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Catholic solo parents, like everyone else, need help with teens. Solo parents' conference report - Page 3 The Enneagram debate continues - the critics are unconvinced - Page 6 PERTH, WA: October 5, 1995

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By Peter Rosengren Charities across Australia breathed a I of relief following the Federal Government's release of the Industry Commission's report on charitable organisations last wee. k Among the major recommendations the Government accepted was the retention of charities' income-tax-free status. Also appmved was the recommendation that payment under funding agreements should be for achieving set goals or "defined outputs or outcomes wherever possible," in bureaucratic language However, the Government rejected the recommendation •that the current fringe benefits tax exemption of charities be removed in two years' time.

Also rejected was a recommendation to — fund an investigation of the extent and direction of funding for research into wel'fare organisations.

Prior to the Government's release of the Industry Commission report, charities had protested that removal of their income-tax -free status and fringe benefits tax exemption woukl have crippled many areas of their operations for the needy.

Hardest hit would have been some of Australia's largest non-government charities including the St Vincent de Paul Society and the Salvation Army.

The Industry Commission investigation of charitable organisations began in December 1993 to examine the role of charitable organisations and the way they I. with governments, particularly in delivering services.

Federal Minister for Health and Human Services Carmen Lawrence said that apart from acknowledging the size of the contribution of charities to the Australian community and overseas aid programmes, the report also challenged both governments and charities to take "a fresh look at the

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way we are operating." She said in this respect the Government agreed with the commission's recommendations that funding of charities should be related to results, even though it was "not easy to define the desired outcomes."

While welcoming the report's emphasis on improving accountability of charities to governments, taxpayers and the public.

Ministers said the Government would have to further consider the more complex recommendations on incorporation and accounting standards and their link to tax deductibility and fund-raising legislation before making a final decision.

Development Cooperation and Pacific Island Affairs Minister Gordon Bilney said that initiatives already in progress in relation to non-government aid organisations demonstrated the commitment of both the Government and the organisations to finding ways of strengthening accountability.

Father David Cappo, national director of the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission, said that he was pleased by the Government's response to the fringe benefits tax recommendation.

"I think that would have made it very ficult for charitable organisations to operate effectively and to attract a high quality staff if they'd lost the exemption," he said.

The Government's response on the two tax factors had been vital for the survival of community organisations, but he still had major concerns about the notion of competitive tendering that is based on price rather than the quality of service.

The Industry Commission had done a credible IS "but they operate from a particular economic imperative and an ideological base which is very different fr•om the way the community sector sees itself."

Issues of economic efficiency and accountability for public money sometimes might conflict with the dignity of the people welfare organisations deal with, he said.

Franciscan priest Father Jozo Slovko extolling the virtues of the Rosary as Mary, the Mother of God's special prayer last Monday in St Mary's CathedraL Fr Slovko visited Perth last week to proclaim the message of Medjugorje where local citizens are popularly believed to be receiving messages from Our Lady. Mary was calling the world to repentance and true conversion, he said, and each of us must individually answer that call. He told Perth Catholics that Mary still appears daily and calls on her children to pray, convert, fast, do penance, read the Bible and pray the Rosary.

Celibacy for priests entirely suited: Archbishop Celibacy for priests was a gift "entirely suited" to what it means to live and to be a priest and was not an intolerable burden, Archbishop Barry Hickey said this week.

He said celibacy should be seen from a positive point of view and not a negative one.

While not strictly necessary to the priesthood, celibacy symbolised and expmssed the total commitment that a priest gave to God and to those with whom he worked, the archbishop said in his Perspective column on Page 2 of The Record today.

It also served as a strong reminder of worldly detachment and self-giving, he

said. Archbishop Hickey said it would be a mistake to see the commitment to celibacy only in terms of a necessary condition for ordination.

"That would be to see celibacy in a purely negative light," he said. Instead, it should be seen in positive terms.

His comments have appeared at a time when several bishops around the world have announced in recent months their view that celibacy should be optional for priests of the Latin-rite Church.

These include Bishop Comiskey of Ferns, the Irish bishop currently on sabbatical in the United States who attracted widespread interest in the English-speaking world recently by advocating contin-

tied debate on mandatory priestly celibac"Y Acknowledging that celibacy was a ciplinary Church matter, Archbishop Hickey said it was "therefore, quite possible for the Church to alter this nrle for the Latin Rite if sufficient reasons exist to do Supporters of dropping the celibacy rule argue that marriage would contribute to the emotional growth of priests, that experience of family life would help priests understand the difficulties of their people better, overcome loneliness and overcome sexual temptation.

However the Archbishop also points out that marriage does not overcome underly-

ing sexual problems which may exist in an individual such as "propensity towards child abuse."

Despite the arguments advocated by supporters for making clerical celibacy optional in the Roman Catholic Church, the archbishop said he believed there were compelling reasons for retaining its rule in the Church.

"In today's sexually permissive world there could hardly be a greater sign of contradiction than a freely chosen celibate lifestyle," he said.

"Let us not abandon this powerful sign.

It is to be valued and treasured."

Perspective - Page 2

Celibacy: a powerful sign to be treasured he issue of clerical celibacy have presented their views. been, that the charism of celiba- 58). If celibacy is a gift it is not a T has been publicly raised Among the reasons often put for- cy is a wonderful gift entirely burden. No-one should be recently in statements from ward for a change in the rule of suited to the calling of a priest. ordained a priest if it is clear that Bishops overseas and in Australia.

I believe the people of the Archdiocese of Perth should know my views on the subject.

First of all, there is no doubt that we are dealing with a matter of Church discipline, and that the obligation of celibacy only applies fully to priests in the Western Latin Rite Church. It does not apply to the clergy, except to Bishops, in most of the Catholic communities of the Eastern Rite where clergy may marry, and generally do. On my visit to the Ukraine earlier this year, most of the clergy of the Ukrainian Eastern Rite that I met were married. The Bishops alone were obliged by the obligation of celibacy.

It is, therefore, quite possible for the Church to alter this rule for the Latin Rite if sufficient reasons exist to do so.

I am sure it is in this context that some senior Church leaders

celibacy are the following: mar- Even though it is not strictly necriage would contribute to the essary, it is a clear sign of a deep emotional growth of priests, fam- commitment to the people the ily life would help priests under- priest serves, and a strong stand the difficulties of their peo- reminder of worldly detachment ple better, the companionship of and self-giving. marriage would fill the loneliCelibacy is meant to be a sign ness of a priest's life, and the of freedom, freedom to love othcommitment of marriage would ers with an undivided heart, freehelp the priest overcome sexual dom to live entirely on temptation.

Providence, like St Francis, if necWhat marriage would not over- essary and to go wherever he is come, it needs to be said, is any needed. propensity towards child abuse.

Celibacy freely embraced and Disordered sexuality is not cor- lived will be reflected in the way rected by marriage. It has deep the priest relates to others and in psychological causes that often the way he recalls the pre-emidefy diagnosis and treatment. nence of the spiritual.

It is often suggested that priests The Directory on the Ministry who have left the ministry and and Life of Priests (1994) has put have subsequently married it well: should be able to resume their This particular gift from God ministry because in a time of demands the observance of falling vocations they are badly chastity so sacred ministers needed. can more easily adhere to Christ What can one say in the face of with an undivided heart and dedthese arguments? icate themselves more freely to My view is, and has always the service of God and man" (No.

the candidate does not have this gift or charism. It would be a mistake to see the commitment to celibacy only in terms of a discipline or a necessary condition for ordination. That would be to see celibacy in a purely negative light.

Celibacy should be seen positively, as a gift entirely suited to the life of a priest who shares the priesthood of Christ in a special way. The response of the priest to this gift from God is the gift of himself, remembering the generous self-giving of Jesus Apostles who 'left everything' to follow him.

If celibacy is not seen in this positive light then continence can become a heavy burden for the priest.

He may fall. If he does, he needs the forgiveness and understanding of the people, the healing of God's own pardon and the courage to recommit himself humbly and joyfully to his life of

Archbishop's

Perspective consecration. In today's sexually permissive world there could hardly be a greater sign of contradiction than a freely chosen celibate lifestyle.

Let us not abandon this powerful sign. It is to be valued and treasured.

edjugore priest inspires

Mary still appearing daily, Fr Slovko tells packed cathedral

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard Our Lady was still appearing daily to the Medjugore seers and giving her monthly messages to urge her children to pray, convert, fast, read the bible daily, and say her Rosary, Father Jozo Slovko OEM told a packed St Mary's Cathedral last Monday night.

The priest who witnessed the birth of an incredible event in the then-Yugoslav village of Medjugorje in 1981 went from initial disbelief in the accounts of the six children claiming that the Mother of God was speaking to them to 18 months imprisonment for his subsequent belief and refusal to go along with a Communist plot of denial.

The Pope has yet to rule on the authenticity of the alleged visions.

Fr Slovko urged Australians to return to Jesus and convert.

"What's the use of owning the whole world when you lose your soul, your faith, and despite your big country with few inhabitants, you kill your unborn and elderly and sick?" he asked.

And in the midst of Australia's affluence,

with its beautiful homes and rich lifestyle, "does more money bring you more peace and blessings?" he asked. "Or less?"

God cannot be substituted by money, Fr Slovko emphasised - "So perhaps it's time to examine your idols and attitudes, to tell Satan to begone! - and to tell Jesus you believe in Him who brings true happiness, peace and blessings."

Supporting the truth of Our Lady's words, Fr Slovko pointed to the liberation of Croatia several years ago from the Serbs on August 5.

The seers believe that August 5 is Our Lady's "true birthday", even though the Church celebrates on September 8.

Devotees remained spell-bound in the cathedral to midnight, participating in meditations on the Rosary Fr Slovko's talk, and a concelebrated Mass with numerous priests.

There was also exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with meditations, consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as well as a healing ceremony in which Fr Slovko moved through the packed aisles with the monstrance held high making the sign of the cross over the people.

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4 Father Slovko blesses the congregation at St Mary's last Monday with our Blessed Lord in the monstrance as part of a healing ceremony.

It's an inspiration to see Fr Jozo conceleBy Colleen McGuiness-Howard brating Mass; his love of Jesus is so real as Father Jozo Slovko has an enormous he reverently kisses the host before conlength and breadth to his vision and expe- suming it, obviously truly knowing and riences, and deep wells of spirituality and believing it is the Son of God and not holiness which have possibly emerged merely a communion wafer, which his like a secret spring, from his discovery of absolute devotion and love bear testimony Our Lady in his newly assigned parish of to more than idle words.

Fr Jozo told The Record the messages of Medjugorje in mid 1981 - and the reperOur Lady needed to be lived now, because cussions which flowed since.

At that point his life changed forever; in we "can't expect to get it right by leaving it fact refusing to admit to the authorities to the last minute."

"We have to work on our souls now," he that the Catholic Church was other than the true Church (when the atheistic said. "Our Lady is telling us she needs us!

Communists refused to allow anyone to We are important! She urges the seed of say that), he was given a three year jail her messages to be implanted in our hearts, because as she tells us - prayer term.

He refused to close his church doors on changes the heart of man - and this way the faithful, and the intrigued, increasing we can change the world."

Fr Jozo said Our Lady wanted to encourthousands from far and wide, who flocked to see Mary whom six children claimed to age her children to convert and "return to Jesus, to honour God, obey His be seeing daily.

Commandments, read the bible daily, and In imprisonment, Fr Jozo, through world outcry, had his three year term commuted use the powerful weapon of fasting, prayer to 18 months, on the understanding he and her Rosary, to combat evil in the would not return to his parish of world and stop wars."

As for the approach of three days of Medjugorje.

During his prison term he was tortured darkness suggested by some lay people, Fr but bore great witness to his jailers Jozo said: "The darkness is already here because of his spirituality. He says that now; there is darkness in the parliaments every time they locked his cell, they'd find and in the hearts of politicians, and many him sitting there with the locks undone who are responsible in the Church."

Prayer, said Fr Jozo, enlightened and the next day.

They multiplied the locks and kept renewed man so he could see the tragic changing his cell - but same story; this evil of actions he might otherwise do. resulted in many conversions on the part "Our Lady speaks about Satan who is of the Communists. strong and can inspire man," he added, " Fr Jozo's supporters believe that Our and it is when Satan enters into the heart, Lady visited him in jail and, on some occa- that darkness enters." sions, Our Lady told the seers she was late Every person needed to be saved and because she'd been with Fr Jozo who was needed the Gospel to enlighten and edusuffering tribulations, but that she would cate themselves. "Every generation is protect him. given the choice to choose between evil It has been also alleged that the seers and good," he said. "But during this time have seen Our Lady during their appari- evil has multiplied . . . it is present in the tion with Fr Jozo next to her. media and in wrong upbringing."

Parents should be confident'

Graham Mabury tells of how. . .

helping them at the right time.

parents might want to strangle teenagers. . .

but need to listen to their children. . .

lor and a former teacher with experience in pastoral care of teens.

Teenagers were living in the critical decade of their lives, he said, when in the 12 to 22 age bracket they will make many fundamental and initial choices regarding such important parts of their lives as sex, drugs, career and vocation in life.

And parents must learn to survive as parents through the teen decade and, at the same time, form and direct their children, giving them confidence in themselves and who they are.

He said he was an anti-expert on the subject of teens and believed strongly that the expert on any particular child was the child's parents.

Part of the problem, he said, was that "Society fiercely undermines the confidence of parents in their own abilities as parents and tries to say that it is the field for "experts.'"

But it was precisely the cultural and

He stressed the importance of parents spiritual formation of the child that was listening to what the child was saying, askthe role of parents, he said.

"Parents are the key, leading experts in ing questions and revealing some of the the raising of their own children, and need parents own experiences about whatever to have confidence in themselves," he said. the subject might be.

Denise Sutton Mattocks, national presiMr Mabury rejected the determinist methodology that blames parents for the dent of the Catholic Solo Parents Association and state president of its WA way their children turn out.

"I believe we are free agents and have affiliate, the Paulian Association, said that moral choice," he said, outlining the the organisation had started in Western Australia 14 years ago when the Pauliati Christian view of free will.

"For each disadvantaged child with bad Association was founded.

She said the biggest single issue faced parents who turns out bad, there are sevby Catholic single parents was the negaeral more who turn out good," he said.

"I sometimes say 'Adam and Eve had tive reaction from other Catholics on their perfect parents . . . and look what hap- divorce.

And single parents often looked after pened,'" he said.

In the end, one of the best things that their children better than two parent famparents could do was to treat the raising of ilies because they realised the difficulties teen children as a communication exer- involved in raising them by themselves. cise and concentrate on understanding This was why they needed a support their children by taking more care to group like the Paulians, she said.

Pope recognises struggles - Page 13 translate the signals, he said.

By Peter Rosengren Why is it that teenagers always believe that they are the first people in the entire history of the world to discover sex?

This was the question posed by wellknown media personality, counsellor and minister of religion, Graham Mabury, when he spoke to the Catholic Solo Parents of Australia Conference at Sacred Heart College in Sorrento last weekend on the topic of teenagers and family relationships.

