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Feminini 'a gift of God' By Cindy Wooden BEIJING (CNS) - Mother Teresa of Calcutta has urged delegates to the United Nations' women's conference to recognise the differences between men and women as a gift from God as the conference struggles with questions of women being able to define their sexuality. "All God's gifts are good, but they are not all the same," a message from the founder of the Missionaries of Charity released this week at the conference in Beijing said. God created all people to love and be loved, she said, but God also created man and woman to be different. "Woman's love is one image of the love of God, and a man's love is another image of God's love," she said in the message distributed by Guatemalan delegate Mercedes Arzu Wilson, president of Family of the Americas. "Woman and man complete each other, and together show forth God's love more fully than either can do alone," Mother Teresa said. "God told us, 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' So first I am to love myself rightly, and then to love my neighbour like that," she said. "But how can love myself unless I accept myself as God has made me?" the 85-year-old nun asked. People who deny the differences between men and women deny the truth of their own identities, she said. They cannot love
themselves, and they end up sowing division between people rather than loving them. The ability to be a mother was a special gift given to women alone, she said, and it was a gift that must never be denied or destroyed. Mother Teresa warned that it was possible for women to destroy the gift of their motherhood, and not only through abortion. Motherhood was destroyed "by thinking that other things like jobs or positions are more important than loving, than giving oneself to others," she said. She also pleaded for a new commitment to strong families, the place where children should experience the love of a father and a mother. Mother Teresa's plea came as Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls Pope John Paul ll's choice of a professional woman with children to head the Vatican delegation to the U.N. women's conference is a reflection of the message the Vatican delegates plan to bring to the meeting. Women should have equal opportunities in all areas of social and economic life, but when women were also mothers they had a right to special protection and support, he said. A Harvard University law professor, Mary Ann Glendon, is heading the 22-member Vatican delegation to the conference. "The Holy See is not going to Beijing to defend motherhood, but to defend women," Dr
A Christian view of tolerance • • • By Peter Rosengren The Australian Catholic Social Justice Council has released a discussion paper on tolerance to mark the United nations' International Year of Tolerance, and to prepare for Social Justice Sunday next week paper, discussion The Tolerance: a Christian perspective on the international year of tolerance, questions whether tolerance is the best title for the international year. It said the UN's use of the term for its theme year of respect for cultural diversity is only one of many forms of the concept of tolerance. It argues against social practices which it says should never be tolerated on the basis of their offence against human dignity. Such offences, it says, include female genital mutilation, domestic violence and racism. the of President The Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Edward
Clancy, launched the paper at the University of Sydney last Monday. The 24 page publication acts as a discussion paper and is designed to stimulate reflection on what exactly constitutes tolerance and what its limits are. It looks at the causes of intolerance and how the Church can promote tolerance and respect for those who are different, including those with whom it disagrees. The paper says there are many forms of the virtue of tolerance and that a criticism of the UN's use of the word in relation to cultural diversity was that its use matched only one of the many possible definitions of tolerance. "Letters to newspapers and media commentary reflected the concern that tolerance did not seem to encompass understanding, acceptance, respect, appreciation and celebration of cultural diversity," it says. Continued on Page 2
Mother Teresa Navarro-Valls said. -One segment of the argument is motherhood. "Women have the right to choose between having a profession, being simultaneously a mother and having a profession, and being a mother who dedicates her activity to the home," he said. Meanwhile Ms Glendon, a 5 6year-o1d wife and mother of three daughters, said she felt a great responsibility as leader of the Vatican delegation "because the Holy See may 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. Dr Navarro-Valls said the positions of delegations from Western Europe and North
America pushed a narrow type of feminism marked by "a negative attitude toward the family," anger toward men and an uncritical support for abortion and contraception. On the other hand, he said, the Vatican and many developing countries had a feminist agenda that supported the equality of women while seeing them as equal partners with men in the task of improving society and the lives of all. Pope John Paul last month, praised the growing influence of women in business and economics. Women had the right to pursue a career, he said, but equal rights in the job market were meaningless without attention to "their nature and particular needs." "Above all, the right and obligation of women who are mothers to carry out their specific tasks within the family without being forced to take on added work must be respected," the Pope said. At the same time, he said, a woman's current or potential family duties cannot be used as an excuse to deny "equal opportunity for men and women, including in work outside the home." The Pope called for sensitivity to the needs of working mothers and equal pay for equal work The Vatican delegation, Dr Navarro-Valls said, welcomed the convocation of the Beijing conference and supported its goals of
promoting women's equality, health and education. The delegation would join with others in condemning all forms of violence against women, which in the draft document includes rape, war, genital mutilation, forced prostitution and arranged marriages. The Vatican also wants the document to include an international condemnation of forced contraception, abortion and sterilisation, he said. In line with earlier international declarations on human rights, Dr Navarro-Valls said, the Vatican wants the Beijing conference to recognise the rights parents have in educating and caring for their children. The spokesman also said the delegation would encourage the conference to expand the draft of discussion document's women's health so as to avoid a narrow focus on reproduction and sexually transmitted diseases. "While the official theme of this conference is 'action for and equality, development peace,' it has already been presented as a conference on 'the rights of women and their reproductive health," Dr Navarro-Valls said. "This reduction penalises the interests of the majority of women," whose concerns in areas of health, education and economic development go well beyond problems connected to sexuality, he said.
Maddington's new home
Bishop Healy honours the Gospel at Maddington last Sunday during the blessing and dedication of the new Holy Family Church - full story page 2.
Despite the world, Church still offers truth The Cairo Conference last Church and contempory society year, and the Beijing Conference on similar fundamental issues. being held at present, bring into One must ask whether loud voicstark relief the dialogue between es alone represent majority Christianity and contemporary views, but whether they do or culture. not, these world Conferences At Cairo last year the Vatican provide a stage on which the batDelegation together with some tle for the human soul is played Muslim groups defied powerful out. forces of Western origin on funThese battles, which at times damental moral issues to do with appear to take on apocalyptic the sanctity of unborn life and dimensions, underline the risks the integrity of procreation. the Church takes in entering into These clashes which reverberat- dialogue with contemporary culed around the world, drew ture. responses from interest groups It is not possible for the that were often extreme in their Church to exist beyond culture. hostility or their support. In every historical epoch the What the clashes showed Gospel has been preached withclearly was that contemporary in the context of the surrounding Western culture and the culture, using its language, its Church's traditional moral posi- thought forms and its means of tions were incompatibly in oppo- communication. The Church often transformed such cultures, sition on some vital questions. it eventually found a home but The Beijing Conference on women might also raise the ten- within them. Even when people like St sion that exists between the
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Perspective - - -.--__ _ Benedict withdrew from societies that they considered corrupt, was eventually civilisation enriched because the monasteries preserved art, learning, music and the dignity of the human person, to give them back later as
gifts to the srrounding society. The Church today is committed to dialogue with contemporary culture. It is to read the signs of the times and recognise the positive values in contemporary society, such as the dignity and equality of women, the rights of poorer nations, racial equality, true movements of liberation and the importance of the natural environment. At the same time it offers its own gifts to society, the eternal dignity of every human being, the understanding of a God-given call to be one family, the accessibility of a moral order beyond human fabrication, and the good News of Salvation. The Chuch could conceivably retreat from the world. It could try to recreate a ghetto within the broader society and surround itself with practices and beliefs that set it apart as a cult. It has chosen not to do so. It has chosen
correctly, because Christ himself set the example. He came face to face with His contemporary world, He argued with it and challenged it, He drew people to His message of love and freedom, and stood up to His enemies who tried to crush him. The word "dialogue" implies that the contemporay culture is worth the effort. It is not to be rejected. Its positive values are to be acknowleged and embraced, its dubious allurements are to be critically evaluated, and its errors confronted. Let us pray that the Holy Spirit will be with the participants at Beijing and that women's dignity will be enhanced and their exploitation overcome. Let us also hope that those who speak the truth about the fundamental human dignity that comes from God the Creator will stand as firm as a rock no matter what storms rage around their heads.
Centre, church, hope for future
Bishop Healy consecrates the new altar with chrism oil during Sunday's ceremony at Holy Family Church, Maddington
Archbishop Hickey blesses the baptismal water at Port Kennedy.
f he culmination of several years plan- another 200 or so in good weather on the r 1ning and work came to fruition for outside verandahs which run down both Holy Family parish Church in Maddington sides of the building. on Sunday when the new Church building Several hundred people packed out the was dedicated and blessed by Bishop church on the weekend to be present for Robert Healy. the dedication and blessing. The new Holy Family Church replaces the In his homily Bishop Healy congratulated old Navy Mass hut which was transferred the parish for its work in bringing Holy to the site in 1972 as a temporary structure Family church into existence and conto serve the needs of the parish. veyed the felicitations and congratulations Fr Ted Hewitt, parish priest at of the Archbishop, priests and people of Maddington, said that the new church has Perth. He also urged parishioners to make a capacity to seat 380 people indoors with it a centre of Eucharistic adoration.
parishioners and visi- Father Doyle's installation 18 months ago ore than people in a small tors came together to see the open- which saw only about M ing of the Parish centre at Port Kennedy classroom and commented on the growth 300
with a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Barry Hickey and eight concelebrating priests recently. Along for the celebrations were parishioners from neighbouring parishes and also parish priest Father Richard Doyle's previous parish of Willeton who'd given financial support to this new endeavour. Archbishop Hickey noted in his homily the big increase in numbers since
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Continued from Page 1. "In the light of some of the concerns expressed, one could question whether 'tolerance', which, as we have seen, can manifest itself in distinct forms, was the best title for the year. In only one of its forms does it clearly encompass the above concepts," it says. Bishop Kevin Manning, chairman of the ACSJC, said a healthy tolerance is good for society and the Church. "To be tolerant is to respect the dignity of the other and to recognise his or her right to hold different or opposing views, and in some cases to put up with such views," he said at the launch. The paper explores the roots of intolerance and looks at some of groups which suffer it. These include ethnically distinct groups such as Jews and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; intolerance between the young and the aged; women; the homeless; those in prison; homosexuals and diverse
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groups in the Church. It criticises a number of injustices which exist or have occurred in Australia including the historical treatment of migrants to Australia and the dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. "Until there is a just reconciliation with indigenous Australians the work of building a tolerant, multicultural society will be compromised," it says. The publication is designed to stimulate discussion on tolerance and its opposite forms and follows each chapter with a series of questions designed to help people think more deeply about the issue. It concludes with some suggested practical actions to promote the practice of tolerance. These include; prayer to recognise shared traits, speaking out against racist remarks; Christians taking part in ecumenical prayer services; learning more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and respecting another's right to disagree.
and vitality of the parish and school community since then. Speaking on behalf of the Port Kennedy parishioners, Mr Gordon Pearce thanked everyone for the support they had given and, in particular, the generosity of Our Lady of the Mission Provincial, Sister Marie Therese Ryder, who'd given them their esteemed Sister Francis as pastoral worker.
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Marriage strife lip of iceberg' By Peter Resengren The director of Perth's Centrecare marriage and family service said this week the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures on divorce showed only the tip of the iceberg of the breakdown in legal and de facto marriages. Tony Pietropiccolo, responding to the publication of the ABS' statistics on marriage and divorce in Australia on Monday, said there was a hidden rate of breakdown in permanent relationships. "The figure of 40 per cent or so is really only talking about married people that actually go through the court with a divorce," he said. "It's not really showing up the number of separated people. That would make it higher because quite a larger number of people separate but don't divorce. "And, added to that, if you look at couple relationships where people don't get married that wouldn't show up in the divorce rate either," he said. Taking into account the breakup rate of non-married couples he estimated that the overall breakup rate could be as high as 60 per cent. The news for marriage is not good. The report, entitled Marriage and divorces Australia: how many marriages
end in divorce? said that eventually 43 per cent of all Australian marriages will succumb to an official end in the country's courts. And the sobering news for teenage grooms and brides is that they face an even more uphill task in keeping their marriages together, according to the report. It says that about 70 per cent of teenage bridegrooms and 50 per cent of brides under 20 years of age will be divorced within ten years of tying the knot. And for the grooms, nearly all will be divorced within 20 years. The divorce figures contained within the report indicate that 1994 saw the highest incidence of divorce since the initial flood when no-fault divorce was legalised in 1976 through the Family Law Act. While 1994's figure was the highest since then, it still remains second to the 1976 figure which represented a pent-up dam of couples waiting to legally end their marriages. Living together before marriage is also now the in-thing. The report says that 56 per cent of married couples in 1992 have lived together before marrying, a significant rise on 16 per cent in the year the Family Law Act was introduced. Mr Pietropiccolo also said that marriage education and counselling had been shown to
be effective in preventing marriage breakup and could assist not only couples but the community as well. "The issue is one of resources also. "The amount of money that is put into marriage education and counselling is still relatively small compared to the costs of divorce and separation," he said Bill Muehlenberg, national secretary of the Australian Family Association, a national pro-family lobby group, said the general decline in people marrying and the general rise in people getting a divorce was always a worry for a number of reasons, especially because of the effect on children. However he said that the Bureau's figures were open to question. "What (the ABS) usually do is compare the number of marriages and divorces in a given year and that gives you actually a fairly skewed figure," he said. "What you have to do is look at the number of marriages over a fairly long period of time that do break up, and according to an ABS figure that came out about a year and a half ago they said that something like 85 to 90 per cent of all people married are still in their first marriages. "So in other words there's not this 'one out of three' divorce rate."
