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Mental Health Week begins this Sunday. The Society of St Vincent de Paul, not surprisingly, is already at work helping the mentally ill- Page 3 Next Sunday is World Mission Sunday - Page 11 Prayer for the busy is a matter of praying where you are at work or home - Page 8 Reviews and classifications of recent videos make their second appearance in The Record - Page 12

Catholic vivo en praised

By Peter Rosengren Archbishop Barry Hickey has again urged the laity to speak on behalf of the Church in society, and has praised the Catholic Women's League of Australia as a lay group which puts this role into practice.

Archbishop Hickey said at the opening Mass of the 37th national biennial conference of the Catholic Women's League of Australia, in St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday the laity had this specific role because they had to live out their lives in that often nonChristian environment, a role which could not be carried out by clerics.

"Today the laity, in a real sense, speak for the Church because they have to live their everyday lives in society," he said, saying that "They're in politics and social institutions, schools and tertiary institutions, homes, neighbourhoods and community centres."

The CWL played a critical role in commenting on issues of national importance such as family life, employment and unemployment, disabilities, single parent households, human life and its origins, and it did so from a Gospel-based perspective.

Highlighting the important work of the league in commenting on issues of national importance, he warned "All these issues have a moral content and

insights drawn from the Gospel and must be presented, otherwise Australia will accept policies which are purely secular and have no root in ethics."

The conference, held from 7-13 October at Aquinas College in the riverside suburb of Manning, saw over 500 registrations from around women Catholic Australia and from as far abroad as South Africa and New Zealand.

However, the archbishop also asked what the model for speaking out today should be. "The political process? I hope not," he said.

"In the political process factions and parties manoeuvre and jockey for power. At times the Church looks like that," he said.

However the model for the Church was taken from the Gospel and based on the body of Christ, Archbishop Hickey said.

In the Church's model all were equal members of the Church, whose head was Jesus Christ.

Bishops and priests acted as shepherds.

"And the laity also have their noble role. All these roles are not in conflict but we work closely together."

"Your loyalty to the Church and its teachings is legendary and may it always be so because only then will your message be different to that of the world's," he told the CWL delegates.

"I hope that Catholic women will see in you and your example

Cheerful Catholic Women's League delegates outside St Mary's Cathedral before the opening Mass of their national conference last Sunday and your work a guiding light that they will follow," he said.

Congratulating the league on its work, Archbishop Hickey sail the conference was an event of significance because the league sought to make an impact on the cultural, social, moral and spiritual life of the nation.

The national gathering of delegates, which saw a variety of speakers address delegates on

various issues and report on the past two years' activities, considered the league's direction and handed over to a new national executive.

Archbishop Hickey also commended the decision of the 1991 CWL conference to seek the views of women at a grass-roots level as a wise one, saying that too often today small groups in society acted as if they spoke on

everybody's behalf. "There are many examples of such groups speaking with a disproportionate access to the media, and many times they only speak for themselves and no-one else," he said.

However, the Catholic Women's League was not like .this because it worked from the grass roots level, spoke from the Gospel viewpoint and lived its values in real life, he said.

Health carers unite to condemn euthanasia

By Peter Rosengren Catholic doctors, nurses and hospitals in Western Australia have joined in a united front against the culture of death in Australia represented by increasing support for euthanasia.

The combined organisations, including the Catholic Doctors Association of WA, the Catholic Health Care Association, the St John of God Health Care system, St Anne's Hospital, Southern Cross Homes (WA) Inc, Catholic Homes Inc, and the LJ Goody Bioethics Centre said in a statement issued today that the adoption of any euthanasia legislation would not only legalise the killing of patients but also kill in the hearts of doctors and nurses their sensitive dedication to the care and welfare of their patients.

They said that any deliberate destruction of human life by neglect, drug abuse, suicide or murder should be totally rejected by wise legislation.

The statement also calls on all Government and health care authorities to make a priority of establishing well-equipped hospices and ensuring that doctors and nurses are given the very best in palliative care training.

"At the present time there are a number of attempts around Australia to legalise euthanasia," the group said.

"Euthanasia is the intentional killing of another person by act or omission. No doctor or nurse in Australia should ever

be asked to deliberately kill anyone," the statement said.

"If we accept euthanasia, we are asking our doctors and our nurses to accept a legal entitlement to kill some of their patients. This is not only unjust to our doctors and nurses but would also tend to undermine the trust of the community in our health care providers," it said.

The statement also drew distinctions between withholding or discontinuing life continuing treatments, palliative care and euthanasia.

It said that withholding life-prolonging treatment could be permissible when such treatment was only prolonging a person's dying process.

Regarding palliative care it said that technological advances meant that patients could now be kept virtually painfree until they died even though it might be the case that palliative care might foreseeably but unintentionally shorten the patient's life. In these circumstances, such procedures for the benefit of the patient were morally justifiable and should be free of any legal restrictions, it said.

It said that euthanasia was a deliberate decision to terminate the life of the patient and was unacceptable.

"In good medical care, one is using all proper methods to eliminate the distress of the patient and maintain all possible patient comfort. In euthanasia, the purpose is to use lethal methods to eliminate the distress by eliminating the patient in

distress. Euthanasia can be used for rea- euthanasia many members of the public sons other than the distress of the patient. could be unaware of the subtle moral difConvenience, expediency or material gain ferences between withholding medical treatment, palliative care and euthanasia. can be the motivation for euthanasia."

"And that's why we think it needs to be Spokesman for the Catholic Doctors' Association and for the combined organi- spelt .out in clear and simple terms," he sations, Dr Michael Quinlan, told The said. He said the impact of euthanasia on Record the statement had been issued Australian society, if adopted, would be because of attempts to legalise euthanasia incalculable.

"I think it would be a horrendous state of in various parts of Australia.

"We considered that at this time when affairs if it became law. It really would go there is so much controversy and potential to the very seat of respect for the dignity of to change the law regarding care of the the person and erode the trust that exists dying, including euthanasia, that it was between nurses and doctors," he said The statement issued by the Catholic appropriate for groups within the Church to state what they felt, particularly with organisations said that legalisation of regard to a positive statement regarding euthanasia would ask doctors and nurses euthanasia, rather than a defensive state- "to live out a terrible contradiction" in their jobs and lives. ment," he said.

"They would be expected to do everyDr Quinlan, who is chairman of the St John of God general board and director of thing possible to preserve health and prothe St John of God Medical Hospital mote the life and well-being of their Teaching Unit at Subiaco, said that there patients. At the same time they would be were a number of moves in progress in asked to do the opposite and destroy life.

Australia with regard to care of the dying We are confident that the great majority of These included a the medical and nursing professions will and euthanasia. euthanasia bill in New South Wales and find that contradiction unacceptable and care of the dying bills in other states. abhorrent," it says.

He said that if euthanasia were introIt also said that if the community was duced anywhere it would mean that, if brought to an adequate understanding of those working in Catholic health care sys- the patients' and doctors' right to refuse tems were not allowed a conscience vote, futile and excessively burdensome treatthey would be forced to take a stand on ment, and also to keep patients comfortthe matter so that the public understood able and pain-free by proper palliative where Catholic institutions stood. care, then the medical case for euthanasia Dr Quinlan said in the overall debate on would disappear.

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Call of the Religious life awaits rediscovery Last week I spoke of the radical commitment to Christ and to the People of God that is required of priests, and how the gift of celibacy is a clear sign of that commitment.

This week I wish to speak of the parallel and equally radical commitment of Religious Life.

I am moved to do so by the recent experience of celebrations for nine Diamond, Golden and Silver Jubilarians, all Sisters of the Congregation of Our Lady of

the Mission, surrounded by admiring friends, relatives and members of their own communities.

