain nothing against 'hard work' comes about in the reflection faith and morals. It is not a guarantee that

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hose who support the Medical Care of the Dying Bill 1995, should look closely at the Australian Capital Territory legislation and the Bill recently presented to the ACT Parliament.

Last year the AO' Parliament passed the Medical Treatment Act 1994. It is similiar to Mr Taylor's Bill. At the time of the debate it was claimed that it did not legalize euthanasia. Less than a year later, on 23 August 1995, Mr Michael Moore presented the Medical Treatment (Amendment) Bill 1995 to the ACT Parliament.

It proposed several ammendments, such as: "After section 6 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted: 6A A person who is - (a) of sound mind; (b) has attained the age of 18 years; (c) has been informed by a health professional that he or she is suffering from a terminal illness and is likely to die within the next twelve months as a result of that illness; and (d) is suffering pain or distress caused by the illness which cannot be controlled by medical treatment or palliative care to the satisfaction of the person who is ill; may make, or cause to be made on his or her behalf, a direction in writing to have a substance administered or provided to terminate his or her life.

The intention of this amendment and others in the Bill is to turn the 1994 Act into an Act to legalize euthanasia. Mr Taylor's Bill, if passed. will become a similiar vehicle to introduce euthanasia.

Brian A Peachey Woodlands they are from God. Almost every manual of theology makes the above distinctions clear, but they are often forgotten.

Pastor Apoplexus Fr. Noel FitzSimons, Manclurah.

Starvation horror atricia Malone (The Record August p 24th) has highlighted what is perhaps the crucial issue in the whole euthanasia

debate, the use of the 'word extraordinary' to describe, or not describe, the feeding of an unconscious patient through a tube. she maintains that tube feeding in an emergency is not extraordinary, but that it becomes so when continued over a long period of time while the patient's condition remains stable.

At what stage, and, on what grounds. would doctors decide that whereas yesterday the feeding was ordinary, as from tomorrow it will be classified as extraordinary, and discontinued?

Ideally as Mrs Malone says, such a patient would be fed personally, by a compassionate nurse, but compassionate nurses are exceedingly busy and tube feeding does save a lot of time. There is no reason why it should be regarded as dehumanising the unconscious patient.

What about other sorts of tubes that can be inserted into patients, such as tracheotomy tubes, urinary catheters and colostomy bags? Should they also be classified as extraordinary?

Their withdrawal would also cause death, and a great deal more squickly than the withdrawal of a tube to administer food and water. Starvation and dehydration can take ten days or more to kill, and how sure can we be that a patient is so totally unconscious as to be unaware of the horrible death he or she is forced to undergo?

Janet Kovesi Watt Claremont

However, it seems that God continues to speak through unexpected people (perhaps the last-become-first of last Sunday's readings) in extraordinary way& While treating truly human ideas as divine doctrine may be a sin against the faith, skepticism about private revelations can lead itself to a form of credulity while popular piety can express deep and authentic religious sentiment.

Editor's note: Father FitzSimons raises a point which is at the heart of many disputes in the Church - the status of teaching that is not defined infallibily but which demands obedience and reverence from the faithful, an area in he two Great Wars were a punishwhich some Catholics claim in conment for morally debased humanity science to differ from the Church while and they were also a warning that more remaining Catholics serious tribulations will follow if humaniIt is useful on these points to refer to ty doesn't mend their moral ways. the teaching of the Second Vatican Yet is the world heading the warning?

Council. the council that spoke of the What can we expect to happen? Will we Faith to the modern world, as contained have to go through tribulations like never in the Catechism of the Catholic before and neither afterwards to underChurch: stand that humanity is morally bankrupt?

"892 Divine assistance is also given Apparitions, Evangelists, and Old Testamto the successors of the Apostles, teach- ent prophets are warning us. ing in communion with the successor of Will we have to learn through sufferings Peter, and, in a particular way. to the that "the new order" human invention to bishop of Rome, pastor of the whole adjust God's law to human immoral Church, when, without pronouncing in desires is a failure? a "definitive manner", they propose in To minimise the effect, of those evils ordinary the exercise of the which are in store for humanity we have Magisterium a teaching that leads to better understanding of Revelation in to pray; show generosity towards the matters of faith and morals. To this starving population of the world and ordinary teaching the faithful "are to respect the commandments all of which adhere to it with religious assent ." are summed up in love for God and our which, though distinct from the assent of neighbour. The World War II fire-bombings of Hamburg, Dresden and Tokyo, and faith, is nonetheless an extension of it."

This question of what is an extension the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, have of the faith, the effects caused by the been only local sufferings compared to is, not surprisingly. the chastisement humanity is standing faith perhaps, addressed by the faith-filled mind of St before.

Thomas Aquinas when he taught: Francis Hrubos " A thing may be of the faith in two Glen Forrest ways: in one way, directly and principally. for instance, the articles of faith: in another way , indirectly and secondarily, for example those matters, the denial of which leads to the corruption of some Correspondence generated by the letarticle of faith. And there can be heresy in ter of the Catholic Education Office's either way, even as there can be faith." director of religious education. Fr Gerard Turning from St Thomas to the ques- Holohan. (The Record, August 24) will not tion of whether private revelations be published in The Record. approved by the Church encourage orthoLetters dealing with the issues raised doxy and vitality in spiritual life.

by Fr Holohan's letter should be mailed Naturally, caution is needed before to Fr Holahan, private revelations are approved, and dis-the Editor. cretion advised afterward&

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Features

A delicate balance of science and mystery

By Father Eugene LaVerdier

y Dad took me once, long ago, to view the planet M Saturn through a telescope one

of his friends had set up.

Peering through the telescope, there it was - a planet with great rings, brighter than a photo in National Geographic magazine!

It was awesome!

As a boy growing up in Winslow, Maine, I climbed hills and scrambled over rocks to follow the marks of ancient glaciers, looking for fossils, crystals and minerals. I remember splitting tulip bulbs, looking for the flower inside.

Between these childhood ventures in the field, there were trips to the public library where Dad helped me select a few good books written at a child's level.

Reading them was an adventure.

I suppose that's why I always have found science friendly to

me as a human being and a person of faith - even today, when the horizons of science are truly awesome.

I know that science can be put at the service of evil. But that is the scientist's fault, not the fault of science itself. Scientists can also add to the store of human knowledge and help us shape the world as a better place. Thus science helps us fulfill our mission as co-creators with God: to fill the earth and subdue it.

But what does science do for us personally?

To begin with, science opens our eyes in wonder, like it opened mine when I explored the planet Saturn through a telescope. Of course, once our eyes are open, it is time for a little contemplation. Science goes only so far.

We also need images and poetry to express what we see.

For this I often turn to Psalm 8:45: When I behold your heavens,

the work of your fingers, "the moon and the stars which you set in place - "What is man that you should be mindful of him," or the son of man that you should care for him?"

Science helps us to place ourselves in perspective. If one has faith, it also inspires praise of God. We find out a lot about ourselves as human beings through science - how our body functions or how our feelings are related to various bodily organs, for example.

Science even helps biblical scholars date ancient manuscripts of the Bible, the record of God's word to us and of human faith.

Science reveals many things about us, but it does not tell us who we are. For that we turn to personal reflection, faith, the revealed word of God, theology and philosophy.

Who we are is a mystery, as is true of all the most important

things: God, life itself, faith, love, hope. That doesn't mean we don't know who we are, simply that we cannot fully explain who we are, at least not scientifically.

Mystery is something we know, but in knowing we realize there is always much more to be known. No matter how much we delve into the mystery of the human and Christian self, we never exhaust it.

A human being, like a simple smile, is a mystery. We may be able to analyze a smile scientifically, counting and studying the muscles that go into it, but it never ceases to be a mystery.

There is a delicate balance to maintain between science and mystery, between what we observe and what we contemplate. Losing that balance is a great impoverishment.

Maintaining that balance.

Christians need neverf ear science. In a good person's hands, science is a great blessing.

A human being, like a simple smile, is a mystery

Learning modern truths from biblical sense of awe For example, in recent bestselling books, biologist Richard Dawkins and philosopher Daniel n a course I teach to college Dennett repeated the old materilstudents on science and reli- alist refrain that natural selection gion, I like to begin by asking if and the laws of chemistry and they can think of any questions physics alone can give us an a science cannot answer, either dequate explanation of how life now or in the future. arose and evolved into so many This exercise helps us clarify species, including ours. whether discourse about God After Darwin, they both say, might still fit into our lives. In an there is no longer the slightest age when science and its prod- mystery about life's origin and ucts loom large, it is not always evolution. easy to specify where reference Meanwhile, physicists Heinz to God belongs.

Pagels, Stephen Hawking and Has science perhaps edged Steven Weinberg have proposed God out of our lives and that physics is on the verge of thoughts? discovering a "final theory" that There can be no sense of God will dispel completely any veswithout a sense of mystery. But tige of mystery about the unihasn't science thoroughly exor- verse as a whole. cised mystery from our world?

Scientist Leon Lederman has Do we today have any access to predicted that when we discover the infinitely open and renewing the deepest equations of physics region of the unknown from they will be simple enough to where God may be said to come write on a T-shirt. into our lives?

Not all scientists, however, go Skeptics insist that modern along with such demystification science leaves no room for mys- of the universe. Even though he tery or meaningful talk about could not embrace the idea of a God. They argue that the notions personal God, Albert Einstein at of mystery and God originated least gave permanent place to long ago in a pathetic human mystery. ignorance which science finally "The most beautiful thing we is banishing. can experience is the mysterious Until science came along we side of life," he wrote. "It is the could tolerate religious explana- deep feeling which is at the crations for many natural occur- dle of all true art and science. In rences, but today we leave no this sense, and only in this sense, excuse for resorting to such prim- I count myself amongst the most itive speculation. deeply religious people."