Although his question raised many a knowing smile from the parents attending, Mr Mabury's talk addressed the serious issue of how parents could better raise their teenage children and at the same time cope with the tumultuous processes at work in teen lives and their perceptions of themselves and the world around them.

Mr Mabury is an experienced counsel-

te' co-opera should 'Pro-lifers more for Lyons Forum calls help for struggling families VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II urged a wide spectrum of pro-life organisations to cooperate closely in order to influence public opinion and block new legthreats to human life.

"I can support, as I would islative Federal Liberal and National family commitments via the clear that the defence of life It is commuthe in everyone Party members of Parliament taxation system by means such hope that concerns not commitment a is Independent as family unit taxation or nity would support, their basic Perth's and but which is morality, private only the as Member of Federal Parliament, income splitting; and recogni- principles about families question," political and social a also Paul Filing have released a tion of the value of unpaid centre of society and the vital he said on October 3. unit of society and, as such, report calling for community work done at home.

He said pro-life actions should and political support for family The report also called for tax- families and family life in be "peaceful, convinced and comenhanced be must Australia of promotion the and values ation rebates for childcare and efforts aimed at pro-family policies in the areas mortgages; re-examination of and supported by governments munity-based" culture and customs, local affecting social a and economic an at employof family law, taxation, the role of Family Law in suplegislation. ment and education. porting marriages; the adoption level," he said.

The Pope was addressing particBut at the same time he also The group, known as the of 'Family Impact' statements conproblems" "big some had effect the the which would assess Lyons Forum, promotes strengthening of family life as of other policies on families: cerning some of what the beneficial for the nation and is and the provision of preventa- report said, principally in the composed almost entirely of tive family support services area of income splitting and Coalition MHIts and Senators. rather than concentration on sole parents.

While the ACSWC had supMr Filing said the inquiry, post-separation services to help which took submissions from decrease the rate of marriage ported income splitting as a means of supporting families round Australia and conducted breakdown in Australia. up until about six or seven public hearings in each capital Social Catholic Australian city, had made a number of Welfare Commission national years ago, he said, recent "exciting recommendations to director Father David Cappo research had indicated that it assist families." said that while the report, could in fact discriminate These included: family-friend- Empowering Australian Fam- against some families.

He said that a more preferly workplace policies including ilies, moved generally in the better child-care facilities, fami- right direction, he had reserva- able way of supporting families ly leave and reorganisation of tions about some of its recom- was by cash payments, particularly to women in families. working hours: support for mendations.

ipants in the Vatican-sponsored Third World Congress for Pro-Life Movements.

"Those who have human digni4 and the future of humanity at heart cannot abdicate a vigilant presence" over the actions of parliaments and legislatures, he said.

The Pope said the Church's prolife initiatives should complement those of groups working in the civil and political spheres. Following publication of his encyclical "Evangelium Vitae" (The Gospel of Life), the church is opening a new and rich phase of pro-life and profamily efforts, he said.

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Catholic Primary Principal's Conference

'Net' brings the world to desert "Life at the top in any position of leadership is often lonely."

Being a principal of a school is no exception for principals in country schools and remote Kimberley schools.

Once each year, all the Kimberley principals travel to Perth for the Catholic Primary Principals' Association Conference. Then they stay on for an extra two days of intensive workshops and professional development seminars.

These conferences provide a valuable opportunity where the support network between city, country and Kimberley schools can be strengthened. In the future, besides the travel to Perth, they will be able to surf the world on the InterNet. One of the conference workshops provided principals with an introduction to the InterNet. Mr Jeff Durkin, Coordinator of Computer Services at the CEO, and Mr Sam Oriti, Computers in

Education Consultant at the CEO, provided the fourteen principals with an overview of the impact the InterNet is beginning to have on education.

Then, by means of a computer, the ordinary telephone line and an overhead projector Sam took them "surfing".

For the cost of a local phone call, they looked in on sites in France, the United States and Canada as well as other parts of Australia. The highlight of the tour was an inspection of the already long list of Catholic Church sites around the world that are already connected. One of these sites in the impressive TAIZE Community in France.

There, at the click of a mouse button, we were able to view images of the Abbey, its artworks, and then listen to the music that has become famous.

Mr Durkin explained that the Federal Government is presently establishing a national network

for educational users to be called EdNA, designed to be accessible and affordable regardless of user location. At present, normal telephone and fax connection from the Kimberley to most capital cities in Australia cost about $60 per hour. An existing network allows educational users to access InterNet from anywhere in Australia for approximately $6 per hour and even this cost is expected to drop further.

Mr Oriti explained that in his long involvement with Computers in Education, the InterNet is the single most exciting development he has'seen and that is going to have a large impact on the ways in which children learn. The technology opens up the libraries of the world to anyone - teachers and students in the remotest school in Western Australia can have access to information held in the libraries of the Vatican or to the latest New York Times.

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Kimberley Principals Sr Denise Casey, Sr Margaret Keane and Br Kevin Ryan give their InterNet "surfing equipment" a by.

e ong learning lays out t echallenges a ea More than one hundred Principals of Catholic Primary Schools throughout the State met last week for the 3-day annual conference of the Catholic Primary Principals' Association.

To even the most casual observer this conference has become one of the half-dozen focal gatherings of people in leadership positions which explains the renewed sense of optimism evident in Catholic Education and the Church in this State over recent years.

The theme for the 1995 conference was Life Long Learning.

Principals were treated to a number of high-level educators and researchers who are tackling and suggesting solutions to the great challenges facing schools in the face of the information explosion.

The keynote address was given

by Professor Judith Chapman from the University of Western Australia.

"Across the world a number of trends in economic and social change has highlighted the need for policy makers and educators to reconsider their approach towards education," she said. She went on to detail the changes that are occurring and how they are impacting on education.

Three other leading addresses were given by Dr Tom O'Donohue of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia who addressed the impact of these changes on the classroom teacher. Professor Ann Zubrick and Sr Pauline O'Connor from the University of Notre Dame

Six principals provided music at Mass. From left: Mr Paul Waddell (St Simon Peter), Sr Kathleen Hitchcock (St Thomas More, Margaret River), Mrs Roberta Chapman (St Paul's, Mt Lawley), Mr John Willeff (Padbury Catholic Primary), Mr John Walker (St Matthew's, Narrogin), and Mr Jim Green (Newman College Junior School)

Australia related the conference the same occupation for life. ing our students not only with theme to the specific challenges That was the expectation the the core numeracy, literacy and that face educators in Catholic majority of young girls and boys communication skills within the schools. had only two or three genera- framework of Catholic social and The conference highlighted tions ago. Today, the more com- moral teaching, it now has to that the contemporary primary mon expectation for the majority increasingly focus on getting stuschool faces two challenges. The is that they may have to retrain in dents into a way of thinking from first is the centuries-old and con- major ways two or three times the earliest age that education is tinuing challenge of providing over the course of a working life. something that only starts at children with the core faith, life It is the rapid increase in human school. Learning is a life-long and educational skills that gives knowledge and technological activity." them a sure foothold as they efficiency which is driving the Ms Stratton added, "Catholic grow to maturity. changes impacting on our lives schools have always endeavThe second is of more recent in a most fundamental manner. oured to fire young people with origin. It is the challenge thrown "Life Learning", an enthusiasm for learning and a Long up by contemporary civilisation explained Ms Jenny Stratton, spirit of enquiry." where children are no longer who provided the summation "If we are honest with ouremerging from school into a address on the last day of the selves though, in the past we world where they will work in Conference, "is all about provid- have also tended to think of our-

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Greenwood Antioch extends an invitation to ALL youth, Antiochers and EX-Antiochers to our Youth (Rock) Mass with guest-speaker Bruce Downes On the 29 October at 4.00pm Venue:All Saints Church, Liwara Place, Greenwood. Parking at back of church and Liwara school. Stay back, have a chat with hot dogs and drinks $1 each 4

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selves as the providors of knowledge to our student clients.

Today, through the sheer weight of its all-pervading influence in our lives, children are finding out more about their world through the mass media, through CDROM technology and even entertainment channels than they ever can in a classroom."

"In the face of the alternative and highly attractive - learning channels competing with the traditional classroom today, it is questionable that the methodologies that were good even only twenty years ago can still fire the enthusiasm of all children to want to go on continuing as learners throughout their lives." she said.

"Today, the world is much different. It is an essential 'life skill' today, that we have to better develop learning environments where children from all backgrounds develop a deep enthusiasm for the learning process itself," she said.

"This has to occur from the earliest age. Their life-long wet fare, security, happiness as well as physical and spiritual health depends on their ability to cope with the vastly accelerated rate at which our environment of both work and leisure is changing."

"Our schools have to develop in children not only an enthusiasm for learning though. They have to provide young men and women with an understanding of the learning process so that they can direct their own learning wherever and whenever it occurs - in the most productive way."

Youth Page Apology Due to unforseen difficulties, The Record is unable to provide a Youth Page this week

Aid organisation considers a name change Adopting the name 'caritas' newsletter, canvassed the pros and cons of changing the name. Latin for charity and love Arguments against included linked the agency in with the Australian Catholic Relief, set up in 1964 by the Australian the facts that some people world-wide association and also bishops as Catholic Over§eas would not know what the name more properly described ACR's Relief, is looking into a change Caritas means or stands for, and function.

ACR director Michael Whitely it would not mean much to the of name.

What has prompted the delib- public when associated with said that at this stage the agency erations the agency is currently public statements by the agency. was still looking at how it should name change its name and would conthe Attaching involved in is the fact that it is a member of Caritas Internation- Australian Catholic Relief makes sider the matter at a committee alis, a world-wide association of it clear in public statements, meeting in the near future.

"Whether we change or not is more 120 Catholic development media releases or appeals for emergency relief that ACR state- still up in the air," he said. and relief agencies.

As such, ACR, best known for ments come from an Australian "We've just done a survey running the Lenten Project Catholic aid agency, the newslet- (through) the ACR News and the overwhelming response to that Compassion campaigns, is also ter said. to retain the name Australian is the It also pointed out that the Caritas agency in Australia, and thus could be known as word 'relief does not properly Catholic Relief."

He said that the survey had Caritas Australia. Most Caritas describe the scope of ACR's agencies have a name which work which is primarily that of a indicated an unexpectedly high delineates them as the Caritas development body. Over 75 per response and a strong degree of cent of its income, it said, is feeling from members who agency for that country.

In a recent survey of readers, spent on development programs expressed the importance of retaining both the Australian ACK News, the agency's official and projects.

By Peter Rosengren

Chaplains call for prison-athome option

One of Perth's prison chaplains, Father Robert McGregor OMI, centre, with other chaplains at the conference.

Many prisoners are in jail for non-violent offences and pose no threat whatever to the community.

This was the view to emerge out of the the fifth National Conference of Catholic Prison Ministry, held at Safety Bay last week And instead of being imprisoned at a cost of $60-70,000 dollars a year to the tax payer, the chaplains said, surely it would be more equitable to see such people left with their own responsibilities for homes and families, while at the same time making restitution to the community in more constructive ways.

While the chaplains from around Australia soaked up the sunshine in the coastal suburb, their minds were on the thousands of prisoners throughout Australia whom they serve.

Guest speaker over the three days was Sister Patrice Cooke, clinical psychologist and director of the Institute of Human Development.

After many years of extensive research into the behavioural patterns of persistent offenders, Sr Patrice concludes that the community would be better served if 80 per cent of repeat offenders had their lack of socialisation and their psychological inadequacies addressed and were helped to find stability in their lives rather than being incarcerated.

Prisons would be more effective if they concentrated on the 20 per cent of persis-

tent offenders who were a real danger to the community, while others were sentenced to serve the community in some alternative way and, at the same time, attend some form of rehabilitative program, she said.

The chaplains called for urgent education of the community about the excessive harshness of present justice systems, and abhorred a media-engendered fear that so often led people to demand even harsher measures.

Fighting violence with violence can only lead to more crime, more fear, more police, more imprisonment and yet a further deterioration in the quality of community and human life, they said.

Alternative rehabilitation programs would go a long way towards relieving the present problem of ever increasing prisoner population, they said, and asked all those involved in the judicial processes to 'get real' in their professed intention of imposing prison as the last resort.

Like all of us, they said, prisoners have done wrong but unlike many of us, their wrong has been discovered. Often they were people with more needs than those outside.

Christians can so easily forget that the basic message of Christianity is one of forgiveness and help for the sinner, they said.

Prisons and other alternatives should be seen as ways of helping offenders, not ways of exacting vengeance.

‘41N.cAT\-* and the Catholic identity of the agency However, he said, people were happy to look at changing the 'relief delineation of the organisation's name because it did not properly reflect its role.

"No-one's happy with the

word 'relief but it's one of those things to find something to replace it with," he said.

"The point is that also people would say 'once you have a name the name identifies the organisation, you need a very good reason for changing'," he said.

He thinks that eventually the name Caritas will be adopted by the agency in some form.

Already the letterhead of the organisation contains the name underneath the current title.

"I think eventually we could go that way but it's going to be a fairly long period, I would think, of changeover," he said.

"I don't want to pre-empt what the committee might decide, but my feeling is that Australian Catholic Relief would remain and there'd be a gradual changeover to 'Caritas'," he said.

St John of God hospital chief wins leading award

By Peter Rosengren

Managing Australia's largest private hospital would be a daunting task for most of us but for Romy Baker, winner of this year's Australian Institute of Management (WA) excellence in management award for women, it's a challenge that she has faced head on.

Romy Baker is the chief executive officer of St John of God Hospital in Subiaco and won the prestigious award over a field of leading businesswomen in both the public and private sectors.

She also picked up the trifecta, winning two other awards in sub-categories: the hospital and allied health management award and the private sector management award.

The awards are held every two years to recognise the increasingly significant contribution women are making in government and business. While women make up 50 per cent of the workforce only three per cent of women are represented at board level.

Appointed CEO of St John of God in 1992, she is the first lay person to hold the position since the hospital's inception in

Romy Baker top female manager

among others, that she won her three awards.

1897.

But what precisely does a CEO do?

Delighted to receive the award, she said "You have to be like a conductor of an her approach was to encourage the orchestra and you bring all parts together growth of all connected with the hospital - particularly with a hospital, the analogy and its daily routine - staff and patients. is particularly suited, because a hospital is "My approach is to create an environ- a subset of a hundred different little units," ment whereby people grow in their own she said. tasks and to delegate so that I'm actually "And you've got to make sure that they the last person who has anything to do all play in 'tune' to provide a service with anything, but other people are the which is health care. ones that instigate and develop and are "But it's also providing an environment the resource," she told The Record recent- for staff to work in that's happy, otherwise ly. you won't have stability."

Not that delegation is everything. In a Under her leadership St John's was also hospital which runs reasonably close to awarded three years quality accreditation being twice the size of St Vincent's in by the Australian Council on Healthcare Melbourne, she says that it is necessary to in 1994. find and use the right mix in keeping such standardsfirst lay person to hold the posithe As even an on institution a large and complex tion she sees certain differences in the keel. role traditionally "Strong leadership on the one hand - way a lay person fills a by a held religious. comvision, the setting scene, the setting "There is a far greater understanding municating where we've got to go, motidiscussion of what it means to be the and and that do to want to vating [personnel] we are and who we are within hospital then delegating with enough autonomy so to keep alive the misenvironment that at them that they will do it, but supporting the same time," she said, outlining how sion of the St John of God healthcare sysshe has managed Australia's largest pri- tem and to provide what we call our spevate hospital since taking over its manage- cial brand of caring - which is focusing on the individual. Because everybody is ment four years ago. and in Christ." unique qualities, these It was precisely for

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Silk purse out of a sow's ear?