What I took part in was a normal event in Catholic life, but we should not lose sight of the fact that what we consider normal is a truly remarkable event. In Catholic circles such celebrations are relatively frequent. We take them as a matter of course. Yet in the eyes of the world, Religious Life is still a mystery and an

The jubilarian Sisters of the Congregation of Our Lady of the Missions: Mary McLeod, Kathleen Murphy, Mary Maher, Marie Crosbie, Molly O'Sullivan, Carmel Eberius, Kathleen Hough, Mary Molloy, and Mary McFall.

anomaly. It certainly does not make sense among those whose goals are directed towards personal fulfilment, material comfort and power.

A woman I know who is not a Catholic, told me recently that, in her view, girls find nothing attractive about Religious Life today, despite all the changes that have occurred in recent years, because they see it as too restrictive, too limited and too narrow.

It is true that from a purely human point of view, Religious Life is difficult to understand.

In fact one cannot even begin to understand it without reference to God. One cannot understand the call of Religious Life except in reference to Jesus' call to a life of love and service.

When people seek to follow Christ in this selfless way, some are called to give witness to his call by consecrating their lives within Religious Communities.

Those Communities support and sustain their commitment through prayer and the service of others.

If one does not understand the motivation of those who enter

Religious Life and if they do not share the faith that inspires it, then it remains a puzzle, a mystery.

It is only when Religious Life retains the mystery that it begins to make sense. It is only when one ponders on the mystery of the penetration of the divine in human affairs, and the mystery of the abiding presence of the Word made Flesh among us, that the call to a consecrated life can be understood.

Will young women and men today hear that voice and follow the way to which the nine Jubilarians give such splendid witness? There is no reason to believe that they will not. The voice of God is still the same. Life that the Church has offered The echo of that voice in human to the world may take new and hearts is still there. Faith and as yet unknown forms, but it will generosity are still there. not disappear.

There may be some hesitancy The witness of our Jubilarians among the young as they view is testimony of the truth of the structural changes that have Francis Thompson's Hound of occurred in Religious Life in Heaven recent decades, but it may only "All which I took from thee I did be a question of time before the but take, call is again clear, and the way of Not for thy harms, consecration beckons again.

But just that thou might'st seek The wonderful gift of Religious it in My arms".

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Vocations guides Scholarly winners onder future

Three Western Australian voca- opportunities to discuss where ticipate in: getting started in vocations ministers joined more than God is pointing the finger for tion ministry, linking vocation 80 others from Catholic Dioceses change and action, to follow the ministry to formation; vocational throughout Australia, New lead of the Spirit and to create accompaniment and understandZealand and Papua New Guinea options or scenarios for the ing Australian culture. Through to take part in the Third National future. these and the other skills workConference of Vocations The four principles of OST shops the delegates were able to Ministers. state: whoever comes is the right share their experiences with The Western Australians - Fr person; whenever it starts is the others.

Paul Fogarty, Perth Archdiocese; right time; whatever happens is In responding to a report in the Sister Margaret Ng, Sisters of St the only thing that could have; secular press, that religious were Joseph; and Fr Robert O'Bryan and, when it is over it is over. a dying breed, the conference from the Geraldton Diocese - Using these principles the group delegates in a letter to editors took part in the week-long con- discussed a wide variety of issues stated: "Far from being a dying ference held at the Tarmons which confront both Church and breed of outdated Catholic men Conference Centre in Potts Point, society today. and women, there was much life New South Wales.

These discussions were held in and hope amongst the eighty one Reflecting on the modern small groups to enable all to have of us who gathered to grapple Church, vocations ministers from an input. with the issues of truth, justice Australia and Oceania met Delegates were offered a choice and solidarity facing the Church together to confront critical of some ten skills workshops, today, specifically as sisters. needs affecting religious life and including the opportunity to par- priests and brothers." society today.

Some of these needs included: development of a relevant spirituality; how to be prophetic in modern times; developing a framework to respond to our changing culture; empowering the Church to be effective in a multicultural world; and, the ongoing call to justice.

An urgent theme of the conference was the role of the Church in attracting and challenging all to discover and embrace the unique role they can play in bringing about a better world.

The conference was based on the "Open Space Technology" (OST) concept. The OST gives L to R: Fr Robert O'Bryan, Sr Margaret Ng and Fr Paul Fogarty

Winners of 1996 Notre Dame Academic Scholarships from throughout the State gathered at the Fremantle-based university on Monday night together with their families to receive their awards.

The scholarships were awarded on a competitive basis to students throughout the State and meet the full cost of studying for one of Notre Dame's undergraduate degrees.

Top Row, L to R: Rebecca House, Lorraine Bailey, Penny Coppini and Endrea Dodson. Bottom Row, L to It Ruth Williams, Lisa Holmes, Leendert Ouwendyk, Julia Applin, Rochelle Brown and Carolee Budge

Nun's help for the jailed NEW DELHI, India (CNS) Mother Teresa of Calcutta has given her support to a project to help rehabilitate prisoners.

"It is a beautiful gift of God to care for men and women in jail," said the Nobel peace laureate in a talk inaugurating the second national convention of Prison Ministry, a Catholic initiative.

"I am very happy that the Church is the first one to be there to start this beautiful work," the founder of the Missionaries of Charity said. Forty nuns, priests

and 20 lay people who work with prisoners in 10 states met in New Delhi to help spread the program to 926 Indian prisons housing more than 200,000 prisoners.

Mother Teresa said that her first experience in dealing with prisoners came when the head of the West Bengal state asked her to help jailed prostitutes. She said that when she visited Bengal state's Presidency Prison in Calcutta, 34 inmates convicted of prostitution said they wanted her help.

even rejected like Christ was, the Pope said. Pope John Paul said he did not want to discourage the candidates for priesthood but wanted to discuss serious matters with them as a friend.

"If there is one challenge facing the Church and her priests today, it is the challenge of transmitting the Christian message whole and entire, without letting it be emptied of its substance," the Pope said.

"The Gospel cannot be reduced to mere human wisdom," he said.

"Salvation lies not in clever human words or schemes, but in

the cross and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ." The seminary, the Pope said, is the place where candidates for the priesthood must learn "the wisdom of the cross" - not what would qualify as wisdom in the world.

The words they speak as priests must be words inspired by the Holy Spirit and addressed to spiritual needs, he said.

He said that was what he was trying to do at the United Nations the previous day and what priests must do in the variety of political and cultural situations they find themselves in.

Transmit Gospel whole and entire Pope tells US seminarians

By Cindy Wooden YONKERS, N.Y. (CNS) - The Catholic Church is looking for courageous men, Pope John Paul II said.

Speaking to seminarians on October 6 at St Joseph Seminary in Yonkers, the Pope said the Church's priests must be strong in their faith and unafraid of denouncing evil.

"You need courage to follow Christ, especially when you recognise that so much of our dominant culture is a culture of flight from God, a culture which 2 The Record, October 12, 1995

displays a not-so-hidden contempt for human life, beginning with the lives of the unborn, and extending to contempt for the frail and elderly," the Pope said.

Hundreds of Catholics from Yonkers and other communities north of New York gathered on the green lawns of the seminary grounds hoping for a glimpse of the charismatic figure of Pope John Paul II. As soon as his helicopter was sighted, shouts arose as the crowd surged forward. The applause continued as the Pope wound his way in the 'popemo-

bile' up the lane to the seminary chapel for evening prayer.

Although the seminarians from New York and surrounding dioceses weren't the only ones in the chapel, the Pope's remarks were focused on them.

"If you are to become priests, it will be for the purpose - above all other purposes - of proclaiming the Word of God and feeding God's people with the body and blood of Christ," he said.

Priests who do both faithfully and encourage people to accept and follow all of the church's teachings will often be ignored or

Housing for mentally ill

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard With the onset of Mental Health Week, the Society of St Vincent de Paul is racing ahead with its own initiative as part of their national strategy, which they believe will take them back to the grass roots and the things they're good at.