For Einstein the greatest of mysteries is that the universe is intelligible at all. Science takes for granted that the universe is ordered; otherwise our mathematics could hardly comprehend it.

Physicist Paul Davies, in The Mind of God, concludes that the fact that the cosmos makes sense to the human mind is the great "mystery at the end of the universe."

By reserving a place for the mystical, scientists like Davies implicitly make room for theology in an age of science. For, while theology must not usurp science's role in solving particular puzzles in physics or biology, it has a permanent role in responding to such fundamental questions as: Why should we do science at all? Why isn't nature just a meanBy John F. Haught

I The wonder of space: opening our thoughts to the reality of God

Extravagant cosmos yields to a deeper quest for God than the angels . . . 0 Lord, our Lord, how glorious is your he marvels of science and name!" (Psalm 8:46,10) Talk about wonder! Lacking technology amaze people.

Putting men on the moon the miracles of laser beams, the ancients marveled at the light aroused a sense of awe in us.

But pictures of planet Earth and power of the sun, which taken from somewhere out in led them, nonetheless, to wonspace were also a clear der at the majesty and might of reminder of how puny we the Creator.

The Bible is full of expreshumans are in the grand sions of awe, and they reveal scheme of things. It's sobering!

The grandeur of human how full of thrilling wonder accomplishments is undeniable. people's lives were then.

Of course, the Book of WisStill, it can be misleading.

What if the grandeur creates dom wondered at something a sort of myopia, setting up a else, at the myopia of those screen between human vision whose awe was disconnected from their Creator: and the Creator?

"For all men were by nature That which dazzles can foolish who were in ignorance short-circuit us, causing us to stop short of reflecting on the of God, and who from the good implications of events, from things seen did not succeed in wondering at the Creators knowing him who is, and from power, care and ingenuity - studying the works did not diseven in the midst of scientific cern the artisan" (Wisdom 13:0.

All of life was a source of marvels.

Is there any link left between wonder for people of biblical post-modern humans and the times. They revelled in it.

But like us many remained people of biblical times when it comes to what elicits awe at risk of getting short-circuited, allowing their sense of wonder and wonder?

What did the ancients have to stop short of its greatest goal.

With or without amazing to wonder at?

People in prescientific bibli- inventions, people of vision can cal times had all of nature to look deeply into the marvels inspire awe and wonder. Un- that surround them and direct distracted by imitations, many their gaze to the eternal invenwent directly to the reality, to tor.

God. The last book of the Bible The psalmist wrote: "When I sums it all up - for people back behold your heavens, the work then and today: "Great and wonof your fingers, the moon and derful are your works, Lord God the stars which you set in almighty .. . .. All the nations will place . . . what is man that you come and worship before you, should be mindful of him? . . . for your righteous acts have You have made him little less been revealed" (Revelation 15:3By Father John Castelot

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ingless jumble? Why is the cosmos so extravagantly generous in yielding up its secrets to our human quest for understanding?

What right do we have to expect that the natural order would so readily correspond to the shape of our minds and mathematics? These remain great mysteries.

There is an even deeper question that science itself cannot answer: "Why is there anything at all rather than nothing?"

It is especially in addressing this question that we continue to brush up against mystery and open our thoughts to the reality of God, even in an age when science is clearing up other, more trivial, matters. But what do skeptics of a scientific type reply to the big question about why there is anything at all? The best they can do is to recite with Carl Sagan that the universe "just is," or with Daniel Dennett, simply ask "Why not?" In other words, there is no reason why the universe is rational; it "just happens" to be. At bottom, therefore, the cosmos would be absurd.

Of course, if the universe is absurd, we may wonder why we should pay any attention to Sagan's physics or to Denner's attempts to make sense of it.

If the universe as a whole makes no sense, why bother to delve into any portion of it with the tools of science?

What actually has happened is that science has left us with a deeper sense of mystery than ever.

The discoveries of science have enlarged our perception of the vastness and complexity of the universe. With each scientific advance, new and unanticipated questions open up.

The horizon of the unknown keeps expanding, not shrinking.

There is more to wonder about today than ever. Science itself is exposing us to the boundless mystery of things.

And wherever there is mystery there is plenty of room for faith and worship.

John Naught. Professor of Theology at Georgetown University, is the author of a forthcoming hook from Paulist Press.

"Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation."

Features

Palestinian Christians quandry

Soubhi Jabbour

By Colleen McGuiness Howard C hristianity was superciliously dismissed by the Israelis for inclusion on a conference on Religions of the Holy Land held at the Hebrew University in Palestine a few years ago because "The number of Christians is insignificant - they no longer matter,"" Sadly enough that's largely true, according to Melkite Catholic, Palestinian born Arab. Soubhi Jabbour who migrated to Australia 31 years ago, and wants to tell people of the plight of the diminished numbers of Palestinian Christians remaining in Palestine, and their need for support to keep Christianity alive in the land of Christ.

State Manager for Harvey World Travel, Mr Jabbour returns to Palestine about once a year, and maintains a strong interest in, and communication with his former country.

He brought his family to Australia to give them a better start - a move he's never regretted - and left behind a homeland that has seen a steady exodus of Christians since then, reflected in the 11% Palestinian Christian representation prior to the 1948 establishment of Israel as the Jewish state, and the current 1.5%.

The tragedy of the Palestinian

Christian is that indigenous Palestinian Christians were always part of the Holy Land since the first Pentecost, 2000 years ago, said Mr Jabbour, "and unless we help the few remaining Arab Christians who are hanging on to the land they belong to, they too will leave."

One such organisation which espouses that cause is the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre which Mr Jabbour has been accepted into, probably representing their first Palestinian-born Christian member, at least here in Australia."

The major thrust of the Knights is to propogate the Faith and maintain the places in the whole of Israel and the Occupied Territories, which according to Mr Jabbour require outside assistance, because, whereas pre-1948 Christians made up 90% of the population of Christ's birthplace, Bethlehem now has only 10%.

He commends the Knights for spending money on education in order to sustain them there, "and also those who're dirtying their hands by working with them, such as some priests, one of whom has started the first university in Galilee, Israel, which has a Christian ethic for Christian, Muslim and Jew alike."

Then with a cry from the heart, Mr Jabbour asked: "Can you believe that in the land of Christ, Christianity is dying...?"

One doesn't generally think of Arabs as being Christians, so it's perhaps understandable that he's frequently asked when did he convert to Christianity?

But Christianity has been entrenched there for centuries, said Mr Jabbour , who traces his family tree back to the early 1700's "where they resided at the foot of Mt Carmel in Haifa close to the Melkite Catholic Church of which they were devoted and loyal members."

Referring to the level of Western Christian interest "in the land where the faith of one million adherents was born," Mr Jabbour quoted a Palestinian Baptist Minister who stated that Jerusalem may be an issue to 14 million Jews, and a billion Muslims, "but yet it's not an issue for the billion Christians around the world."

And unless that indifference changes, he warned, "our Holy Land will become a graveyard of Christianity!"

Archbishop Pio Longhi, a past Apostolic delegate in Jerusalem echoed that concern when he said that one could move New York to another site, "but you can't move Jerusalem because elsewhere

it would be nothing," he quoted.

And went on to describe that the Church in Palestine was "in a way wedded to the Palestinian Arab culture.

"So if the Arab Christians moved out, Christianity would disappear, as 96% of the believers are of Arab extraction, language and culture, and the holy places would become museum attractions only."

Mr Jabbour sees as significant the fact that for the first time the Pope has chosen Patriarch Michel Sabbah, a Palestinian Arab as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (and Grand Prior of the Knights' Order), to lead the Church in the Holy Land, and he then painted a picture of unity between the Patriarchs of the various denominations who are planning to achieve a unified Christian stand in their negotations with the Israeli authorities.

Being in the minority, the Christians are not being taken seriously he said, and need political support from the outside, and urged Australians and the rest of the world "to pressure their governments to support these people."

It has to be a co-existence in order for Jerusalem to become a city of peace, emphasised Mr Jabbour, with nobody coming out on top.

According to Mr Jabbour, Christians in the Middle East celebrate Easter and Christmas on different dates, "but now the Christians want to celebrate Easter with the Greek Orthodox and Christmas with the Roman Catholics (Western Church).

In some respects, the wheel has turned almost a full cycle for the Holy Land, because prior to the creation of Israel in 1948, peace existed in Palestine with the happy co-existence of Christians, Jews and Muslims. described Mr Jabbour.

"But after 1948, the Palestinian Arabs were not only deported, but were terrorised into leaving their country and became refugees.

"The United Nations settled the refugee Jews at the expense of making the Arabs refugees."

The Israelis took the Palestinian's property, that which is now Israel, and for 40 years the Israeli government did not recognise any rights for the Palestinians, outlined Mr Jabbour.

With the UN partitioning of the Holy Land into two states - one for the Jews, Israel, and the other for the Arabs, "they had no chance. The Palestinians were unprepared."

There had been a squashed Palestinian

rebellion against the British before World War 11, (it was their Mandate), and during the war and after the Jewish settlements, the Jewish population became highly structured and organised, he said, "but the Palestinian Arabs were really depending on world opinion to give them justice because they felt theirs was a just cause, especially considering the Arab population was always in the majority whereas the Jewish migration started and grew in the British mandate from the 1920's until the end of the 1930's."