Notre Dame hosts theology seminars
Fr Gerald O'Collins at Notre Dame: a better appreciation of theology
The final lecture given by Father God and which seek to portray him Gerald O'Collins SJ, an Australian as merely human. the on Rome-based expert The final lecture, which was also Resurrection, in his series of theolo- public, examined the state of curgy seminars was given to a packed rent thinking and questions on the audience at the University of Notre Resurrection of Christ among conDame in Fremantle last week. temporary theologians. The intensive series of lectures, In his discourse, Fr O'Collins which ran for two weeks, were part summarised the main questions of the College of Theology's 1995 about the matters such as the seminar program. changes in the risen Christ, the hisAlso included in the program toricity of the empty tomb and the was a series of lectures by Fr Frank credibility of the Easter faith. Moloney SDB on the biblical witHe also summarised the main ness of Christ. opinions of theologians in their A separate series of seminars on treatment of the subject of the pastoral ministry was given by Fr Resurrection Jerome Neyrey SJ, Professor of New Fr O'Collins teaches at the Testament at the University of Notre Universita Gregoriana in Rome and Dame in the United States and Dr Margaret Smith, lecturer in Pastoral is a theologian of international theology at Notre Dame, Fremantle. renown. Born in Melbourne in 1931 he Fr O'Collins' series of lectures was entitled What do we really took his MA at Melbourne know about Jesus? - theological University followed by a PhD at missioner. His very appearance considerations, and was designed to Cambridge University in 1968. Ordained in 1963 he has been commanded attention. Stand- give participants a better appreciaing 190cm tall, he was often tion of one of the key issues in con- Professor of Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome since dubbed 'Father Gregory Peck' temporary theology. Popularly received, one student 1974 and has published over 30 by admiring audiences. It was not uncommon for people to described the series as an excellent books. His two most recent books are follow him from parish to. response to a number of recent parish to hear him speak. He films and theological developments Experiencing Jesus, published by was a polished speaker who from outside the Church which Paulist Press and Christ°logy, pubwas never 'oratorical'. His pul- have been downgrading Christ as lished by Oxford University Press. pit style was instructive. He engaged people's minds. He painted clear and compelling word pictures. There was never a wasted word in a Stinson sermon. In the 1950's, his voice was well known on radio. He gave weekly radio talks on several stations on the Macquarie network In the 1960's he made his entry into the most difficult of all media - television. He gave a series of religious talks on Melbourne's Channel 7 In all his communications, Fr Stinson tried to give an insight into the character of Jesus. He invariably portrayed Jesus as warm, deeply understanding and compassionate to all in need. Perhaps the key to Fr Stinson's success as a communicator was that he allowed these qualities to guide his own life. His confreres remember him as a generous, hospitable This is Barry Standley, manager of the Bowra & and priestly man. O'Dea Pre-Paid Funeral Plan. Towards the end of his life, Fr Stinson raised the question At first, it may seem a strange idea to pre-arrange of a notice about his death. He own funeral. But these days, many people want your said he would like the notice to refer to him as 'Majellan Editor to protect their families from the financial and for many years' and to conemotional burden of having to arrange a funeral at clude with the words 'Please pray for him'. difficult time. Fr Paul Bird CSSR To find out more, or for a copy of our informative
Fr Stinson: solid in the Faith
A Redemptorist priest who was a member of many Catholic families through his writings for Sunday Mass bulletins and The Majellan magazine, Fr. William H. Stinson, CSSR, died late last month in Melbourne. Fr Stinson died of cancer at Bethlehem Hospital, Caulfield, aged 76. He was editor and writer for The Majellan - a magazine promoting Catholic family values - for 42 years. Father Stinson's writings supported the faith of families through a turbulent period spanning the almost forgotten era prior to Vatican II right up to the 90's, years that have not been easy for Catholic families. Father Stinson tried to steer a balanced course which drew on the rich traditions of Catholic life. He also invited his readers to develop a faith that was appropriate for the changing times. People appreciated his blend of the old and the new. They trusted his opinion because they rightly sensed that William H. Stinson CSSR. was a priest whose faith was rock solid. William Stinson drew his inspiration and enjoyment from the families he served. He wrote, "Letters from readers have always been an encouragement. Their faith, their courage in the face of sorrows and trials have been my inspi-
Fr Willim H. Stinson CSSR ration for The Majellan. I am most grateful to them personally. I think that God realises that I am a bit of a coward because, for the most part, the only real sorrows I've had have been other people's sorrows in which I have shared." There was a real and an affectionate bond between Father Stinson and his readers. Families claimed The Majellan as their own. Majellan Clubs sprang up all over Australia. Father Stinson often expressed his gratitude and joy for the unique insights his readers gave him into the depth and beauty of human love - especially between husband and wife, parents and children. Before his appointment to The Majellan, Father Stinson was a highly successful parish
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By Natalie Armstrong Today, both young and old are all challenged to take up our cross and follow Christ. Being a Christian has never been easy, and today is no different. At school many teenagers face the fact that going to church is just not the done thing. All around society tells us that we must seek the ultimate body, the perfect partner, an executive position, we must be our own person. Multiple sexual relationships are good, it helps develop our intimate nature. Clothes, computers, and of course a car with central locking are necessary. And to discover true meaning in life it is essential to seek the occasional 'high', as drugs are the only way to experience full intensity. And does society ask us to seek God in all of this? Well, the only mention Christianity seems to get is that 'it's just another theory'. When we consider life from this perspective, it seems that Christianity faces an uphill battle.
Looking around at the number of young people who attend Mass on a Sunday, it can be said that society is doing quite well. I guess the big question is, what can be done about this? I believe that a little understanding, and a lot of encouragement can go a long way. To criticise the youth for their obvious faults is not hard, anyone can do that, but to praise and encourage them despite disappointment, well that takes true Christian love. Every day we experience opportunities to encourage. Young people definitely have many shortcomings, and at times it is important to point these out, but before we have the right to do this, a trust must be formed through encouragement. We are all called by Christ to 'be devoted to one another in brotherly love' (Romans 12:10). I believe that together, young and old, we can make a difference. The key is it needs to be together. I am myself a young person, and I am by no means perfect, following Christ is rewarding, but it's not easy.
A sense of place. . . . By Michelle Jones and Tom O'Halloran Pope John Paul greets young people earlier in his pontificate LORETO, Italy (CNS) - From a site that looks across a sea to the bloodied republics of exYugoslavia, Pope John Paul II told 300,000 European youths to reject nationalistic violence and intolerance "We're all witnesses to this interminable war that has left humanity in ruins, and which continues to devastate homes, schools, universities," the Pope said during a September 9-10 visit to the Italian pilgrimage town of Loreto. After watching the live TV transmission of appeals from teen-agers in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, a visibly moved pontiff reminded his audience that young people were doing most of the dying on the Balkan war fronts. "How many of your peers are among the victims of this tragedy, how many shattered lives? There is constant talk of peace, but the war-making does not stop," he said. 'We kneel at the tomb of so
many young ones, in tears together with their mothers and fathers," he said. The Pope's message during a Saturday evening celebration was broadcast to Sarajevo, where a curfew was temporarily lifted to allow youths to participate via satellite in the Loreto event. The Pope's words came the day after an initial peace accord on Bosnia was reached by negotiators in Geneva, raising hopes for further progress at the bargaining table. Meanwhile, NATO planes continued to bomb Bosnian Serb targets. The reminder of war on the other side of the Adriatic Sea did not dampen the festive atmosphere that reigned in Loreto, where young people from 36 European countries and thousands more from outside the continent arrived with backpacks and sleeping bags. The Pope was welcomed with banners, songs and cheers, and
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was the guest of honour for a series of musical and artistic performances on a massive stage. As darkness fell, he watched as myriad candles lit up the vast plain where the young people were encamped. At a Mass to close the festivities the next day, he spoke of Europe's Christian roots and the need to renew them. He urged the youths not to consider Christianity a thing of the past and pointed to the example of modern martyrs. "If our century is perhaps characterised by the greatest negations of Christianity in history, it is also the century that stands out for the extraordinary ranks of confessors and martyrs," he said. During his visit, the Pope also visited the house of the Holy Family, a Marian shrine. Tradition holds that it was transported by angels from Nazareth to Dalmatia and then to Loreto in the 13th century.
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Occasionally we go back to our childhood parishes. When we were younger church was the place to be seen, and as most of our classmates attended we were considered different if we weren't there. This appears to have changed. Now it seems unusual that youth are active in parish life. Although it is true that a minority of youth do have a 'place' or role within their parish, friends have often said: 'I believe in God, but the Church isn't relevant to me, so I don't go.' A sense of community within the parish allows youth a refuge of security and trust bonded in a love for God and each other. We have found that this notion of 'community' within the Church environment has brought
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N'otith hack to parishes. It aids them in making informed decisions about their spirituality and vocation, and helps form their attitudes and feelings towards relationships. True community is not merely a sense of unity within a youth group, but rather an expression of love that must be shared with all members of God's family; including all members of the parish, old and young alike. But how does this true parish community evolve? Simply through the old and young sharing their experience of God with each other - sharing the faith. We believe that the way to many youth is through a sense of place in the existing Church and parish community. To be open to the Lord's will is to let Him work in our lives in a powerful way, building upon the rock of His church.
3 Meeting God in the Market Place. (Fr Brian McKenna Sr Nairge Roil) Reflecting on and deepening our awareness of the reality of God's presence in the hustle and bustle of living. 4
My Job, My Career, My Vocation: A Catholic per spective on Work (Sr Pauline O'Connor)
How the Spirituality of work can change your view of the world and improve the quality of your work. 5 Hypocrites - those who go to Church or those who need Church (Fr Russell Hardirnan) Is going to Church a personal private matter or is being Church an attitude that energ ises all of life. 8 Now that we are Adults, how do we not let past mistakes paralyse us? (Peta Wellstead) How to work through and beyond where we have been and where we are. 7
A Christian View of Sexuality. (Fr Walter Black) Faithful loving is part of our Christian Vocation.
Ethereal choir stunning Musica Viva's special concert of the Winchester Cathedral Choir, Perth Concert Hall on August 23.
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Reviewed by Colleen McGuiness-Howard. he young chorister voices of the Winchester T Cathedral Choir have been described as those of angels' and with that I agree. They even look the
Winchester Choir soaring and masterful majesty
part with their angelic faces and red gowns with ages ranging from nine to 13 and seem to represent sublime innocence and tonal perfection. A fully packed Perth Concert Hall audience listened, approved, and resoundingly applauded and applauded until generously given an encore. It was the Choir's Australian debut and patrons thoroughly appreciated their program featuring the Maurice Durufle's Requiem, Can tus Missae by Josef Rheinberger and works by Taverner, Widor and Bruckner representing a span of 500 years. Their dynamics of sound range from the tingling pianissimo to rising fortissimo in soaring and masterful majesty, producing aural and tonal colour. In total control, each voice is harnessed in discipline to produce magnificence of production and achieve the high standard synonymous with the Choir which has also made a name for itself in the recording field,. Backed by the superb organist David Dunnett who played with strength and energy, the Choir achieved perfect harmony under the direction of David Hill, with light crisp notes and then layers of dancing sound creating an exciting musical tapestry. The notes danced and sparkled with clarity and verve producing perfect harmony. Each was superb, representing the highest standard and the total effect was a night to remember.
Mrs Doreen Crawford of the AH Crawford Cancer Treatment Society, left, Hospice Director Ellen Nightingale, Premier Richard Court, vice patron of Crawford House, Anne Cullity, and patron of the Cottage Hospice Ruth Reid at the opening. A dream took concrete form this week with the official opening by the Premier Richard Court, of the Crawford House Day Hospice, owned and operated by the Cancer Foundation of WA. Although facilities have existed within hospice establishments, this building is unique for its sole purpose of providing peaceful and caring day care facilities in beautiful surround-
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Brothers gave learning, love, family life By Colleen McGuiness-Howard hey were our family" stated T Mike Smith of Maida Vale forcefully - referring to the
ing and consulting business; he attributes a lot of the successes in his life to the excellent background the Brothers provided for him and the other boys and said owing to the solid training he received in the engineering field at Tardun, his apprenticeship as a first class welder was reduced from five years to four (approved by the Arbitration Commission). Going from strength to strength, Mike furthered his postapprenticeship studies and became manager of Lincoln Welding in the north west. He finally became Victorian State Manager before starting his own business here in Perth. As well as the education which he received at Castledare and then Tardun from 1958 to 1961, Mike said the Brothers always made themselves available to give the boys extra treats such as going to the Royal Show. Then commenting on the fact that the Brothers, "who only received enough money from the government to barely buy toothpaste!" had to largely provide for the boys themselves (funded also by the Lotteries Commission), and enlist support from benefactors where possible, Mike said that nevertheless despite the financial stringencies of the time, they were given "a bob (one shilling) a week each for pocket money." This taught them how to save and handle money and the education they gave them was not only academic, said Mike, "but they taught us solid values such as respect for people, the elderly, and the realities of life that there are no free meals out there because you have to work for your living." The boys were educated scholastically or in apprenticeships during the week and on Saturdays they'd go out in the truck and pick up small to medium rocks to be crushed by the builders for building projects. Sundays were fun days and open movies the go that night and with all the various activities and camaradie shared over the years, the boys who'd come
Christian Brothers - and he ought to know. Mike came out to Australia from England in August 1954, just before his ninth birthday, and went initially to Castledare. Brother Patrick O'Doherty was superior at the time and according to Mike, was one of the instigators for setting up an 'adopted' family for the boys where possible, whereby a Catholic Perth family would 'adopt' one of the boys who'd go there and be part of their own family every third Sunday and on school holidays. The Wisse family became second home to Mike who treated him just like their own son and to this day, he said, he and his wife June refer to them as 'mum and dad', and they are 'nanna and pop' to their own children. No money was given to these 'adoptive' families, Mike explained, "so when people say the Christian Brothers were unkind to us, in fact the reverse was the case and they took great pains to give us some form of family life. "When the opportunity came they would take a truckload of us Mike Smith: eager to highlight the Christian Brothers' good work out on picnics leaving early in the morning and we wouldn't return until 8 or 9 pm! "So you're not talking about a nine 'till five job for the Brothers - it was unceasing for them in educating and looking after us." They were the boys' family, An initiative of the Tardun Canterbury stated in a private let- and Mike admits it hurts them to Old Boys Association - the ter to Mr Hawkins that if there is hear adverse comments made Australian Child Migrant any way in which the combined about the Brothers, just as any Foundation (ACMF), has been churches in England can assist in other child would be upset to recently set up to enable physical practical ways, he would consult hear insults about their parents. "And people don't think of the contact between child migrants with his church leaders to see positive side where all the boys to Australia and their relatives in how this could be done. have really made good careers their country of origin. Cardinal Hume said he and lives for themselves and a would also be willing to cooperSpokesperson John Hawkins decent contribution to society. of Mullewa, (also executive offi- ate with the English Catholic Mike and June have been parishes in supporting the cer of the Tardun Old Boys Assohappily married for 25 years and ciation), said the ACMF has the ACME he has his own successful trainfull support of: Archbishop Barry In Australia, Mr Hawkins Hickey, Bishop Justin Bianchini said the Foundation would be of Geraldton; the Archbishop of writing to all dioceses requesting Canterbury, Dr George Carey; that although they have already and the head of the Catholic given support in principle, this Church in England, Cardinal hopefully would be backed by a Basil Hume - who had in fact contribution from which British paid the fares of two Tardun Old churches, Catholic or nonBoy brothers, to be reunited with Catholic, could take a lead. their families in England recently. The British Minister for The thrust of the Foundation Health has been invited here to is to assist child migrants who discuss issues with child were brought into Australian migrants and assist in their threeChurch or private agencies and fold objectives. allow them to access ACMF facilMr Hawkins said they have ities. also asked the Australian This was announced in Minister for Health, Dr Carmen London recently and in Mr Lawrence, to make contact with Hawkins' view, although the final her counterpart, and said the touches are yet to be made, it is ACMF believes the English govlargely in place. ernment should accept their The Archbishop of responsibility in this regard. Tardun boys in earlier years on a country bus trip.