Headed by new team member Gary Templeman, who is coordinator of the support service for the mentally ill, the SVDP will open up a shared house in January 1996, possibly in the Mirrabooka area, for three or four people who have serious psychiatric disorders.

It is envisaged another house will be opened in June next year.

The Presentation Sisters will play a key part in this 24 hour onsite care. The basic thrust of the initiative is to cut down hospital admissions while building up residents' self-esteem and independence in order to take their own place in the general community.

A commonsense approach will

be adopted, said Mr Templeman, "whereby we'll concentrate on delivering residential type services offering friendship and emotional support, but recognising these people's independence and right to make their own decisions and choices."

For any other requirements by residents, local professionals and services will be utilised.

Mr Templeman said this Catholic based care need was recognised by the SVDP back in 1993, but now with a "strong, focussed committee with a wealth of knowledge of disability services," and currently liaising with Homes West, the SVDP is ready for action. This has been combined with an ongoing education initiative to inform school students and the public at large about psychiatric disorders which is now in place.

In regard to problems caused by psychiatric disorders, Mr Templeman said as a future plan, the SVDP is looking at the provision of crisis residential support for family members suffering from this disorder.

Gary Templeman with the SVDP's new education initiative display Delighted with the vital contribution of the Presentation Sisters as service managers living onsite, Mr Templeman said they will provide a major quality to a service which is non-profit, while the Sisters would be supported by a huge volunteer body providing friendship, including many people from the health profes-

sions "who are already offering their services."

Citing volunteer numbers, "our behind the scenes people who need a mention," Mr Templeman said there were 1,700 volunteers in Western Australia for the society. Nation-wide it was the largest charitable organisation in Australia."

Mass will mark week Concerns The Catholic Committee for Psychiatric Issues is based at the Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor Street, East Perth, and is inviting people to their Mental Health Week Mass at St Francis Xavier Church next door on Sunday, October 22 at 3.30 pm.

Archbishop Barry Hickey hopes to meet people at the afternoon tea following the Mass which will be celebrated

by Mental Health chaplain Father Rodney Williams.

Health The Mental Chaplaincy, also assisted by Sister Monica Maddison, is based at Graylands Hospital and serves a wide range of public and private hospitals, hostels, and clinics, while the CCCPI membership concerns itself with psychiatric issues.

CCCPI aims are to disseminate information of psychiatric interest, and adopt a Catholic stance on issues while attempting to address special psychiatric needs. For more information please contact Barbara Harris (09) 328-8113.

Experts meet to discuss emerging IR trends and solutions

By Brian Coyne of the Catholic Education Office The Catholic Education Centre in Leederville was the venue last week for the first national gathering of Human Resource Professionals working in the system Catholic Education throughout Australia.

Human relations and industrial relations have an important place in not only the Catholic Education system but in other agencies of the Church and in secular organisations. Part of this importance comes from a general desire in the community where all people work for

harmony between greater employers and employees.

The increasing complexity of the law, and its wide-ranging impact on all employers, individuals and organisations providing employment or services to others, has meant that we are increasingly reliant on this new profession of human resources.

As one of the largest employers and providers of services to others in any community, the Catholic Church is at the cuttingedge of these developments.

Human Resource consultants are people professionally trained in understanding the law and in keeping abreast of the changes that are occurring. As all people

working in any position of leadership know, these changes are occurring today at a rate that make it difficult for even the most diligent managers to keep up.

Those working in the area of Human Resources are people who also bring to their work skills in diplomacy, creating group harmony, leadership training, professional development, mediation, dispute resolution and counselling. It is a relatively new area of professional skill compared to much older professions such as medicine, law and teaching.

In some ways this area of work is familiar territory to the Church.

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MILAN, Italy (CNS) The authenticity of the Shroud of Turin as Christ's burial cloth is still an open question despite scientific tests dating it to the Middle Ages, said Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini of Turin.

Even if it were not Christ's burial cloth, it would still have religious significance as a reminder of the salvation achieved through Christ's suffering on the cross, he said in an October 7 interview in Avvenire, the Milanbased Italian Catholic newspaper.

A month earlier, the cardinal said that the shroud would he on public display in the years 1998 and 2000.

The carbon 14 testing on the shroud's age "is in no way conclusive," he said, but the Vatican has not allowed any further scientific tests on the shroud since the 1988 carbon 14 analysis.

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The extended family that is Antioch After three years in the front line of support to the Rockinghani Antioch Cornrnunity Patty and David Thomson are stepping aside. Below they express some thoughts on Antioch. ntioch is an opportunity for A young adults and parent supporters to grow both personally

and spiritually, to grow together as family in a Christian community We have seen some wonderful growth and bonding take place in our Rockingham community over the years through prayer and action via the youth-to-youth format of music, singing, involvement in parish liturgy on festive and weekly occasions, fund-raising for the community and parish needs.

For us personally we could not have found a better place to belong and appreciate being "Children of God".

We would have to start at 1987 when Glen, the eldest of our two sons, was asked by an Antioch leader to join at the age of 16.

Today he is still involved as a support member.

Errol our second son joined Antioch at the same age in Year 11, somewhat reluctantly as seems the case with all the recruits. The initial "step" or "leap forward", is a daunting prospect and can be seen as particularly "un-cool" with one's peers.

Errol left Antioch last year and volunteered to work with the National Evangelisation Team for twelve months.

We became the Antioch support parents in 1992 and have been part of six recruiting weekends, where we have received far more than we have given. As a small family we appreciated being part of the extended family of so many youth, and have embraced all that "Family" entails.

Patty and David Thomson: parents receive more than they give to Antioch

Rockingham Antiochers two weeks ago on their weekend based on the theme "The Power of One".

Leaders and co-leaders on the weekend: left, Racheal Hurdle and David Campbell, and Chee Wong and Venesa Palmer.

Mary shows youth how to fear not the Holy Spirit: Pope NEW YORK (CNS) - Pope John Paul concentrated on young people in his homily at a Mass in Central Park Mass in New York last Saturday during his latest tour of the United States, urging them not to be afraid in living their faith.

Despite threatening skies, the Great Lawn of Central Park was a sea of more than 100,000 people when the Pope arrived to celebrate Mass.

The natural beauty of the historic, tree-lined park, the Pope told the crowd, which included thousands of representatives of area youth groups and West Point cadets in their gray dress uniforms, was an invitation to ponder an even greater beauty that of the human person.

During a Mass featuring original musical compositions and artwork, the Pope told the young people that human creativity is one sign of the essential difference between people and animals.

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made in the image and likeness wherever they are. Every genuine of God and the beauty that is human love is a reflection of the God living in our hearts through love that is God himself," the the Holy Spirit."

Pope said.

The Pope, always enthusiastic Returning to a central theme of when he gathers with young peo- his four day visit to the United ple, encouraged them to be States, Pope John Paul told the enthusiastic about their faith. young people that although fear "You are here, I trust, not out of was a natural response to the simple curiosity to see the Pope, unknown, faith must lead them but because of the Mass, because to overcome fear. the Holy Spirit is leading us all to The readings for the Mass, Christ," he said. marking the feast of Our Lady of It was God's spirit, the spirit of the Rosary, said that Mary was life that made each human being afraid when the angel told her more than "a mere speck in the she would become the mother of vast created universe," the Pope Jesus. "Yes, Mary was afraid, just said. "I invite you all to reflect on as we are often afraid!" the Pope what makes each one of you said. But when Mary realised it truly marvellous and unique." was God who was calling her, "all God's most important, unique fear was banished." gift to the humans he created was "Like Mary, you must not be their ability to love. "Love makes afraid to allow the Holy Spirit to us seek what is good; love makes help you become intimate us better persons," he said. friends of Christ," he said.