Thus when Israel was declared a state, cited Mr Jabbour, the Arab population was one and a half million compared to only 600,000 Jews.

However, better armed and highly organised, "they not only established themselves in their allocated Israel, but also took part of the sector allocated for Palestinian Arabs after the six day war; this is still not recognised by the UN. Israel has its "And although Parliament in Jerusalem and refers to it as its capital, the foreign embassies are established in Tel Aviv because they recognise the annexation is not legal."

Mr Jabbour noted the Vatican was the only state in the world that would not have representation in Israel, until Israel recognised the Palestinians' rights to a state of their own, but said last year they established diplomatic liaisons.

"Because of this upheaval, most of the Arab population became refugees in Israel or the surrounding Arab countries, and from then on the Arab states who'd just gained their independence from olonial Britain and France, were burdened with the Palestinian refugees", said Mr Jabbour.

"The issue of discontent has always been the settlement of the Palestinians and giving them justice."

But now "they're talking! And have accepted that the Palestinians have rights so the problems should be solved."

It needs a lot of patience and forgiveness because of half a century of hostilities, thousands of deaths on both sides. and time for the wounds to heal, said Mr Jabbour, but with reconciliation as the main factor, the problems should be "Now there is no reason solved. why Jerusalem, which is considered holy

by Christians, Muslims and Jews, cannot be the capital of both Israel and the Palestinian state," he said, "leaving out the demilitarised zone, as an example for peace in the world."

Angels envy the blessings God gives mothers placeable role in God's plan of salvation.

'Mothers are closer to God the creator than any other creature. God joins forces he most important person on earth with mothers in performing this act of creis a mother. She cannot claim the ation.' honor of having built Notre Dame When a child is conceived within the Cathedral. She need not. She has built body of a woman, God the Father and that something more magnificent than any woman are the closest of co-operators in cathedral - a dwelling for an immortal soul an act that is both human and divine. The - a tiny perfection of her baby's body. church calls this activity co-operation The angels have not been blessed with rather than domination because even such a grace. They cannot share in God's though God could bring about the exiscreative miracle to bring new saints to tence of any human being by His almighty heaven. Only a human mother can. will, God respects the dignity of the Mothers are closer to God the creator than woman by waiting on her. any other creature. God joins forces with He, as her Creator, is entitled to her mothers in performing this act of creation. complete submission, irrespectiveof her What on God's good earth is more glori- wishes. But God does not impose. He links ous than this: to be a mother.

Himself in His creative act to the functionThese words come from the pen of the ing structure of her being. But only when late Cardinal Mindszenty, a Hungarian the conditions are right. Only when she is bishop who died some years ago. open to His coming. In this sense, God In many ways, what he has said and a mother are cooperators. He works reflects a view of a mother that is rejected with her consent. by many these days, yet at the same time Now, because God chooses to seek the reflects the Christian idea of the mother co-operation of a woman rather than force that will last until the end of time. her subjugation to His will, this relationBecause it is a view that seems so strange ship can be easily taken for granted, as it to many younger modern ears, but not to is by many today. There are those women mothers over forty something, it's worth- today who forget that they have a priviwhile reminding ourselves of its truth. leged role in the act of creation.

No man enjoys this sort of relationship.

The most important person on earth is a mother. In this day and age when the Although a man may contribute his seed status of women is being sought as though to the process of creation, it is she alone women had none, it's good to be remind- who is the receptacle and the place of this ed that the Church has always held that a divine and human creative act.

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she can easily be tempted to think that she can do what she likes. Hence you can easily see how feminists the world over can say 'a woman has the right to do with her body as she likes.'

The half truth that this saying contains is the fact that a woman does indeed have a momentous choice about how her body will be utilised, but like all partial truths, it is only part of the story. When a woman remembers that the privileged choice that she can make comes about because God has made the order of creation this way, that woman truly becomes a mother in the sense that God had intended.

Now, it is this sense that Cardinal Mindszenty is talking about. He is thinking of all those Catholic mothers, who recognise and welcome God's plan and who co-operate with God in His plan.

They are His pride and joy because they realise that they are in a special and privileged relationship with God not enjoyed by either angels or men. They are God's pride and joy, because God can see that they are grateful to Him for having been made by Him to share with Him in such a momentous creative act. As the book of Genesis tells us, after God had made Adam and all the things on the earth, He made woman from man.

He made her to be of the same nature as a man, but different to a man. The difference that Aci in perceived is both physical and spiritual. He recognises that she is special. She is like him but she is different. So he names her woman. In this naming, Adamn recognises that a woman

has a distinct dignity and mission that is not like his own.

This has not changed even though there is all this talk about quality in our society today. A man is not equal to a woman nor a woman equal to a man.

Why some women persist in thinking that men should be made to think that women are equal to men is a reflection of how much they have lost their sense of their unique destiny that God has given them.

And the reason that he made woman a living temple is because God considers that His gift of life is so precious, that the only proper place it should be given, is within a special creation, a creature that has an immortal soul.

When we think of a mother in these terms, you can easily see how dreadful a thing it is to interfere with God's plan to create. If anyone interferes with either the strucure that is the place for God's creation of new life, or replaces that dwelling place with something else, or attacks the being within that dwelling place, those people are to be utterly condemned.

For not only are they desecrating a holy being, but also they are attacking the very place where God has chosen to give His new life to the world. In this regard. I suppose what is saddest and most tragic of all the things that has happened in our day and age, in this time of the history of the world, is to see that the one's who have denigrated motherhood most of all are the large numbers of mothers who have repudiated their own dignity and that of God's by abortion and contraception.

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Book Reviews

Messages cause thought, even a smile Our Father, by Matthew Kelly published

by Words from God, 126pp.

Reviewed by Fr Michael McShane SJ. his is both a lovely little book and one TMatthew about which I have strong reservations.

Kelly is a twenty-two year old

Australian. On the seventh of April in 1993 he had a religious experience. Since that time he has had almost daily interior locutions. The voice he identifies is that of God, the Father. His story and his message already have reached many thousands of people throughout the English-speaking world.

About half of this book is taken up by four hundred and thirty-three locutions. It also contains a brief foreword and a talk he gave in America last year.

Matthew Kelly says that "the main theme that runs through the messages is that God calls every man and every woman without exception, regardless of age, occupation or vocation and from each of us He expects love, and He expects that love to be consistent and persevering."

Some of the locutions are only one word long ("Change", No. 192). Others run to several paragraphs.

Some of the messages are at least in part from the Scriptures or from the lives of the saints. "Ask and you shall receive" (No 41) are words spoken by Christ our Lord in the Gospels. "Rebuild my Church" (No 241, the beginning) are words St Francis heard Christ speaking to him.

Some of the statements are quite general: "Peace of heart, peace of mind, peace of soul: the fruits of silence" (No.363).

Some of the locutions are practical: "At

work have a small crucifix on your desk" (No.98). Some of the messages must surely be meant as ideals: "You must show concern for every soul. Out of one hundred souls, you are interested in one hundred" (No. 158); and "Each hour ask yourself. Is this hour a suitable gift to God? Then try harder in the next hour to please Me" (No. 79).

I must admit that some of the messages, while giving me pause for thought, have caused me to smile:- "Pride stunts your

growth" (No. 74); "Television is the thief of love" (No 87), "Love is everyday" (No 170); and "My child, smile, it is the joy of the soul" (No 401).

According to the Catechism: "Throughout the ages, there have been so-called 'private' revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ's definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church."

The phrase "of Christ or his saints" is worthy of note. St John of the Cross is a reliable guide for us in these matters. He emphasises that the voice heard on the mountain of the Transfiguration said: "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear him" (Mt 17:5). He comments: "...nor is it necessary for God to speak any more. For, since He has finished revealing the faith through Christ, there is no more faith to reveal, nor will there ever be."

A way that this can be expressed is that it is the Son that leads us to the Father, just as it is the Holy Spirit that leads us to the Son. (To put it conversely, the Father sends the Son. the Son sends the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit sends the Church.)

The Catechism seems to leave the question of locutions open. However, the teaching of St John of the Cross is very clear: "And I greatly fear what is happening in these times of ours: If any soul what-

ever after a bit of meditation has in its recollection one of these locutions, it will immediately baptize all as coming from God and with such a supposition say 'God told me', 'God answered me'. Yet this is not so, but, as we pointed out, these persons themselves are more often the origin of their locution." His constant instruction is to pay no attention to locutions such as these. All that needs to be taken from them even if they are from God and there is no problem of interpretation, is the spirit of devotion they are inclined to engender.

It is in this light that one aspect of the talk reported in the book might be considered. At one point he refers to one of his locutions: "Ah the answers are in the tabernacle" (No 195).

Now he could have spoken about the tabernacle in the way he does without referring to this locution.

At another point in the talk he speaks about "Change" (Christ's call to each of us to change) without remarking that this was one of his locutions. This seems to me to be more in keeping with the teaching of St John of the Cross.

I would have felt more comfortable if the book contained a declaration of this type: "In accordance with the decrees of Pope Urban VIII we wish to state that only private and human faith is attributed to the locutions and events related in this book, to which the Church has not yet added its decree of approval". Even still it would not be satisfactory.

In my opinion it would be better if Matthew Kelly were to speak and write, as evidently he does very well, without drawing attention to his interior locutions.