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How prayer helped goodness come to Clarkson . . . . Iwrite to clarify one point in the article of Colleen McGuiness-Howard ( The Record, September 7). Wayne was baptised in the Church of England and was received into the Catholic Faith on 2 July this year with the baptism of their two youngest children. The story that they told Colleen was much longer and it was a pity that space did not permit you to print the rest of the interview with Wayne. It has therefore become disjointed. I had a phone call from an excited Colleen when she heard about the healing touch of God happening in this the youngest parish of the Archdiocese of Perth. She said that this story must be told. In the article, Archbishop Hickey was cautious about officially declaring it "a miracle". The official Church is in the process of verifying its authenticity. In faith I can only say otherwise because of my first hand experience of how Wayne was and how he is now. In order to show that it is the healing touch of God we are leaning towards medical science to prove that God is very much present in today's world. In the words of Dr Mayo "from the medical point of view, it is a miracle". The story is not complete without telling about the prayers of our community, other christian communities and the
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was pleased to learn that the WA Museum has cancelled the proposed homosexual art exhibition and the accompanying performance by the "sisters of perpetual indulgence" and a "porn poetry" reading. Whilst I do not consider myself homophobic, I do see myself as a practising Catholic. And as such I feel we have a moral obligation to our children, our society and our faith to protest with letters and phone calls when our attention is drawn to something perverse and morally corrupt taking place in a public forum. The Minister for Arts, Mr Peter Foss and the executive director of the WA Museum are to be congratulated on banning the homosexual art exhibition. This decision will no doubt be very unpopular
friends of the Ryan family. There is a danger here of claiming through the prayers of so and so, or Mary, the Mother of Jesus , or the particular intercession of a saint that Wayne was healed. To pray is to allow God to take over God is in the driver seat. Prayer can be compared to a vehicle that we used to get from one place to another. Once we reach our destination that is God, like the vehicle, it has served its purpose. One person's prayer may be compared to a vehicle of small horse power. It may not be able to take the strain if our journey is long and difficult or if we need to pull a caravan a long distance. So we need a much more powerful vehicle like an 8 cylinder vehicle to do the job. Therefore the prayer of many people is like an 8 cylinder vehicle. It is like the homily of Monsignor Michael Keating this morning at the confirmation Mass. He mentioned about a recent sporting events for the handicapped. During a race a group of young handicapped competitors decided to link arms together to finish the race together after one of them fell at the start of the race. At Clarkson, I have discovered an enthusiastic group of people who keep me going. More recently we started a Charismatic Prayer Group led by Tony Moloney. We had "the Life in the Spirit
Seminar" early this year and we have continued to pray together every Wednesday evening since the end of the seminar. This group of people help to make my journey easier, like driving an 8 cylinder vehicle! Two weeks before Wayne was healed Bill Ward, a member of the prayer group, who went to Wayne's house was deeply disturbed by what he saw - Wayne was in a wheel chair suffering from pain - and he felt for Wayne. Two weeks before Wayne was healed, at the prayer meeting, Bill asked the group to specially pray for Wayne. We continued to pray for him the following Wednesday. I was not aware that Wayne was healed until Tuesday morning. They were too shocked over the weekend to mention to me what had happened. Pat McVittie, my pastoral assistant, who has been in touch with Wayne's family learned about it on Monday. She came beaming at the 8.30 MASS on Tuesday and calmly said that Wayne was healed. I did not see Wayne till he and his wife, Pat, turned up at our Wednesday morning Mass. I asked him to give testimony the following Sunday and he has since been to Prendiville College, where I am chaplain, and has given his testimony to the Year 12 & 11 students and to Yanchep community. Wayne and Pat have not stopped coming to daily mass to
praise and thank God for such a great gift. I told Wayne that God was communicating to us through him. I added that the healing was not just for him alone but for all people and. God has allowed his goodness to be seen through this healing. To end this letter (reflection) I need to tell you about the dream which Wayne had prior to his healing: "Wayne one night dreamt that he was on the beach and up on a rock cliff there was a little child in danger of falling. He pulled himself up and tried to rescue this little child while other well bodied people stood by and looked on. Each time he tried to grab hold of the boy, he fell back down to the bottom of the hill. After falling twice, on the third time of climbing he felt strength within himself, in his mind two words came to him, "have faith". Eventually he managed to grab hold of the child and at that instance he realised God has given him wings and with the child flew down to safety" When he woke up he told his wife that God has given him wings but he did not know how to use them. I will leave you, the reader, to interpret this dream and how you can also learn from it! You must read The Record last week to appreciate it. Yours in Christ, Fr Patrick Urn Parish priest, Clarkson
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declared: 'Coming to name and to know the demons [within oneself] is the first step in learning to speak with them and eventually being able to allow the energy they embody to become a creative energy' (op.cit, p.24-25). Fr Mitch Pacwa, SJ, has described his former involvement with Enneagram studies and states clearly: 'There are serious theological problems with the notion of salvation in the Enneagram system. In general, these ideas are inconsistent with Christianity and should not be taught in retreats or parish workshops' (New Covenant, February 1991, p.17). For anyone who wants to develop spiritually, I would commend the profound truth of Holy Scripture: "Trust in the Lord [Jesus Christ] with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths' (Proverbs 3:5).
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with the well organised and very vocal ness' course in Catholic parishes. Before any Catholics commit themselves homosexual lobby. They will fight this decision with every means at their dispos- to a course of instruction in the al, usually legal action and more than Enneagram they should read the 42 page likely sympathetic media attention in the booklet by Dorothy Ranaghan: A closer process. look at the Enneagram (which is available But isn't it time that we as Catholics from Pellegrini's). become just as vocal and organised in The booklet very clearly describes the standing up for what, surely must be the occult sources from which the twentieth majority view, of honest-to-goodness century proponents of the Enneagram sound Catholic beliefs and strong family drew their inspiration. Georgei Gurdjieff values. If we remain silent and indifferent (1877-1949), the man principally responsito what is going on around us, then we ble for formulating contemporary belief in shouldn't be the least surprised when the Enneagram, "was fascinated with the governments and others in power submit occult and sought knowledge in esoteric to the considerable pressure exerted by circles for years ... He discovered in a Sufi the minority such as the gay movement. monastery ... what he had been seeking [and] became a Sufi master with a mission Mrs S. Balsarini to educate the Western world" (op.cit, Carine p.34). Unfortunately, Gurdjieffs influence seems to have made the greatest impact with certain Catholic priests and religious has led them to conclusions which are and wish to express my grave concern at the heretical. unquestionably 'self-awarepromotion of an Enneagram For example, Sr Barbara Metz has
Architect of US abortion lobby, becomes a Catholic By Tracy Early
NEW YORK (CNS) - Bernard Nathanson, the former abortion doctor whose 1979 book Aborting America told of his change to a pro-life position, has written a new book on his decision to become a Catholic. Called The Hand of God it will be published by Regnery, a Washington firm and is scheduled for release in February. "Aborting America," written with the assistance of Time magazine religion editor Richard N. Ostling and published by Doubleday, told of Nathanson's background as the son of a father who Jewish had renounced Orthodox Judaism. Nathanson, now 69, said his father died in 1990 at age 94. "I didn't want to convert while my father was alive," he told Catholic News Service. "It would have been very traumatic for him." Nathanson added that he retains a deep regard for Jewish culture and does not think of himself as leaving the Jewish people. When he wrote the earlier book. Nathanson considered himself a Jewish atheist who had come to his pro-life position by purely secular reasoning.
In an interview at his New York townhouse on September 5, he said that he had taken instruction and now considers himself a Catholic. He planned to be baptised as soon as he cleared up some personal matters. In Aborting America, Nathanson wrote that he had not been in a synagogue or any other house of worship since his bar mitzvah in 1939. That period of avoiding any religious building ended with a visit to a Catholic church in Cleveland in 1983, he recalled in the interview. He said that a priest who attended a lecture he was giving sensed that he was under some personal strain. 'He said, why don't you stop at my church, so I did," Nathanson said. "I sat there and began my first attempts at prayer. I felt so relieved and so comforted." He then began visiting a Catholic church near his home, he said. He had become one of the principal figures on the pro-life lecture circuit and in 1985 was planning to give some lectures in Europe. He said an official of the Archdiocese of New York asked him, "Why don't you get an audience with the Pope?" As a Jewish atheist, he did not
imagine he could get an audience with the Pope, he recalled. But in the study where he was interviewed, he has a picture of himself with Pope John Paul II. It was a private audience apparently arranged by Cardinal John O'Connor of New York, he said. "It was just the two of us, and we had a wide-ranging discussion - population issues, social justice, and abortion and contraception, and politics," he said. "I think I was already considering conversion on some sort of visceral level.I came out of there inspired. What I was inspired to do or be, I didn't know." Nathanson indicated an interest in Catholicism in Aborting America. He reported the "careful scrutiny" he gave a Catholic fellow student who became his closest friend during pre-medical studies at Cornell University. In that book and in a later one, The Abortion Papers (Frederick Fell, 1983), Nathanson also told how, for tactical reasons, he and other leaders of NARAL - today called the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League - publicised their campaign as a fight against domina-
tion by the Catholic hierarchy. "I am heartily ashamed of the antiCatholic ploy," he wrote in 1983. Nathanson said Father John McCloskey, an Opus Dei priest serving at Princeton University, learned "I was interested in converting." He would come to my house, and we would sit and talk, and he would give me things to read," Another important influence, Nathanson said, was reading the account of Karl Stern's conversion, Pillar of Fire. An Austrian Jew, Stern was a psychiatry professor who taught him at McGill University Medical College in Montreal, Nathanson said. His association with the prolife movement in general helped him move toward conversion. "Many of the people in the movement are Catholics, and I met a lot of them, and they kept praying for me," he said. For his formal instruction he began weekly meetings with a New York parish priest and continues to see him. Nathanson also highlighted the influence of Cardinal O'Connor. "His role has been less visible than some others but more powerful," Nathanson said. "His spir-
itual dedication has been a tower of strength to me. His courage and unwavering consistency in the face of media outrage and groups like Catholics for a Free Choice, or cafeteria Catholics, has impressed me enormously." In Aborting America, Nathanson held out the hope that advances in the technology of contraception might become the answer to abortion. "What is needed is a safe, inexpensive, single-administration, reversible, long-acting and easily administered contraceptive. A birth-control vaccine," he wrote. In The Abortion Papers, he said the 1968 encyclical on birth control helped the abortion campaign by tying the two issues together: "Let it be said: the church helped us in NARAL" Today, Nathanson accepts the church's opposition to artificial contraception. "That was the last pin to fall," he said. "I had provided contraceptives all through my career." "But becoming a Catholic, I want to be a Catholic," he said. "I don't want to be something that is neither here nor there. "I'm not going to fashion a religion of my own."
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The Cost A widespread pandemic - a spiritual problem of Greed sumerism." I say pandemic because it afflicts huge numbers Knotted stomach, ringing ears, of people worldwide. Its like a racing pulse: It struck me at a dis- viral disease that is lethal in count shoe store. My son and I some, but remains dormant for were arguing, I in the shouted long periods in others. When cirwhisper of deranged parents pre- cumstances are right, the disease tending not to be furious, he in a recurs. Its symptoms: maddeningly calm tone of ratio-A fever for acquisition. nality. -Clouded judgment about The shoes he liked were not what's important. the ones I wanted him to like. He How do we face such a diswanted an off brand. They ease and come to terms with it? looked durable and fit well, and First, we have to acknowledge they were only $20. that it affects us. It's not just a Nightmarishly, I found myself problem for people whose credit ardently espousing the cause of cards have to be hosed down to the $40 shoes from the company keep them from melting. with the celebrity TV endorseAnyone who thinks that havments. My self-esteem, quite ing the right car makes a person insanely, had gotten tied up with more attractive, or believes that whether or not my son wore the owning a beautiful home makes 'right' shoes. the occupant beautiful too, or Blessedly, sanity resumed. We feels that without a quality sound bought the shoes he wanted. system or quality computer or Later I recognised the fever that quality cable package one might struck me in the crowded aisles not be a quality person, is of the shoe store as the pandem- touched by consumerism. ic spiritual disease called 'conSecond, we need to acknowlBy Dan Why
By Fr John Castelot
How Christians should use material goods never was a simple question. Money, or its equivalent, always has been necessary. Parents, for example, have an obligation in justice to care for their children to house, feed and educate them. This takes money. But a problem arises when this legitimate need becomes an obsession, a drive to amass money for its own sake, for status, power or the gratification of selfish wishes. Jesus stated a helpful general principle when someone asked him to settle a quarrel about a family inheritance. A man, evidently angry, told (not just asked) him: 'Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me." Jesus refused to get involved in this nasty dispute. Sensing the man's motives, Jesus instead went to the heart of the problem and said: "Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions' (Luke 12:15). When a person lives for things, that person becomes a thing - one that is inhuman, depersonalised. This is not life. It is self-imposed slavery. The first Christians brought from Judaism a long tradition of sharing and practical concern for less-favoured people: widows, orphans, the poor. Almsgiving, with prayer and fasting, was one of the three great acts of religion. This attitude persisted in the first Christian communities.Human nature being what it is, of course, there were selfish individuals. But they were glaring exceptions. The attitude among non-Jews, members of Greco-Roman society, was quite different. Helping others, when it occurred, always carried a price tag, an IOU That's why, when Christianity moved out into the larger world, preachers had to insist so strongly on unselfish sharing. The Gospel of Luke, written for gentile Christians, is full of warnings about obsessive concern for wealth, about greed. Invited to a banquet, Jesus lashed out at a hospitality that looked for a return, invitations issued to people with an eye to being invited in return: "Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind: blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous" (Luke 14:13-14). Luke made clear that what was a deterrent was insensitive selfishness. That was the problem. Zacchaeus, the wealthy tax collector, protested: "Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor' (Luke 19:8). The man's willingness to share in a generous way qualified him in the sight of Jesus. It saved the man from obsessive self-interest, insensitive greed and a self-destructive, dehumanising lack of concern for the needs of the disadvantaged. 8
We can simplify in other edge that we are already immensely valuable - worth- areas. Do we need or even use while simply because God creat- what we already have? Just how ed and loves us, and yearns for many kinds of vinegar does our our happiness. kitchen really require? We might be convinced that And, so what if the coffeewe are only as important as the maker clock is stuck on 2:45 p.m? things we possess. But that's an If it still makes coffee, do we have illusion. to get a new one? Culture is Before we ever had a really immersed in consumerism. good looking suit, reclined on a Advertising persuades us that we beautifully covered chair, brewed are what we have - what we an authentic cup of cappuccino drive, or drink, or wear. or stocked the fridge with excelPart of the solution is to lent beer, we were loved without become discerning viewers and limit. listeners and readers, reminding Once we've acknowledged ourselves and our children that these fundamental truths about any suggestion that our value is ourselves, we can take action. We based on possessions is untrue. can start by giving things away. A Sometimes the immediate soluwoman I know has a rule: Every tion may be to turn off the televitime she gets something new, she sion or close a catalogue and try gives (or even throws) something instead to make up our minds else away. about what's important and The idea is to make sure that where our value lies. her stuff doesn't accumulate It lies in God's love for us, beyond the point of her ability to made visible in the care, affecuse it. Its a demanding disci- tion and courage we share with pline, but worth looking at. each other.