It was love that made people Every Christian must put fear want to marry and form a family, aside in order to bring Christ into and it was love for God and oth- the world whether through marers which drew people to reli- riage and family life, as a single gious life or the priesthood, he person, as a student or a worker, said. the Pope said.

"Love makes you reach out to "Christ wants to go many places others in need, whoever they are, in the world and to enter many

hearts through you," he told the young people.

Christians, he said, were called to bring Christ to the poor, the homeless and those who were alone or ill, "for example, those suffering from AIDS." "You are called to stand up for life," he said, defending the mystery of all human life, including the life of the unborn.

The Pope urged the crowd to work and pray against abortion, reaching out to pregnant women in difficult situations, and to defend the lives of the aged and handicapped, opposing attempts

to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia.

As a generation which will live most of its life in the 21st century, he said, young people today must help the Church and society enter the new millennium.

"You must help the Holy Spirit to shape its social, moral and spiritual character. You must transmit your joy in being adopted sons and daughters of God through the creative power of the Holy Spirit. Do this with the help of Mary Mother of Jesus.

Cling to her rosary and you will never wander far from her side."

ANTIOCH LEADERS All Leaders and Co Leaders

Reminder to Meet

When: Sunday 22nd October.

Where: Youth Office, 30 Claverton St, North Perth.

Time: 1pm - 3.30pm Confirmation of attendance M. Fennessy 328 9622, 383 9741

Bosnian orphan hope Thousands of children have been orphaned with the loss of at least one parent due to the wars which have been waged in the former Yugoslavia.

All sides have suffered great losses in destruction of homes and more importantly, human life, leaving a pool of thousands of children who cannot be officially adopted overseas, but who can be 'adopted' through a "godparent" association of which Medjugorje priest, Father Jozo Slovko OFM, is president, who toured Australia and Oceania earlier this month.

Known as the Bosnia-Hercegovina Children's Fund, and based in Victoria, its parent association is the International God-parenthood for the Bosnian-Hercegovinian Child, at Siroki Brijeg in Bosnia-Hercegovina where Fr Slovko also lives as guardian and head of the Franciscan Monastery.

The Australian branch was inspired when a group of Victorians observed the plight of these innocent casualties of the war, and established a fund to channel Australian aid to Fr Slovko.

The fund aims to facilitate a sponsorship program between "adoptive godparents" and a child who may have lost one or both parents in

Bosnia, and thus a financial and extended family link is established between the child and his own guardian/parent with his "adopted godparents".

Coordinator Kathryn O'Connor said group sponsorship such as prayer groups, parishes, family, or neighbourhood, for instance, can be involved as well as individuals or couples. Money is deposited into a bank account for the child, operated by its parent or guardian, and used for food, clothing, schooling and general living. The "godparents" receive letters from their child plus information from Fr Slovko.

Fr Slovko is also president of The Holy Family Institute for war orphans. It is in the process of building a boarding school for orphaned girls, a day school for boys and girls.

Accompanying Fr Slovko in Perth last week were Angela and Matteo Rossi who live in Italy and are coordinators for the Italian adoptions, 3,200 which have taken place to date. The Rossis have no children of their own so have adopted five orphans under the godparent plan.

Australian coordinators of the plan are based at O'Connor Travel World (contact Kathryn O'Connor), PO Box 1053, Hartwell, Victoria 3125, telephone (03) 9889-2388, fax (03) 9889-5477

A special Mass, celebrated in Burmese by parish priest Father Ossie Lewis, was held on 1 October at St Vincent's in Kwinana.

Fr Lewis invited the Burmese people who gallantly responded by both their good attendance and participation during Mass, according to parishioner William Thomas.

Mr Thomas said the quantity of delicious Burmese food they brought with them as their contribution towards the catering was staggering.

Columban Father Long, who had served in the Burma Missions, and who is also well versed in Burmese, concelebrated Mass with Fr Lewis.

The entire Mass was said and sung in the Burmese vernacular with the readings, responses and singing being rendered with faith and great fervour, Mr Thomas said.

The sumptuous feast following afterwards brought to mind the feeding of the five thousand, he said, and added that the singing and music to the accompaniment of the electronic organ good friends brought along with them made this stand out as a most memorable event in the annals of the parish.

He said that above all, this happy and joyful occasion clearly proved that though East is still East and West is West, the twain can and do in fact meet and live together with God's grace, in the brotherhood of man.

Mr Thomas offered sincere thanks to Fr Lewis, concelebrant Fr Long and the Catholic Angela and Matteo Rossi: they have no children of Burmese who made it all possible.

their own so have adopted five orphans under the godparent plan.

Catholic singles: building social community

By Colleen MoGuiness-Howard

President of the Catholic Singles Club for the past ten years, Brian Poole. has seen a bit of coming and going in his time there, and in quite a number of instances they may have come in as singles but they've gone out as marrieds!

Apparently the club really works if you're looking for a long sought after spouse with the club averaging one marriage a year.

Not bad, considering the membership is about 50 with a loose age range of 20 to 40.

So now the news is out, Brian's your man to contact and his 'phone number is 444-4083 after hours.

What do they do? Well you name the (legitimate, legal and moral) activity, and they're into it, with excursions and a wide range of Saturday night events that according, to Brian are all affordable and a lot of fun.

As for Brian, he's been to almost every function for the last ten years and is eager to spread the good news about what the club has to offer..

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It's a first initiative of this kind for St Michael's, and to stave off the hunger pangs and increase appreciation of nature and God's bounty, parishioners will be given the added treat of scones, jam and cream with a cup of tea and coffee.

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CWL 'National Conference: Women of Hope

'Trust in God for good to prevail'

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Dr Sheila Cassidy at Aquinas College this week: tested in the crucible of suffering

The woman who once wrote in her mind, in the midst of her suffering, a blank cheque to God addressed: "One life, payable," told the 37th biennial conference of the Catholic Women's League of Australia in Perth this week hope was the certainty that God would bring good out of bad, life out of death.

Dr Sheila Cassidy, an expert in care for the dying and a victim of torture once in Chile, received a standing ovation from delegates for her keynote address on the conference theme 'Women of Hope.'

Dr Cassidy is intimately acquainted with the reality of physical and emotional suffering. Aside from helping the terminally ill in her role as palliative care specialist at Plymouth's General Hospital in the United Kingdom, she was imprisoned for two months by the Chilean secret police in 1975 for treating a wanted man.

During her imprisonment, whether she would live or die. when she was also tortured, she "My reaction was to plead with spent three weeks in solitary con- God to end it. It's the same reacfinement. tion when people get cancer," She said one definition of hope she said. she found useful was to think of But she became aware of anoth"hands that shape the rubble of er way of coping - to accept what human life" in circumstances was happening to her and either where great suffering was found. beg God to free her or say "do "If we have hope we have to what you want with me." shape the rubble into some kind During the three weeks the two of shelter in someone's life, ideas struggled within her until, which is what I do with cancer in a moment of abandonment, victims," she said. wrote a blank cheque to God: Hope, she said, should not be one life, payable," she said. confused with optimism because Father Brian Gore, superior of things don't always turn out right the Columban congregation in or meet our expectations.

Australia and New Zealand. told "Hope is different. It is the cer- delegates that evil prevails when tainty that God can and will good people do nothing. bring hope and life out of death, Imprisoned like Dr Sheila good out of bad, and that some- Cassidy when he was a missionone will survive out of that expe- ary priest in the Philippines, he rience stronger than before" she warned that Australia was in said. danger of becoming a violent Recounting some of her experi- society because of the inaction of ence in dealing with hope and people. including many despair while in prison she said Christians. that when she was in solitary "We must do something and confinement she had been alone, can't say 'no, I don't want to get frightened and did not know Involved,'" he said.