Rabbi Danglow: father to Australian Judaism Rabbi Jacob Danglow: "The 'uncrowned monarch of Australian Jews" by John Simon Levi. published by Melbourne University Press, 1995. 352pp. $49.95 Reviewed By Fr Pat Ahern. he opening paragraphs of this book T give an excellent pen picture of Jacob Danglow. "No Australian Rabbi was

as well known as Jacob Danglow. From 1905 to 1962 he was a dominant and commanding force. As Archbishop Daniel Mannix was for the Catholics, so Danglow of St Kilda was for the Jews. His impressive dignity and moral authority meant that his was the only Australian Jewish voice that mattered.

The book gives a vivid outline not only of the Jewish community of St Kilda and its leader, but also of Melbourne in the early decades of this century.

Jacob Danglowitz (he was asked to change his name before coming to Melbourne) was born on 18th November, 1880, at Battersea, South West London, England. He was the third oldest son in a family of ten children. His father, Michael Danglowitz, was born in Cracow, Poland.

Jacob was educated at Jews' College, London, and in January 1905 was accepted as leader of St Kilda Hebrew Congregation with a salary of 300 pounds per annum plus house rent. He was described as a tall, imposing and handsome figure, with excellent scholastic and personal credentials.

Danglow arrived in Melbourne in September 1905 to find healthy rivalry existing between several Jewish congregations. He was an impressive speaker, and his sermons were well prepared and equally well received.

In November 1909, this very eligible young bachelor married May Baruch, the grand daughter of the late moritz Michaelis, the founder of the St Kilda Hebrew Congregation. In those days, and even today, it is not easy for Jews to marry "one of their own". Indeed, the issue of intermarriage, together with the admission of proselytes and the dietary laws of Kashrut are continuing issues of concern in Jewish communities. In October 1913, the Danglows, including baby Claire, left Australia on eight months leave. As well as visiting England, Jacob went on a long 10

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desired trip to the Holy Land of Palestine.

One of Danglow's big regrets was that oped and was ultimately the cause of his He visited many holy places and found he had not received the Rabbinic death on 29 May 1962. Tributes came Jerusalem quite fascinating. However, he Diploma. This would have meant a fur- from all over Australia and other parts of wrote about the Jews of Palestine as fol- ther year of study and the approval of the the world. Rabbi Danglow was described lows: "The general aspect of Jerusalem Chief Rabbi in London. To honour his as a father image to Australian Jewry. He Jewry is anything but dignified. The thirty years of service at St Kilda in 1935, had helped to guide and shape Australian chests of the young should be broadened the Board of the St Kilda Hebrew Jewry towards its maturity. and their backs strengthened by regular Congregation wrote to the Chief Rabbi This book will be of special interest to physical exercise. Their bodily habits asking him "to exercise his prerogative anyone interested in the history of Jewish should be improved." and grant Rev Jacob Danglow the title and people especially in Australia.

"Their minds should be educated up to privileges of Rabbi honoris causa". The It contains an excellent Bibliography western ideas of decency. Everything pos- request was granted and the St Kilda and a very helpful Glossary of Hebrew sible should be done to encourage Jews of Congregation was delighted that their names and terms.

Palestine to go on the land. Hebrew esteemed leader was a Rabbi at last.

The Biographer is Rabbi John Simon should he made the medium of expresThen came the Second World War with Levi who is the Senior Rabbi of the sion for Jews." The family also visited Italy its serious threat to Australia. Rabbi Victorian Union for Progressive Judaism. and on Christmas Day 1913, Danglow Danglow was officially appointed Senior He is the first Australian to be ordattended Pontifical High Mass in St Peter's Hebrew Chaplain for the Commonwealth, ained Rabbi and has served Temple Basilica in Rome. with the courtesy rank of Colonel. He Beth Israel in Melbourne since 1960.

In September 1914, the Danglows went on an exhaustarrived safely back in Australia in spite of ing tour of Army some of the hazards of the First World War. Early in 1918, Danglow was appoint- bases in Central New ed Jewish Chaplain to the ALF as succes- Australia, sor to Rabbi Freedman of Perth. As usual, Guinea and the Danglow applied himself to his task with Northern Territory 1943. great diligence. He conducted services, in June He was very visited the troops in various places and proud to note that even wrote letters home for them. He almost 4000 Austremained on duty in Europe for almost a ralian Jews served year after Armistice Day and finally in the Army, Navy returned to Australia in June 1919. He was and Air Force during disappointed with the apathy he found in the War. his congregation and he had to rekindle The post-war their enthusiasm as well as adjusting him- period saw a large self to the civilian way of life. exodus of Jewish 1926 saw a lame influx of Jews to refugees from EurAustralia and many of them settled in ope to various parts Melbourne. "This district is rapidly of the world, includbecoming the metropolis of Melbourne ing Australia. When Jewry and 'welcome societies' are spring- the State of Israel ing up" he wrote. In the following year, a was proclaimed in 'The uncro ned monarch new Synagogue was built in Chamwood 1948, Rabbi PangGrove, St Kilda. The 1930's saw a rise in low was pleased that of Australian Jews' anti-Semitism in Australia as Hitler and Jews would have a Nazism were on the rise in Germany. homeland and a Archbishop Mannix spoke out vehement- central religious ly in support of the Jews: "As one who has focus. However, he suffered through race and religion, I feel feared that Zionism called upon to express to my Hebrew fel- could be a serious low citizens, my grief and pain at the out- impediment to this rages". Some Bishops were critical of religious progress of Jews, but Archbishop Michael Kelly of Jews. In 1957, a seriSydney spoke strongly in favour of the ous throat complaint Jews, "through whose hands Divine forced him to retire Providence has handed down his revela- from duties. This tion. complaint devel-

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Catechesis puts fundamentalists to flight Many Catholic parents fear the potential influence of Protestant hindamentalist groups on their children. Father Edward Petty of a parish in the United States' midwest describes how he and his parish fought off a fundamentalist attack Tn June 1992 1 was assigned to pastor I of the largest parishes in our It is a small Midwestern diocese.

town/rural parish, but as almost all the people in the neighborhood are of German and Irish decent, the area is 90 percent Catholic, and the parish numbers around 5,000 registered members. The other churches in town are a small Lutheran and an even smaller Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. Relations with the Lutheran congregation are cordial, and the two parishes work together on a number of social projects.

The associate pastor was also new.

Arriving at the same time and happily agreeing on basic theological and administration issues, we decided on goals for our first year together. One was to increase weekend Mass attendance. By providing liturgies of a reasonable length and, if not always wonderful, at least always well-prepared, homilies, within a few months, we reached our goal of having 75 percent of our people at Mass on any given weekend.

In late January 1993, just when things were going well and both priests were resting on their laurels after a successful Advent and Christmas season, we received a challenge we did not expect. A small group of Fundamentalists rented an unused movie theatre in the town and opened up their own church. They were well financed by the national headquarters of their denomination and by a large church in another town thirty miles away.

Visiting evangelists and students from a Bible college were coming to help them establish their new church and to knock on doors. There were some fallen-away Catholics in their group, and they were more than aggressive in their entrance to our neighborhood.

Every family of the Lutheran parish received a letter inviting them to leave the Lutheran congregation and join the "Biblebelieving" and "fastgmwing" church. But it was the Catholics of our parish they were really after. They made it plain that our town had been targeted because it was predominately Catholic, and their group had previously been successful in Catholic areas. We were "ripe for the picking."

And they were right. Even though Mass attendance was in good shape, given the poor catechetics of the past 30 years, many of our parishioners were Catholic

simply because their grandparents had - why we believe what we believe and been. They were good "cultural Catholics" how to defend it.

The sermon went on to explain new but did not know why they believed what they believed nor why they did what they religious phenomena: the rise of did as Catholics. The area had been solid- Fundamentalism in America, a new antily Catholic since the nineteenth century, Catholicism accompanying it, and how so few, even among the older parishioners, Catholics are being taken in by ever had to defend their faith on an intel- Fundamentalists because they no longer lectual level. Then came the Fundamen- know how to defend their faith when it is being challenged. talists.

Then we used examples of Fund-amenWe decided that we had three choices talist openers: "We put our faith in Jesus, in dealing with this challenge.

We could do nothing, ignoring the not in any church or sacraments." "Why interlopers, or we could try to be "nice" go to a priest to have your sins forgiven, and go out of our way to be ecumenical. when Jesus can do it directly? "The Bible With either of these choices we could says not to drink blood; that's why the envision the Fundamentalists taking many Catholic idea of Jesus' body and blood in of our cultural Catholics away from the the Eucharist is wrong." "Show me in the faith. The third choice was to be real lead- Bible where it says to honour Mary so ers and pastors of our parish and take on much?"

We challenged our parishioners: this challenge. We chose the third option and decided to act quickly, before the "Could you answer those standard opendenomination could get a foothold in the ers?" We gave them quick but not complete answers. The ending of the 15community.

Establishing more Scripture study minute sermon was a veiled reference to groups and more adult catechesis groups the new challenge in our community: "We, were options as to "how," but the main in this parish, have a wonderful opportuway to reach the majority of parishioners nity this year to take a good look at what was still through the pulpit. We decided we as Catholics believe and why we to use that route primarily. While the believe those things."

By then most of the parishioners knew Church's liturgical instructions state that on Sundays and holy days a homily on the exactly what situation we were addressScripture readings is to be preached, for ing. In closing we announced the sermon good pastoral reasons (and ours was pas- series for the rest of Lent, the fact that we toral) a sermon not directly connected had the archbishop's encouragement with the readings could be preached. A (making it sound very official), and gave sermon series seemed to be the most the title of the next week's topic.

During the following week the coffee effective way to go.