Consumerism a plague to mean giving them almost everything they ask for so that My bet is that lots of people they'll never feel disappointed. start down the road to con- And sometimes no matter how sumerism with noble inten- much we amass, it does not make us feel secure for the tions. Sure, plenty of consumerists future. Consumerism's driving have sheer greed in mind from the outset. They 'amass earthly forces might include a desire to goods without limit' out of a cure boredom by owning more 'passion for riches' and a things. Also, there are social desire for power" (Catechism of forces that confuse "wants" with the Catholic Church, No. 2536). "needs.' But how often does the habit The Catechism proposes of purchasing much more that what really is needed is an 'stuff' than is needed begin 'honourable' sense of "balance with simpler desires like pro- in the use of created goods.' viding well for family members This involves mastering and making them happy, or 'instincts' (No. 1809). establishing some control over Will all this honourable selfan unpredictable future? mastery make us dull? The Unfortunately, consumer- Catechism doesn't think so. It ism's habits are firmly considers this virtuous, adding entrenched when providing that the virtues 'forge characwell for family members comes ter' (No. 1810). By David Gibson
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How to tell if you have the deadly disease By Father Paul J. Schmidt
"Whoever has the most toys wins," says a bumper-sticker. To help us 'win,' the people who control television recently stretched commercial breaks from one minute to two. There are cable shopping channels which do not even bother to interrupt the commercials with programs. Now we can shop till we drop without leaving home. Someone defined the human race (or at least the US part of it) as consumers. Consumers buy products. They work to acquire the money to buy products. They gain identity and self-worth and express their regard for fellowconsumers by the number and kinds of products they buy. Aside from consuming, consumers have little reason for existence. Children are taught early to be consumers. How often do you hear a parent boast of a preschool child who demands designer clothes? Hysteria over Cabbage Patch dolls some years ago was an outstanding example of child driven consumer panic. Many teen-agers do not want to be caught dead wearing the wrong brand of jeans.
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Recordings which can be heard task of making it fruitful and no longer reflect the values of free ad infinitum on the radio sell communicating its benefits to faith and the civilised wisdom of millions of copies within weeks others, first of all his family' (No. the ages, because these have of being issued. Some youths kill 2404). Finally, the Catechism been replaced by the dictates of for a jacket or a pair of running says that "love for the poor is television commercials and the shoes. incompatible with immoderate almighty dollar. It is legendary that the average love of riches or their selfish use' Education becomes nothing suburbanite cannot park the (No. 2445). I become a con- more than a ticket to a good job. family car (or cars) in the garage sumerist when my consumption Personal worth is measured only because the space is full of gad- of extras deprives someone else by the bank account. Even reliof necessities. In a nation where gion can become a matter of who gets, gizmos, and - yes - toys. It is not consumerism to seek some people push all their earth- has the finest church. the necessities of life: adequate ly belongings in a grocery cart It is difficult to identify confood, shelter, clothing. It is not and others cannot fit all their sumerism in ourselves. We live consumerism to enjoy the good possessions into a split-level in a clamorous atmosphere of things of life, even those which home, something is wrong. brain-washing where the conI become a consumerist when sumerist gospel is proclaimed at are not necessities. It is not consumerism to want to provide I compulsively acquire things I high volume. What we are condigood and useful things for those do not need. Closets full of tioned to consider necessities, we love. unworn clothes, kitchens full of most of the rest of the world Where, then, does the natural unused appliances, refrigerators views as luxuries. So we need to instinct for self-preservation and overflowing with uneaten food: try to see ourselves as others see a well-balanced joy of living signs that a shopping appetite us. Can we learn to analyse cross the line into consumerism? may be out of control. advertising and its influence on The Catechism of the Catholic If I can think of nothing else to us? Can we teach children to look Church gives some guidelines for do with leisure besides going to sceptically at television commerdetermining this. The right to pri- the mall, if holidays and holy cials? Can we talk about the valvate property, it says, does not days (especially the weekly holy ues which are retailed to us? To negate the gift of the earth to all day, Sunday) are nothing more counteract consumerism, I recof humanity (No. 2403). than excuses to shop, I am likely ommend practicing acts of genIt adds, 'The Tenth a consumerist. erosity and self-denial. In a culCommandment forbids greed It seems that many will pay ture which laughs at people who and the desire to amass earthly any price for tickets to rock con- deny themselves, isn't there a goods without limit" (No. 2536). certs and football games, but need to rediscover the meaning We read, 'The ownership of recoil at the mention of tithing. of sacrifice? If the world lauds any property makes its holder a Most insidiously, I become a the act of getting, how do we steward of providence, with the consumerist when my attitudes rediscover the joy of giving?
Camillians celebrate Beatification
Blessed Maria's fire of love for the suffering By Eve White
he Camillian Family has had plenty of reason to celebrate T recently. Nineteen-ninety two marked the 400th year since the Italian saint Camillus de Lellis established his order of religious priests and brothers to serve the sick. Last October saw the beatification of Mother Josephine Vannini, who co-founded the Daughters of St Camillus in Rome in 1892. On 7th May, 1995, Mother Maria Domenica Brun Barbantini, foundress of the Sisters Ministers of the Sick of St Camillus, was named Blessed by Pope John Paul. Although she died in 1868, her story, like that of many saints, is timeless, offering Inspiration and hope to women and men of today. Maria Domenica was born in 1789 in Lucca, in the rich fertile province of Tuscany, whose people are descended from the ancient Etruscan race. Their language, used by the poets Dante and Petrarch, was the forerunner of modern Italian, and the region Is renowned for its traditions of art and learning. In Lucca itself the ancient Cathedral of San Martino and the 6th century church of San Frediano - said to have been built by an Irish saint - testify to a long history of religious faith. Her father, Pietro Brun, a Swiss, had a distinguished career in the Swiss Guards; her mother, Giovanna Granucci, was a loving woman of deep faith. Maria Domenica was the second of their seven children, and her parents gave her a
secure and happy childhood. They provided strong models, and they taught her to love God and to have compassion for the poor and suffering. She was described as "spontaneous, sensitive and joyous." The influence of her early life and of her heritage was to sustain and inspire her in the years to come. Maria Domenica's father and three younger brothers died while she was still in her early teens - losses which affected her deeply. As a high spirited adolescent she caused her mother some anxiety, yet she was a keen student, spiritually aware, and enjoyed the social life of the young people of her time. When, at 22, she married Salvatore Barbantini, her life seemed full of promise. Just five months later, pregnant with her first child, Maria Domenica was a widow. Her beloved son, Lorenzino, lived only eight years. This series of crushing blows ( her mother, too, had died) might well have destroyed Maria's hope and faith in life. Instead, her experience of suffering drew her in compassion to others. Whilst Maria's own childhood had been tranquil, she lived during a period of massive unrest. The year of her birth was also the year when French peasants storming the Bastille prison in Paris unleashed the French Revolution. The effects spread throughout Western Europe during the next century, transforming systems of government and rewriting the map. This did not happen peacefully. Invasion by the French under Napoleon,
struggles to throw off the rule of the Austrian Empire and to unite the states of the Italian peninsula into a single nation led to wars with all their ugly consequences: -death, destruction, poverty and disease. Epidemics of typhoid and cholera swept the country, and, since to nurse the sick was to risk one's life, suffering people were often abandoned. Maria Domenica saw the widows battling to raise their children, the orphans with no-one to care for them, the young women used and cast aside by the armies, the sick people dying alone. Like Caroline Chisholm in Australia, like Mother Teresa in our own time, her heart was moved, and she went out to do what she could. Day and night she visited the sick in their homes, bringing not simply physical comfort but equally emotional and spiritual help. Her courage and dedication drew other women to join her, forming a religious order named the Oblate Nursing Sisters. Years later, Mother Maria Domenica met a Camillian priest, Fr Antonio Scalabrini, who introduced her to the charism and spirituality of St Camillus. Her sense of her apostolate was deepened so much by this encounter that she applied for her sisters to be aggregated to the Camillian Order. In 1841 they were renamed the Sisters Ministers of the Sick of St Camillus and adopted the red cross on their habit. The foundress wrote " The sisters will assist the poor sick and dying with hearts modelled on Jesus
the care of the sick in their respective dioceses. At the time the Second Vatican Council was drawing to a close in Rome. Perth's Archbishop Dr Redmond Prendiville, already familiar with the ministry of the Order in the world of health care, was anxious to involve the Camillians in the care of the sick in Perth both in the hospitals and in private homes. Father Camillians The General passed the request on to the Anglo-Irish Province and
before long the whole Province voted in favour of the new foundation and the first three confreres set out for Australia. Their arrival in Perth meant that the Order had then reached all five continents. Needless to say the sick were the primary concern of the newly arrived Camillians and they concentrated their ministry on the care of the sick in the hospitals and private homes. Because of the shortage of priests, Archbishop Prendiville
Mother Maria Domenica - named Blessed by Pope John Paul and fired by his charity."Maria model for us all. Today, more Domenica's talents went well than 600 of her Sisters work in beyond her tender empathy Italy, Brazil, Taiwan, Thailand, the towards those in need. In leading Philippines and Kenya, in hospiher sisters and fostering their tals, rest homes, home care, work, she supervised and direct- wherever people are suffering ed building projects, spoke and in poverty. Attentive to the directly with dukes and emper- signs of the times, they try to disors, dealt with controversies and cover and cure the new wounds legal conflicts. Such behaviour of contemporary society. In their contemplative and was certainly not expected from women of her time. The enthusi- apostolic calling they are asm, energy and tenacity which inspired by Mother Maria brought her to overcome societal Domenica's dying words to them: barriers in the service of her "Love God with all your heart vision is a testimony to the power ...love his creatures and especialof faith, hope and love, and a ly the needy and sick"
Irish missionary spirit brings Camillians to Perth T
he foundation of the Austof the branch ralian Camillians began in 1963. With the distinct increase in vocations in the Anglo-lrish Province, it was felt that the time had come to extend its ministry and undertake a mission of its own. This was perfectly in line with the general missionary spirit of the Irish Church. When that availability became known, invitations from Bishops in Peru and parts of Africa arrived requesting Camillians for
The spirit of St Cammillus: dedication to the sick, serving in them the person of Christ himself
asked the new community to undertake the care of the newly formed parish of Carlisle. In the meantime the ministry to the house-bound and the elderly in general grew rapidly and as the Camillian spirit became known the demands on the energies of the first Camillians increased. More manpower was requested from the Province as it became evident that the care of the elderly and the house-bound needed a more concentrated, systematic and continuous programme of assistance. Plans were made for the building of a nursing centre along the lines of the Camillian tradition of caring for the elderly. A suitable property was acquired thanks to the generous donations of Friends of the Camillians who had already come to understand and appreciate the spirit of St. Camillus for the most needy among the sick As the construction grew, state approval was obtained and the building was officially opened in 1970. This was an important landmark in the development of the Order in Australia. On the same day the first Camillian novitiate was opened and a year later the first Australian made his vows to become a member of the Order. Local vocations are the best indication of the need for and validity of any Order's foundation. With that profession the vocation promotion had its first reward. Since then the work of the Order of St Camillus in Australia has grown not only in the new
nursing centre but also, thanks to new blood, the Camillians were able to undertake more chaplaincy work in the city centre hospitals. With this in mind the Order has begun a new vocation promotion program. The emphasis in the Order's vocation programs is placed on the unique characteristic of the Order's charism: the care of the sick. More than ever, the care of the sick is being over-run by the technological age to the detriment of the loving human care each patient needs from the very beginnings of his illness. For more than 400 years the Camillians, priests and Brothers, have been caring for the sick in their human needs as well as in their need for the best professional and technical treatment. Repeated requests from bishops for Camillian foundations in their dioceses indicate the recognition of the Order's special charism in caring for the sick the too Australia In Camillians are presenting this challenge to today's youth (and also to those not so young) confident that the service to the sick can be a response to the most noble ideals of a society desirous' of caring for its most needy members: the sick. With the 400 years of the Order's history in caring for the sick and the specific achievement of the Australian foundation, the Order has every reason to be confident for the future in the great continent down under.
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Family Video Reviews
From Brady Bunch to viruses The Record today begins an occasional series reviewing recent video releases, particularly those aimed at the children's and adolescent market. The reviews and ratings come from the United States bishops' Catholic Conference. A more comprehensive list of ratings for videos is printed at the bottom of this page. Cut the page out and place it on the fridge for quick reference.