Last week, Father Marius Dawson of Metatron the Archangel (whoever that 0.Carm., defended the use of the really is), modified by a Californian psyEnneagram as an aid in spiritual direction. chiatrist (honey, just affirm yourself) and Today. Record journalist Peter Rosen- promoted by American Jesuits from the gren argues that the Enneagram's attempt '70's onwards is automatically worthy of to slot people into pre-determined person- intense scrutiny.

Suffice it to say that Rohr - the most wellality categories amounts to no more than forcing square pegs into round holes and known proponent of the Enneagram in can only confuse the pilgrim on his or her the English speaking world - confirms that Ichazo was claiming by the late 1980's spiritual progress. that the nine points of the Enneagram he latest rage to sweep the Catholic were taught to him by Metatron while he world of spiritual direction is the was on mescaline, a hallucinatory drug.

The Enneagram's Gnostic dimension Enneagram, portrayed by its disciples as a brilliant new method of identifying and (i.e. knowledge only for the specially initiclassifying the important characteristics of ated) is also disturbing. Rohr reveals that an individual's personality and spiritual when he first learnt the Enneagram at the life and using these as a basis to stimulate hands of his Jesuit spiritual director, a far-reaching conversion of one's life to despite feeling dishonest about the request, he was urged not to reveal any God. 'Rage' is not too harsh a word. The hint of its existence.

Likewise, Fr Pacwa confirms the secreEnneagram is, above all else, the fashion of the moment. Richard Rohr for instance, tive origins of the Enneagram's spread a Franciscan of the Cincinnati Province in throughout the United States and points the United States and one of the foremost out that one of his reasons for disillusionpromoters of the Enneagram in the world ment with it was that "Christianity does today, enthuses about its capacity to accu- not need secrecy or esotericism. Our rately analyse and transform a person's faith is open to anyone who wishes to life in terms of their relationship to God. examine Scripture and Church teaching.

His views are contained in the recently Esoteric religion is usually a cover for a at odds with authentic published translation of his original book, doctrine Discovering the Enneagram - an ancient Christianity", he wrote in his book.

Catholics and the New Age. tool for a new spiritual Journey.

The interesting question, of course, is The attraction of the Enneagram can be seen in the title of Rohr's book. If there what the Jesuits turned it into, how much is one thing that attracts individuals to the they amended it, and whether they manmyriad sects and movements circulating aged to purge it of such dangerous eletoday, particularly in the amorphous ments. world of the New Age movement, it is the exciting thought that they are gaining LAMM fresh access to ancient and hidden wisdoms that supersede contemporary realities.

The origins of the Enneagram are a mystery but whatever they are, they are not Christian. This is an important objection because, as commonsense tells us, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

There is a claim that the Enneagram possibly originated in the Islamic Sufi' movement which first appeared shortly after the rise of Islam.

But this is hardly a ground for commending the Enneagram in itself. In any case, there is no actual evidence for the Enneagram originating from Sufi'sm or existing in its current form before the The Enneagram diagram for "root sins" 1960s.

If anything, its roots, as I will show, are in What could be called the Gnostic the occult and non-Christian schools of approach - that only people specially initithought - a serious problem for a method ated can understand a truth - which they of spiritual direction rapidly being adopt- took early on is a worrying sign. Fr Pacwa ed (even if in a 'sanitised' form) by has warned that no-one should attend Catholic clergy and religious around the Enneagram workshops or seminars until it world. is verified that it is free of occult influRohr says that the Enneagram was intro- ences. duced to the United States mainly by Father Marius Dawson, a Perth-based Oscar Ichazo- although the Russian wan- Enneagram supporter and teacher and derer George Gurdjieff had also earlier member of the Carmelite Order, also promoted it following his own studies of unwittingly confirms the questionable oriTibetan, Sufi', Indian and Christian mysti- gins of the Enneagram when, in his article cism. in the September 28 issue of the The Ichazo taught in La Paz, Bolivia, and Record supporting the Enneagram, he Arica in Chile during the 1950's and 1960's points out that it was Oscar Ichazo (who before going to the United States in 1971. receives instructions from occult angels) There he claimed to have been taught the "who is probably the person most responEnneagram by Sufi' masters in sible for its modern outline."

Afghanistan and his work was developed But what exactly is the Enneagram? by the Californian psychiatrist Claudio According to Rohr: "Muslim mathematiNaranjo. cians discovered the meaning of the numShortly after, it was adopted by many ber zero in the fifteenth century and develAmerican Jesuits through Naranjo as a oped the decimal system. In addition they means of spiritual direction and as a discovered a new kind of number comes model for the work of the Spiritual into existence when one is divided by Exercises of the Jesuits' founder Saint three or seven (periodic decimal fracIgnatius of Loyola.

Rohr himself first tions). These discoveries and the experilearnt it in the early '70's under the tute- ential knowledge of the dynamics of the lage of a Jesuit spiritual director. human soul flowed together into the Sufi' The assimilation of Oscar Ichazo's symbol of the Enneagram. They called it Enneagram to the Spiritual Exercises and the "face of God," because in the nine the general work of spiritual direction by points of energy that the Enneagram groups of Jesuits and other religious is describes they saw nine refractions of the something of a cause for concern. one divine love. The word 'Enneagram' According to one Jesuit critic and former itself is a later invention, compounded teacher of the Enneagram, Father Mitch from the Greek word ennea (nine) and Pacwa, Ichazo reportedly still receives gramma (letter, point)." instructions from a higher entity called The diagram of the Enneagram, Rohr "Metatron, the prince of the archangels," says, consists of a circle, whose circumferwhile members of his group contact lower ence is broken by nine points, numbered spirits through meditation and mantras. clockwise from 1 to 9. Points 3, 6 and 9 are "The members of his group are helped bound together by an equilateral triangle, and guided by an internal master, the while a hexagon of arrows runs through Green Qu'Tub, who makes himself known points 1, 4, 2, 8, 5 and 7, the periodic when a student reaches a sufficiently high sequence which "always comes up when stage of development." any cardinal number (except 7) is divided At this point one could be flippant and by 7: say that anything developed by a disciple This is the working model which holds

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Pope John Paul II: summarily categorised a Three by Fr Rohr . . . in part because he was an actor.

the key to the future and, apparently, our salvation. This model, initiates and promoters say, is the basis for the classification of humanity into 9 different categories.

The immediate objection of course, is why 9? Why not 22? Why not 76? One could, just as easily, construct an interesting geometric diagram listing the virtues (three theological and four cardinal), the seven gifts and twelve fruits of the Holy Spirit, the works of mercy (seven corporal and seven spiritual) and finally the seven capital sins and their opposite virtues.

On the strength of this alone one could create, presumably, a much more accurate guide to the goals which we should all be seeking to develop in our lives rather than that developed by a half-crazed dopefiend looking for residence in the United States.

Under the Enneagram method, each of the nine points on the diagram represents a personality, complete with strengths and faults (the root sins). By addressing the Amos

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root sin peculiar to our own personality type (which has been hidden all our lives and which we have not been conscious of) we are able to rectify our lives and move towards God. Under Rohr's model each of the dominant characteristics of the spirituality/personality types, including the 'root sins', and the symbols which point to a particular classification are outlined. To pick one of the categories is an enlightening experience in seeing how the Enneagram offers simplistic explanations of people's lives.

A typical One (of the nine types) is as follows: "Ones are idealists, driven by a deep longing for a world of truth, justice, and moral order.... The search for perfection rules our lives and is our temptation .. . Anger is the root sin of the One . . The defence mechanism that Ones develop in order not to have to show their anger is reaction formation . . . The special gift or fruit of the spirit that marks mature persons of any type is always the reverse of the root sin. The fruit of the spirit of the One is cheerful tranquillity ... The animal assigned to the unredeemed One is the yelping, always aggressive terrier. . . The symbolic nation of the One is Russia. The Russian Utopians, revolutionaries and writers like Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy embody the dream of a more perfect world and a more human society. . . The

colour of One is silver. Silver is a cool. sober and clear colour."

The problem is that most of what Rohr sets out is applicable to everyone in greater or lesser degree. In regards to symbolic animals, nations and colour one might point out that it is just downright romantic and has little or nothing to do with the real criterion that should be used - truth and the Gospel.

The same holds true, more or less, for the other eight categories, each of which are assigned root sins, symbolic animals, nations and colours. To give one example of how far the Enneagram (under Rohr's model) can go wrong when misused can be gained by looking at the Five category "The symbolic country that we use for Fives is Great Britain." Rohr says. This is the archetype of the conservative, polite, reserved, coolly distanced English gentleman."

Many Englishmen would, quite rightfully, be insulted by such a characterisation.

The obvious objection is that there is no such thing as a typical Englishman, let alone his application to the Enneagram. If there were, he would very likely be found In the pubs of Britain's working-class areas.

Even in Rohr's 'christianised' approach to the Enneagram one easily discovers statements which seem remarkable if only for reasons of ignorance: "It is amazing that with the nine sins of the Enneagram," he says, "we are dealing with the classic seven capital sins of Scholastic tradition . . . to which two further sins are added, deceit and fear, both absent from the Church's traditional teaching."

But, in relation to deceit, one wonders whether it had occurred to Rohr that the commandments neither to commit adultery nor to bear false witness against another - both of which depend on deceit - hadn't already taken care of that particular problem.

As for fear, it is not a sin. In fact, as the Church has taught about sane fear, it is a very handy capacity to have. The admonition to fear hell and its lord, Satan, is one example.

As Fr Pacwa points out, the obvious problem with the Enneagram is that there is simply no evidence that its typography of personalities is in fact the case, or hold true. Certainly, as he notes, "there is no reason to accept the geometric design and its numerological logic as an a priori basis for determining how people improve or regress."

He also points out that the Enneagram inherently carries with it the danger of short-circuiting authentic personal relationships. By classifying an individual automatically as a One, a Five or a Seven, one can think that he or she knows more about that other person before that person has chosen to reveal private and intimate information. This, quite apart from anything, is the danger of shallowness, annoying at a dinner party at best.

There is another danger, altogether more serious. If one is engaged in the practice of spiritual direction and discernment and is providing such direction on the basis of analysis by the Enneagram, things could, conceivably go badly wrong. Instead of applying the truth of Christ and the Gospel to a person's general circumstances and life, one is directing an individual on the basis of what category they appear to fill. Wrong or partially wrong analysis via the Enneagram (nominating a root sin, for example, which is not in fact the root sin) will only darken the way, confuse the traveller and aid that silent, perverted guardian angel who hovers nearby.

Another major problem with the Enneagram is that, as its proponents freely admit, there are no norms for deciding who is an authentic Enneagram teacher most promotion, whether done here or abroad, is done on the basis that a particular teacher has attended a particular set of Enneagram workshops.

Finally, one has to ask why use the Enneagram at all when there are proven superior methods of spiritual guidance and authentic sources which we can turn to? The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius, for instance, remain an excellent path, as does the Autobiography of St Teresa of Avila, the writings of St John of the Cross and St Francis de Sales. And of course, there is always the Gospel .

L'ellers 10 1.A& Ccitior Is moral theology a game only for priests?

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May's Professor does hy Introduction to Moral Theology ( The Record, 28 September) make Father Walter Black so cross?

Every author must set himself limits, particularly if his book is only 250 pages long, and it is the task of a reviewer to elucidate and evaluate the book that the author has actually written, not some imaginary book that the reviewer wishes the author had written.

May has concentrated on the current state of debate in contemporary moral theology. That is what he has written an introduction to.

It is not, of course the only approach he could have taken, but May's delineation of his task seems to entirely defensible.

I don't see how his title can aptly be called a misnomer, as it could have been if May had called his book a history of moral theology.

Anyone whose interest in the subject is historical will have to read another book.

Yet another book will be needed by anyone whose interest is in formal and material co-operation, double effect, or what moral theologians are wont to call diminished voluntareity.

But is there any book that Fr Black would want Professor May to have written? Fr Black seems to be hinting that Professor May is not competent to write in the field of moral theology at all, because he has not "spent a lifetime studying moral theology," and because he is a layman.

But May looks a lot older than Fr Black he probably has spent a lifetime studying moral theology. And what is the point of emphasising that May is a layman? Is moral theology a game that only priests can play?

May has shown, by quoting from their own books, that such prominent recent moral theologians as McCormick. Curran,

Dance out in church our report (The Record September 28) on the y Music Liturgical National

Convention was headlined: "The liturgy asks us always to give of ourselves".

Yes indeed, and it asks us to give up our selves, our individuality, our egos. As Father O'Loughlin said, the liturgy is not a performance or entertainment, but liturgical dance such as was illustrated can hardly avoid being a performance.

King David's dance before the Ark was an expression of his delight and jubilation on a particular occasion; dance did not, so far as I know, become institutionalised in Jewish religious ceremonial.

Dance is indeed a noble art form, and one appreciates the line of reasoning which maintains that all art forms should be used in the service of God, dance as well as music and song, painting, sculpture and architecture.

But the fact remains that in our society the natural setting of dance is the ballroom, the nightclub and the stage, and the introduction of dance into the alien context of a church (or a liturgical conference) merely induces spine-tingling embarrassment.

We are, in general, even more shy about dancing than we are about singing.

The introduction of liturgical dance is part of the widespread tendency to try and create pious feelings in a congregation "prayerful experiences" - whereas we used to be sturdily taught what mattered at Mass was what went on there, and the fact that

Gula and O'Connell in the US, and Fuchs, Hanssens, and Scholz in Europe, have attempted to justify such activities as testtube baby-making, re-marriage after divorce, pre-marital or extra-marital sex, sterilisation, and withdrawing food from unconscious but non-dying patients.

Fr Black has said that these same moral theologians "have contributed most to the development of moral theology prior to, during and after the Second Vatican Council", and are "leading moral theologians" in English-speaking countries and "in the Pontifical Universities in Rome".

Does Fr Black, then, share the views of these leading moral theologians that May attacks? If so, what reasons can he offer?

If not, why is he so insistent that we should not read May's book?

The names of the leading moral theologians that May criticises are scarcely known outside the circle of Catholic moral theologians.

By contrast, the critics that May cites (Grisez, Finnis, Boyle, etc - yes, all laymen) are competent not only within that circle, but also (this is true particularly of Professor Finnis) within the wider academic circles of jurisprudence, political philosophy, and ethics, where an opponent's argument can only be countered by a better argument; antagonists cannot be dismissed by saying that they do not teach in Pontifical Universities, or that they are laymen.

Ted Watt Claremont

A tale of two camps ather Walter Black's review of William E. May's Introduction to Moral Theology reveals more about Fr. Black's theology than about William May's. It is no secret that today moral (indeed all)

theology has split generally into two schools. One comprises traditional theologians who accept Catholic "absolute, exceptionalness moral norms", and work at exploring, elucidating and enhancing them, seeing them as God's own Divine protection for His creation. Pope John Paul II (especially in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae), Ratzinger, Grisez and Finnis are firmly of this school.