We also - and this is most important - shops were buzzing with talk about the let the chief pastor of the diocese, our sermon series. Folks were interested. archbishop, know about the new Fund- There was a sense of some competition in amentalist challenge in our community the air, sort of an our team-versus-theirand what we intended to do about it. He team attitude, which we down-played, but it did interest some of the marginal supported us fully.

Using primarily two resources, Karl Catholics.

The next weekend we began a twoKeating's Catholicism and Fundamentalism and the collection of tracts from weekend sermon on keeping the Bible in Catholic Answers, we developed the ser- proper perspective. These sermons dealt mon series. Secondary resources includ- with the history of where we got the Bible. ed Fr John A. O'Brien's Faith of Millions, especially the New Testament, how the Frs Leslie Rumble and Charles M. Carty's Church Christ founded predates the New Radio Replies, Bishop John E Noll's Father Testament, how it was the Church that Smith Instructs Jackson, Fr William gave us the Bible we have today, and how jurgens' Faith of the Early Fathers, and Fr. Scripture was meant to be used with, in, William G. Most's Catholic Apologetics and through the Church.

After the first week, an unexpected Today.

This first sermon was the key. It set the thing happened. Parishioners started callstage for those following. It began with a ing and coming to the rectory, asking for short history of anti-Catholicism in the US, copies of the sermon. Unknown to the and the fact that our area was settled by new priests, there were many families in the parishioners' ancestors in order to the parish that had a son or daughter. avoid anti-Catholic prejudice. Then, grandson or granddaughter, who had thanks to a Catholic president, (John F moved out of town and eventually was lost Kennedy, Vatican II, and the ecumenical to a Fundamentalist group. These families movement) anti-Catholicism largely died wanted copies of the sermons to send out in our country, at least for a time. Also them. In addition, the Bible college studying out in those years was much of the dents were beginning to knock on doors, apologetical content of Catholic catechesis and our parishioners wanted ammunition.

If they couldn't argue well, they'd just hand the students sermon copies and say, "Read this."

Thanks to our parish secretaries and their computer skills, we quickly printed 500 copies of the first and second sermons in tract form and had them available in the pamphlet racks at the back of the church.

We announced that each week the sermon would be available by Wednesday in the pamphlet rack as "there had been so many requests for copies." This provided incentive for parishioners to get interested.

The Lutheran minister, even though he did not share our theology, was quietly cheering us on along the sidelines. He could not afford to lose many families from his small parish.

On Easter Sunday we preached on the lives of the apostles after that first Easter Sunday, as a great proof of the reality of the Resurrection. On the Sunday after Easter, with its Gospel from John 20, the final apologetical sermon of the series was given on the sacrament of penance. We promised the parish that in the future, when the Sunday readings touched on some point of Catholic doctrine challenged by Fundamentalists, we would Preach on that doctrine, explaining why we believe what we believe. Since that time, when the readings have lent themselves, we have kept that promise and have explained the Petrine primacy, What was the result of our sermon series? In spite of their money, personnel. and aggressive proselytizing, we did not lose a single parishioner to the Fundamentalists (the Lutherans did not fare as well.) In a few weeks of direct apologetical preaching, we were able to reaffirm to this parish that it was reasonable to be a Catholic and nothing else.

This is a small town, and even the 25 percent of our parishioners who are not here weekly heard the message. None of them defected either.

During Lent of 1994. we decided to do another sermon series. This time it was on the beauty and benefits of God's forgiveness in the sacrament of penance. By Easter Sunday the vast majority of our adult parishioners had made a good confession. For many it had been ten or more years since they had confessed. What a change this has made in our parish! We are not a perfect parish and never will be.

But with God's grace we are trying to be better Catholics and followers of Jesus Christ in our daily lives.

Had we not had the courage and the ability to meet the Fundamentalist challenge in 1993, I shudder to think what the situation would be in this parish, with families split, people arguing, and who knows how many Catholics being lost to the faith.

Zeal of misguided Jehovah's Witnesses is an example

By Father Gerard Dickinson r. Einar Molland, one-time D Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oslo,

in his book Christendom has a section entitled 'Religious Systems Containing Elements Derived From Christianity'..

He introduces his chapter on the Jehovah's Witnesses with these words - "'While the Adventists represent a form of Christianity which recalls the Jewish Christianity of the Early Church, their daughter sect, the movement known as 'Jehovah's Witnesses', lies decidedly outside the limits of Christendom".

Like most of our present day sects, the Jehovah's Witnesses originated in America in the 19th Century. Its founder was Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916) who in 1872 began to teach that Our Lord Jesus Christ would return as an invisible spirit in 1874. In 1877 he invited the various minand isters of Pittsburgh Alleghany in Pennsylvania, USA to a meeting at which he put for-

ward his views. He received no support from them and thereafter he had no further use for the Christian Churches nor their ministers, often writing strong derogatory articles about their moral character.

Russell sold his shops and began to spread his views, amassing a considerable fortune by writing books about the Bible, in which he propounded interpretations never previously imagined.

He falsely claimed to be a Greek and Hebrew scholar, in fact he knew not one single letter of those two languages. He was Fr Dickinson domineering and conceited and in the introductory pages of his in 1914. This was to be attended book Studies in the Scriptures by peace, justice and blessing. stated that it would be better to That certainly didn't in 1914! The leave the Bible unread and to date was advanced to 1918, then read his own commentary on it. 1925, then 1984.

He was also dishonest And The central message of the unscrupulous, at one time selling sect proclaims that the end of the so-called 'miracle wheat' for 60 world is at hand and destruction dollars a bushel when the mar- is inevitable for those who do not ket price was a mere three or accept their teaching. They four dollars a bushel. appear to view with satisfaction In his writings, Russell had the damnation of the vast majorprophesied the end of the world ity of mankind.

The Jehovah's Witnesses deny the divinity of our Lord: they do not believe that the redeeming work of Christ was completed on the Cross or that those who put their faith in Him will be saved.

They believe in justification by works alone: and they deny the Resurrection of Christ.

Their use, or misuse, of the Bible is what impresses a lot of people. The majority of people know very little about the Bible and less about its meaning and how to interpret it.

Catholics should get to know their Bibles better and never be too proud to accept the wisdom and guidance of the Church. All around us we have examples of what happens when individuals exalt themselves; each contradicts the other, and some go off to form a new sect which claims that every one else is wrong.

It is to the Church we must turn if we want to know the meaning and purpose of the Bible.

It was the Church, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, which produced the Bible, and

the Church tells us what the 'Bible's true message is.

In conclusion I think there are three things which Catholics can learn from the Jehovah's Witnesses. They are: (1) To imitate their sacrificial giving in support of the Church.

The Jehovah's Witness gives one tenth of his total income. On the whole, Catholics are notoriously miserly in their almsgiving.

(2) To imitate their keen missionary spirit.

(3) To imitate their courageous witnessing to what they believe. Let us be honest enough to admit that the average Catholic is so luke-warm he wouldn't or couldn't take the chill off a cup of water!

That the Jehovah's Witnesses should exist at all would be difficult to understand were it not that history supplies many instances of the need to heed our Lord's warning: "False prophets will arise and produce great signs and portents, enough to deceive even the chosen, if that were possible.There; I have forewarned you." (Mt 24, 24) The Record, August 31, 1995

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Alcoholic priests 'may use unfermented wine'

By Jerry Filteau WASHINGIUN (CNS) - In a major new ruling on the reception of Communion in special cases, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has set out rules under which bishops can let alcoholic priests use unfermented grape juice in place of wine.

The congregation again ruled out the use of hosts that are totally free of gluten, one of the components of wheat flour, reaffirming a 1982 ruling on that question.

But for the first time it ruled explicitly that "low-gluten hosts are valid matter, provided that they contain the amount of gluten sufficient to obtain the confection of bread" and provided that other conditions for valid eucharistic hosts are met.

The new set of norms, contained in a letter dated June 19, also for the first time apparently formalises in writing a church-

wide norm that future candidates for the Society of America, said the norm was local bishop the power to exempt a recovpriesthood who suffer alcoholism, alcohol proposed in terms of a theological princi- ering alcoholic priest from consuming allergy or celiac disease should not be ple that deserved "serious consideration," wine at Mass. Cardinal Ratzinger wrote ordained. but the letter did not carry the weight of that even for priests who could not con"Given the centrality of the celebration law to create a new legal impediment to sume alcohol, the use of must, or unferof the Eucharist in the life of the priest, ordination from which a bishop could not mented grape juice - "mustum" in Latin candidates for the priesthood who are dispense. ought to be a last resort. affected by celiac disease or suffer from Rome has consistently ruled that The letter said the local bishop or relialcoholism or similar conditions may not wheat flour must be used to make bread gious superior was responsible for assurbe admitted to holy orders," it said. used for the Eucharist. ing that any must or low-gluten bread Monsignor Dennis Schnurr, general But the gluten in the wheat can cause used for the Eucharist meets the Holy secretary of the National Conference of severe damage to the intestinal lining of See's norms.

Catholic Bishops, said on August 23 that at celiac sufferers.

But it said there was no Eucharist if least with regard to applicants to the The disease is especially common in completely gluten-free hosts were used. priesthood who suffered from alcoholism, Ireland and Great Britain, where about Cardinal Ratzinger's letter made no that norm reflected in writing the actu- one in 1,500 people is affected. mention of the traditional solution offered al Vatican practice on a case-by-case basis The new decisions on church policy to celiac sufferers, to receive Communion in recent years. came in a two-page letter from Cardinal only under the species of wine.