Circle of Friends
Irish coming-of-age tale set in 1957 Dublin, where a young Catholic couple (Minnie Driver and Chris O'Donnell) struggle to abstain from premarital sex while the girl's scheming friend (Saffron Burrows) carries on an affair with a wealthy Protestant (Colin Firth) which leads only to deceit and betrayal. Based on Maeve Binchy's novel and directed by Pat O'Connor, the visually pretty movie focuses on the sudsy upheavals of first love complicated by matters of conscience which are only superficially resolved. Brief bedroom scene and a few profanities. AIII - adults.
The Brady Bunch Movie
Fluffy comedy updating the 1970s TV sitcom family of three boys and three girls (headed by parents Shelley Long and Gary Cole) into the troubled 1990s where the Bradys remain do-goody innocents despite scornful schoolmates and the sleazy attempts of a greedy real estate agent (Michael McKean) to yank their home out from under them. As blandly directed by Betty Thomas, the threadbare plot and broad characterisations seem likely to appeal only to the sitcom's fans, leaving others to wonder why it merited theatrical treatment. Intermittent sexual innuendo, including the jokey depiction of a frustrated lesbian character, mild slapstick violence and a few crude expressions. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is All' - adults.
A Goo& Movie
One of the stalwarts of the early Mickey Mouse cartoons was the sweetly dizzy pooch Goofy, who deserves better than this flat, hokey animated feature which transforms him into a dopey single dad (voice of Bill Farmer) trying to win over his surly adolescent son, Max (voice of Jason Marsden). Directed by Kevin Lima, the tiresome story revolves around a camping trip upon which dull father drags unwilling son who's nursing a bad case of puppy love which sets up some saccharine songs, a couple of slapstick near-disasters on the road and an occasional weak smile. A few scary moments for pre- schoolers and much tedium for the rest of the family. The US Catholic Conference classification is A!- general patronage.
Major Payne Tiresome one-joke comedy directed by Nick Castle in which a prematurely retired but combat-obsessed Marine officer (Dayan Wayans) terrifies a motley band of junior ROTC cadets until they win the trophy as the best unit in Virginia. Rough treatment of youngsters by an adult, dangerous horseplay, vulgar humour and coarse language. A III - adults.
Heavyweights
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
Outbreak
Largely unimaginative fantasy-adventure set in the West of 1905, where a 12year-old boy (Nick Stahl) conjures up a trio of legendary folk heroes (Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt and Roger Aaron Brown) to save the family farm from villainous land grabbers. Director Jeremiah Chechik's scenic yarn features trite preachments about family values although the narrative often resorts to brawn and bullets to solve problems. Frequent stylised violence and fleeting sexual innuendo. All - adults and adolescents.
As a deadly, highly contagious African virus tears through a California town, a team of government virologists (Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Kevin Spacey) races against time to produce an antidote before their military superiors (Donald Sutherland and Morgan Freeman) solve the containment problem by vaporizing the entire town. Despite some irrational behaviour by several characters, director Wolfgang Petersen's action-packed medical thriller builds considerable suspense as the ominously realistic scenario unfolds. Some military violence, shots of diseased victims and intermittent rough language. AIII - adults.
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
Top Dog
Comedy clunker about a summer camp Dumb action-comedy in which a San catering to overweight boys (including Absorbing account of how German Aaron Schwartz, Shaun Weiss and Kenan movie director Leni Riefenstahl came to Diego cop (Chuck Norris) investigating a Thompson) taken over by a fitness freak make The Triumph of the Will (1934), the bloodthirsty band of neo-Nazi terrorists is (Ben Stiller) who instigates draconian powerful Nazi propaganda film which assigned a shaggy canine partner who sniffs out clues about the imminent bombmeasures to slim down the youngsters in made her unemployable after World War ing of a gathering of religious leaders. order to produce an infomercial hawking II, though she never joined the Nazi Party Director Aaron Norris does little but nor was ever accused of being antihis weight-loss program. intercut cutesy, unrelated doggy tricks Writer-director Steven Brill attempts Semitic. with standard martial arts mayhem and Written and directed by Ray Mueller, the gunfights to spoof America's fitness craze but his but this feeble attempt at script is a weak collection of sitcom situa- subtitled German production also inter- humour does not make the results any views the 90-year-old Ms. Riefenstahl tions, lame fat jokes and interchangeable less violent. Intermittent violence and an youngsters who predictably rebel and tri- about her subsequent career as a photog- instance of profanity. rapher, yet keeps returning to the question umph in their search for just desserts. AIII - adults. of how an artist, no matter how disinterMinor violence and occasional toilet ested in politics, could have been so blind humour. All - adults and adolescents. to the evils of a repressive regime. Billy Madison The subject of a moviemaker's social Dimwitted comedy in which a retiring responsibility has importance for more billionaire (Darren McGavin) decides to Hideaway Chunky horror fantasy in which a resus- than film students. All - adults and ado- leave control of his hotel empire to his loutish 27-year-old son (Adam Sandler) citated car-accident victim (Jeff Goldblum) lescents. provided the wastrel manages to graduate discovers that his hallucinations stem from grades 1-12 in six months, or else it all the mind of a psychotic teen (Jeremy Sisto) The Swan Princess goes to the billionaire's scheming assistant out to add the man's wife (Christine Lahti) Animated children's tale of a beautiful and daughter (Alicia Silverstone) to his princess (voice of Michele Nicastro) (Bradley Whitford). Director Tamra Davis' dismal attempt to collection of mutilated, deceased females. changed into a swan by an evil sorcerer Director Brett Leonard's overuse of jar- (voice of Jack Palance) while a valiant fashion a vehicle for Sandler's limited ring special effects and cinematic cliches prince (voice of Howard McGillin) comic talents never rises above dumb toilet jokes and moronic situations adding up drains most of the suspense from the Dean attempts to find her and break the spell. Directed by Richard Rich, the lovely to zero as entertainment. It Koontz novel on which this predictable Occasional sexual innuendo and alcographics are animated in the style of thriller is based. hol abuse, brief violence played for Disney's Beauty and the Beast, with Intermittent snippets of nasty violence laughs, some crude bathroom humour the heavily romantic story paced by some and some rough language. AIII - adults. lighthearted humour supplied by a frog- and an instance of rough language. AIII - adults. puffin-turtle trio assisting in the rescue of The Pebble and the Penguin the bewitched princess. AI - general Man of the House Amiable animated tale in which a patronage. stuttering, lovestruck penguin (voice of Dreary family sitcom in which a bratty Born to Be Wild Martin Short) seeks, with the grudging 11-year-old (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) tries aid of a resourceful pal (voice of James Formula adventure tale about a rebel- to break up the romance between his Belushi), to return to his true love (voice lious 14-year-old (Wil Horneff) who frees divorced mom (Farrah Fawcett) and the of Annie Golden) after being tossed into an abused, sign-language-trained gorilla witless fellow (Chevy Chase) who moves the churning sea by a romantic rival from its cage and attempts to make it in for a premarital tryout. across the Canadian border before police Director James- Orr raises few smiles (voice of Tim Curry). with the inane antics of a nerdy father-son The Don Bluth production is a and reward seekers can capture them. peppy, colourful treat for pre-schoolers. Director John Gray's sappy, youth-targeted club and a klutzy gangster trio, and the movie puts boy and beast through pre- rest is tedium devoted to the unamusing Adults may not be as engaged by the dictable antics and dangers in contrived domestic arrangements of the principals. thin story and routine musical numbers attempts to mix laughter with tears. Minor Live-in relationship, some sexual innuenby Barry Manilow. slapstick violence. All - adults and ado- do, comic violence and occasional coarse Al - general patronage. lescents. language. AIII - adults.
Video Classifications The following is a list of recent videocassette releases of theatrical movies that the United States' Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting has rated on the basis of moral suitability and supplied through the US Catholic News Service. USCC classifications: Al - general patronage; All - adults and adolescents; AIII - adults; AIV adults, with reservations (this indicates films that, while not morally offensive in themselves, are not for casual viewing because they require some analysis and explanation in order to avoid false impressions and interpretations); 0 morally offensive. The Accompanist, A III Angels in the Outfield, Al! Bad Company, AIII Before Sunrise, AM Billy Madison, AIII Blue Sky All
Born to Be Wild, All Boys on the Side, AIV The Brady Bunch Movie, AIII Bye Bye, Love, AIII Camp Nowhere, All! Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, 0 Circle of Friends, AIII Clear and Present Danger, AIII Cobb, AIV Color of Night, 0 The Crow, 0 A Dangerous Woman, AIII Death and the Maiden, AIV Disclosure, AM Drop Squad, AIII Drop Zone, 0 Dumb and Dumber, AIII Eat Drink Man Woman, AIII Ed Wood, AIII Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog, Al Four Weddings and a Funeral, AIV Getting Even with Dad, AIII A Good Man in Africa, AIII Heavenly Creatures, AIV
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Heavyweights, Al! Hideaway, AIII Higher Learning, AIII Highlander. The Final Dimension, AIII Hoop Dreams, All Houseguest, AIII The Hunted, 0 Imaginary Crimes, All Immortal Beloved, AIII In the Army Now, All In the Mouth of Madness, AIII Interview with the Vampire, 0 I.Q., All Junior, AM Just Cause, AIII The Last Seduction, AIII Legends of the Fall, AIII Like Water for Chocolate, AIII Little Giants, AII Little Women, Al Love Affair, Al! Man of the House, AIII The Mangler, 0 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, AIV Miami Rhapsody, AM Milk Money, AM
Mixed Nuts, AIII Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, AIII Murder in the First, AIII Nell, AIII The Next Karate Kid, Al! Nobody's Fool, AIII On Deadly Ground, 0 One False Move, AIV Only You, Al! Outbreak, AIII The Pagemaster, AI (G) The Pebble and the Penguin, Al (G) The Professional, 0 Pulp Fiction, 0 The Puppet Masters, AIII The Quick and the Dead, 0 Radioland Murders, AIR Reality Bites, AIII Red, AIII Renaissance Man, Al! Richie Rich, Al! The River Wild, AIII The Road to Wellville, All Safe Passage, AIII Second Best, Al!
Shallow Grave, AN The Shawshank Redemption, AN Silent Fall, Sleep With Me, 0 The Specialist, 0 Speechless, AIII Speed, AIII Star Trek Generations, AII Stargate, Al!! Street Fighter, AIII Striking Distance, AIII The Swan Princess, Al (G) Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight, 0 Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure, Al! Terminal Velocity, Al! To Live, AII (No rating) Tom & Viv, AIII Top Dog, AIII Rapped in Paradise, AM Rue Lies, 0 Vanya on 42nd Street, All The Walking Dead, 0 The War, Al!
Book Reviews
Timely fascination of originality will delight The Power of Sacrifice, by Ian Bradley, published by Darton, Longman and Todd, RRP $38.00 Reviewed by Fr Kevin Long Ian Bradley is a minister of the Church of Scotland and a lecturer in the Department of Theology and Church History within the University of Aberdeen. It might be thought that his latest book The Power of Sacrifice addresses an area of theological inquiry with limited significance and appeal. A friend of mine, not given to reading works by theologians, who happened to pick up Bradley's text from my desk was so fascinated by its originality and style that he requested a loan. What might easily have been little more than a turgid examination of controversies, past and present, has been skillfully transformed by Bradley into a meticulous and attractive investigation of a much neglected area of the theological discourse. Throughout his text Bradley persistently that confronts appealing and recurring heresy that Christians need to, and can, make themselves acceptable to God by placating him through sacrificial activity: "In order to rid ourselves of this heresy we need to return to the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments and draw on the writings of that great pantheon of Christian thinkers down the ages who have understood the God-given and Godcentred power of sacrifice" (p. 265). Bradley argues that narrowly locating the theological
importance of sacrifice in human activity has robbed it of its profoundly God-revealing significance. Sacrifice, as loving selfgiving, is the central interpretative key to the theologies of the Trinity, of the self-emptying (kenosis) of Christ's Incarnation and of the abiding importance of the Atonement. Sacrifice is lifted out of the cramped pessimistic stranglehold of penitential practices and presented as loving self-giving, firstly by God towards us and then by us in response to God. Bradley challenges his readers to discover this theological truth within the Church's liturgy, pastoral activity and spirituality. More often he argues, however, Christians discover sacrifice in the contours of everyday life, "There is nothing very attractive about sacrificial behaviour nor, if we are honest, is there often anything very noble about it either. For the most part it is demanding, frustrating, boring and unrewarding, however, holy it may also be in the eyes of the saint or the theologian ... A life which is lived sacrificially will be characterized by personal disadvantage and marginalization" (pp. 267-8). Bradley confronts the difficult issues associated with sin, salvation and suffering with a realistic and healthy respect for the dignity of those who suffer. Pastoral workers, who encounter the daily miseries and sufferings of ordinary people in health care institutions, will find much to reflect upon in The Power of Suffering. Its author writes with sensitivity and insight about the
contribution which those suffering from HIV and AIDS can make to our theological deliberations. Bradley exhibits a wide catholicity throughout his book_ The saints and theologians of all periods are well represented in their various hues: Catholic, and Anglican Orthodox, Reformed. Non Christian traditions and connections are also noted and explored. One of Bradley's stated intentions in writing The Power of Sacrifice was to explore the divide between the traditional Catholic and Protestant understanding of the sacrificial nature of the Eucharist; "One of my aims in writing this book is simultaneously to affirm and bring together the evangelical insistence on the centrality of the Cross and the sacrifice of Christ (which is, of course, by no means confined to Protestants) and the catholic emphasis (which is equally not confined to Roman Catholics) on the eternal nature of that sacrifice" (p.12). Bradley's treatment of the Eucharist as sacrifice is richly argued with appropriate quotations and commentaries from contemporary numerous Eucharistic Rites and interChurch Statements. Roman Catholic readers will also be delighted by Bradley's sensitive mariological reflections, another fair fruit of modern ecumenism. The Power of Sacrifice would make an excellect text for serious spiritual reading during Lent and times of Retreat. Its footnotes and index are thorough and user friendly.