The other is what May calls "Revisionists", modernists who do not accept Catholic moral absolutes, believing either that the Church has always been wrong or that changes in man's living circumstances and understanding make it imperative to change Catholic moral teaching.

In general they favour the popular moral pragmatisms of contraception, IVF sterilisation; some even a loosening of Catholic teaching against abortion and euthanasia.

There are sufficient points in the review to indicate that Fr Black supports the Revisionists, even if May forgot to list him: he refers to moral norms as 'known only by faith', whereas Popes and Magisterium teach that they come from the natural law illumined by Revelation and confirmed

by Tradition and therefore are clearly discernible by all through Reason.

Fr Black's heroes are revisionist theologians and he is annoyed when Grisez and Finnis find them "in error".

He is very concerned that we consider the so-called "principle of double effect" which is essentially the origin of presentday horrible mutations of proportionalism-and-consequentialism.

He refers to the "on-going debate about the meaning of moral absolutes and exceptionless norms", whereas in Catholic truth there is no on-going debate: the Church has spoken and May speaks with

we were present, in whatever condemned the religious dance as not befitting worship, because state of mind.

It is significant that these well- it would mean bringing into the meaning attempts to put move- Liturgy one of the most desacralment into the Mass follow nearly ising of elements, thereby creatthree decades of taking out the ing an atmosphere of the profew but eloquent movements that fane. are proper to it.

Barry Curthoys The movement of kneeling to Como receive Holy Communion was one of the first to go and now some churches do not provide anything to kneel on during the was concerned to read Hugh rest of Mass either.

Enneagram letter Clift's Altar missals used in the 1960's Concern (The Record. Septe(before they were discarded alto- mber 14). gether) show rubric after rubric Some seven years ago I did the directing the priest to make the Enneagram No 1, followed some sign of the Cross or to genuflect 12 months later with Enneagram - all ruthlessly crossed out.

No 2. Both were given by the No amount of bending and Perth-based Upper Room by a stretching or gesturing while Catholic priest and a religious clothed in soft garments is an sister. appropriate substitute. I chalI considered it an excellent spirlenge anyone to show me a sin- itual exercise and have recomgle sentence in any document of mended it to many of my friends.

Vatican II which could be used to I have also studied a set of six justify such posturings. tapes on the Enneagram called "Naming our illusions" by Fr Janet Kovesi Watt Richard Rohr, together with two Claremont books on this subject.I also know of 14 books supporting the Enneagram as a spiritual exercise.

I have heard a number of peoT n your report on the National 'Liturgical Music Convention ple speaking disparagingly about ( The Record, September 28) it, including Fr Mitch Pacwa. His Colleen McGuiness-Howard co- comments on the Enneagram at mmented that liturgy was surely the end of his lecture at the linked to dance and liturgical Catholic Education centre on October 10 last year on the New dancers.

In order to establish any such Age movement did not impress link, Mrs McGuiness-Howard me. personally found the Ennwould need to demonstrate when dancing was ever a part of eagram intensely spiritual in that Roman Catholic liturgy, if it was it brought home to me many of recommended or approved by my previously unowned faults or any of the Conciliar documents, shadows.

As a result, my heart was or where it is included in any of opened to the Lord who is now the current rubrics. the able to help me with them. It has contrary, the On Instructions for Sacraments and also helped me to be more loving Divine Worship, Volume XI, and understanding of others and pages 202-5, states, among other the Lord. It has helped me things, that Conciliar decisions immensely in my relationships

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its voice. There are other indicators, but these should suffice to establish Black's theological position.

May, however, is clearly of the traditional school. So it must be expected that Black would find nothing to recommend in his book, especially as May dares to carry on a "vigorous polemical debate" on the opposite side of the theological fence from Fr Black (revisionist theologians would never do that!)

Fr Black is presumptuous to suggest that the judgement of May and those who agree with him must be left solely to their revisionist peers, for they are not the Church.

They may make their judgements, but the only verdict that matters is that of the Pope and the Catholic Magisterium which, on all points so far, has been with May and company against the revisionists.

Most of the dissent in the Church at present comes from revisionist theologians who are modernist priests using their high and influential places in Pontifical Universities to undermine Catholic truth.

Too often it has been left to loyal, learned, intelligent lay people like May, Grisez and Finnis to defend Catholic orthodoxy.

May's book could be a better Catholic authority than The Tablet recommended

by Fr Black, for it is years since that paper (nicknamed The Pill for obvious reasons) has submitted to total Catholic orthodoxy.

But for practical purposes, the best sources of Catholic moral theology these days are Pope John Paul's encyclicals Veritatis Splendor and Evangelium Vitae, and the new Catechism of the Catholic Church, for they have the words of Eternal Life.

Mrs Doris Martyr Attadale

with others not the least my wife and family.

I do consider it most important that the Enneagram should be presented by a knowledgeable and compassionate teacher, preferably in a group situation which permits group interaction.

The teacher does not have to be an academic so long as he is steeped in the understanding of the wholeness of the human person, Body, Mind, and Spirit. The presentation must be balanced in order to save them from "traps for young players".

I would gladly lend my tapes of Fr Richard Rohr's presentation of the Enneagram to Hugh Clifts and I am quietly confident that he would completely lose his present concern about it.

public service. Today, it has fallen to as low as 3 per cent. This is a national scandal.

The public service jobs that traditionally went to young people are being done by mature women.

To not employ young people is an act of gross injustice and intolerance.

The policy of not employing young people can now be seen to have been a time bomb that has exploded with devastating social consequences.

The trend must be reversed because large numbers who have never worked are visible; many have used drugs and turned to crime in frustration and hatred of an older generation.

Who can blame them?

George Collopy Rossmoyne

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he Internet could have been used for many things. ne of the great intolerances that Oscar Parracini did not Unfortunately what it got used include in his excellent letter for was pornography.

According to British computer (Are we talking about important issues? The Record. Septem-ber authority Professor Harold Thi21) and which was not men- mbleby, the eight most fretioned by the Social Justice quently used "search words" Commission is the discrimina- on the Internet relate to porntion against youth in employ- ography.

There exists no technology ment.

The published unemployment which can stop pornography records rarely mention that more reaching Internet users, young than 30 per cent of all between and old.

The public's access to the the ages of 17 and 21 are unemployed. The number is higher Internet will have to be phased than 50 per cent in some sub- out altogether and its facilities restricted to bona fide data urbs. exchanges between universities emplargest In the 1960s, the loyers, the State and Federal etc.

Bad luck, but the human race Governments, traditionally employed big numbers of school wasn't ready for the Internet.

You wouldn't give a baby razor leavers as trainees, clerical assisto play with, would you? blades and cadets typists, tants, junior apprentices. The number of employees under 21 years was as Arnold Jago high as 25 per cent of the entire Mildura

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The Real Presence of Jesus, Body and Blood, in the Eucharist

What is the "bread of life"?

By Fr John Castelot hat prompted Jesus to W say "I am the bread of life" (John 6:35)?

It happened during an exchange with people who had challenged him to do something comparable to what Moses did when "he gave them bread from heaven to eat".

Jesus answered that it was not Moses who gave them bread from heaven but God who gives them, even now, the true bread from heaven. "For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world" (John 6:33).

In response to their excited request, 'Sir, give us this bread always,' he identified himself as "the bread of life' and went on to say: 'Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst."

An interesting transition is seen in this from referring to bread as truth to bread as food, indeed as Jesus' body.

You see, for Jesus listeners 'bread of life' was a common metaphor for Torah, revelation, truth.

Jesus insisted on coming to him, believing in him, accepting him as truth.

This belief becomes a necessary condition for accepting him later as food, nourishment: "And the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world" (john 6:51).

To take Jesus seriously, faith is needed.

This explains the prior insistence on belief.

Remember, for people without faith the bread is just bread. For those with faith, it is the bread of life - Jesus' flesh for the life of the world.

As Jesus' discourse continues, he insists on the reality of this food from heaven. "For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. . . . This is the bread that came down from heaven.

Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever."

(6:55-58).

It is obvious in these words, by the way, that the early Christians took Jesus seriously when he identified the bread as his 'flesh for the life of the world."

The eucharistic experience of the early Christians is reflected here.

Jesus' words were understood this way from the beginning. When Paul reminded the Corinthians what Jesus' words were at the Last Supper, he was handing on an already solid tradition (1 Corinthians 11:23).

In the previous chapter Paul had asked rhetorically: "The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?' (1 Corinthians10:16).

He clearly expected them to answer firmly, 'Of course!"

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Names are important

By Bishop Wilton Gregory of Belleville, Illinois e live in a world of "anyW thing goes" in public discourse - except for one anomaly -

we cling to a relic from the past in our insistence on "political correctness."

This category includes the preferred way of referring to race/ethnicity, gender, and physical/emotional disabilities. Even in the face of offensive, demeaning and morally questionable public discussions, we somehow preserve the sensibility of politically correct language for some things.

For most of this century, the Roman pontiffs have been making the Eucharist more available for Catholics. Beginning with the efforts of Pope St Pius X to allow younger children to receive the Eucharist, right up to Pope Pius The Body of Christ: precise language will help both the eucharistic minister Xll's alteration of the laws of fast- and the recipient of Holy Communion to focus on the great mystery of ing, the Church has made it Christ's presence.

Increasingly easier for Catholics to receive Holy Communion presence in the Eucharist. III says, 'Gather all who share Imprecise and inadequate lan- this one bread and one cup.' more frequently.

Recent liturgical practices have guage that refers to the Eucharist Nonetheless, such references continued this trend: the laity does not necessarily show a lack always appear in the context of have been invited to assist with of faith, much less an act of sacri- the entire prayer where the distribution of the Eucharist; all lege. But deficient language fails eucharistic language must be Catholics regularly have been to communicate the Church's seen in its totality A eucharistic minister (clerical offered Holy Communion under teaching on the unique presence or lay) should never refer to disboth species; and Commun- of the Lord in the Eucharist.

Pope Paul VI wrote, "This pres- tributing 'the bread' or 'the icants now can opt to receive the Eucharistic Bread either on the ence of Christ under the species wine." Care must always be taken is called 'real,' not in an exclusive to give proper mention to the tongue or in their hands.

In all these changes, the Church sense, as if the other kinds of 'eucharistic cup,' or "the Precious has followed the Gospel tradition presence were not real, but 'par Blood," or 'the Body of Christ,' or that says Jesus gladly sought to excellencelEucharisticum Myst- 'the Blood of Christ.'

Such careful attention to detail associate and dine with sinners erium, 9).

In short, we need to pay greater will help both the eucharistic (Matthew: 9).

While not everyone finds the attention to how we refer to the minister and the recipient of changes in eucharistic customs to Eucharist. While there are many Holy Communion to focus on the their liking, the Church has been appropriate terms in the great mystery of Christ's presclear in wanting Catholics to Church's tradition for referring to ence. Imprecise language only have greater access to the Lord in the Eucharist, there are also adds to the confusion that too many Catholics suffer from when Holy Communion. Still, our eu- improper ways of doing so.

When referring to the eucharis- it comes to knowing and acceptcharistic customs have raised tic species, it is never correct to ing the Church's teaching on the other concerns.

There is imprecise eucharistic call the consecrated Eucharist Eucharist.

Words matter, not only for those terminology which suggests that simply "wine' or 'bread." many Catholics are losing or Admittedly, such terms might be who hear them but also for those have lost an accurate apprecia- used in the Eucharistic Prayer. who use them.

Ministers of the Eucharist tion of the mystery of Christ's For example, Eucharistic Prayer

would do well to carefully review the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Chapter 2, Article 3, on the sacrament of the Eucharist.

None of us purposely wants to offend or confuse the Church's teaching. Language when used improperly does create confusion in the minds of some - especially the young.

Beyond using proper eucharistic language, we must also take particular care of the Eucharistic Bread and the Precious Blood.

Any of the Eucharistic Bread that remains after distributing Holy Communion must be reserved in a way that befits the Lord's presence.

Any of the Precious Blood must be consumed (and never disposed of in any other way except by consumption).

These actions constitute a type of eucharistic respect, and reinforce the Church's teaching and tradition on the sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood.

Such respect also will prompt the wondrous questions of children about why we are so careful of the Eucharist or why we refer to the eucharistic gifts with such specific terms.

Our response to questions like that will be more than simply politically correct.

Our responses will lay the foundation for a young person to come to understand the Church's rich heritage of faith in Christ's mystical presence in this sacrament.

Proper eucharistic respect will go a long way toward restoring the fullness of the Church's teaching on the mystery of Christ's presence under the forms of bread and wine; it will deepen the faith of both the minister and the recipient of Holy Communion.

There are surely other areas in Church life where we must also practice more appropriate eucharistic respect, but undoubtedly the celebration of the Eucharist itself is the proper place to begin.

A symbol that contains the reality it represents

By Fr Lawrence Mick he majority of Catholics in the United States T no longer believe that the bread and wine at Mass are truly changed into the Body and

Blood of Christ, according to a New York Times report last year on a Times-CBS News poll. But there was a problem with this survey and its conclusion - a problem in how the question was worded.

By contrasting "symbolic reminders" of Christ with things that are "changed into the Body and Blood of Christ," the question implied that what is "symbolic" is not "real." That misses the whole point of symbols and sacraments.

In contrast to a sign, which points to something that exists somewhere else, a symbol somehow contains the reality it signifies. That's what Catholics say about sacraments: they are symbols that make present what they symbolise.

So every sacrament is symbolic, and every true symbol contains what it represents.

The belief of the Catholic Church is that the bread and wine truly become the Body and Blood of Christ. It is perhaps as important to understand what we do not mean by that as what we mean by it.

We do not mean the bread becomes a "hunk of flesh" or that we are cannibals. The bread is Christ's body, but it's not exactly the same as when he walked the roads of first-century Palestine. After the Resurrection, Jesus has a glorified body. As the new Catechism indicates, Christ is present "whole and entire," yet "living and glorious" - "mysteriously in our midst."

It is helpful to reflect on our own bodies. They are our means of being fully present to others.

We can communicate by phone or by E-mail, but we are more fully there when present bodily.

That's the kind of presence Jesus wanted to maintain with us after his death and resurrection. For 30 some years, he had a body similar to yours or mine (probably in better shape than mine, but that's another story!).

At the Last Supper, knowing he soon would no longer have that kind of body, he chose bread and wine as the means of his complete presence to us. When he said of the bread, "This is my body," he made it the instrument through which he would continue to be fully present.

We humans need something concrete we can see and touch in order to encounter him completely. That's the whole point of sacraments.

Christ uses concrete human symbols as his means of interaction with us. In the Eucharist, his presence comes to us in its fullest form, in his Body and Blood.

Another factor makes many people question the survey results mentioned earlier. Catholic people manifest a strong attachment to the Eucharist. Their behaviour does not suggest that they view this sacrament as an empty sign.

The anguish many Catholics feel when the current shortage of priests limits their access to the Eucharist suggests that they value highly this bodily presence of the Lord.