He said he was not aware of the Holy Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the doctrinal Msgr. Francis J. Maniscalco, media See's past practice with regard to celiac congregation, to presidents of bishops' spokesman for the NCB, said that solution sufferers. conferences around the world. remains.

Atonement Father Patrick Cogan, execFor priests suffering from alcoholism By not addressing it at all, the letter utive coordinator of the Canon Law or alcohol allergy, the letter restored to the leaves it in place.

1,e a cr a i nallay: on h e d l o B vil Burundi violence law claims life of third Hutu priest of Muyinga, a Hutu, escaped a bomb attack on August 12 durVATICAN CITY (CNS) - In ing visit to a refugee camp. another episode of ethnic vioIn July, two Hutu priests were lence in Burundi, gunmen shot killed in separate incidents in and killed a priest outside a Burundian villages. Over the last church in the capital of several months, an estimated Bujumbura, Vatican Radio 50,000 people have been killed in Burundi. reported.

Meanwhile, Bujumbura Father Michel Sinankwa, head of development for the Bishop Simon Ntamwana said Bujumbura Diocese and a mem- the root cause of the violence ber of the Hutu ethnic group, and hatred was not ethnic differwas slain on August 21 after cel- ences, but a "blind struggle for ebrating Mass in a suburb power." where the majority are Tutsi.

"The key problem to resolve Witnesses said three armed is that of justice based on the Tutsi men approached the priest sharing of power," he said in an and shot him at point-blank interview with the Italian newsrange before escaping. paper Avvenire. "As long as the Fr Sinankwa reportedly had Hutus want to exercise power as received threats in recent weeks. an overwhelming majority, we'll The killing was evidence that be facing war. As long as the ethnic tensions continue to sim- Tutsi minority wants all the power in order to defend itself, mer in the African nation.

Earlier in August, Burundian we'll have war," he said. officials said the situation was Bishop Ntamwana rejected largely under control. as impractical a proposal to Bujumbura has been kept divide the people of Burundi under night curfew for four and neighboring Rwanda into months. two new countries based on ethVatican Radio also said that nic origin, in effect a "lidsiland" Bishop Jean-Berchmans Nterere and a "Hutuland."

By John Thavis

He said the idea failed to take into consideration the complexity of the real-life situation in Burundi: that many people were very attached to their land and would refuse to be uprooted, and that many marriages and family structures were ethnically mixed.

He praised the international community for taking steps to make sure that the violence in Burundi had not been even worse.

At the same time, he was convinced that some outside countries were continuing to fuel the ethnic strife by giving support to extremist groups.

As the violence continued in Bujumbura, new tensions were reported on the country's border with Zaire.

Zaire recently began expelling refugees who had fled the fighting in Burundi and Rwanda, but Burundian authorities have refused to readmit them. In mid-August, some 2,000 refugees were said to be camped out at the border crossing after they were accompanied there at gunpoint by Zairian soldiers.

DENVER (CNS) - Like a min- same things," he said. We don't ister preaching fire and brim- have a cafeteria-style religion. It's stone in an old Western, Cardinal the whole thing."

Bernard Law of Boston pounded The cardinal reminded his the pulpit, waved the Bible and audience that they, along with all exclaimed, "This is our book!' Catholics, are the Catholic Cardinal Law was in Denver ear- Church. To illustrate his point, he lier this month to address the IX told them that it was true that National Cursillo Encounter on "we don't have as many priests the topic, "To Be Catholic is to Be as we once had, but you are not Christian in the Fullest Sense." here because there is a shortage Cardinal Law shared his of priests. You are here because enthusiasm for the Catholic faith this is your role as baptized, conwith encounter participants and firmed Catholics. The scarcity of refuted what he called "some priests is used by God to show us misconceptions about the the role of lay people in the Catholic Church."

Church."

"One of the misconceptions is Cardinal Law also spoke of that we are not biblical," he said. his own experience with the "What do you think John was? He Cursillo movement, which began was a Catholic. Paul was a in Spain in 1949 as a Christian Catholic, a convert. Peter was a renewal effort. Individuals are convert, a Catholic. They were all initiated into the movement Catholics. This (the Bible) is our through a three-day weekend book. focused on prayer, study and "Where did anyone get the Christian action. idea they could use this against "My Cursillo experience (in the Catholic Church?" the cardi- 1976) was the most powerful nal asked. "It's our book. You experience of the Church that I can't understand it fully except in had ever had up to that point," he the faith of those who wrote the said.

New Testament, which brings to We were young and not so fulfillment Revelation." young; we were rich and poor; He said his words were we were highly educated and not aimed not at discouraging ecu- so educated; we were priests and menism, but at encouraging laymen, married and single and Catholics in their faith. "All I'm widowed and celibate," the carsaying is that it's wrong to ever dinal added. "But when we knelt feel apologetic about the Catholic in the night before the Lord in faith not being biblical. We the blessed tabernacle, we were (were) biblical before any of the one in Christ. And I thought to others ever thought about it." myself, 'If I could just hold on to Cardinal Law said the world's this moment. This is the way the 1 billion Catholics have another- Church is supposed to live." guide to "what we believe" - the There are nearly 4 million "Catechism of the Catholic Cursillo participants throughout Church." "We believe in the the world.

Crucifix ruling sparks German debate on church, state role MUNICH, Germany (CNS) - A court

ruling on crucifixes in Germany's Catholic heart land has inspired a national debate over separation of church and state.

The dispute pits top politicians against the nation's highest court and has prompted religious leaders to encourage civil disobedience.

At issue is a ruling by the Supreme Court, Germany's federal constitutional court, that the Bavarian state government cannot force its publicly funded schools to keep Christian symbols on classroom walls.

But in an unusual critique almost two weeks after the decision, the court's vice president, Johann Friedrich Henschel, said the opening sentence of the ruling had been poorly formulated and caused misunderstanding. He added that the court had not ruled against crosses in the class12

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room, but against a state law that requires them.

Bavaria is 80 percent Catholic and is the only German state with a mandate to Preach. Its constitution says the government has a duty to teach children to respect God. In practice, this has meant compulsory display of crosses and crucifixes in the classroom.

But on August 10, five of the eight high court judges voted to order the state to remove the crosses and crucifixes, saying they violate a child's right to religious freedom as guaranteed by the federal constitution. The panel ruled that the symbols could remain only on the unanimous request of parents, teachers and students.

In Bavaria, where even big-city residents can set their clocks by a nearby church bell, reaction to the decision was swift and adamant. Across Germany the

debate is also growing more intense.

Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber said he

will ask the state legislature, dominated by his Christian Social Union, to pass a new law requiring schools to display crosses and crucifixes so as to force the court to reconsider the issue.

Cardinal Friedrich Wetter of Munich is urging parents and teachers to defy the court when school begins in September and "insist on your right" to public exhibition of crucifixes.

The German Judges' Association is concerned about calls for civil disobedience.

"When those in politics or the church call on people to resist the court's decision, or to ignore it, they are crossing very dangerous borders," said Peter Marqua, association secretary.

Chancellor Helmut Kohl has weighed in on the matter. In an August 20 national

television broadcast, Mr Kohl said the ruling attacked "our Christian tradition" and was "impossible to comprehend in both its content and its consequences."

Werner Schulz, head of the Green Party's parliamentary delegation, called for an end to the church tax. Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities in Germany are financed by a tithe collected by the local tax office from all people professing to belong to one of those faiths.

Meanwhile, Bavarian Catholic leaders have organized a massive rally in Munich for late September, around the motto, "The cross is here to stay."

Leaders of other Christian communities also have expressed concern.

"The symbols of Christian belief have and will maintain their place in public life," Johannes Schoeb, spokesman for the Protestant Church of Germany, said.

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Peru's charity bank offers dream loans to poor

By Alejandro Bermudez LIMA, Peru (CNS) - Imagine that you have a good name among your neighbours but no more capital than your ingenuity.

You need money to start your own business - which is verylikely to succeed - but you have no property to put up as collateral for a loan.

Under the circumstances, would you still go to a commercial bank for the necessary investment funds? Not likely, unless the lender is the Dream Bank That's just the place created by Caritas Peru for small entrepreneurs who have little property to offer as security for a loan.

The bank with a name chosen by the Peruvian bishops to be

both humorous and symbolic, aims at providing loans up to US$5,000 to people who have no more resources than their ideas and good names.

The idea for the bank was born five years ago after Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori laun-ched an economic program that created a huge recession.

The economic crisis created a dramatic level of unemployment, child malnutrition, prostitution and crime. But with all the resulting evils, "the critical situation also unleased an enormous amount of creative energy from poor people trying to survive," said Bishop Miguel Irizar Campos, secretary-general of the Peruvian bishops' conference and one of the project's most

enthusiastic supporters. Indeed, said "Despite the fact these are sion, but to increase it, in order to three years after the economic respectable people in their own- reach more and more people." program was announced, unem- communities," he said, "for the Mr Rios said. ployment went down, not traditional banking system they The announcement of the probecause of new employment cre- are nobody, therefore they can- ject at Caritas headquarters was ated by the government or formal not apply for a loan." "The notable for the high degree of industry but because of the thou- Dream Bank is an alternative," local media coverage and the sands of small businesses that said Bishop Irizar. presence of hundreds of prospecsprouted almost everywhere.

Initially, the local offices of tive borrowers.

'This enthusiasm shows not Thanks to numerous grass- Caritas (Peru's equivalent of roots entrepreneurs, new emp- Australian Catholic Relief) will only the need for such an initiaoyment - certainly underpaid - function as branches of the new tive, but also that we are entering was created. These enterprises, bank, receiving applications for into another stage in the counmostly in manufacturing and loans. A borrower must meet two try," Bishop Irizar said.