Institutionalising of babies condemned

Doing it tough at the Beijing conference U .-

By Peter Rosengren A rousing defence of the rights of women to choose to stay at home and hear children instead of being forced into the workplace by government policies and economic pressure was given

by Mrs Carole Carroll at the CWL conference on Tuesday.

Receiving a standing ovation for her impassioned speech, Mrs Carroll said pressures of radical feminism, political correctness, taxation and government policy were forcing young women into the workforce and denying them their most fundamental rights.

"Women are now being denied and downgraded for their most humanly fundamental right - that is - the opportunity to bond beyond birth with their maternal child," she said.

A former air-traffic officer who left the workforce to have her own family, Mrs Carroll founded Choice for Families, a national lobby group campaigning for family rights.

"The issue should be about restoring an equitable social and economic framework, that would accommodate real family choices," she said.

While Government spending on childcare had risen from $65 million in 198283 to $1.1 billion in 1995, she said, research by the Australian Institute of

Two of the many delegates from around Australia at the conference Family Studies showed that 69 per cent of women with young children in the workforce were there solely for economic reasons.

And a 1994 survey reported in the Sydney Morning Herald showed that 52 per cent of young women between 18 30 wanted to stay at home with their children until they reached school age.

"So how is pouring more money into

their childcare addressing these issues?" she asked.

Government policy was forcing mothers to give up their new born children to be cared for by people other than the parents.

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Reporting to the conference on their attendance at the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing last month as officially recognised Catholic Women's League observers, Mrs Peg McEntee and Mrs Verona Butler said the experience had been both good and bad as well as highly educational.

While there had been a lot of "loud and angry women" there had also been "a lot of good women interested in the issues," Mrs McEntee, who had attended the non-government organisations conference, said. One of the advantages had been in linking up and meeting with Catholic women from other countries as well as women from other backgrounds.

However, given the nature of the issues canvassed at the conference she said, "it is absolutely vital that we (the Catholic Women's League) continue to be in this whole area."

The CWL had also achieved credibility in the eyes of the Australian government by its professionalism and the quality of its submissions which had led to it being accorded observer status, she said.

And at meetings in Rome to prepare for the conference she had found that rather than the meetings being for taking orders and receiving policies dictated by the Vatican, they were used to gather the attitudes of women and to be informed by their views.

However, being Catholic at the Beijing conference was not easy "and was not a comfortable experience," she said, adding "1 have never felt marginalised until Beijing."

"But I'm Australian and proud of it, and I'm Catholic and proud of it and will not he ashamed, no matter what venue I'm in," she said.

She also reported that a strong move had come out of certain sections of the conference to have the Holy See removed from future conferences.

Mrs Verona Butler, who had observed the government delegations conference, recommended that in future two observers be sent to such conferences, for moral support, for dialogue and so that twice as much ground could be covered.

&tiers 10 11e CC/110r Attacks add nothing to intelligent debate T

wo of your readers recently Ilaunched intemperate attacks on Father Walter Black MSC (The Record, October 5), on the basis of Fr Black's review of William May's An Introduction to Moral Theology (The Record, September 28).

The factual errors evident in the letters of Ted Watt and Mrs Doris Martyr cause one to wonder if they had read Fr Black's review in anything more than a cursory manner.

Their indefensible criticisms of Fr Black must not go uncorrected.

Ted Watt claims that William May's book makes Fr Black 'cross'.

As one entrusted with the formation of our future priests and as a moral theologian myself, I have been naturally concerned to locate an appropriate 'introduction to moral theology' for our students.

As Fr Black indicates in his customary clear and balanced way, Dr May's book does not treat most of the usual material included in approved moral theology texts. It is simply not what it claims to be.

My own study of various available moral theology texts makes it clear that, whatever else it is, Dr May's book it is not an introduction to moral theology appro-

Fr Black makes no such inferences anypriate for seminary students. There are several texts which are far better and far where in his article.

Indeed his point seems to be the exact clearer, both more scholarly and more pastorally useful in their treatment of opposite: Dr May's appreciation and critique of theologians is best evaluated by moral theology, than Dr May's.

Ted Watt names several theologians experts in the field, for these sections of whom, he claims, Fr Black defends on the his work are so complex and detailed that basis of their role in the development on they really have no place whatever in a moral theology "before, during and after" book which claims to be merely 'an introthe Vatican Council, and who are "leading duction to moral theology'.

But if Ted Watt's letter deals with mere moral theologians" in the Pontifical wisps, Mrs Doris Martyr's effort is posiUniversities in Rome.

Fr Black clearly makes no such defence, tively waspish!

On the basis of her extraordinary letter, because no such defence is possible.

Some of the authors named by Ted Watt I find it hard to believe that Mrs Martyr have played no more than a marginal role had even bothered to read Fr Black's in the development of moral theology, review in detail.

She claims that "Fr Black supports the and, to my knowledge, none teaches in a revisionists", and that Fr Black suggests Pontifical University in Rome.

Indeed, as Ted Watt knows, Rome has a that judgement of Dr May et al. "must be most effective way of guaranteeing that left to their revisionist peers".

Fr Black offers no such support and only the most orthodox and scholarly of theologians are licensed to teach in makes no such suggestion. Mrs Martyr is patently wrong on both points: I refer Pontifical Universities!

Ted Watt claims that Fr Black is insistent your readers to my earlier comments.

Mrs Martyr also claims that "revisionist that "we should not read May's book". He claims that Fr Black dismisses Drs May, priests who are modernist priests" use Finnis, Grisez and Boyle on the basis that their positions at Pontifical Universities they do not teach in Pontifical "to undermine Catholic truth".

This is utter nonsense. As I have said Universities and are laymen.

Open mind for Enneagram

proves beyond doubt that Rosengren knows nothing about Naranjo, and has certainly not read his book Rosengren claims that Pacwa points out that there is no evidence that the Enneagram typography of personalities holds true.

This is not accurate. Pacwa actually claims there is no scientific evidence. In fact, there is overwhelming evidence, in the experience of those who do workshops and find it is true in their lives.

But as Geraets points out, "scientific certitude is especially hard to come by in the psychological and spiritual realms ... The more open to the spiritual a psychology is, the more difficult it is to verify its theories, with scientific methods." Clinical investigations are underway in the USA. But, in Perth, people are doing the Enneagram workshops because they find it convincing in their own lives.

Pacwa also claims the Enneagram carries the danger of short-circuiting authentic personal relationships. Not true! Many find a way of communicating based on real self-knowledge, which truly improves their personal relationships.

Rosengren then quotes Richard Rohr, one of those writers who have shown how well Enneagram insights can lead to a thoroughly Christian spirituality.

But he has read Rohr without any openness to hear what is being said. He quotes a small part of Rohr's description of one personality, and dismisses it by claiming "Most of what Rohr sets out is applicable to every one in greater or lesser degree."

This is simply not true, but it is what we may be inclined to think before we have done an Enneagram workshop with others and checked out the accuracy of its insights. I hope your readers will read the book for themselves and not rely on the totally unjust summation of your journalist.

Rosengren alleges that spiritual directors who use the Enneagram are not applying the truth of Christ and the Gospel to a person's general circumstances and life, but could darken the way, confuse the traveller and aid that "silent, perverted guardian angel who hovers nearby."

As an experienced spiritual director I find this allegation both ignorant and insulting, and so would many other priests and religious who use the Enneagram in spiritual direction. What are your journalist's qualifications in the area of spiritual direction? An who is this silent, perverted guardian angel?

The Enneagram is only one of the many aids in spiritual direction, and the purpose of spiritual direction is to help people develop a closer relationship with God. But I think there are deeper issues beneath this whole question.