Presumptuous work built on too many guesses Healing Religious Addiction - Reclaiming Healthy Spirituality By Matthew Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, and Dennis Linn (1995) Darton, Longman, and Todd Ltd., London, RRP $25.00 Reviewed by Peter Watt, Psychologist.
HEALING RELIGIOUS A DDICTION R eclaiming Healthy Spirituality
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this book In a nutshell, advances the theory that the root cause of idiosyncratic religious practice stems from childhood through shame, manifested addictively styled behaviour. This is a subject close to my heart, having known people similarly 'affected', and wondered what the origin was, and having observed this phenomenon within the Church generally in people on both sides of the political fence. I had understood the problem more in terms of projection than addiction, and was therefore interested to learn of another point of view. The book is divided into three sections: a general introduction to the authors' position; a description of 'addictive' styles; and a way out of the 'mire'. The first section provides a prelude to the style that is used throughout the book, which relies largely on personal testimony and anecdotal evidence to substantiate the claims made. There is nothing wrong with that in itself, of course. However, a great deal is assumed and concluded from it. Use of the first person 'allows' the authors to make many more assertions than they could otherwise get away with. Where reference is made to external sources, it becomes apparent that the evidence is often selected to support the (pre-conceived) theory, rather than the other way around, and that the authors have an agenda to run. The reader is then presumed to have accepted the validity of the position offered, having made the cognitive leap needed to get there. Nevertheless, a number of statements did ring true for me, or sparked interest. One example was the quoted hypoth-
esis linking clergy sexual abuse with the pre-adolescent stage of psychosexual development, seen in institutional terms as a phenomenon. But again the authors went miles beyond the evidence, and, again, the axe they had to grind caught my eye. The problem then was not so much the absence of truisms, but how these were organised and what was extrapolated from them. The second section introduces a genuinely innovative idea in comparing the four roles children take on in a dysfunctional family, (as identified by the family therapist Satir), with the four religious groups at the time of Jesus. The authors include a chart summarising this amalgamation, which though a simplification, provides a helpful guide for the reader. The following four chapters then describe the roles in detail. Thus we get a description of The Responsible Pharisee', The Rebel Samaritan', 'The Lost Essenes', and 'The Distractor Sadducees'. The authors' commitment to their own theory requires that each role is given equal value, which provides a sort of self-regulating balance. However, not surprisingly, the Rebel still remains the 'favoured child'. Whether or not the roles are historically accurate is perhaps less relevant in this section, as their purpose is to provide us with a tool or working premise to go on. The last section complements the 'healing' prescriptions given at the end of each chapter, with a chapter offering a sure fire method for determining how to use Scripture and religion in a healthy way. The introduction to this section is entitled What does Jesus say and what would Jesus do?' The authors proceed
to let us in on the mind of Jesus himself (which incidently coincides with their own), and in doing so cover the final exit, for who can argue with Jesus? That the authors may be manifesting their own 'addiction' and in one behaviour, shaming case, through their book, does not seem to have occurred to them. They have 'arrived', but are fortunately willing to show us poor unenlightened strugglers (sorry reader) 'the way'. Much like Jesus would, come to think of it. This book presumes to offer a comprehensive integration of Psychology and Catholicism. However, in marrying itself to secular humanist philosophy and everything that comes with that, it is representative of neither. I suppose what we're left with is a hybrid of Humanistic Psychology and a politically driven version of Christianity - a belief system in its own right. This 'hybrid' has been critised elsewhere by psychologists such as William Kirk Kilpatrick and Paul Vitz, as giving poor service both to Christianity and Psychology. On the other hand, the book does at least attempt an answer to this phenomenon of idiosyncratic religious practice, and it would be a pity if those on the other side of the political fence were to seize upon it as 'further evidence' of the irrelevance of advancing a psychological explanation for a problem of 'Faith', and write-off the topic as a line The topic of investigation. remains to be addressed and would benefit from objective. research by those who don't even own an axe.
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Papal African tour marks a 'coming of age' By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II, visiting Africa for the 11th time, in September will bring along a new church document and a strong message of justice and hope to the ailing continent. Billed as the ceremonial closing of last year's African synod, the September 14-20 trip will take the pontiff to Cameroon, South Africa and Kenya. Previous visits focused mainly on local themes, but sources said the Pope will raise broader issues on this trip - all connected to the church's future in African society. In each country he will preside over an unusual "synod session" that includes not only bishops and others in the church's work force but a wide range of African leaders, including representatives of other religions, educators, politicians and artists.
Nuns shot dead 'point blank' by terrorists VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Two European nuns who helped run a vocational school for women in Algeria have been shot and killed, presumably by Muslim terrorists. Pope john Paul II condemned the slayings as a "hateful assassination" of missionaries who were dedicating their lives to helping the Algerian people. Their
deaths brought to 10 the number of religious killed during the last two years in Algeria. The nuns, members of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles, were shot in the head at point-blank range as they returned to their religious house in Algiers on September 3. They were identified as Sister Denise Leclerc from France and Sister Jeanne Littlejohn from
The 1994 synod brought more than 170 African bishops to Rome for a month of pulse-taking and direction-setting, and participants said it marked the church's coming of age on the continent. In Cameroon, his first stop, the Pope is to unveil a 150-page apostolic exhortation based on the synod's final deliberations. Its themes will dominate his African speeches:
- The growing gap between - Promotion of women's rights rich and poor in the world and and education in African society the need for economic justice, and in the church. including the possibility of forgiv- Massive refugee populations ing foreign debt that burdens so on the continent: causes and posmany African nations. sible solutions. - The church's role in helping - The extent to which to stem the bloodshed on the Catholicism can find expression continent, where ethnic conflicts in African customs, particularly and several civil wars still rage, in reconciling the sacrament of and in halting the arms flow to marriage with traditional African Africa. marriage forms.
Arafat looks to year 2000 CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy After Arafat briefed the Pope (CNS) - Pope John Paul II met on the remaining problems, the with Palestinian leader Yasser Vatican issued a statement Arafat to discuss the latest expressing hope that "both peace prospects in the Middle Palestinians and Israelis can soon East and hopes for an end-of- enjoy the concrete fruits of the-millennium interfaith cele- peace." The Vatican said it was bration in Jerusalem. The Pope and Arafat con- understandable that the peace ferred privately for 25 minutes process was difficult and extremely slow." It said the Pope September 2 at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo told Arafat of his continuing conoutside Rome. It was their fourth cern for the Palestinian people meeting, and the first since and his appreciation for the Palestinians began self-rule in courage shown so far by both the Gaza Strip and the West sides in the talks. Bank town of Jericho. Arafat has come under fire Arafat and Israeli officials from radical Palestinians who have recently been trying to oppose the peace treaty with remove obstacles to an expan- Israel and who have carried out sion of Palestinian self-rule. They terrorist attacks in an attempt to missed a July 1 target date for derail peace talks. such an agreement, which would The Vatican said the Pope widen the Palestinian Authority's also underlined that in order for jurisdiction. peace to work, the international
community will have to offer economic support for the region. It was Arafat who brought up the subject of celebrating the year 2000 in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, as well as a possible interfaith meeting. The Pope unveiled these and other proposals in a document earlier this year. The status of Jerusalem is considered the thorniest of all the issues that remain to be negotiated between Israelis and Palestinians. Arafat told reporters he wanted the jubilee year 2000 to be "an event of peace for all Muslims, Christians and Jews." "This jubilee should be celebrated in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, starting from Rome and with Rome as a protagonist.I am asking the Pope for this very thing. I have come here especially for that," he said.
Ritual relieves aged fear of death PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) Anxiety about death among elderly people who live in retirement communities is reduced significantly by participating in religious rituals, according to a University of Portland sociologist. Robert W. Duff, with colleague Lawrence K. Hong of California State University in Los Angeles, interviewed 700 residents in six retirement communities, two in Oregon and four in Southern California. Their findings are published as "Age Density Religiosity and Death Anxiety in Retirement Communities," an article in the Sepember issue of the journal Review of Religious Research. The professors focused on residents of retirement communities or of neighborhoods where many elderly people live because they "are surrounded by neighbors and friends vulnerable to health problems and sudden death, and they may suffer death anxiety and stress as a consequence." The average age of study participants was 76. 12
In their paper, Duff and Hong The researchers said that said two opposite images of nonreligious activities such as retirement communities had seeing children and friends or emerged in previous studies. participating in social functions One suggested that high death caused no variations in death anxiety among elderly residents anxiety. may be the norm, creating an But they concluded that "freoverall sense of doom. quency of attending religious serThe other suggested "that vices is significantly associated older people are more likely to with low death anxiety." be religious, and therefore less "Rituals are the key," Duff likely to fear death," leading to a said in an August 30 statement, lower level of eath anxiety. explaining that ceremonial acts The researchers said their performed at religious services study was an attempt to examine help develop a shared sense of the two factors - age density and meaning and a sense of continureligiosity - which were the basis ity. for different interpretations of The study found that commudeath anxiety in retirement com- nities with the highest rates of munities. participation in religious services Participants were questioned showed the lowest death anxiety. on their feelings about death, In fact, the community demonhow often they attended religious strating the least death anxiety is services, the importance of reli- oriented toward retired religious gion in their lives, how often they workers; its residents include did a private religious activity retired ministers, missionaries, such as praying or reading the YMCA and YWCA directors, and Bible, how often they participat- religious educators. ed in group activities both inside Duff said. "Rituals provide a and outside their community, feeling of togetherness. and how often they saw their "They sustain us by fostering a close friends and children. sense of going beyond."
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Malta. In a condolence telegram sent in the Pope's name, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, said the pontiff was greatly saddened by the nuns' deaths. The sisters recently decided to stay and continue their work with Algerian women despite the growing risks, church officials said.
The Pope's message is expected to build on the recent success enjoyed by the church on African soil. From its missionary roots it has become the fastest-growing area of Catholicism in the world, with booming vocation rates, lively liturgies and vibrant small Christian communities. A shadow that hangs over the trip is the increasing strain in Catholic-Muslim relations in Africa. One problem is the wellfinanced Muslim fundamentalism making inroads throughout the continent. The Pope's first official visit to South Africa has been long in arriving. For years he stayed away because of its apartheid policies of racial segregation. In Kenya, the Pope will have the opportunity to touch upon another key synod topic: the church's role in bringing about political reform.
Rosary CD to help balance Vatican books VATICAN CITY (CNS) Following the surprising worldwide popularity of papal rosary albums, Vatican Radio is producing its own version that it hopes will help relieve the Vatican's chronic budget woes. The English and Spanish editions of the double compact disc, "Pope John Paul II: The Pope of the Rosary," were due out in midSeptember - just in time for the pontiff's visit to the United States In early October. A first run of about a million copies will be produced in seven languages and will be marketed through normal retail outlets and church-affiliated organizations, according to officials of Vatican Radio and the US-based Alliance Entertainment Corporation, who unveiled the product at a Vatican news conference September 11. The Vatican's interest in the project is pastoral and commercial, said Vatican Radio's director general, Jesuit Father Pasquale Borgomeo. The first goal is to promote the voice and teaching of the Pope, who has called the rosary "my favorite prayer." The financial aspect is also important, he said, because it will help lighten the economic burden that Vatican Radio places on the Vatican's annual budget. Vatican Radio does not advertise and has limited ways of earning money, while spending more than $10 million annually in recent years. Papal rosary recordings have recently become best-sellers in some countries. Father Borgomeo admitted that the commercial success surprised Vatican Radio
and prompted some new thinking on marketing possibilities. Until now, Vatican Radio, which holds the rights to use of the Pope's voice, has limited its role to that of approving outside projects. This is the first mass-market recording it is producing directly. Father Borgomeo said he thinks the Vatican's own rosary CD will distinguish itself because of a "richer content." In addition to the pope saying the rosary in Latin, the recording includes talks by the Pope in English, an English introduction and narration, and choral singing. Duncan Hutchison, vice president of Alliance Entertainment, said his company expects the CD-cassette to be a significant commercial success. Its suggested retail price is $19.98. The Vatican and Alliance Entertainment also hope for big sales through direct-mail marketing to parishes, churches and Catholic schools. The disc will be offered to these groups at wholesale prices for resale in local fund-raising efforts, Hutchison said. He said the papal visit Oct. 4-8 is an important focal point for marketing the CD. An ad campaign is being prepared and the company hopes to put the disc on sale at stadiums and other sites where the pontiff will say Mass. The Pope has prayed the rosary on Vatican Radio the first Saturday of each month since 1979, when a Vatican Radio listener from Naples, Italy, called to request it.
Shroud to see the light of day in three years TURIN, Italy (CNS) - The Shroud of Turin, believed by some to have been the burial cloth of Christ, will be publicly displayed in 1998 and 2000. Archbishop Giovanni Saldarini of Turin, where the shroud Is housed, said the two exhibits have been approved by Pope John Paul II. The shroud, a 14-foot linen cloth bearing the image of a man, has been the subject of much debate and scientific testing. In 1988, experts using car-
bon-14 testing on pieces of the cloth concluded it was a medieval counterfeit. Other church officials, including Archbishop Saldarini, have pointed out that no conclusive scientific explanation has yet been offered for the photonegative image contained in the cloth. The wound images correspond to the Gospel accounts of Jesus' suffering during his crucifixion. The shmud,was given to the Vatican in 1983.