"In 1990, most of our people handicrafts, grew outside the for- conditions for obtaining a loan: mal economy and competed suc- Presenting a reasonable project eeded food in order to survive," cessfully with establish indus- and receiving the support of he said. tries or created a new market for neighbours as a moral guarantee 'Today those problems are far low-price products. 'The prob- the client will repay the bor- from being solved, but more peolem came when these entrepre- rowed funds. A small interest rate ple are needing support not to neurs tried to develop and join will be added to cover bank survive but to escape poverty. We the legal system." Mario Rios, expenses. "We plan not only to can't turn our backs on them," secretary-general of Caritas Peru, keep our capital safe from ero- the bishop said.

Pope prays for N. Ireland peace CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) - A year after a cease-fire was declared in Northern Ireland, Pope John Paul II said Catholics and Protestants "eagerly hope" for further progress in peace talks.

The pope, speaking at a blessing last Sunday, urged those responsible to push the peace process forward.

Some 3,200 people have died in Northern Ireland in a quartercentury of sectarian violence.

"As we invoke the Queen of Peace, my thoughts turn in a special way to Northern Ireland. where a year has passed since a ceasefire was declared and where the people of both communities eagerly hope for the advancement of the peace process," he said.

"May God enlighten all those involved to find the way forward to lasting mutual reconciliation and harmony.

On September 1, 1994, a unilateral cease-fire was declared by the Irish Republican Army, a guerrilla group that has been fighting to reunite the. British province of Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic.

On October 13, loyalist paramilitaries suspended their campaignto keep Northern Ireland British.

Peace talks have been stalled because the British government insists on the IRA disarming before it will let IRA political representatives into the talks, a

condition the organization has rejected.

Cardinal Cahal Daly of Armagh, Northern Ireland, last week urged a compromise on the divisive issue of whether paramilitary groups should be disarmed as a prerequisite for participation in peace talks. paramilitary Disarming groups and the participation of their political representatives in peace talks were both needed for an accord, he said.

Disagreement as to whether disarmament should precede or come after the start of the talks with the political representatives of paramilitary groups currently has deadlocked the Northern Ireland peace process.

The main paramilitary groups are the Irish Republican Army, which favours union with Ireland, and loyalist forces wanting to maintain political ties to Britain.

A poll published on August 22 by the Irish News, Belfast, showed that 65 percent of the people in Northern Ireland back Britain's demand that the IRA disarm before participating in talks.

However, the poll showed that half of the Catholic community, from which the IRA and Sinn Fein draw their support, oppose Britain's insistence on disarmament.

Cardinal Daly said on August 20 that it would be "fatal" to allow the deadlock over the

Children, young women sold as slaves in Sudan LONDON (CNS) - Children and young women in southern Sudan are being captured and sold as slaves, a London-based Christian human rights group said.

A delegation from Christian Solidarity International returned from Sudan in August with tales of slavery and torture.

The delegation included Baroness Cox, a member of the British Parliament's House of Lords. It was told that black Africans from the predominantly Christian South were kidnapped and sold as slaves to Arabs in the North.

China to learn: priest

By Colleen Smith

HONG KONG (CNS) - When Hong Kong reverts to China in 199Z a Maryknoll priest who has lived in the British crown colony for 30 years suggests that, instead of China taking over Hong Kong, it might be a case of Hong Kong decommissioning of weapons to taking over China.

"In economics, business, manbecome "the end of the road." technology, the Chinese agement, Irish British and He urged the expertise from Hong Kong." seek governments and political parRon Saucci, a native Father said ties to search for a middle ground to overcome the road- of Brooklyn, New York, and former publisher of Matyknoll magblock "There is surely room for azine.

'In China, many factories and acceptable intermediary posiproudly display signs that hotels tions," he said.

Kong management,' 'Hong read The consolidation of peace, efficiency," he guarantee as if to which has to include the decominterview' with the said in an missioning of weapons at some Denver Catholic Register archpoint, should be everyone's diocesan newspaper. 'The Chinhe said. objective, ese are practical if anything."

The issue also has stirred As executive director of the comment by political leaders. Serviceman Guide Association.

John Hume, Northern Irish lead- Fr Saucci looks after the interests er of the Social Democratic and of the military personnel of UnitLabor Party and a key figure in ed Nations' members. especially arranging last year's cease-fire, Americans, in Hong Kong. said everyone agreed that turnBut the changeover will be ing in weapons was needed, but felt, he believes, especially in the this did not necessarily have to area of religious freedom and be a precondition for talks. human rights.

"My view is that it is a mat"We're doing what we can to ter that has to be settled to the minimize it as much as possible," satisfaction of all sides. and I he said. believe that can happen in the "The Chinese realized their course of the talks process," said reputation is on the line, and the Mr Hume. last thing they want is a great Billy Hutchinson, leader of flight out of Hong Kong."

Northern Ireland's Progressive Pro-life issues, especially the Unionist Party, said the current strictly enforced Chinese governstalemate was not as big a prob- ment one-child-per-family policy, lem as it seemed. are a big concern for Fr Sailed Una Gillespie, former mem- and others in Hong Kong.

He said Chinese women go ber of Sinn Fein's executive council, said the disarmament into seclusion to have a second issue was "only a diversion" and child and must pay private docthat the British government tors to assist with the delivery.

Later, the children are denied should remove the obstacle and education benefits, he added, arrange all party talks.

and parents are denied bonus pay for all but their first child.

'The church in China, in order to survive, has had to close an eye to it," he said. "We can't attack the government. But I'm hoping they will leave Hong Kong alone and not impose a policy that would run against religious morality."

In Hong Kong, 300,000 Catholics practice freely. In China, an estimated 6 to 8 million Catholics are divided between a persecuted."underground" church loyal to Rome and the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association loyal to the communist government.

Father John Tong Hon, vicar general, has said the Hong Kong Diocese is prepared to play a key role in the dialogue between the Vatican and Beijing.

Hong Kong Cardinal John Baptist Wu Cheng-chung is expected to be a leader in that dialogue, as well as in his diocese's expanded contact with Catholics in mainland China.

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

'The Catholic Church is interested in helping with stability." said Father Saucci.

'The Hong Kong Diocese is playing a role as peacemaker.

And we will continue to operate. providing social services that are a mark of the Catholic Church."

He pointed to reports of an emerging role for the church in China as a good sign. China reportedly invited Caritas-Hong Kong to organize various training courses.

Father Sailed said the church role in education and health care is increasing.

Holy City's 3000th anniversary

JERUSALEM (CNS) - The organizers of the Jerusalem 3000 are undaunted by One 27-year-old mother told the celebrations the European Union's decision to delegation: "The Arabs came and the 15-month-long event, captured us early in the morning. boycott which commemorates the foundWe had to walk for WWII days ing of Jerusalem as the capital of with this man to his home. He biblical Israel by King David. raped me along the way. My "They made this decision last daughter, Ayaar, is 4. She was tied • year, and it is they who are maktightly to the back of his horse. AN ing the celebration into a political a result her left leg is now para- issue." said Yossi director lyzed." general of Jerusalem 3000. "We Eventually, the woman's husband are trying all this time to make traced the slave trader and had to this program a cultural and pay 50.0(x) Sudanese pounds - tourism event."

In a letter sent in mid-August. about $90 - to regain her freedom. The couple's daughter had Spanish European Union Ambassador Louis Jose Caraspo reitto be left behind.

erated the union's position that in order not to prejudice the Middle East peace talks, all 15 member countries had decided to boycott the celebrations. This meant not lending official support or sending official delegations to the festivities. They said the celebrations give little attention to the Christian and Muslim connections to the city and do not sufficiently highlight the ethnic diversity in the city.

However, non-government groups from European Union countries are participating.

Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmml has played down the importance of the European Union

boycott, noting that many cities around the world. including many in Europe and even the Vatican are making contributions to the celebration, slated to begin in September.

The events planned for the celebration include museum and art exhibitions, music festivals. conferences and other cultural events.

Tourism Minister Uzi Bann11 said his ministry sees the celebration as being a universal event, not only a Jewish one. We will highlight the place and devotion of other communities - in including Christian Jerusalem." Mr Baram said.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe consoles pro-lifers

By Mark Navinovich

WEST HARTFORD, Connetticut (CNS) - Toni Daniels' devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe has taken her from Mexico City to West Hartford, and to points in between.

It has also brought the Catholic mother from Oklahoma closer to God and has inspired her to help young unwed mothers, even though she once had an abortion.

Mrs Daniels was one of 50 participants at the 16th annual conference of the Queen of the Americas Guild, held between August 10 and 13 in West Hartford. The guild is an international non-profit organisation, based in Delaware.

It has 8,000 members who raise awareness of Our Lady of Guadalupe by distributing images of her. The guild was started 16 years ago by Bishop Jerome Hastrich of Gallup, New

Mexico, who retired in 1990 and died in May. The Gallup Diocese has many Hispanic and Indian Catholics with a special devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Mrs Daniels, whose children are 16 and 20 years old, joined the guild's chapter in Tulsa, Oklahoma., two years ago.

"I became involved as a thank you to Our Blessed Mother, because I had an abortion when my children were little, and through prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe, I was able to be healed of that," she said.

"Our Lady of Guadalupe has taken me to her side so quickly that I have had a complete turnaround.