Do modern Catholics live in a mental ghetto where they fear contamination from everything with a non-Christian origin - or can they be trusted to try some-

rir here are so many untruth and half1truths in Peter Rosengren's attack in the Enneagram, that I cannot leave it unchallenged.

Your journalist uses two methods of approach. First he relies heavily on the ideas of Mitch Pacwa, and then he ridicules Rohr's book Nowhere has he any hard facts, and he certainly does not speak from experience.

Pacwa's objections were easily rebuffed

by Abbot Geraets (New Covenant.

July/August 1991). Pacwa's first objection Is that the origins of the Enneagram are not Christian.! This is an amazing objection! As Abbot Geraets points out, "If nonChristian origin disqualifies something for Christian use, then we have to throw out many parts of the Bible, which we borrowed from pagans."

The Fathers of the Church who came after St Paul made use of pagan philosophies, especially Platonism and Stoicism, to explain the Christian message in a language people could grasp. In the middle ages, St Thomas Aquinas, seeing the revival of Aristotelianism in the powerful Muslim culture, rephrased Christian teaching to be relevant in that idiom.

The essence of the Enneagram is true and really helps people to come to true conversion of !ife. Where it originated does not matter. It is by its fruits that we know the value of knowledge.: Next Pacwa claims that the occultic beliefs and practices of Ichazo and Gurdjief somehow contaminate the Enneagram for Christians.

But, as everyone who has done an Enneagram program, or even read a book, can attest, there is absolutely no connection between any of their alleged practices, and the Enneagram as a psychological tool. If Pacwa knows so much about it, he must know that no Catholic teachers ever do anything like this.

Rosengren claims that "the Enneagram's Gnostic dimension (ie. knowledge only for the especially initiated) is also disturbing."

This is ridiculous! There are more than twenty books available explaining it to the whole world. Rosengren has read one of them himself. His quote from Pacwa on this point is actually a misreading. Pacwa was speaking about Gurjief - not the Christian presentation of the Enneagram (New Covenant. February 1991, 1)17).

Ichazo is obviously a strange character, but to describe him as "a half-crazed, dope fiend looking for residence in the USA " is simply denigrating.

And Rosengren caricatures Naranjo as "a Californian psychiatrist (honey, just affirm yourself)." This is simply ridicule, and

before, Rome has a most effective way of dealing with "revisionist theologians" and "modernist priests" in Pontifical Universities: she silences them.

Mrs Martyr comments on Magisterium, revelation, natural law, tradition and reason reveal a remarkable confusion topped only by her statement that the Pope's encyclicals and the new Catechism "have words of Eternal Life" - surely this claim is normally reserved only to the Lord Himself?

In addition to the factual errors and immoderate expressions contained in their letters, it is interesting that both Ted Watt's and Mrs Martyr's assessments of Fr Black are not shared by Rome, it would seem, since Fr Black is regularly invited to Rome by various Congregations to participate in international gatherings of reliable theologians.

These two unfortunate letters have done nothing to promote intelligent theological conversation in Perth's Catholic community and, as such, are best put decisively to one side, and forgotten.

Fr Joseph Parkinson Dean of Studies St Charles Seminary

thing for themselves and select what is seven years - the last five years being from good? And do we really understand what Fr Dawson - I can say categorically that it the Church teaches about the presence of is not like that at all.

Of course, the spiritual classics are used, the Spirit of God in the world?

St Paul tells us to "test everything: hold but most of all it is the Gospel that is used fast to what is good; abstain from every for guidance. form of evil." (1 Thessalonians 5:20,21) Dafne Bidwell Jones I suggest your readers can test the Waterford Enneagram for themselves - but only with a fair and open mind.

Marius Dawson 0.Carm.

Imposed celibacy is not what Jesus wantWilson ed from his ministers/priests. This was a man made rule handed down by the men of the Vatican.

The Apostle Paul would be mortified urther to the debate on the benefits or its imposed rule and so would Peter with otherwise of the Enneagram.

For myself, Eucharistic Adoration. who happened to be a married man: monthly Confession and frequent partici- "Haven't I (Raul) the right to follow the pation in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass example of the other apostles and the have proved to be a sure path to greater Lord's brothers and Peter, by taking a love for God and to greater knowledge of Christian wife with me on my travels?" (1 myself in the light of God's plan for me. It Corinthians 9:5) The majority of priests live a lie. They fall is the path which countless millions of great and humble souls have walked in love and then either run from love or they are sexual behind closed doors. The before me for the last 20 centuries.

I know that these gifts of God to His honest ones leave to marry because they Church will continue to be the sure way of cannot marry and practice as a priest.

In the past 20 years 120,000 priests spiritual growth for generations to come. have left to marry. world-wide Who needs novelties like the EnneaPriest also highlighted the film The gram? imposed celibate rule. Yes, celibacy is a Anne-Marie Langdon gift from God. God does not impose this Duncraig gift and God does not give this gift to every Roman Catholic priest and religious.

Often God wants his priests to marry.

The Vatican just refuses to accept the read Peter Rosengren's article on the truth. Some priests who leave to marry Enneagram (The Record, October 5) join the Anglican Church so they can conwith increasing amazement. tinue to practice in the priesthood.

He does not appear to speak from any Timothy tells us that bishops and priests personal experience of it. and the picture should be married and handle their famihe presents is unrecognisable to someone ly well: "For if a man does not know how like myself who has done the Enneagram to manage his own family, how can he courses taught by Fr Marius Dawson and take care of the Church of God?" (1 Sr Bridget Kayser at the Upper Room in Timothy 3:5.)

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It takes courage to seek the truth and My experience has been extremely posi- walk in this truth. 1 John 5:16 "God is love, tive. Like George Collopy (The Record. and whoever lives in love lives in union October 5) I also found that the Enn- with God and God lives in union with eagram "brought home to me many of my them". (1 John 5:16) previously unowned faults" and "has helped me immensely in my relationships Ms Cathryn Loftus with others."

Mosman Park As for self-knowledge in general, it was an absolute eye-opener. However, the Editor's Note: The Cathecism of the Upper Room Enneagram definitely does Catholic Church teaches (N. 1579): all the not teach that it is knowledge alone that ordained ministers of the Latin Church, will enable me "to rectify my life and with the exception of permanent deacons, move towards God" as Peter Rosengren are normally chosen from among men of implies. Quite the contrary. It made me far faith who live a celibate life and who more deeply realise my tremendous need intend to remain celibate "for the sake of for God's grace. the kingdom of heaven." Called to consePeter Rosengren demonstrates a lack of crate themselves with undivided heart to understanding of spiritual direction by the Lord and to "the affairs of the Lord," suggesting that it could be given on the they give themselves entirely to God and basis of analysis by the Enneagram and to men. Celibacy is a sign of this new life could involve directing an individual on of service of which the Church's minister the basis of what category they appear to is consecrated: accepted with a joyous fill. As a person who has been fortunate heart celibacy radiantly proclaims the enough to receive spiritual direction for Reign of God.

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Seeking a new way of prayer

A union of our will with God's T the key

By Fr John Castelot he purpose of prayer is not T to change God, but to change us.

Since this change - this transformation - takes place in people of all sorts, there is no "one size fits all" prayer. There is no magic prayer formula.

Prayer, at bottom, is a mystery since it expresses a relationship between people and God, who is the ultimate mystery.

St Paul, a man of prayer if ever there was one, said the Spirit aids us when we feel that our efforts to pray are weak. "For we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes with inexpressible groanings" (Romans 8:26).

While the Bible gives many suggestions about praying, it doesn't solve the mystery.

Prayer, like all religion, aims at a union of heart and mind and will with God. Prayer begins with an awareness of God's presence in human lives. Prayer then responds to that presence.

People experience their dependence on God - their need for God - and respond to that experience in various ways: by praise, adoration, awe, thanksgiving for loving kindness or a sense of unworthiness.