It was a marvellous decision by Jesus to use bread and wine as the means of continuing to be bodily present, since these symbols can speak richly of his meaning in our lives.

Finally, remember this: the bread and wine Archbishop Barry Hickey has asked Perth are transformed into his Body and Blood so that Catholics to return to adoration of the Body of we will be transformed into his Body in the Christ in the Blessed Sacrament exposed, or reserved in the tabernacle. world. What a marvellous mystery!

Features

Jobless dads lowest of the low As a group of Federal MPs known as the Lyons Forum have published a program for defending the family. Here, a Canberra father, Carmel Allard, who is categorised by the Federal Government as long-term unemployed, and who has made a study of the way the social security system works against fathers and husbands who are called by God to be finally responsible for their wives and children, describes his experience of social security. arrived in Australia in June 1973 from I the Island of Malta. The religion of Malta is Roman Catholic. I believe that

one has to understand this to appreciate my comments. I was brought up with one exclusive definition of the family, i.e, married husband and wife and their children.

No other union is considered as a family. The husband's role is to earn the daily bread while the mother's role is to stay at home and nurture the children. When a man and a woman marry they become one and there must be complete trust between them. The husband is the head of the family.

A draft report of the International Year chaired by of the Family Committee, Professor Bettina Cass, defined family in terms of "generations of caring" and, more specifically, that committee has preferred to use inclusive language.

The use of inclusive language to define the "family" is offensive to people who have a non-English speaking background and it is in breach of the spirit of multiculturalism, and it does not reflect the Australian family situation because the vast majority of Australian families consist of married husband and wife and their children.

The International Year of the Family Committee justified the use of inclusive language on the grounds that it was anxious to avoid disadvantage. The use of inclusive language to define the family is very dangerous.

Heather Strang, a researcher at the Australian Institute of Criminology, quoted in the Good Weekend magazine in September 1993, made the following points: one child is murdered every fortnight in Australia; infants under the age of 12 months are the group at highest risk; and that the most likely killer of a child is his or her non-biological father - in other words, the mother's new partner.

In another article entitled "Young people pay as family unit fades" written by Margaret Easterbrook and published in The Age in April, 1994, the then Human Rights Commissioner, Brian Burdelcin, said the growth in de facto arrangements where the father was not the natural parent had resulted in the incidence of sexual abuse among children soaring by as mulch as 600 per cent.

The article also noted the rise in singleparent families, from 170,000 in the mid1970s between 456,000 and 500,000 today,

Children suffer if fathers lose confidence in their true role

was leading to children being unable to cope, to suicide and other problems.

The evidence suggests that the Government's disastrous policy of adopting an inclusive concept of the family accounts for the high incidence of sexual abuse and, in some instances, of child murder.

Furthermore, it paints all fathers with the same brush.

I noticed recently when I had to fill my Parenting Allowance Form that father is described as the partner. I found this very insulting and degrading.

An unemployed family of two adults and two children receives roughly $700 a fortnight made up of $530 basic unemployment benefit, $170 in family payments (Family Allowance and Family Allowance Supplement). Before the recent changes to unemployment benefits, the bread winner (usually a man) used to get the $530 and the child carer (the mother) used to get the $170.

Now that the basic unemployment benefit has been split equally between the child carer and the breadwinner, this means the child carer gets $430 while the breadwinner get only $260.

This policy of directing payment to the child carer suggests the father can no longer be trusted with the money. This policy attacks the most important component in any relationship, i.e., that of mutual trust between the families.

Secondly, the Department of Social Security not only dictates to us that I'm just a partner but it also dictates to us the terms of the partnership - the unemployed breadwinner gets only $260 while the child carer receives $430.

Where is the equity in this division? This is one of the reasons why - although I qualify for a part unemployment benefit I refuse to apply.

Access and equity According to access and equity principles, no Australian should be denied access to any benefits because of his creed, colour, etc.

I believe the provider should also be sensitive to the culture of the recipient.

Consequently, because I believe DSS has trampled on my cultural background, I refuse to apply for these benefits.

Ilike to emphasise that this is just one of the reasons for refusing to apply.

A woman is financially better off on the single parent pension than living with her husband who is on unemployment benefits - she will get $321.60 a fortnight plus the guardians allowance plus all the family payments.

Under these arrangements, the status of the father is that of pet cat in a household that contains an asthma sufferer. In other words, he has become a financial burden and the family is better off without him.

This is simply social engineering by stealth. The Government talks of the level playing field regarding economic policy.

But there isn't any level playing field regarding social policy.

The Commonwealth Government and state and territory governments provide a wide range of concessions to low income earners and pensioners. These concessions are very valuable for the recipients because they protect them from a series of costs, such as medical prescriptions, shire rates and car registration, that are financially regressive in nature.

There is a myth in Australian social security policy that suggests that if you are aged then you must be automatically in need. This isn't true because while aged people may have low incomes, they also have low costs. About 70 per cent of aged pensioners own their homes outright.

Despite this, the concessions given to holders of Pensioner Concession Cards are far more generous than those given to Health Care Card holders.

In July the Department of Social Security introduced another payment called the Parenting Allowance. Under parenting allowance rules, the breadwinner can earn an income of $12,700. For every dollar that he earns above this amount the child carer will lose 70 cents of her bene-

Husbands who are fathers: the new invisibles in social policy

fit. In addition the breadwinner will have maternity bonus. This has been applaudto pay income tax at the rate of 20 cents in ed by some as evidence that the Government cares for families. the dollar.

In fact it sets a very dangerous preceConsequently, parenting allowance recipients face an effective tax rate of 90 dent. The fact is that some pressure cents in the dollar. At the time of the First groups have suggested that the Crusade around 950 AD serfs had to pay Government should pay the benefit for the the lord of the manor 30 per cent of their first and second child but cut it off after produce. They were better off! To add the second child. This is exactly what hapinsult to injury, the flagship company of pens in China.

Secondly, if the Government pays moththe richest man in Australia, Kerry Packer's Consolidated Press, pays tax at ers for having children, what will stop a future administration from paying couples the rate of one cent in the dollar.

The standard bureaucratic reaction to not to have children.

What are the solutions? calls for further assistance is that we have The Commonwealth Government should no money or it will cost too much.

This is an interesting comment. First, it recognise married heterosexual couples appears that bureauc:rats have one set of with their children as families. The rules for themselves and another one for Commonwealth Government should legisDSS clients. A social security client has to late to allow husband and wife to split virtually empty his pockets before he can their income. be eligible for assistance.

More specifically, DSS clients have to satisfy liquidity tests, assets and income tests.

Since I was made involuntary redundant in January 1994, I had to fill: one claim The Government should also come up form to have my Family Allowance with a proper definition of the word famrestored; two Family Allowance Supp- ily which reflects the Australian situation. lement forms; one Home Child Care The Commonwealth should recognise Allowance form; and one Parenting All- the importance of the father in the family owance form. and not make it financially more attracIhad to fill all these forms in the space of tive for a family to get rid of the father. fourteen months and they basically The best way of helping families is to required the same financial information. create jobs.

I could understand all this if I were a At a time of drought water is rationed. sophisticated finance dealer but my We should do the same thing at a time of income and assets can't change all that massive unemployment. much in fourteen months.

The Affirmative Action Program should This, of course, is in sharp contrast with be changed to discriminate in favour of the way senior public servants dole out breadwinners who are currently money to themselves. One has only to male most oppressed classes in our society. the mention the Performance Pay system in which senior public servants assess them- The best way to create jobs is to do away Everybody selves for the purpose of performance pay. with award conditions. should work on a contract basis.

The working conditions should be a matter between the employer and the employee and they should not be dictatI wonder what the community's reaction ed by the president of the Australian would be if DSS clients assessed them- Council of Trade Unions from an air-conselves. At the last count, the performance ditioned office in Melbourne and the payment system cost the taxpayer $100 head of the Business Council of Australia.

Concerning unemployment at the permillion. And recently the Government brought down a decision not to include sonal level, what matters most is that a anymore the coat of performance pay- person or family must make ends meet.

How they make ends meet should be ment in the Budget!

Recently, the Business Council of Aust- their private affair. ralia called on the Government to reduce This suggests that the Commonwealth its expenditure by a massive $5 billion.

Government should work out how much When one examines closely the council's a family needs to live decently. request, they have proposed that the cuts We should return to the family wage. If should be concentrated primarily on at the end of the financial year a family health and social security benefits. has made less than the required amount Commonwealth and State Governments then the Government should top their spend much money on concessions to pri- Income up. vate business - some recipients are large, This will minimise the use of the current highly profitable multinational compa- system where people have to go to the nies. The business recipient of all this DSS every fortnight and register for work. largesse is not subject to any of the scrutiHowever, the best way to help people is ny that DSS recipients have to put up with. not to give them benefits tied with strings If their businesses fail, they are not asked but to create jobs. to hand back the Government's money. most effective way to kill a man is to The Recently, the Government announced that mothers would be paid an $800 pay him to do nothing.

Getting rid of father

One rule for others . . .

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Literary Review

Moral philosophy without Jesus pointless A second major concern may Schooling and Moral be phrased as a question: How is Education: Challenges of What a discussion of morality which and Who! by John Ozolins, in pertains to Catholic education Catholic School Studies: A credible without reference to the Journal of Education for moral world of Jesus as we can Australian and New Zealand know it in the Gospels?

Catholic Schools, 68, 1, May 1995.

Ozolins discussion of moral Reviewed by Stephen O'Brien- education is generic, and as such McCaffrey, a Doctoral Student in it sits outside the Catholic world Educational Philosophy at the because that world is not generic - it is an explicit commitment to a Jniversity of Western Australia. faith position which rests upon particular renditions of history oral education is an area and runs with particular articles characterised most clearly of belief. by its uncertainty. No one, who is That faith position rests with human at least, really knows the words of Jesus, as much as what education is and no one we can know them, and the really knows what morality is, if example He set, as much as we they are indeed anything at all, can model ourselves on it. thus the difficulty in speaking of Hence Ozolins' paper may a relationship between the two. relate to almost any sphere of Catholic schools, however, take education and human developa stance upon both education ment. How then can such a and morality, and the pursuit of paper claim credibility in a jourthe Catholic faith and the pres- nal of Catholic education whilst ence of Catholic teachings in almost completely avoiding the schools attest to this. Even the unique theological stance of word 'Catholic' in the title of the Catholic education? school stands as a particular refThis stance is unequivocal, erence point, even where there and, for Catholics at least, Children receiving a Catholic Education: what use a moral philosophy that does not base itself on Jesus, who is might be uncertainty as to demands some recognition in reality Itself? whether or not the school itself any discussion of moral educareally does represent some tion primarily because moral by the approach evident in the models itself on the actions and role of the educator preserves expression of the Catholic faith. questions in Catholic education - treatment of moral education in words of Christ in all manner of this emphasis on human wisBut there are challenges of the and indeed in the Catholic reli- the paper by Ozolins. Ozolins circumstances? Would not there dom, for rarely is the role of the highest order facing moral edu- gion itself- are subsumed by a begins by committing to the view be answers to such questions as supreme educator - Jesus - mencation in Catholic schools. The prevailing theological belief that one of the most important "What ought I do to?" which have tioned. An additional concern in challenge indeed is a threat, which accepts that it is possible purposes of education is the their basis, as Jesus taught, in the this respect reflects that already namely, the threat of the generic for humans to have had revealed transmission of values in such a service of others. Would not identified in the preceding diswhich potentially can reduce the to them a divine awareness. way that authentic, autonomous, Jesus' death on the cross be the cussion - teachers in the Ozolins meaning of anything to nothing supreme demonstration of this? article are presented primarily as The concern then is not moral persons are developed. by denying the value of its partic- focused specifically upon the This view frames three fundaIn posing such questions, unwilling, unable and confused, ulars. content of the paper by Ozolins, mental questions which form the Ozolins briefly assesses the wis- in regard to their treatment of The threat in this case is the rather, it is a reaction to what is structure of the paper, namely, (a) dom of eminent human philoso- moral questions in the classpossibility that morality in exemplified by it. what do we mean by moral phers, and then proceeds to cate- room.

Catholic education is being Again, little acknowledgment After a reading of the paper, knowledge? (b) what we mean gorise the New Testament in with placed in the generic paradigm, there is a disconcerting sense by moral education? and (c) these as if it were merely another of the faith of Catholics is exhibrather than in the Christ para- that we are witnessing the emer- questions to do with the role of example of human wisdom. ited by Ozolins. Is there not some digm which stands as the foun- gence in Catholic education, and educators in the development of As a Catholic, this reviewer commitment in Catholic educadational rationale for the pres- in other spheres of Catholic life - authentic, autonomous moral holds to the position that the wis- tion to the idea that teachers will, ence of the entire Catholic reli- of a philosophy which is drawing persons. dom of Jesus as revealed in the on their own volition or perhaps gion. The reasons might vary.

The discussion that accompa- New Testament surmounts with- otherwise, support the ethos of further and further away from On the one hand, there might the core of Catholic faith, and nies these questions is of its out difficulty that of any human Catholic schools? be an emerging view among that such papers as that by nature witnessed in almost any philosopher. Shall Jesus be preThat demands at least an some Catholic theologians or Ozolins, in such 'legitimate* scholarly or intellectual forum. In sented in Catholic education as observable degree of commiteducators that the presence of ment to the truth of Jesus' words Christ in human conceptions of as they apply to moral questions, morality is only a mythical or moral teaching, moral developsymbolic one, and that it can be ment and teachers' own moral discarded when human thought stance. has reached a level of sophisticaOnce again, there seems little tion that can provide a persuareal point in continuing to run sive rationale for the removal of forums as Catholic journals, are terms of Catholic education - and just another philosopher? If so, Catholic schools in which the the symbol, of the myth. contributing to this growing dis- there is a presumption that there then there is no need for Catholic theological stance of the school On the other hand, as Robert tance between the words of is a minimum relationship schools, for Jesus can be dis- does not find some expression in Starratt in Building an ethical Christ and the beliefs of His fol- between Ozolins' paper and cussed in a history lesson or phi- the character of the teachers who school: a practical response to lowers - Christians.

Catholic education because it losophy lesson in any school. have been chosen to teach in that the moral crisis in schools indiSimilarly, in the discussion of school. If such expression is not This sense derives from a feel- appears in a Catholic education cates, there might be a fear ing that Catholic education is journal - the discussion of the the nature of moral education, a concern, then there is little among educators of standing out perhaps beginning to conduct three core questions is of little there is little attention furnished point in seeking teachers of the from out the crowd, of daring to itself without consistent recourse real value, because the central upon the teachings of Jesus and Catholic faith or who otherwise be different by stating explicitly to the example of Jesus and with- canons of faith that characterise the potential for these teachings support the Catholic ethos. and loudly a commitment to a out regard to His teachings.

Catholic education's mission and to form the basis of a moral eduOzolins, according to scholarly particular moral or ethical viewcation which that unmistakably of the itself are standards, is right in noting that parent faith Why is the status of Jesus being point, such as that necessarily downgraded by the simple action not dealt with. Could there be a reflects Catholic belief. moral questions lead to deep invoked by the Catholic faith.