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New disabled missionaries are anything but women. Eventually they hope to receive Albany Diocese. Disfigured and partially formal church recognition as a secular blinded from a childhood smallpox infecinstitute - a society of Catholics who live tion, Kateri was not allowed to become a ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) - "We don't dis- and work in the world but take public nun but made a vow of chastity as a young criminate against the able-bodied," says vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. woman and lived a consecrated life in secLouise Principe. For now they are organized under ular society. That is her explanation for why the church law as an "association of the faith"Since our charism is to help Jesus Jesus ful," an interim step during the years of carry his cross, she is a perfect model for Franciscan Missionaries of Crucified, which she founded in 1987 study and testing it usually takes before us," Ms Principe told The Evangelist, especially as a path of consecrated life for the church formally establishes any new Albany's diocesan newspaper. "Once we people with disabilities, also welcomes institute of consecrated life. asked for her intercession, vocations those who have none. Ms Principe, who uses a wheelchair, is began coming." "Disabilities catch up with us all, soon- a former nun who had to leave her order, Now inquiries come from all parts of er or later," she adds. partly to care for her ill father and partly the country, and the association has memAt the end of their annual retreat this because of her disabilities. She said sever- bers as far away as New Mexico. She said the association also welcomes summer, Ms Principe was one of the first al other members also had to leave their four Missionaries to profess perpetual religious orders or were not accepted as the elderly and the widowed, "which was candidates because of severe disabilities. an honored state of life in the early vows. "Because we, as a secular institute, church. East and West." Four others made their temporary proAlthough it is not yet established as an fession at the same time and nine new require people to be self-supporting and candidates were welcomed. Bishop able to live on their own, we have the flex- institute of consecrated life, the associaHoward Hubbard of Albany, who autho- ibility to accept these vocations," she said. tion has the rigorous formation program rized the formation of the group eight The Missionaries' special ministry is to needed to become one. years ago, presided over the rite of conse- those who share Jesus' cross through illBefore they can take final vows for life, cration. ness or disability. members must go through a three-year Their special patron is Blessed Kateri period of "aspirancy," or initial formation In just eight years the group has attracted 35 members - six men and 29 Tekakwitha, whose birthplace is in the and vocation discernment, followed by By Patricia Creswell
Pope tells troops: end war By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II, addressing thousands of soldiers from different nations, urged them to "make war against war" and promote new ways of dialogue among the armies of the world. He made the remarks Sept. 7 in a talk to participants at the first World Military Games held in Rome, which featured sporting events for soldiers. The pope lauded the initiative and said it gave him great hope. "You have left behind political and ideological barriers" in favour of sports competition, he said. "But not far from us, others driven only by hatred and revenge are fighting - not on the playing field but among the ruins of their own destroyed cities," he said. "Their hands are not raised with sports trophies, but with weapons still dripping with blood," he said. "It is time to state forcefully: No more war! A just and dutiful
five years of temporary vows renewed annually. "It is a vocation," said Dorothy Behringer of St Thomas Parish in Delmar, director of formation. Because of the variety of disabilities represented among candidates for the Missionaries, Ms Behringer uses individualized formation methods unheard of in most religious communities. Formation materials are in print for one candidate, in braille for another, on audio tape or videotape for another. A recent addition is use of "talking" computers. "We have people with learning disabilities, mental illness, cancer, blindness, hearing loss, development disabilities," Ms Principe said. It is because of them and through them that we come together as an institute, sharing the cross of Christ and reaching out to others who bear that cross." Whatever their disabilities, members are expected to maintain a prayer life grounded in at least two hours of daily personal prayer, monthly days of recollection and an eight-day annual retreat.
Time to declare more married couples saints: Vatican official
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A in health, shows a heroic degree on sainthood causes. For its part, he said, the Vatican official said the time is of virtue," he said. Mgr Moll, an official of the Vatican has promoted proceright for declaring more married couples as saints, especially Vatican's doctrinal congregation dures for canonization of margiven the "heroic" virtues needed and a consultant to the ried couples, and Pope John Paul to keep modern marriages Congregation for Sainthood II has said publicly he hopes to Causes, said the Vatican is look- canonize a married couple. He together. Monsignor Helmut Moll, writ- ing for couples who lived their said causes of couples have already been initiated in ing in the Vatican newspaper marriage commitment fully. "We mean two people whose Switzerland, Austria and France. L'Osservatore Romano in August, He noted that some married said Vatican officials are sure love never faded, whose promise such couples exist - but it is up to of mutual fidelity was never bro- couples already figure in the local churches to promote their ken and who unmasked such church's long list of saints. They false solutions as 'trial marriage' include several persecuted couwar is to make war against war," sainthood causes. ples who died for their faith in when maror 'limited marriage," he said. this period "In he said. "Yes, such couples exist! The Roman times, pious couples who The pope said the church riage and the family are being appreciates the role of the soldier crushed under the strain of heavy majority live hidden lives. Most were also state authorities in and the value of military service, burdens, there is a need for con- of them avoid the glare of public medieval times and couples who opinion," he said. For that reason, were martyred during later evanespecially in building character. vincing examples," he wrote. the congregation relies on local gelization campaigns in japan in good together "Staying But he said the soldier's true times and in bad, in sickness and churches to start the ball rolling and Korea. vocation is that of reconciler. "Every soldier, in carrying out his duties, should always feel in his soul that he is a soldier of peace," he said. "The soldier is not, and should not be, a man of war," but Instead, he said, pro-life peoAUSTIN, Texas (CNS) - If the we are toward women, how we someone who, while involved in pro-life movement is going to are standing with them, and not ple need to stress alternatives the defence of his country, is per- change the country's position on against them," he said. and their willingness to help sistently promoting ways of coop- abortion, it has to beat supportwomen. pregnant Willke had an obstetrics praceration and peace between pop- ers of legal abortion at their own "We have to start by telling tice for 40 years and is ulations, he said. game, said a physician who has founder/president of the Life people (that) we have more peosporting The pontiff said the been a leader in the pro-life the ple in the movement helping and event in Rome offered that kind movement for more than 20 Issues Institute women than we have trying to Life to Right International of cooperation, and contrasted years. the killing of the baby." stop Federation. with the "painful spectacle of vioof proAmericans think Most For 20 years the pro-life movelence and death that is continualAt a Respect Life conference lifers as "religious extremists, a Willke counseled against using ment concentrated on telling ly offered by the mass media." people ... the term "convenience abortion." people that abortion is the killing He said he was thinking espe- little crazy and violent women," Dr. "Those words are like slamming of a human being. That message not like do who cially of continuing warfare and Austin audistrife in the heart of Europe and John Willke told lectures he shut the iron door," he said, has been only partly successful, series of in a ences explaining that most people who according to Willke. Polls show Africa. Recent fighting in exAugust. choose abortion consider the that 80 percent of Americans Yugoslavia and Rwanda have delivered there in late drawn strong papal condemna"We need to shift our strategy decision to be difficult and coura- believe abortion is killing a child, yet the procedure is still legal. tions. and explain how compassionate geous.
Pro-lifers 'must change tactics, style'
The very subtle art of decoding Vatican thinking By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - When it comes to international issues, the Vatican can offer eloquent comment or turn suddenly silent - depending on the subject matter. Both approaches were evident in early September, a period that witnessed a UN women's conference, NATO bombings in Bosnia and more missionaries slain by Muslim extremists. On the one hand, breaking developments like these offer the Holy See a valuable opportunity to present to the world's media not only its political positions but the ethical or moral teachings that lie behind them. The methods range from
press conferences to cryptic headlines in the Vatican newspaper. The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing was considered so important that the Pope sent his spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls. At such meetings, the Vatican has learned that the best defence, media-wise, is a good offence: frequent press briefings, position papers and accessibility The women's conference also prompted the Pope to speak out weekly on women's dignity and their role in the Church, and to publish a letter to the world's women that was hailed by many as a breakthrough in church thinking. One wonders: If the United Nations had not sponsored a women's conference
this year, how much of this would have gone unsaid? The NATO bombing of Bosnian Serb targets raised a different set of problems for the Vatican. For months it had called for more decisive international action to "stop the aggressor" in Bosnia. After 37 people were killed in downtown Sarajevo in a mortar attack blamed on Bosnian Serbs, the Vatican addressed the issue not through direct papal statements but in a series of unusual frontpage headlines in L'Osservatore Romano. Interpreting these nuanced comments was tricky, but a trend seemed to develop. After the first wave of bombings, the newspaper said it was clear that force was being used to quell force and defend basic
human rights. Later it emphasized the need to match the air raids with new peace efforts. But by the second week of the NATO attacks, misgivings appeared to surface. The newspaper cited the risk that "the din of weapons" could cause a hardening of positions that might widen the war. The slaying of two nuns by Islamic radicals in Algeria was a painful development that underscored new difficulties in sensitive Catholic-Muslim relations. Instead, the Vatican issued a unique form of telegram in which the secretary of state speaks in the Pope's name. Thus the killings were termed "hateful assassinations," but these words never actually crossed the pope's lips. The Record, September 14, 1995
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Pope talks tough to Brazilian bishops CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has told Brazilian bishops their church must do more to fight the influence of religious sects and the "serious damage" such groups are causing the Catholic faithful. The pope also warned against an overly simplified ecumenical dialogue, saying it had sometimes led to a mutilation of the faith. He made his remarks in a speech on September 5 to bishops from the north-east of Brazil, who were making their consultative "ad limina" visits, required every five years. Like his previous talks to other Brazilian prelates, he minced no words in identifying pastoral problems and suggesting remedies. He began by noting the value of ecumenical dialogue, but said there was a tendency among some to promote agreement by ignoring basic church teachings. "In the area of inculturation as well as ecumenism, in fact, one can see that ... the search for understanding, welcome or openness toward other religious groups or churches has led to serious mutilations of the Catholic faith and liturgical prayer," he said. The Pope said church leaders must never, in the name of ecumenism, modify church teachings, abandon practices of popular piety or weaken centuries of church discipline. He suggested that these very
factors were reasons many Catholics in Brazil are turning away from the church and toward sects. But the sects represent a problem throughout all of Latin America, he said. The Pope emphasised that bishops must above all be firm teachers of the faith, and he said distributing the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" would be one solid step in this direction. But he said the bishops also had to face up to "certain shortcomings" in evangelization in Brazil. He said pastors are becoming less visible to the people, churches are not welcoming, and there is an overall sense of "timidity and inertia" in bringing the Gospel message to the society. He said Brazilians appreciate simple signs of church presence, like hearing church bells ring and seeing priests in clerical dress. Likewise, liturgical music should be truly sacred and not try to mimic secular songs, he said. Nor do people like hearing overtly political messages in the songs they sing in church or the sermons they hear, he said. He advised a more spiritual emphasis. "Undoubtedly there are many people who don't have enough to satisfy their hunger, but generally people have more hunger for God than for bread," he said. -The church should be seen as the church, and not as a mere promoter of social reform," he added.
Chinese human rights activist unrepentant upon his release By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) - Just weeks after his expulsion from China, Harry Wu was in Washington and back on the bandwagon, talking to reporters and members of Congress about human rights abuses in China. Although he's been dubbed by some as an American hero, the Chinese-born Catholic, who was released on August 23 from a Chinese prison, downplays his own importance. He speaks slowly, softly and without emotion about his two months in a barren 9-by-12 room where he was guarded around the clock "Of course I am glad to be alive and free. At the same time I feel sad anti guilty," he said on September Z referring to the "thousands of political prisoners" who remain in China. "We do not know their names, so they get no attention. They are simply Chinese citizens who are suffering but who deserve freedom," he told reporters during a press conference at the National Press Club. Wu, the 58-year-old human rights activist, was given his English first name by the Jesuits who taught him in high school
NEW YORK (CNS) - Paulist Father Steven Harris has gone beyond deploring the state of children's television to helping produce a fall show he says offers valuable lessons. With the New York agency of Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, he is co-producer of "Happy Ness: The Secret of the Loch," a new syndicated series of 13 halfhour episodes. The idea is a spin-off from the Scottish Loch Ness legend. Happy Ness is a creature living in a subterranean world with a community of other Nessies. Kind Ness, Bright Ness, Lovely Ness anti others sing and dance there, as do Loud Ness and Brave Ness. Unfortunately, as in the earthly community, there are some unattractive creatures - Mean Ness, Selfish Ness, Sneaky Ness. But the better Nessies prevail to maintain the world of Happy Ness. In an interview on September 6, Fr Harris said the series had already been bought by stations
in most of the top markets, with the shows airing in midSeptember in most places. Fr Harris, who was reared in a Protestant family in Maryland but was never baptised, became a Catholic in 1976, two years after he came to New York to work as an actor. He also gained experience as a director and agent. Happy Ness episodes function like biblical parables in conveying messages to children about unselfishness and cooperation, he said. The "Gentile" part of Abrams/Gentile Entertainment includes three Gentile brothers Anthony and John Gentile, who are twins, and Christopher Gentile. Martin Abrams anti the Gentiles had extensive experience in television, movies and other aspects of entertainment. Anthony and John came up with the Happy Ness concept, and various other people were brought in to help, Father Harris said. He said Anthony and John both have children, so they could do realistic market testing at home
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today than on June 19. More people certainly know my name now than they did a few months ago. It seems to me they were stupid," he said. Wu says he became a "political bargaining chip" when he was released under the appearance of a political deal - his exchange for first lady Hillary Clinton's appearance at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. "There was, of course no deal, just the superficial appearance of one," said Wu. But he did praise the speech Mrs. Clinton delivered at the conference, saying she broke the silence of human rights abuse in China. "She didn't directly condemn the Chinese gulags, but she did condemn what puts people there," he said. Mrs. Clinton said that forcing a woman to abort her child or to submit to sterilisation is an inexcusable violation of human rights. While she did not name any country, Mrs. Clinton was the first speaker at the conference to publicly condemn practices that China, the conference host, allegedly uses to enforce its policy of one child per family.