Once while she was praying, Mrs Daniels visualised the baby she aborted as a young, blonde girl "She looked at me with such love and mercy that I knew thatshe had forgiven me," she said. "I just felt this weight lift from my shoulders because I could finally

Massacre in Mexico leads to boycott call

By Mike Tangeman

MEXICO CITY (CNS) - A human rights activist and former church rights office director called for a boycott of Mexico's Pacific coastal resorts to protest the massacre of 17 unarmed rural workers near the international vacation spot of Acapulco.

Maria Teresa Jardi, a prominent lawyer who until July headed the Mexico City archdiocesan rights office, has called for a "Say No to Acapulco" campaign in response to what is described as Guerrero state government footdragging in prosecuting the officials responsible for the June 28 murders.

On August 14, the federal National Human Rights Commission released a finding that the Guerrero state police had acted with the knowledge of top state law enforcement officials in firing upon the farmers without provocation. One of the 17 dead was summarily executed . State

officials alleged the farmers shot first. Guerrero state Gov.ernor Ruben Figueroa has suspended only 10 of the 22 officials the federal rights commission recommended for firing.

Jesuit Father David Fernandez, another rights activist, said he received telephoned death threats after suggesting that the other officials and the governor himself should be prosecuted.

"It occurs to me that we should begin a massive, national and international campaign to discourage tourism in the state as long as the governor remains in office," Ms Jardi said.

In 1992, Ms Jardi became the first director of the Mexico City archdiocesan rights office, established under the auspices of the Caritas-affiliated Foundation for Aid to the Community.

In July she resigned from the post following the appointment of Archbishop Norberto Rivera to lead the archdiocese.

She said the rights office would not be as effective under the Archbishop.

forgive myself. That's God's love of Guadalupe wore a belt, which and mercy." signified to the Indians of Mexico As a member of the Queen of in the 1500s that she was pregthe Americas Guild, Mrs Daniels nant. "The Indians considered it and other members of the Tulsa a great honour that Our Lady chapter counsel young unwed appeared to them carrying her ... mothers. son," Sr Spirito said. "(Now) the "It's part of what the guild sacredness of life has been lost, does to help those in need, and because people have said, 'This (we) do it with Our Lady of is my body; I can do what I Guadalupe in mind," she said. please, or whatever I want."

The apparition of Our Lady of Mrs Daniels can attest to this Guadalupe is one of the few pro-life message. major appearances of Mary She said conferences like the authenticated by the Vatican. one in Connecticut reaffirmed It is one of seven apparitions her commitment to Our Lady of listed in the 1995 Catholic Guadalupe."It helps you to get Almanac and the only one listed that support that you need from that took place in North or South others who feel the same," she America said. "It's a shot in the arm. It gets The apparition occurred in you going again, because some1531 in Mexico when Mary times you feel that you're alone appeared to a peasant boy, Juan out there."

Diego.

The guild presented its gold Filippini Sister Christine medal for 1995 to Ruth Glaser of Spirito, the keynote speaker at Philadelphia for her work in prothe West Hartford conference, moting the sainthood cause of said that the image of Our Lady Juan Diego.

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Liturgy letter excites interest

By Jerry Filteau

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The

Vatican Congregation for the

Doctrine of the Faith has given the United States and Canadian bishops secret norms for "the suitability of biblical translations for use in liturgical books."

At least some of the norms deal with inclusive language issues. Officials of both bishops' conference denied a Catholic News Service request for a copy of the norms.

Last year the Vatican withdrew its approval of two Scripture translations previously approved for liturgical use, largely as a result of concerns over their use of inclusive language.

Liturgical use approval was withdrawn from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible and the revised New American Bible version of the Psalms. US requests for use of both texts had previously been approved and the Canadians had already published and started using most volumes of a new Lectionary using the NRSV Bible.

News of the new Vatican norms became public through a letter from Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of the congregation, to Benedictine Father Joseph Jensen, executive secre-

tary of the Catholic Biblical Association of America.

Copies of the letter were given to North American Scripture scholars at the association's annual convention this month.

Archbishop Bertone wrote that the doctrinal congregation's norms were "solely for the 'ad tempus' (for the time being) internal use of the episcopal conferences concerned."

Monsignor James Weisgerber, English-sector general secretary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, confirmed on August 17 that the Canadian conference had received the norms.

Monsignor Francis Maniscalco, US National Catholic Conference of Bishops spokes man, said the norms could not be made public yet because "they are still provisional: Asked if the norms would be made public after final approval, he said that decision would belong to the congregation.

Mgr Weisgerber said the decision for the congregation to provide norms came out of last January's meeting in Rome on inclusive-language texts in the liturgy. That meeting, between Vatican officials and a group of US and Canadian bishops and Scripture scholars, was set up at the request of the US and Canadian conferences after the

Vatican announced its rejection of the NRSV and NAB texts.

In a 1984 policy statement on women in the Church the Canadian bishops adopted the principle that inclusive language should be used in the liturgy and in all other communications in the Church, a principle which has since been used in the development of liturgical texts.

Archbishop Bertone's letter to the Catholic Biblical Association was occasioned by a request from the association earlier this summer. It had asked that any criteria being used by the doctrinal congregation be made public and be reviewed by the Pontifical Biblical Commission, in accord with Pope Paul VI's instruction that "the commission must be consulted before the issuance of new norms on biblical matters."

Archbishop Bertone replied that there was no need to consult the commission on the new norms. 'They are not intended to regulate biblical studies or exegesis, but are rather criteria to ensure the doctrinal integrity of scriptural versions which will be used in the worship of the church," he said.

He said the congregation "has not issued, and does not intend to issue, new norms on biblical matters."

Is it spirituality if there is no Mass?

OTTAWA (CNS) - Canadian bishops want to know why an upsurge in spirituality is not translating into greater Mass attendance.

Papal books and recordings have had successful sales, Gregorian chant has topped the charts, and angels have become

the subject of increasing attention by the secular media.

Canadian Catholic News, a nationwide church news service, reported recent polls suggesting that while 78 percent of Canadian adults claim they are Christian, fewer than 25 per cent attend church regularly.

"Could this not be interpreted as one of the 'signs of the times' that require discernment?" asks a background paper prepared for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops' plenary meeting. Close to 100 bishops are expected to attend the October 12-17 meeting.

East German Catholics 'have mentality of fear'

By Roberta Ward SAN JOSE, California (CNS) - Since German reunification five years ago, five new dioceses have been created in the former East Germany, but adjustment there is a challenge for the people who remember only a pre-Vatican II church, Ferdinand Oertel, a leading figure in the German Catholic press, said.

'The eastern side," Mr Oertel said, "is a ghetto for the Catholics. The government only corresponds with the hierarchy and 14

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the lay people are of no importance. There Catholic Press Association of Germany. has been no implementation of Vatican II "Many people, especially the younger renewal. ones, are not churched at all and the older 'In the West, however, Catholic life has ones only relate to the Church of 40 or been quite free and Catholic press there more years ago," he said. In Germany has long dealt wih inner church issues in itself, "the young people - youths and the post-Vatican II era," he added. young adults - are very anti-institutional "The eastern side experienced 50 years regarding the Church. There is also a very of communism preceded by 15 years of strong Catholic lay movement and the Hitler. They are missing 65 years of free people speak quite openly about their Catholic development, church renewal concerns. Many Catholic people question and thinking," Mr Oertel said. "It is psy- Church teachings and some take positions chologically very difficult for them." contrary to the Church.' The East German Mr Oertel is former president of the Church's life during communism was rel-

egated to the inside of a parish building, Mr Oertel said.

There were no Catholic schools, but young people knew that if they did not participate in the activities and youth groups of the Communist Party, they would not have advantages in society.

'There were at least two generations who live in a total mentality of fear," he said. 'They do not trust anyone."

Mr Oertel said people from the East were enjoying a new consumerism but there was a rising materialism that was supplanting religion.

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Official Engagements September 1 Meet Elder L Wood of Latter Day Saints - Archbishop Hickey Celebratory Mass for 25th Anniversary Servite Sisters Archbishop Hickey 3 Visit of Archbishop of Sarajevo Archbishop Hickey Confirmation, Carlisle - Monsignor Keating Confirmation, Mosman Park - Rev G Holohan 4 Inaugural meeting of Council of Christians and Jews Archbishop Hickey 4-15 Clergy Retreats 6 Performing Arts Concert, Perth Concert Hall - Monsignor Keating 7 Prayer Breakfast of Governor of WA Rev K Stuglik 8 Confirmation, Lynwood - Monsignor Keating 8-10 Visitation and Confirmation, lnnaloo Archbishop Hickey 9&10 Confirmation, Midland - Monsignor McCrann 10 Opening and Blessing of Maddington Church - Bishop Healy Confirmation, Clarkson - Monsignor Keating Confirmation, Balcatta - Rev G Carroll 11-13 Central Commission - Archbishop Hickey 12 Opening of Crawford House Day Hospice - Monsignor McCrann 13, 14 Confirmation, Whitfords - Rev G Holohan

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COMMUNUION TO THE SICK AND ELDERLY Workshop Evening for Acolytes and Special Ministers of the Eucharist Taking communion to the sick and elderly can be an experience of great joy but it can also present the minister with many challenges. This workshop will provide information and formation by: exploring practical examples, illustrating different situations, and providing time for discussion and questions. Wednesday 13 or Wednesday 20 September, 7.309pm, St Joseph's Parish Centre, 1 Salvado Road, Wembley. Cost $5 donation at the door. For more information and registration contact the Liturgy Office, phone (09) 221 1548.

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