How are we to take Ozolins' problems and many controverof ignoring Him? Any discussion discussion of humans which Whatever the reasons, and of morals which centres itself in a does not deal with human belief question: How are we to teach sies. But there is among most there is never likely to be agree- theological forum but does not and practice? children the difference between Catholics a faith that the teachment on them, it is possible to acknowledge theological matters How can there be a discussion what is right and what is wrong? ings of Jesus offer the superior identify a particular trend in is by default exhibiting a stance of Catholic education which Do we not have the wisdom of means of dealing with moral Catholic education which does which may be interpreted as almost fully ignores the true Jesus here? What in this world of questions. seem to signify a generic direc- antithetical founder of Catholic religion and ours has emerged so forcibly as Why is this not acknowledged to that forum. tion in moral education. education itself - Jesus? to overwhelm any memory of the in Ozolins' paper, especially in Catholic To disregard something is to One particularly clear example Is there not a belief among ten commandments and the terms of the Catholic forum he is demonstrated in the recent exhibit a value stance regarding Catholics that God, through parables, and what here has has chosen for publication of his the significance of that thing. paper by John Ozolins, now a Jesus, revealed to humans a man- served to ennoble human knowl- thoughts? It is the position of the senior lecturer at the Christ cam- Should there be easily neglected ner of thought and living which edge above that of Christ? present writer that Ozolins' pus of the Australian Catholic the morality of Jesus' revelation possesses attributes that are disShall children in Catholic edu- paper contributes little to moral University at Oakleigh, Victoria, in a discussion of moral educa- tinct from life as it may be car- cation progress through it having education in Catholic schools, tion in Catholic education? If so, ried on that is the object of this review. not encountered Jesus' teachings because by default he has underwithout such revelation?

It is worth pursuing some of there is no sound argument The central issue here is this: on distinguishing between right cut the fundamental concern of the implications of papers such against calling the Catholic moral education in Catholic and wrong? Ozolins' article is Catholics with the example and as that by Ozolins, because, at school the Kantian school system schools cannot, and does not, characterised by a commitment teaching of Jesus. the very least, there should be or the Platonic school system. exist in the vacuum which effec- to human rationality and reason Although acknowledging that The ultimate outcome is not tively underpins Ozolins' discus- which has its historical source in Jesus asked his followers for some informed sense of the direction it heralds for Catholic hard to predict - Catholic educa- sion. He poses the question, for the Enlightenment, wherein commitment, there does not tion in the future may well be instance, as to "What ought I to divine wisdom experienced a seem to be a recognition by moral education.

The central criticism made of carried on in the guise of nomen- do?" and notes that the difficulty large measure of intellectual Ozolins that Catholics believe Ozolins' paper is that it denies by clature, but it may well be char- with it is determining "just what rejection and human wisdom - that such a commitment comdefault any rationale for being acterised by practices which are it means," and that "this is far primarily in the form of science - prises the central concern of Catholic and for having an edu- indistinguishable from those of from obvious." asserted its claim to be the only moral education in Catholic cation system which purports to non-Catholic schools. This is a Is there such difficulty for authentic form of knowledge. schools and in their own relilarge claim, but ills exemplified Catholic moral education, which Ozolins' entire discussion of the gious stance. be so.

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'Moral education without Jesus is like studying humans without dealing with human belief and practice.'

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Features

Arriving at the end of the road. ...

The Catholic Church in Albania, the poorest country materially in Europe, is still recovering from years of Communist repression.

Christine Decker of the aid organisation, Aid to the Church in Need, reports on what she found in June this year when she toured the northernmost diocese in Albania.

punctually. at 5.45am he arrp ives with car, driver and companion outside the Franciscan

monastery in Shkoder. A small, wiry man in a brown Franciscan habit, with episcopal cross and a purple bishop's skull cap on his white-haired head. A large aquiline nose, bushy eyebrows and a bright, penetrating gaze half-humourous, half-mischievous - these are his dominating features, and his words are by vigorous, accompanied emphatic gestures.

Bishop Robert Ashta is 77 and has been Bishop of Pult since April 25. 1993. Pult is the smallest diocese in Albania, covering an area of about 143 sq km in the Albanian Alps, bordered by Montenegro to the north and Kosovo to the east. The area is linked to the outside world by a single dirt-track road about 112km long.

'Where the asphalt stops the state ceases to function,' the bishop tells us and introduces us to his companion, a civilian policeman from the interior ministry.

The young man is a Catholic and comes from a small village in the mountains. It is going to be a long day. We are equipped as though for an expedition - two jeeps with drivers, the bishop himself, Father Flavio Cavallini and the policeman, plus Father m ire Tempfli and myself from the international Catholic agency, Aid to the Church in Need.

The tarred road comes to an end some kilometres outside Shkoder. After an hour's drive we reach Prekal in the valley of the little river Kir. This is the first of the six parishes within the vicariate of Pult and one of a total of 18 in the diocese, which numbers about 30,000 Catholics.

As the bishop tells us, he has 'only half a priest' in his diocese, 'for he lives in Shkoder and can only visit his eight parishes . . ."

The valley floor in Prekal is just wide enough to support four or five families; we see a small maize-field, a few chickens, a handful of cattle and goats. The wealthiest family has a fourroomed house, but no running water of course.

As a rule the families have seven to eight children, with three generations living under the same roof. This family sleeps on mattresses on the floor. It is 7

Bishop Asta surveys the vision splendid of his moountain diocese

am. While the women are taking a warehouse. Now the people the goats and hens out of their have already torn out the internal pens the men are already at work floor. But the windows are still on the building site. They are walled up and the roof leaks. A building a parish centre in Prekal rickety wooden table serves as with accommodation for a priest the Altar and a beer bottle as a and for sisters, plus large sheds candlestick. The only adornment to serve as a garage and a store- is the crosses painted on the room for building materials des- walls in red oil-paint.

By now we have already tined ultimately for the more gleaned some idea of what it remote parts of the diocese.

Prekal is the parish of Fr means to be a bishop or priest in Cavallini, a young Franciscan the diocese of Pult. Most of the from Verona in Italy, who was houses are scattered, quarter to recently appointed as provincial half a mile apart on average, of the newly-erected Franciscan depending on the steepness of province in Shkoder. the mountainside and the size of Under his direction they are the cultivable terraces the peasrepairing the little village church, ants have been able to win from built in the 1920's. The windows the mountain. The houses that were painted by Fr Flavio's father, are not on the road can only be the benches were donated by reached on foot or by mule. The friends in Italy and the roofing mountain streams are crossed

miles of road and how many bridges could have been built for the same amount! "I have worn out a Landrover on these roads in just one year,' Fr Flavio told us as we sat clutching the safety grips to avoid being thrown around inside the vehicle. We neither see the steep drops immediately below the car, nor are we able to admire the view across this wonderful mountain landscape.

Another hour's driving brings us to Plani. The communists turned the church here into a 'palace of culture' and the Altar, a simple little wooden table, still stands on the 'stage' to this day.

In the times of persecution the Catholics would go on Christian feast days to the theatre performances in the "Palace of culture' and secretly pray the Rosary

. . . the Church in Albania begins its journey after years surviving in secret under repression tiles were imported from Greece. here and there by suspension there. On the Altar-stage stand the saints' statues that were The church is perched like a bridges. swallow's nest on the steep And this is likewise the only saved - two statues of St Anthony, mountainside. 'But it's not so way to reach the bishop's house a statue of Christ, the remains of bad, the bishop tells us, for even in Pult. You can see it from the a Christmas crib and a Mass in the winter we still get two road, a white house, beautifully vestment that now hangs where hours of sunshine there'. For the set on a mountain spur - but the stage curtain used to be.

This is an area that is cut off sun is the only source of heating accessible only via a suspension it has. bridge and after three quarters of from the outside world from the Every Saturday Fr Flavio drives an hour on foot. Small wonder. first snowfalls in November until to Prekal with a sister and a then, that the bishop lives in the thaw in April. The isolation female catechist. The children Shkoder. 'My diocese has no cen- and the hard lives of the people come from the surrounding tre. There's nothing here, just this have shaped the rules of this farms for religious instruction. road, almost no paths and not society. To this day it is forbidden For many of them this involves a even a telephone line,' says Mgr for relatives to marry up to the two or three-hour walk. After the Ashta. "That is why so far almost seventh degree of kinship. And instruction Fr Flavio celebrates no international aid agency has though today cases of blood Mass with the children and the come here. Just to transport aid feuds are rare, there are still famparishioners. goods along this road is virtually ilies that have been enemies for Another hour's drive brings us impossible. And then the goods generations.

Fr Flavio told us of a priest who to the next village, Pogu. The would have to be safely stored road, built by the forced labour somewhere until they could be comes for several weeks a year to hell) out in Pult and whose speof thousands under Communist distributed." leader Enver Hoxhas reign of terThe mountains are bare. The cial pastoral task is the reconciliror, is now in such a state that we communists had the forests ation of family feuds. The most are already forced to change a felled wholesale and sold for difficult part of his task is to bring hard currency abroad. The the heads of the respective famityre on one of our Landrovers.

There are no more than three money went into Enver Hoxhas lies together at one table. When families living in Pogu, which is pretentious propaganda machine they have finally thrashed out all simply an administrative post with its giant radio stations, and their differences a great feast of with a few warehouses, an into the construction of over reconciliation is celebrated, in administrative centre and a 600,000 bunkers - one for every the hope that the new-found five Albanians. These bunkers peace will be a lasting one.

'Bufet" - a sort of pub.

This is where the farmers bring look like giant concrete mushThanks to Bishop Ashta, I was their crops for sale. At this time of rooms, scattered across the able to visit the family of the year these are white plastic sacks whole country, even here in the parish chairman in the village of filled with the wild herks that mountains.

Kir. He has nine children and his They come in different sizes. mother also lives with him. His grow on the mountain slopes, Sometimes they stand in groups- house has three rooms and four especially rosemary and thyme.

As in so many Albanian vil- 'like an Albanian family, with windows. The only furniture conlages, the only thing the people mummy-bunker, daddy-bunker sists of nine beds of varying sizes, could save from their church was and three baby bunkers" as a a small kitchen cupboard and a the bell. After the fall of the priest laughingly described them table on which their lunch hapHoxhas regime they fetched the to us. pened to be standing - a loaf of bell out of its hiding place and Somebody worked out that the maize bread, some goat's milk hung it on an improvised timber concrete used in an average cheese and green onions, the bell-tower. bunker would have been suffi- whole covered in a huge cloud of The presbytery was destroyed cient to build an entire home. flies. A television flickered in the and a second floor installed in And again and again we angrily corner. But when I took out my the church. For years it served as asked ourselves just how many camera the youngest child began

to scream with fright.

In 1991, when the communist regime collapsed, the Albanian Church and its 400,000 faithful still had 33 priests and 45 nuns.

Most were old and sick Today there are 16 male and 52 female congregations present in Albania.

The number of priests has now risen to 90 and of nuns to about 200. They come mainly from Italy and the former Yugoslavia, but also from many other countries.

So far only one community of nuns has come to the diocese of Pult.

In Bregu-Lumi, a somewhat larger village of around eight to nine houses, we went to visit the sisters of Mother Teresa. The four sisters, who have been living here for a few months now, run a small health station, care for the poorest families in the region and give religious instruction to the children and young people.

A church is now being built in Bregu-Lumi with help from Aid to the Church in Need.

The collapse of the communist regime not only liberated the people from persecution and repression. Now they can also move freely about the country and even move house. As a result an exodus from the land has begun over the last few years.

The mountain people in particular are moving to the towns in the hope of a better life. Illegal settlements have sprung up around every major Albanian town. They look little better than the slums of the Third World.

There are already one or two empty houses in Bregu-Lumi.

And once one family has left others soon follow. The only way to stop this is for the international organisations to provide development help on the spot. Roads. bridges and schools must be built. The provision of basic essentials must be substantially improved. What is most needed is clothes, shoes, teaching materials for the schools and, needless to say, also a minimum of medical care.

The future of the Church in the diocese of Pult depends above all on the readiness of the various religious congregations to send missionaries to the loneliness of the Albanian Alps.

That is why Bishop Ashta is hoping the Franciscan Sisters at least will keel) their promise and send him a community of four nuns. But what can these sisters do if they do not even have a Place to live?

This is where the bishop is hoping for help from Aid to the Church in Need - to renovate and/or build churches and parish centres with accommodation for priest and nuns, rooms for religious instruction and small health centres.

Ther Record,' Odtbber 5:1995

To Jesus through Ma y. . . .

The Record presents the second installment of a regular column devoted to news, features and teaching on devotion to Mary, the Mother of God, with excerpts from Pope John Paul II's reflections on Mary's role in the Church begun earlier this month as part of his weekly General Audience addresses at the Vatican and published in the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.

Mary's virginal motherhood n the Constitution Lumen Gentium, the I Second Vatican Council states that 'joined to Christ the head and in commu-

nion with all his saints, the faithful must in the first place reverence the memory of the glorious ever Virgin Mary, Mother of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ'" (n. 52).

The conciliar Constitution uses these terms from the Roman Canon of the Mass, thereby stressing how faith in the divine motherhood of Mary has been present in Christian thought since the first centuries.

In the newborn Church Mary is remembered with the title "Mother of Jesus".

It is Luke himself who gives her this title in the Acts of the Apostles, a title that cur-

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responds moreover to what is said in the Gospels: "Is this not. . . the son of Mary?", the residents of Nazareth wonder according to the Evangelist Mark's account (6:3); "Isn't Mary known to be his mother?", is the question recorded by Matthew (13:55).

In the disciples' eyes, as they gathered after the Ascension, the title "Mother of Jesus" acquires its full meaning.

For them, Mary is a person unique in her kind; she received the singular grace of giving birth to the Saviour of humanity; she lived for a long while at his side, and on Calvary she was called by the Crucified One to exercise a 'new motherhood' in relation to the beloved disciple and, through him, to the whole Church.

For those who believe in Jesus and follow him, 'Mother of Jesus' is a title of honour and veneration, and will for ever remain such in the faith and life of the Church. In a particular way, by this title Christians mean to say that one cannot refer to Jesus' origins without acknowledging the role of the woman who gave him birth in the Spirit according to his human nature.

Her maternal role also involves the birth and growth of the Church. In recalling the

place of Mary in Jesus' life the faithful discover each day her efficacious presence in their own spiritual journey.

From the beginning, the Church has acknowledged the virginal motherhood of Mary. As the infancy Gospels enable us to grasp, the first Christian communities themselves gathered together Mary's recollections about the mysterious circumstances of the Saviour's conception and birth.

In particular, the Annunciation account responds to the disciples' desire to have the deepest knowledge of the events connected with the beginnings of the risen Christ's earthly life.

In the last analysis, Mary is at the origin of the revelation about the mystery of the virginal conception by the work of the Holy Spirit.

This truth, showing Jesus' divine origin, was immediately grasped by the first Christians for its important significance and included among the key affirmations of their faith.

Son of Joseph according to the law, Jesus in fact, by an extraordinary intervention of the Holy Spirit was in his humanity only the son of Mary, since he was born with-

out the intervention of man.