All these responses are seen in the Bible, especially the Psalms, a collection of private and communal prayers.

The most common type of prayer probably is prayer of petition, asking God's help.

From one standpoint, this type of prayer may seem selfish, but at least implicitly it is prayer of praise.

For by requesting help we admit our dependence on God, our trust in God's loving concern for us.

Much advice about prayer deals with prayer of petition.

Jesus urged his disciples not to give up their trust in God's active care, to persevere in the face of delays, to go on asking, seeking, knocking at the door (Luke 11:9-10).

He gave as an example a person coming to a friend for help in the middle of the night.

The initial response may be apparent reluctance, but eventually the petitioner gets what he asks - and more.

This persistence could seem like badgering God to get our own way, but we cannot "wear God down."

We maintain contact with God by this persistence, however.

This constant personal contact is important. Our relationship with God needs to be an on-going conversation.

Perhaps the most important instruction on prayer was given by Jesus through his own example. In the garden, with his crucifixion impending, Jesus prayed: "Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, not my will but yours be done" (Luke 22:42).

He prayed earnestly, but trusted his Father. It is this union of our will with God's will that is of the essence for all prayer.

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he critical first step into the mysteries of prayer is simply to begin.

Imagine waking in the morning, making a cup of coffee, sitting in a comfortable, supportive chair, closing your eyes, taking a deep breath and acknowledging God's presence. When you move beyond imagining, and actually clear some time and space for this encounter, you have begun to pray.

These early prayer times may be brief, five to 15 minutes, but no matter. Faithful presence is what counts!

So does authenticity. Wise spiritual directors remind us to pray as we can, not as we can't.

When we come to pray, we may be grieving over some desperate loss or rejoicing over good fortune. We may feel confused or empty. Whatever our present condition, that is the place to start. For, one aspect of prayer is laying before God the truth of our lives, presenting our real selves.

If we listen as well as talk when we pray, we are likely to hear of the human needs that touch and sometimes break the heart of Christ. These concerns may be as close as our children or as far away as the Bosnian refugees.

As we listen we are directed to join our will to God's will by acting out the Beatitudes in contemporary settings by comforting, making peace, seeking justice, simplifying our lives.

One way to develop our listening power in prayer is to use the Scriptures. A Gospel passage, a psalm or one of the soaring passages from Paul's letters can serve as a point of departure for our dialogue with the Spirit.

Psalm 90 says that "seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty, if we are strong." That phrase always claims my attention and leads me to pray that I won't squander whatever future remains for me and that I will choose my priorities in light of life's limits.

If I listen,I may hear God's sug-

joining others makes us conscious of the holy presence. Even with busy schedules families still gather for meals, and that time can draw people into prayer.

In our family we have tended to say a standard grace learned in childhood. On great feasts we sing the doxology. But lately on the rare occasions when grown children from afar gather, along with a grandchild or two, we ask someone to pray from the heart.

On a recent evening, 11-yearold Sam, who had visited museums with his grandfather all day, prayed for the hungry children in the world saying, "I hope no one will ever be as hungry as I was today." That's when we realised grandfather and Sam had forgotten lunch!

As small Christian communities grow within the Church, men and women experience the power of prayer together.

Sometimes their prayer asks God to aid families, parishes, neighbourhoods. Sometimes prayer leads the small community to some form of mission.

One group I know began an affordable housing project, an outgrowth of study and prayer together. Another group supported a member in her election to the school board. Yet another began a support system for immigrants.

None of these initiatives would have happened without prayer.

Someone once gave me a book gestions to do less, savour more with God's, trusting that the called Prayer Can Change Your and measure everything in terms Spirit would know what paths Life. I've forgotten much of its of love. they should follow. contents, but the title remains The next step is to act upon the Time after time I watched them with me. insight gained in prayer. I may follow the light; time after time I From the beginning of the hesitate or stumble, but this thanked God for saving me from Christian era when the apostles action step is critical. It closes the my penchant to control the and a group of women, including circle of prayer. Often an action drama of life unfolding in them.

Jesus' mother, were gathered in that flows from prayer is more People who like to walk, by the the Upper Room and enveloped prayer for people and events. way, can discover the joys of by the Holy Spirit, prayer has Over the years as I prayed for prayer-walking. Choose a Scrip- ignited the divine spark in peomy children growing into adult- ture verse, and ponder that in- ple. The world of the Galileans hood I discovered the power in spired word with every step. Or was about to expand beyond the action of holding these free, imagine walking with Jesus, anything they could imagine. unique men and women in God's much as his friends did in And so it goes, from generation to light, the light of Pentecost.

Galilee's meadows. generation.

This relieved me from figuring Ask for guidance and blessing.

Prayer- however brief, however out precisely what my grown Listen carefully for Christ's word. simple, however silent - changes children should do. Rather, my It will come. everything, most especially, the love for them could be joined Not all prayer is solitary. Often pray-er.

Time to pray, just as you are Humility a look better than they really are.

Many people have the same here are many styles of instinct with prayer. They feel prayer, and the difficulties they cannot enter into a relationexperienced in prayer are just as ship with God until first becoming better somehow. They don't numerous.

Since prayer is really a relation- feel worthy of God's friendship, ship with God, everyone's experi- for any of 1,000 reasons.

The joy of Christianity, however, ence of it is unique. Every friendis precisely that God didn't wait ship is unique, after all.

In any relationship, however, for us to become worthy before some common principles can loving us.

We are not redeemed because help. Two principles have been greatly helpful to those wanting we are worthy; we become worthy because we are redeemed. to pray better.

We are not loved because we The first principle is this: Prayer takes time. Any relationship must are so lovable; we become lovbe nurtured, and that requires able because God loves us first.

Our one task is to accept God's spending time together.

If prayer is important, we make love and grace, and let God transtime for it. How much time varies form us gradually.

This also means we need to widely. pray no matter how we are feelSome people pray a full hour each day. Others manage five or ing.

If I am depressed, I pray out of 10 minutes. The length of time is not as important as its regularity. my depression. If I am happy, I It is important to develop a reg- pray out of my joy. If tired, I pray ular pattern of prayer. Choosing in my weariness. If I am excited,I the same time each day (even if pray with excitement. If I am we miss a day occasionally) is angry,I pray from my anger, even if God is the object of my anger. crucial.

The second principle also is We pray as we are, from whersimple: Pray as you are. ever we are.

Some people are uncomfortThe content of my prayer will able being invited to a come-as- often be whatever is going on in you-are party. They want to get my life and mind and heart.I can dressed up to look better, often to share with God whatever is makBy Father Lawrence Mick

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ing me depressed, happy, tired, excited, bored or angry.

This also is a helpful approach to distractions in prayer.

When I realise I am distracted, I need not get upset at my wandering mind. I can just return to my awareness of the Lord and make whatever distracted me the subject of my prayer.

If I feel like praying, I pray with ease. If I don't feel like praying, I pray with effort. No state of mind or situation of life is a good excuse for not praying.

This brings us back to time for prayer.

We only get physically fit if we exercise even when we don't feel like exercising. Likewise, we develop a strong relationship with God in prayer when we pray whether we feel like it or not.

Partners in marriage must make time for each other even when they would rather be doing something else.

If they begin finding excuses not to spend time together, the marriage relationship will soon be in trouble.

It's the same with our relationship with God. If we want a healthy relationship with the Lord, we will take time to pray, just as we are.

first step

By David Gibson

t is frustrating to feel that you I need to pray, but don't know how to do it.

But take comfort from the new Catechism of the Catholic Church, which suggests it's OK to admit you don't know that much about praying. For, "only when we humbly acknowledge that 'we do not know how to pray as we ought' are we ready to receive freely the gift of prayer," it says (No 2 559).