Pope hopes again for peace CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) - After several days of NATO bombings in Bosnia, Pope John Paul II expressed the hope that peace negotiations would finally get on track. The Pope did not specifically comment on the NATO air raids against Bosnian Serb targets, an operation aimed at bringing the Serbs to the bargaining table anti breaking their siege of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina's capital. After the recent terrible images of massacres and bombardments, there is news out of Bosnia of promising talks toward the solution of the conflict," the Pope said earlier this month. "We place our hope in the Lord and in the Virgin Mary that these initiatives will lead as soon
Ecumenical children TV hope By Tracy Early
and also baptised anti confirmed him in the Catholic faith in Shanghai. In his autobiography, "Bitter Winds," Wu wrote that the "kindness, honesty and serenity of the priests" attracted him to Catholicism. The activist returned to his homeland this year to continue his work of documenting prison labour abuses when he was arrested on June 19 for "stealing state secrets." The arrest was not his first. Wu spent 19 years in a Chinese labour camp, known as laogai, for outspoken criticism of the Communist Party when he was 23. The experience not only toughened him, but inspired him to expose the corruption of the prison camps where he said dissidents are imprisoned without trial and prison-produced goods are continually exported to the United States. His recent incarceration only helped to further publicise his cause, Wu said in testimony before a congressional hearing sponsored by the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights. "More people around the world know about the laogai
as they went along. Father Harris has a pastoral as well as a professional relationship with them. He said he had baptised four of the Gentiles' five children, anti was scheduled to officiate at Christopher's wedding in October. "This has been a project mainly of Catholics and Jews working together, but also some Protestants, and we all concur on the message that gets out there," he said. As co-producer, Father Harris's job was finding and choosing other people who would help with the project. One accomplishment was bringing in David Friedman, who has done musical work for Disney as well as other projects. Anthony Gentile said in an interview that Friedman and others were working for much less than their usual pay because they have a special interest in doing something they believe will be worthwhile for children. He said the production budget was $3.5 million anti indications are the project will make a profit of at least $1.5 million.
as possible to a just and lasting peace," he said. Earlier, the Vatican newspaper said the NATO air raids marked a crucial turn of events aimed at "restoring hope to the martyred people of the region." The newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said in a front-page commentary on August 31 that the air raids should not be seen as an act of war against Bosnian Serbs, but as a warning to respect human rights. The NATO operation was launched after a mortar attack blamed on Serbian forces killed 37 civilians in Sarajevo. "The heavy retaliation undertaken by the United Nations anti NATO to respond to the massacre in Sarajevo cannot and
should not be considered an act of war against one party," the Vatican newspaper said. . Instead, the bombing serves 'a warning that there is determination to protect the rights of those populations, the unfortunate Bosnians, Croats, Muslims, Serbs and all the other ethnic groups dragged into the madness of a lengthy and ferocious war," it said. The newspaper described the air raids as a "painful recourse to force" and said they must be accompanied by serious renewed diplomatic efforts. It said that the people of former Yugoslavia were asking for peace, anti it was up to Europe and the rest of the world to make sure they get it.
Smelling baptismal oil might be on agenda
SAGINAW, Mich. (CNS) - examples for using church space, Making Catholic churches including handicap accessibility schoolrooms of learning, and at at every section of the building; the same time unifying its partic- convenience to the parking lot; ipants in worship, presents a and gathering areas anti confescomplex set of concerns, archi- sionals that are comfortable anti tects were told during a seminar promote dialogue. on building and renovating Bishop Untener said worship Catholic churches. space could enhance the liturgy 'How do you make a place in several ways. For example, he both intimate (enough to) kneel, said, "it's one thing to see this anti then how do you make a stage, which I think is the operaplace stimulating for an informa- tive image for most people ... but tive thing such as the Word?" it's another thing to see what I (as said Robert Rambusch during a parishioner) am a part of." the August 9 seminar. The bishop said the architecSpeakers at the seminar, spon- tural layout plays an important sored by Saginaw's diocesan part in helping participants feel Office of Liturgy, included Ram- unified during the eucharistic busch, a member of archdioce- prayer. "This is a 'we' prayer - it's san liturgical and architectural not an 'I' prayer that we watch committees in New York and someone do." Detroit; anti Saginaw Bishop Van Parys discussed several Kenneth Untener. factors that churches should take Mr Rambusch said one of the into account when they choose biggest problems is "to satisfy the baptismal fonts or pools. For fullness of the divinity but (also) example, he said, everyone the fullness in humanity" or the should be able to see the font, differences between Christ as hear everything that takes place, God anti Christ as man. be able to smell the baptismal He showed slides of various oils anti have access to the water.
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THANKS GLORIOUS Apostle, St. Jude Thaddeus, I praise God for all the graces he has bestowed upon you, granting you the privelege of bringing help to those in despair,. Intercede for me in my great need. (Here make your special petition). Through your merits and prayers may I receive the consolation of divine help in my necessity so that I may praise the mercy of God on earth and bless him eternally with you and all the elect in heaven. Ever mindful of your favour I will honour you as my heavenly patron and encourage devotion to you in what way I can. Therefore with confidence I invoke your aid; helper when hope is fading, help me in my distress Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary_Glory be. Lord Jesus, merciful Saviour, humbly I beseech you that having honoured the eternal glory of St Jude your kinsman and apostle, I may through his merits and Prayers obtain the grace of your healing peace; who live and reign world without end. Amen. Coral. NOVENA to St. Jude (Patron Saint of last causes). In the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit Amen. GRATEFUL thanks to Our Lady of Revelation and St Jude for special prayers answered. EPA
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THANKS OH HOLY St Jude; apostle and martyr great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patron in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and I humbly beg you to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. In return I promise to make your name known and be invoked. Say 3 Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glorias. Say for 9 days. Thank you St Jude. P.R.
OH HOLY St Jude, apostle and martyr, great in virtue, rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in times of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and I humbly beg you, to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. Say three Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glorias. Say for nine days. Thank you St. Jude. B.BA
HELP WANTED HELP needed by Daughters of Charity to assist in Opportunity Shops on Saturday mornings. Also urgently need good quality household goods, utensils, nick-nacks, etc. Contact Sr. Clare 227 6616.
THANKS HOLY SPIRIT you who solved all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal, you gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances of my life you are with me, I want in this short prayer to thank your for all things. As I confirm once again that never want to be separated from you ever in spite of all material illusions I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. J.0'M.
BAPTISMS MCQUEEN, Luke Matteo, son of Paul and Carmelina will be baptised on Sunday 1 7 Sept, 1995, by Mgr McCrann at St Marys Star o f the Sea Church, Peppermint Grove, at 12.00 noon. Godparents are Ron and Melissa Sammut
THANKS HOLY spirit thou who makes me see everything and shows me the way to reach the ideal, you who gave me the divine gift to f orgive and forget the wrong that is done to me and who are in all instances of my life with me, I in a short dialogue want to thank you for everything and confirm from you once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desire may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen.
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church Marriage under the regime of sin 1606 Every man experiences
evil around him and within him self. This experience makes itself felt in the relationships between man and woman. Their union has always been threatened by discord, a spirit of domination, infidelity, jealousy, and conflicts that can escalate into hatred and separation. This disorder can manifest itself more or less acutely, and can be more or less over come according to the circumstances of cultures, eras, and indi viduals, but it does seem to have a universal character.
1607 According to faith the dis- 1608 Nevertheless, the order of order we notice so painfully does creation persists, though seriousnot stem from the nature of man ly disturbed. To heal the wounds and woman, nor from the nature of sin, man and woman need the help of the grace that God in his of their relations, but from sin. mercy never refuses infinite As a break with God, the first sin his help man and Without them. had for its first consequence the achieve the cannot woman rupture of the original commuunion of their lives for which nion between man and woman. God created them 'in the beginTheir relations were distorted by ning.' mutual recriminations; their mutual attraction, the Creator's own gift, changed into a relation- Marriage under the ship of domination and lust; and pedagogy of the Law the beautiful vocation of man and woman to be fruitful, multi- 1609 In his mercy God has not ply, and subdue the earth was forsaken sinful man. The pun burdened by the pain of child- ishments consequent upon sin, birth and the toil of work. 'pain in childbearing' and toil "in
the sweat of your brow", also embody remedies that limit the damaging effects of sin. After the fall, marriage helps to overcome self-absorption, egoism, pursuit of one's own pleasure, and to open oneself to the other, to mutual aid and to self-giving. 1610 Moral conscience concerning the unity and indissolubility of marriage developed under the pedagogy of the old law. In the Old Testament the polygamy of patriarchs and kings is not yet explicitly rejected. Nevertheless, the law given to Moses aims at protecting the wife from arbitrary domination by the husband, even though according to the Lord's words it still carries traces of
man's 'hardness of heart' which was the reason Moses permitted men to divorce their wives. 1611 Seeing God's covenant with Israel in the image of exclusive and faithful married love, the prophets prepared the Chosen People's conscience for a deepened understanding of the unity and indissolubility of marriage. The books of Ruth and Tobit bear moving witness to an elevated sense of marriage and to the fidelity and tenderness of spouses. Tradition has always seen in the Song of Solomon a unique expression of human love, a pure reflection of God's love - a love 'strong as death' that 'many waters cannot quench.'
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Thomas More Seminars Seminars are held every second Sunday evening 7.30pm St Mary's Parish Hall, 40 Franklin St, Leederville All seminars are based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church and aimed at young people 18-30 while all are welcome Sept.17 The four last things Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell New series on Christian morality by Rev Fr L Henry, SDB Oct. 1 The morality of human acts Oct 15 Conscience: Sanctuary, witness and judge Oct 29 False approaches to Christian morality Enquiries: Thomas More Centre 321 2822
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474 1533 WE CARE! Celebrate with us the Feast of St Francis of Assisi October 4th 1995 by praying these 9 days of prayer from 25th September A Novena In Honour of
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THE PARISH SCENE FIRE WEEKEND A "Fire Weekend" for 18-35 year olds will be held from September 22-24, Eagles' Nest, Gidgegannup by the Disciples of Jesus. Cost - $28 (negotiable). Contact Gabrielle - 245 3563 or Mario - 377 7071. ST. BRIGIDS REUNION St Brigids West Perth old girls r eunion will be held at the Freeway Hotel Thursday 5th October from 11.45-3pm. Please contact Trish Taylor 271 8601. FR. JOZO SPEAKS Jozo Zovko, Fr. O.F.M. Francescan Friar from BosniaHercegovina will speak on Our Lady's messages of hope, p eace and love. St. Mary's Cathedral, Perth, Monday 2nd October. Commencing 6.30pm with Rosary, Talk, Holy Mass, Adoration and Healing Prayers. Enquiries: 446 1935; 447 3711. PEWS AND TABERNACLE AVAILABLE 6 pews: 5 metres long, wooden and 1 tabernacle available now. Please contact Fr John Ryan, Shenton Park parish, ph: (09) 381 5383. ANNUAL MASS OF ST GERARD Majellan. St Joseph's church, Salvado Road, Subiaco. Tuesday, 17th October at 7.45pm. Welcome all Majellans. ELEVENTH NATIONAL CONFERENCE, CATHOUC SOLO PARENTS OF AUSTRAUA Sacred Heart College Sorrento. September 29, 30 - 1st October "Relationship Not Battleships". Live in $90 day and session rates. Mass and dinner $15 Saturday evening. Contact Dominic 310 6209. Denise 398 3868.
Official Engagements BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE Rosary, Homily and Benediction will be held Sunday September 2 4th at 2pm at the Church " Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" 36 Chittering Road, Bullsbrook, For bus reservations please ring 444 7565, 458 6302 for bus to and from Bullsbrook via Marangaroo, Tuart Hill, Perth, Highgate and Midland. 339 401 5 for Fremantle bus. SACRI Assoc. INC. P.O. Box 311, Tuart Hill WA 6060. Telephone 571 1699. HOLY HOUR FOR OUR HOLY FATHER POPE JOHN PAUL II AND FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD A Holy Hour will be held at St Mary's Church, 21 Jams St, Guildford, on Sunday, 17 September, 1995 at 2.30pm. Sponsored by the Devotees of Our Lady of Mt Carmel. All welcome. Tea and coffee will be served afterwards. THE LIVING CHRIST IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Father Christopher Sharah F.S.F. is giving 3 quiet Springtime Retreats, at Gracewood - God's Farm from 22nd Sept '95. As Superior of "The Brothers of St Francis" this Reformed Franciscan Communtiy commenced 2 years ago in Armidale Diocese N.S.W. inorder to try to live faithfully the charism of St Francis and work for the authentic renewal fo religious life within the Church. Retreat dates are No. 1, 22nd Sept 7pm to 24 Sept 2pm. No. 2, 25 Sept. 2pm to 28 Sept 2pm. No. 3, 29 Sept 7pm to 2nd Oct 2pm (Long weekend). Suggested donations 575 No 1 and $110 No, 2 & 3. Contact Betty Peaker s.f.o. phone & fax (097) 55 6212 or Box 24 P.O. Coweramup, 6284.
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Urgent Please note that the Superior Fr Christopher Sharah FSF is giving 3 retreats from 22 Sept. 95 at Gracewood - God's Farm, 30 km south of Busselton. Theme: The Living Christ in the Catholic Church. Contact promptly: B. Peaker, Fax/phone 097 556 212 Box 24, PO. Cowaramup WA 6284
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His Holiness About Pope Women Ecumenicalism John Paul ll's & the & the future of book, Feminist the Catholic "Crossing the Movement! Threshold Of Hope" Church! About
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SEPTEMBER 24 & 25
SEPTEMBER Blessing of Archdiocesan A rchives - Monsignor Keating Blessing of Extensions, Mercy 15 College- Monsignor Keating 15-17 Visitation and Confirmation, Bencubbin - Archbishop Hickey 15-17 Visitation and Confirmation, Victoria Park - Bishop Healy Confirmation, Kingsley/ 17 Woodvale - Monsignor Keating C onfirmation, Maida Vale Monignor McCrann C onfirmation, Embleton Monsignor O'Shea 18-20 Visitation and Confirmation, Wongan Hills - Archbishop & 23 Hickey 19, 20 Confirmation, Lesmurdie Rev G Holohan C onfirmation, Spearwood Monsignor O'Shea 21-24 Visitation and Confirmation Norcia - Archbishop Hickey New 22-24 Visitation, Belmont/Redlcliffe Bishop Healy Confirmation, Kuhn 24 Monsignor Keating Confirmation, Greenmount 24 Rev G Holohan Prison Chaplains' Retreat Mass, 26 Safety Bay - Archbishop Hickey Confirmation, Trinity College 27 Archbishop Hickey
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THE CATHOLIC EDUCATION COMMISSION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA invites applications for the following position:
PRINCIPALSHIP 1996 St Joseph's School, Wyndham $t Joseph's School, Wyndham is a small coeducational shoot situated in the Kimberley Region. It currently caters for 95 students from Pre-primary to Year 7 with a 70% Aboriginal enrolment. The school curriculum covers First Steps, ESL, Aboriginal Studies and Computing. The school board and parents are very supportive of the school. A three-bedroom, furnished house is available and relocation costs will be provided. A comprehensive induction program is conducted for the successful applicant. The Conditions of Employment for Principals is currently under review and it is expected that the outcome will be an improved salary package offered to Principals. Applicants will be practising Catholics committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education. Administrative experience will be required together with appropriate tertiary qualifications. Experience in Aboriginal education is considered desirable. Further information and official application forms are available from Sr Clare Rafferty, Consultant. School Personnel Team, Ph. (09) 388 4268. Official application forms should be addressed to The Director, Catholic Education Office of WA, PO Box 198, Leederville WA 6903 and received Thursday, 28 September 1995. All Catholic schools are smoke-free workplaces
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