Mary's virginity thus acquires a unique value and casts new light on the birth of Jesus and on the mystery of his sonship, since the virginal generation is the sign that Jesus has God himself as his Father.

Acknowledged and proclaimed by the faith of the Fathers, the virginal motherhood can never be separated from the identity of Jesus, true God and true man. as "born of the Virgin Mary", as we profess in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.

Mary is the only Virgin who is also a Mother.

The extraordinary co-presence of these two gifts in the person of the maiden of Nazareth has led Christians to call Mary simply 'the Virgin', even when they celebrate her motherhood.

The virginity of Mary thus initiates in the Christian community the spread of the virginal life, embraced by all who are called to it by the Lord.

This special vocation, which reaches its apex in Christ's example, represents immeasurable spiritual wealth for the Church in every age, which finds in Mary her inspiration and model.

Rich M st 'hel poor' on mines

NEW YORK (CNS) - Pope John Paul ll's visit to the Vatican's UN mission for its dedication

By Cindy Wooden October 7 will include seeing a new medium for carrying his VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In message and the mission's stateaddition to banning the manuments into cyberspace.

The Catholic Information facture and use of land mines, Center on Internet is carrying a the world's industrialised counvariety of Catholic materials and tries must increase funding to plans to offer more. It opened on clear mines from the roads, September 20 on the World fields and farms of now-peaceWide Web. Its Internet address ful countries. a Vatican official is http://www.catholic.net. has urged.

It was launched under the aus-Many people all over the pices of the Path to Peace world are looking for a signal Foundation, an agency estab- that states and governments are lished and headed by willing to take their responsibiliArchbishop Renato Martino, ty for progress in the field of chief of the Vatican mission to the humanitarian law," said MonsigUnited Nations. nor Mario Zenari, the Vatican's "We encouraged this project representative at the United because it will be good for every- Nations' offices in Vienna. Ausone to have access to the position tria. of the Holy See on various points Mgr Zenari spoke on Septemand issues," Archbishop Martino ber 27 in Vienna at an internatold CNS the day after the web tional conference reviewing a site opened.

1980 treaty on -conventional James Mulholland, a member weapons which may be deemed of the Path to Peace Foundation to be excessively injurious or to board, initiated the project and have indiscriminate effects." The announced its launching at a weapons include land mines, press conference in New York on booby traps and blinding September 20. lasers.

'The ancient Romans built a Mgr Zenari told the confersystem of roads that united ence, -I would like once more to Europe for the first time, and the church's missionaries used them to spread the Gospel," he said in a statement. "Today, we intend to use the information superhighway."

By Jay Copp In a telephone interview he said that the Center already carCHICAGO (CNS) - A Catholic ries information from some peripolice officer who opposes aborodicals, including Our Sunday Visitor and The Wanderer, and tion has sued the city of Chicago will only carry those in general to keep from getting any more agreement with the magisterium. assignments to guard abortion Meanwhile, computer users clinics.

Angelo Rodriguez, 44, filed a around the world have a new way to access news and informa- civil-rights suit against the city on tion about Pope John Paul II's September 20 after being sent to visit to Baltimore, thanks to the guard two different clinics.

Baltimore Archdiocese's new Rodriguez, a 15-year veteran of "homepage" on the Internet. the police force, said in the lawOrganisers said the new home suit that being assigned to propage, unveiled by Baltimore tect patients at abortion clinics Cardinal William Keeler in was "contrary to his deeply held September, marks the first time Roman Catholic religious that the Internet is being used to beliefs" and violates his civil provide information about a rights. On October 23, 1993, he papal visit. The page is accessi- was assigned to guard a clinic ble by more than 30 million peo- when anti-abortion protests were ple worldwide. planned and then put on a rotat12 The Record, October 5, 1995

make a forceful appeal to dis- ments should realise their moral continue once and for all the obligation to take every possible manufacture and utilisation of step in order to promote the weapons which are known as transformation of swords into ploughshares," he said. 'anti-personnel mines."'

The monsignor said the Vatican But attention also must be shared the opinion of many given to "those mines which are organisations and religious still lying in the territories of groups around the world who many states and which continue have asked their governments, to threaten the lives and physical through the conference, to halt integrity of numerous individuthe production, distribution and als," he said. use of "inhumane weapons."

In the United States' capital.

The campaign has focused par- Washington, Bishop Daniel ticularly on land mines, which Reilly of Worcester, Massachare cheap and easy to assemble, usetts, head of the US bishops' but difficult and expensive to International Policy Committee, remove. said any decision about a US Even after a war ends, thou- moratorium on the use of land sands of civilians are killed or mines must consider "the known maimed each year after stepping terrible humanitarian consequences" of land mines above on buried mines.

"Proposals to strengthen the any military concerns.

Bishop Reilly asked members 1980 treaty and the moratorium several governments have since of the US Congress's Houseplaced on the manufacturing and Senate conference committee export of land mines shows there working on a defence authorisais a movement toward "the abo- tion Bill to retain a Senatelition of all types of inhumane approved provision that would sharply limit US military use of weapons," Mgr Zenari said.

"Thinking of more than 25,000 anti-personnel land mines.

It would also place sanctions children, women and men suffering every year as innocent vic- against other countries that tims of those weapons, govern- export them.

St Anthony on tour SPRINGS, SIAFFORD Connecticut. (CNS) - A nationwide tour of St Anthony of Padua relics has begun with a 10church swing through the Northeast to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the saint's birth in 1195.

The relics - pieces of bone and petrified flesh encased in statues and glass - will move throughout the country for the rest of the year.

St Anthony is often referred to as the patron saint of lost items.

He was born in Lisbon, Portugal, to a rich family of nobility. He disappointed them when he became a priest at age 25.

When he learned of the martyrdom of five Franciscans whom he had met just a few months earlier - in Morocco, he was profoundly impressed by St Francis of Assisi and his movement, and became a Franciscan himself.

St Anthony was said to have miracles. performed many including raising a man from the dead to give witness to the innocence of another.

His reputation for finding lost items reportedly stemmed from an incident in which a novice borrowed his psalter with-out Permission and was compelled to return it by a terrifying apparition. St Anthony died in Padua, Italy, at age 36. He was declared a saint less than a year later. In 1946, Pope Pius XII named him a doctor of the church.

Chicago cop holds the thin blue line for the unborn ing detail at the site. "In standing outside the clinic, Rodriguez could see young mothers entering the clinic to have abortions," according to the suit. "The scene bothered him greatly, and he began to reflect on his role at the clinic in view of his deeply held Roman Catholic religious beliefs that abortion is the wrongful taking of innocent life."

On January 29, 1994, the suit says, Rodriguez explained his position to his watch commander, who told him he would be excluded from such assignments except in an emergency.

In September 1994 he became aware of a provision in the Chicago municipal code that "no employer shall refuse to make all reasonable efforts to accommodate the religious beliefs ... of

employees." On October 7, 1994, he wrote a formal memo, following department procedures, to his district commander about his objections to guarding abortion clinics.

But two months after that memorandum was filed, Rodriguez was again assigned to the clinics, by a different supervisor. He objected, but filled the duty under protest.

In the lawsuit, Rodriguez quoted from "The Gospel of Life," Pope John Paul ll's recent encyclical, to support his contention that his participation in guarding an abortion clinic amounts to an act against innocent human life. The suit alleges that the department intentionally violated or acted with reckless indifference to his religious rights as protected by the municipal

code and under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a federal law requiring accommodation of religious beliefs.

A statement from the Chicago Archdiocese said Catholic tradition "would support the properly informed decision of an individual who, peacefully and non-violently, chooses in conscience to witness in a heroic way to the fact that abortion is a grave moral evil and legal injustice."

Father Gary Miller, pastor of St Pascal Parish, where Rodriguez attends daily Mass, called his parishioner's action "a very brave step.

"He has the courage of his convictions," said Father Miller.

"We're all bound to follow our conscience. There is a higher law than the legal law or the mores of society."

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Aid assists, educates too, delegates told

By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) - The seasonal educational and fund-raising campaigns of Catholic agencies raise not only money, but awareness, said speakers at a Vaticansponsored meeting in Rome.

The campaigns "have done much to sensitise the community, to stimulate the Christian sharing of goods between North and South and within countries, between members of the same community and also on behalf of the needs of other religious confessions," said Monsignor Ivan Mann.

Mgr Mann, secretary of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum," the Vatican's aid coordinating

agency, spoke at the opening of a are needed to promote solidarity September 25-27 meeting to dis- between people of the North and cuss the theological and pastoral South, to make charity the norm implications of the aid cam- of Christian behaviour and to paigns which drew 45 partici- encourage fasting, penance and pants from 26 European and conversion, Mgr Mann said.

North American countries.

Most of the campaigns repreWhile the campaigns are sented at the meeting are conmoney-raising efforts, they also ducted each year during Lent, a include strong components of time when the Christian commueducating Catholics to the needs nity is called "to die to sin and to of the poor, the injustices in the radically change our interior attiworld that contribute to poverty tudes toward God, our neighand the obligation Christians bours, life, death, history and have to show their solidarity with creation," said Mgr Luciano others, both through material Baronio. assistance as well as through Mgr Baronio is the coordinator working to change social and of formation and research for the economic systems, speakers said. Italian bishops' Caritas agency.

And Catholic development The Second Vatican Council and relief agencies cannot taught that Lenten penance must ignore the fact that greater efforts be individual and internal as

Catholic Unis a 'lie' if Church not defended to Christ and His message," and must have the courage to speak "uncomfortable truths" about BLOOMINGTON, Minneso- such issues as abortion, euthanatta, (CNS) - Catholic universi- sia, sexuality, divorce, contracepties belong in the heart of the tion, homosexuality, family life, Church and so must both teach virtues and commitment to the and defend Church teachings, common good.

Philadelphia's Cardinal Anth"If the Church as the people of ony Bevilacqua told a national God is to be salt for the earth, gathering of Catholic scholars. then the Catholic university must "A Catholic university that does not hide its salt," he said. "Such not defend the teachings of the institutions must "provide stuChurch is living a lie,- the cardi- dents profound reason and the nal said at the 18th annual con- teachings of the Church, not the vention of the Fellowship of popular whims of the day."

Catholic Scholars. The organisa"What a Catholic university tion, consisting of more than should fear is the temptation to 1,000 Catholic interdisciplinary remain silent about the Word of scholars who have an academic God," the cardinal said, adding doctoral degree or its equivalent, that academic freedom is somewas established in 1977 to defend times mistakenly preferred over and promote the Catholic faith. truth.

In his speech, he said Catholic "What makes a university universities derived their nature Catholic is its institutional relafrom their founding by the tionship to the Church," he said.

Church. "It was from the heart of That means it must have a the Church that the Catholic "whole-heart, institutional devouniversities grew, and it is at the tion without reserve to the heart of the Church that the Magisterium," which is the Catholic universities belong," he teaching authority of the Church. said. "The Church is the teacher He said that while the Church of truth, and it is her responsibil- defended the capacity of the ity to teach the truth of Jesus human intellect, it also recogChrist." nised the difficulty the human He said the Catholic university intellect had in accepting moral must be "an institutional witness truth.

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"The Magisterium is able to counter human ego, pride and fallibility," he said.

The current debate about the identity of Catholic colleges and universities is "more than just academic." Cardinal Bevilacqua continued. "The very identity of Catholic universities is at stake."

He said truth does not enslave scholars, but rather protects them from fads and changing fashions.

Objections to Pope John Paul H's norms for Catholic education, "Ex Corde Ecclesiae" ("From the Heart of the Church"), were based on a perceived threat to academic freedom, according to the cardinal.

He defended the Pope's teaching, saying it reaffirmed "the correct ordering of freedom and truth."

"Truth is the condition of freedom, justice and human dignity," he said.

"The Catholic university's role is assisting in the protection and advancement of human dignity" Bishops must be in constant dialogue with administrators of the Catholic institutions of higher learning in their dioceses, he said, challenging them to maintain adherence to the teachings of the Church.

well as social and external, he said. Lent is a time when everyone in the Christian community is called "to become catechumens once again in order to joyfully re-proclaim their baptismal faith after having renounced idols, always present and changing, especially in today's society which is a slave to the thirst for money and riches, power and success," he said.

American Mgr Frank Dewane, who recently joined the "Cor Unum" staff, presented an overview of the history and impact of the seasonal campaigns. When most of them started in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he said, the emphasis was on a monetary sacrifice by the faithful to fund good works.

With a later focus on the projects the money would fund, the educational and catechetical component of the campaigns became greater.

And in a statement to the meeting released by the Vatican on September 29 Pope John Paul said that by contributing to Catholic relief and development campaigns, people show the world the face of a loving and merciful God. "All Christians are called to participate in the sharing of goods," the Pope said.

"In a world where more and more people are touched by poverty, your service of organising different church actions to relieve the misery of our brothers and sisters and to promote development is of capital importance."

Pope encourages pressured families VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Parents today feel their ability to educate their children in faith and religious vaitres have been put to the test, Pope John Paul II has said in a message to the plenary meeting of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

The Pope praised families that have succeeded in remaining strong communities of faith, especially when one of the parents has abandoned the home.

The council held its plenary session late last month.

'The Church today finds itself faced with an ever more secularised and complex society no longer structured on religious values and, instead, marked by pronounced indifference, especially in some countries," the Pope said.

"This certainly does not make it easy to propose the faith to new generations and even blocks their ability to acquire an authentic sense of the meaning of life," he said.

Even when both parents profess and live their faith, he said, their adolescent children may feel drawn through their environment, school or the media to values and life styles different from those encouraged at home.

"The family, for its part, finds itself put to the test in its educational ability," he said.

"Where the family community undergoes the trauma of separation and divorce, the very concept of matrimony and the family loses its essential human and spiritual connotation of being an indissoluble communion among persons," the Pope said.

The parents' work obligations often reduce their time with their children to a few evening hours,

he said. "But the Church and Christians themselves must not overlook the fact that many families have found ways to "walk united in the faith, realising together an experience of growth in their Christian life." he said.

"I don't want to forget abandoned spouses, who with not a few sacrifices, try to offer their children a truly Christian education even in difficult situations," the Pope said. "A special word of encouragement goes to them."

The transmission of Catholicism within the family, he said, presupposes an intense life of faith which is seen in all of the small daily tasks of living together.

It requires "constant contact with the Christian community," and especially attendance and participation in the Sunday Mass. he said.

Christian families must also find time at home for "simple moments" of prayer, including reading from Scripture or the Psalms or reciting the rosary together, he said.

Special church efforts must be aimed at preparing engaged couples for marriage and at helping parents of teenagers find ways to keep channels of communication open and counteract many of the messages they receive from their peers or from the media, he said.

"It is in the period of adolescence that the transmission of faith is often interrupted," the Pope said.

"The growing critical consciousness and personality of the adolescent, if accompanied by an authentic witness of faith, will not lead to a loss of faith, but to the elaboration of an adequate project for their lives."

Pope's US visit brings conversion on a wing and a prayer

By Joe Bollig KANSAS CITY, Missouri. (CNS) Richard Hazlewood was thinking about becoming a Catholic but wanted to be sure. A sign from God would be nice, he thought.

Then, just months after being hired as a master engineer for TWA, Hazlewood got his first big assignment: to design the interior of Shepherd I, the charter aircraft lined up for Pope John Paul Il's use during his US visit from October 4-8.

"Once I realised that this was my sign, not just me getting my job, but the Pope, I mean, the POPE - come on, what bigger sign could someone ask for?" said Hazlewood, 32.

Hazlewood planned to enter the catechumenate program in October at Queen of the Holy Rosary Parish in Overland Park, Kansas. Two days later, he was to fly to TWA:s mini-hub at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York to help convert a 767-300 aircraft from its normal configuration into the papal charter.

Everybody at the TWA Kansas City Overhaul Base at Kansas City International Airport, in Missouri, has taken pride in the project. From having to make decisions about where the Pope sits to handling the details of refurbishing his bed, he said the job has given him time to reflect.

Baptized a Baptist, Hazlewood said that as he was growing up. occasionally his

mother took him to church. His mother was a non-denominational Protestant and his father was a Lutheran but not very religious. Because his father worked in the oil fields, his family moved all over the world, Hazlewood told The Leaven, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Kansas City.

Although he always considered himself Christian and always believed in God, Hazlewood said, he became disillusioned by the biblical literalism and fundamentalism he found in Baptist teachings.

Religion didn't come into his life again until long after he married his wife, Kathy, who is a Catholic, and he became a father.

He thought his boys should attend Mass and didn't want to be hypocritical, so he

began to attend regularly himself. "Slowly, over three to four years, there was definitely something there," said Hazlewood.

"It grew, until a year ago, I really started thinking about whether I wanted to convert to Catholicism."

He said he didn't want to convert for the wrong reason, such as subtle family pressure, but wanted to convert for himself.

After graduating from the University of Kansas last May, he took an inquiry class, but was not yet convinced.

"In my heart I felt I needed a sign that this was what God wanted me to do, that this wasn't what Richard was doing for his family or anyone else." said Hazlewood.

"God gives you a pretty good sign when he gives you the Pope."

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Paralysis brings policeman closer to Eucharist known to New Yorkers, and he has impressed people especially because of his public expression of forgiveness of the NEW YORK (CNS) - Paralysed police youth who shot him. officer Steven McDonald told thousands of At the Eucharistic Congress, held on people gathered for the Diocese of September 23 at St John's University in Brooklyn's Eucharistic Congress that the Queens, Steven again expressed his feelEucharist is the best way to prepare your- ings about forgiving his assailant in terms self' to overcome difficulties and live a of the Christian teaching that all are sinholier life. ners who must forgive if they are to Mr McDonald, seated in front of his audi- receive forgiveness. "I had to forgive him ence in a wheelchair, breathing through a if I wanted to go to heaven," he said. mechanical respirator, is a living demonSteven also spoke about the role of the stration of faith.

Eucharist in his life. He said priests came He has been paralysed from the neck to his home regularly to celebrate Mass down since he was shot and hit in the there, and it was a "holier place" because spine in 1986 by Shavod Jones, then 15, of that. "From my earliest days I wanted to who was one of three youths he was ques- partake in what was going on up at the tioning in New York's Central Park. altar," he said.

The officer was 29. His wife, Pattie Ann, Now a resident of Malverne, Long gave birth to their son, Conor, after the Island, Steven recalled growing up in shooting. Steven's story has become well Saints Joachim and Anne Parish in

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Queens. One of his earliest memories as when he opened the session for questions. a child, too short to see over adults, was In response to a question about wanting to know what was happening at Christopher Reeve, the actor paralysed in the altar, he said. a fall from a horse, Steven said he and his Steven's case recently came into the wife and son had visited Reeve and his news again because Jones, just paroled wife. from a 10-year prison term, was hurt rid"I think he's scared," Steven said. "But I ing on the back of a speeding motorcycle think he's going to demonstrate not only that went out of control on September 9. that he is a Superman in the movies but He died the next morning. As an example that he is also a superman in real life. I of the miracles produced by the presence think he will become a spokesperson for of Christ in his home, Steven reported that those of us who are physically chalConor, now in third grade, asked his class- lenged." mates to pray for Jones.

Brooklyn Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius The police officer's witness elicited a Catanello, who coordinated planning for warm response from the thousands of the Eucharistic Congress, said 11,000 peopeople who gathered to hear him in St ple representing every parish in the dioJohn's gymnasium. cese had pm-registered.

They gave him standing ovations at the Actual attendance was uncertain, but the beginning and end of his appearance, fre- gymnasium, estimated to hold 6,000, was quently applauded during his talk and filled, and others watched on monitors in expressed their appreciation individually a large tent.

'Professed' distinction for Jesuits to remain _ Fast holidays, fast food make keeping the WCC leader sees unity problems

PARIS (CNS) - A top Protestant official has expressed doubts that the Catholic Church can significantly redefine its dogma to allow for fruitful ecumenical dialogue on the future role of the papacy.

The Reverend Konrad Raiser, general-secretary of the World Council of Churches, said he agreed with the need to discuss the papacy as a "ministry manifested by one peon person recognised as a symbol of unity."

But he said that his -scepticism concerns, above all, the difficulties in sufficiently transforming within the Catholic Church the canonical and dogmatic founda(ions of the definition of primacy to allow for a new interpreta-

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has formally approved three changes in the rules of the Jesuit order, but he said his approval should not be interpreted as weakening the distinction between priests and brothers within the Society of Jesus.

The changes in the norms that accompany the Jesuits' constitutions were adopted earlier this year by the order's general congregation.

Pope John Paul approved the changes late last month, making them final.

One of the changes was aimed at giving Jesuit brothers a greater voice in the affairs of the order.

For the first time in the Jesuits' 455-year-history, brothers and 'spiritual coadjutors" - priests who have not made a full profession of vows - can be voting members of the general congregations, including those called to elect a new superior.

The changed norm, however, specified that those priests and brothers are not to exceed 10 per cent of the general congregation membership.

While brothers and "spiritual coadjutors" will have a full voice in the congregations, they still will not be eligible to be elected to the highest offices in the Society of Jesus.

In a letter to Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, superior-general of the society, the Pope said the decisions of the general congregation inust be implemented "in fidelity to the spirit and original intention" of St Ignatius of Loyola, the order's founder.

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preted as a weakening of the structure of grades and of the need for them, since that would be contrary to what St. Ignatius wanted for the society, a sacerdotal order," the papal letter said.

The other two changes approved by the Pope dealt with restricting to bishop, vicar general and episcopal vicar the list of "ecclesiastical honors" for which the Jesuits vow not to have an ambition, and with giving the superior-general, in consultation with his council, the faculty to close any Jesuit house.

Previously, the 'honours' list included other offices such as judicial vicar or tribunal head.

The general congregation members' felt these were not so much an honour as an office through which Jesuits could offer a valuable service to the Church, Father Frank Case, an adviser to Fr Kolvenbach, said. Although the Jesuits promise not to seek posts in the hierarchy, there are some 90 Jesuit bishops in the world, mostly in mission areas, and six Jesuit cardinals.

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(ion," Pope John Paul II, in an ecumenical encyclical published earlier this year, called for dialogue on the future role of the papacy.

"The stumbling block, I think, is that a certain form of primacy would remain an element of divine, unchangeable law," Dr Raiser said in an interview in the September 27 edition of the Paris Catholic newspaper, La Croix Dr Raiser, a German Lutheran, also said that structural problems hampered direct dialogue between the World Council of Churches and the Catholic Church.

'The Catholic Church represents for us only one church. even if it is the biggest of all," he

said. "Structurally, it is on the same level as all others," he added. He said that dialogue might be easier "if the Catholic Church transformed itself into a council of local churches."

The World Council of Churches is an international fellowship of more than 300 Christian churches. The Catholic Church is not a member but participates in some WCC programs.

In a September 14 report to the WCC's central committee, Du Raiser also expressed scepticism as to whether dialogue on the papacy would bear fruit, but praised the Pope's "irrevocable commitment" to Christian unity and asked Christian leaders to follow the Pope's lead.

Sabbath rest an heroic observance

Lutheran theologian and historian, said.

Sundays have become part of ST CLOUD, Minnesota, (CNS) - the weekend getaway, he said.

"Remember to keep holy the Only a few decades ago Sabbath day . . . . No work may rarely travelled far from people home be done then." except for a two-week summer It was one of 10 command- vacation. Now on Friday ments God gave his people on evenings, hordes of the workMount Sinai. weary jump into their cars, often Now, more than 3,000 years with boats or campers hitched later, Bob and Marlene Knopik on, and head for the lakes and are doing their best to observe it woods for two-day mini-vacain a society that often ignores it. tions.

Former dairy farmers accusWith more than half the countomed to 18-hour work days, the try's women in the work force, he Knopiks have always looked for- added, those who do stay closer ward to Sunday's peacefulness. to home are often burdened with They begin with chores at their a long list of home projects they farmhouse near Little Falls, then had no time to do during the go to Mass at Our Lady of week Lourdes Church in town.

The Mall of America in BloomAfternoons are spent with their ington, about a 90-minute drive children, visiting relatives or from St Cloud, symbolises anothleisurely dropping a fishing line er activity - shopping - that has into a nearby lake. dramatically changed Sundays in They try to avoid unnecessary American culture over the past work like laundry, lawn mowing few decades. Many shoppers or tinkering with cars. may count it as a leisure activity, "We try to be a little freer on the but it means Sunday work for Lord's Day so we can enjoy it store clerks, sales managers and more," Mrs Knopik told the Saint others.

Cloud Visitor, diocesan newspaDonald Bitzen of St Paul Parish per. in St Cloud said that since he "We try to spend it together as a opened his jewelry store at family."

Crossroads Shopping Centre 27 But changes in American cul- years ago, he has kept it closed ture and economy are altering on Sundays "out of religious conthe centuries of practices and viction." attitudes that helped Christians . He makes up the business on reserve their Sundays for public other days and some people tell worship and relaxation from the him they prefer to shop there rigours of daily work. because they respect his reli'The biggest single change has gious convictions, he said. been the erosion of the weekend But merchants of other goods at home,- the Reverend Martin find closing on Sunday more difMarty of the University of ficult. Everett Green of Our Lady Chicago Divinity School, a of Lourdes Parish in Little Falls

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said he tried closing his grocery store on Sundays for a couple of years in the early '80s. "I had to eventually re-open on Sundays. . . A lot of people had begun to shop elsewhere," he said.

Mary Cheryl Opatz of St Paul Parish said she, husband Charles and their two children make an extra effort to make Sunday a family day, relaxing together or visiting relatives.

She insists on keeping the major shopping to weekdays.

"Sundays are so important for the renewal of the soul," she said.

Benedictine Father David Cotter, an Old Testament scholar at St John's University in Collegeville, worries that the loss of a distinctive time for rest may harm people's physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

"Idon't know if we're very good at resting," he said. "What if we just took a whole day to sit and reflect and study and spend time with our family?" he asked. "I'm not sure a lot of us would know how to do that. We would probably feel guilty and think we should be doing something like shopping."

Dr Marty said he believes people continue to be spiritually hungry. But he is afraid declining church attendance signals a shift of religion from the public realm to the private and a loss of the central importance the parish once had in American society.

"The disintegration of the holy day means that spirituality is becoming an element of individual entrepreneurship. Biblical spirituality is becoming just one offering on a cafeteria line of options," he said.

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church The Celebration of Marriage 1621 In the Latin Rite the cele-

bration of marriage between two Catholic faithful normally takes place during Holy Mass, because of the connection of all the sacraments with the Paschal mystery of Christ.

In the Eucharist the memorial of the New Covenant is realised, the New Covenant in which Christ

has united himself for ever to the Church, his beloved bcide for whom he gave himself up.

It is therefore fitting that the spouses should seal their consent to give themselves to each other through the offering of their own lives by uniting it to the offering of Christ for his Church made present in the Eucharistic sacrifice, and by receiving the Eucharist so that, communicating in the same Body and the same

Blood of Christ, they may form but "one body" in Christ.

1622 "Inasmuch as it is a sacra-

mental action of sanctification, the liturgical celebration of marriage . . . must be, per se, valid, worthy, and fruitful."

It is therefore appropriate for the bride and groom to prepare themselves for the celebration of their marriage by receiving the sacrament of penance.

1623 In the Latin Church, it is

ordinarily understood that the 1624 The various liturgies abspouses, as ministers of Christ's ound in prayers of blessing and grace, mutually confer upon each epiclesis asking God's grace and of blessing on the new couple, sacrament the other Matrimony by expressing their especially the bride. consent before the Church.

In the epiclesis of this sacraIn the Eastern liturgies the min- ment, the spouses receive the ister of this sacrament (which is Holy Spirit as the communion of called "Crowning") is the priest love of Christ and the Church. or bishop who, after receiving The Holy Spirit is the seal of the mutual consent of the spouscovenant, the ever available their es, successively crowns the bridegroom and the bride as a source of their love and the strength to renew their fidelity. sign of the marriage covenant.

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MEDJUGORJE: Our Lady's Message of 25 September, 1995.

Dear Children! Today I invite you to fall in love with the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Adore Him, little children, in your parishes and in this way you will be united with the entire world. Jesus will become your friend and you will not talk of Him like someone whom you barely know.

Unity with Him will be a joy for you and you will become witnesses to the love of Jesus that He has for every creature. Little Children. when you adore Jesus you are also close to me. Thank you for having responded to my call.

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to be held at New Norcia from 1st to 4th December 1995, has been organised by women from the Gaia Foundation. It will take place in buildings owned by the Benedictine Community, but it has not been organised or in any way sponsored by the monks. It welcomes women from all cultures and spiritual paths, and so it is not a specifically Christian event, and in no way claims to be authorised by any agency of the Catholic Church.

CATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE Invites all interested persons to attend the NATIONAL CONFERENCE, 8-13 October, 1995 at Aquinas College, Manning.

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EUCHARISTIC REPARATION The next Holy Hour for the World Apostolate of Fatima will be held on Sunday, 8 October, at 3pm in the Holy Cross parish Church, Ommaney St, Hamilton Hill.

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TAPESTRY OF GOD CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP will be conducting a Life in the Spirit eight week Seminar, beginning 20 October at the Infant Jesus Parish Centre Wellington St, Morley, starting with the Rosary at 7.15pm. The theme will be "Knowing Jesus as our personal God and friend, through the power of the Holy Spirit." An information afternoon regarding the Seminar and the Charismatic Renewal in Perth will be on the 15 October at 2pm at the above address, afternoon tea will be supplied - anyone from 16 years of age most welcome. For further inquiries please ring Clare 378 2767.

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Saturday October 7, Rosary 10.30am, Mass 11.00am at the Church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church", 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook. The Sacri Assoc. will not provide buses for this pilgrimage. For further enquiries please ring 444 2285, 447 3292.

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Ex students and teachers of Northam Catholic Schools including St Paul's College are holding a re-union at Gloucester Park, Perth, on Sunday 29 October. Further information available from Eileen Tucker 277 6065; Terry Ozarczuk 384 8092 (a/hrs), Doreen Bullen (096) 222j 931.

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