That must mean some of us are more ready to start praying than we think we are.

We're even more ready,I take it, if we realise prayer "always presupposes effort." As you start to pray, consider praying not only for yourself, but for people you resent. Common wisdom has it that resentments bog us down. And you want to be boosted up.

Yes, and recognising the inner dignity of people whose behaviour annoys you may prove liberating, freeing your spirit for lofty pursuits.

The Catholic Institute of Western Australia: 20 years on

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institute's success can be gauged by the fact that today, twenty he most important teacher in years after it took its first enrola Catholic school is the reli- ments, external enrolments (students studying by correspongious education teacher. from And one of the hidden success dence) now also come around the world Asia, the stories of Catholic education in States and New Zealand United Western Australia is the Catholic (which only has limited access to Institute of Western Australia, a Catholic studies). unique organisation which is And in 1996, its scope will Institute bursar Lex Hanley, left, with administrative staff member Elizabeth Darby now celebrating its 20th anniverto include courses expand sary and which has trained many Smaller than its larger cousins, offered by the institute in the offered at Curtin University so religious education staff for Catholic Education Office degree they have studied for. the that teachers graduating from Catholic schools since 1976.

Typically, the institute's stuhoping to enter the and the University of Notre Curtin and It is, in Its own way, the 'little dents will be enrolled in a institute operates in a Dame, the Catholic school system will be big man' of the Western Bachelor of Arts degree, a able to undertake the Accredita- unique field of work.

Australian Church's education The relationship developed Bachelor of Arts in Education, a tion B requirements. (Accreditaenterprise. between the institute and Edith Graduate Diploma of Education, tion B is the course of study necLong before the University of a Graduate Diploma of Arts, a Cowan University is unique. essary for a teacher to be able to Notre Dame in Australia appearof Arts degree or a the Master "What happens is that teach religious education). ed in Fremantle, the Catholic But the bulk of the institute's Catholic Institute employs the Master's degree in Education.

Institute was already well and Today, the institute offers 10 students now and into the fore- staff and we develop the program truly established and working in seeable future are still those and it's then accredited through units at undergraduate level, the field of tertiary education. studying to become teachers in the university's own program," Sr eight at graduate level and three Set up by the West Australian at post-graduate level including the Catholic education system Carter said. bishops in 1975 with Father John here in WA. "We second the staff, either on studies in areas such as Biblical Prendiville SJ as founding direcThe Institute work covers three a fractional basis or as full studies, justice and morality, tor, its job has been to provide a fields. Aside from its academic appointments, and the others are Catholic education, faith educatheological education for a variemployed sessionally by Edith tion, sacraments, church history, ety of groups within the Church Cowan. Now this is the only Christology and New and Old including potential and actual State where this sort of thing is in Testament studies (to name a teachers in Catholic schools, few). effect."

Institute lecturer Sr Shelley Bartow nurses, social workers, adminisAnd a significant component of In addition to providing courses trators and staff of Catholic agenof study for Accreditation B, the those who have taken its units in cies, and any other groups that institute also offers Accreditation their studies over the last twenty ers for Catholic schools, there might need such training from A, to help introduce teachers years now fill executive and will continue to be a large numtime to time. coming into the secondary edu- teaching positions - principals, ber of students who choose to do It began its first series of acadecation tier of Catholic schools, deputy principals for religious their teacher training through mic units at the Mt Lawley and who will not be teaching religion, education, religious education other universities, therefore the Churchlands Teachers Colleges to the culture of the Catholic coordinators and teachers - in institute will still be needed.

"It would seem that there's an in 1976 offering studies in Catholic schools across the State. school system. on-going need and it is also obviScripture, theology and religious Of that number, a solid core of "As you know, there are a large endeavours of both ous that the education. six completed the full 500 have number of people who've and Notre Dame are the institute The amalgamation of the teachentered from other universities units required to gain a Diploma endeavours . . . . in collaborative ing colleges to form, firstly the an addiand haven't had access to these of Religious Education Western Australian College of tional qualification to their teach- providing alternative pathways kinds of studies," Sr Carter said. for people to access the Catholic Education and, then, Edith CoWhen founded in 1975, she ing degree. wan University, has meant that And because Edith Cowan units education sector for employsaid, the purpose of the institute the institute has grown with the was, predominantly, to provide are available externally by corre- ment."

At the very least, she said, "it changing educational scene. for teacher education, "because spondence, 1994's crop of 34 seem for the foreseeable would As such, its role has been to Sr Eleanor Carter collaboration there was no access or appropri- diploma graduates included there will be a continuing future meet the need of the Church for States in other ate study for Catholic units in any seven from role both for the programs "people who are educated in program through Edith Cowan of the tertiary education institu- Australia. faith beyond basic catechesis," and the non-award Accreditation tions."

Each semester the institute offered by the Catholic Institute and for twenty years it has been B offered at the Catholic After two decades, approxi- receives approximately 200 through Edith Cowan and, next year, at Curtin (university) . . . . It Education centre and in regional mately four and a half thousand external enrolments. doing just this.

Of course, it is precisely the centres, it also provides a well- teaching students have enrolled With Notre Dame now on the will be quite some time before teachers, nurses and administra- resourced library of print and in the diverse range of units scene, Sr Eleanor is also busy the Catholic system can adetors who benefit most from such audio-visual resources, open to offered by the institute through helping to develop a collabora- quately cover (everything)."

And the future will doubtless an agency - offering education students, schools, parish groups Edith Cowan University and have tive approach to Catholic tertiary provide even more challenges for beyond the basic level in faith. and individuals. then gone on to pass on the education that will provide alterThe whole reason for Catholic knowledge they have acquired in native pathways for teachers the institute to meet as it serves Through them the wider Church community also benefits from schools is the desire of parents to Catholic schools. entering the Catholic education the needs of teachers entering the Catholic school system. the professional education which see that their children not only Students enrolled in a variety of system. receive the necessary education studies at Edith Cowan Universthey receive.

Sr Eleanor and her staff look She thinks it likely that while Meanwhile, tht: degree of the for them to choose their best ity are able to blend the units Notre Dame will produce teach- forward to it. career options, but also to provide them with the essential religious education which complements what is learnt in the home.

And the challenge for teachers of religious education in schools the only reason that Catholic schools exist anywhere - is to augment and fulfil this aspiration of parents which is matched by a very distinct call from the Church.

Sr Eleanor Carter, a Brigidine sister who heads the Catholic Institute, has watched its work grow over most of its twenty years and sees it as the quiet achiever of Catholic education in WA. "There are many people unaware of what has been achieved, what the institute does and its quite significant achievements," she told The Record prior to the 20th anniversary celInstitute lecturers Brother Luke Saker, left, and Anne Devenish relax at the institute Receptionist Tessa Tornatora ebrations, due on October 22.

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Family Video Reviews

'Ghosts while you are sleeping' The Record today continues an occasional series reviewing recent video releases, particularly those aimed at the children's and adolescent market The reviews and ratings come from the United States bishops' Catholic Conference. A more comprehensive list of ratings for videos is printed at the bottom of this page. Cut the page out and place it on the fridge for quick reference.

Casper A lonely 13-year-old (Christina Ricci) is befriended by the cuddly ghost of the title when her widowed therapist dad (Bill Pullman) is hired to coax some menacing spirits out of a mansion rumoured to be hiding buried treasure.

Director Brad Silberling pumps up the cuteness factor, but the thin narrative has little to engage audiences beyond a few novel special effects. Some comic violence, a couple of profanities and a crude expression.

The United States Catholic Conference classification is All - adults and adolescents.

family business with some grudging help from a clever employee (David Spade).

Director Peter Segal's innocuous buddy movie offers only a few funny moments sandwiched between endless fat jokes.

Some slapstick violence, minor sexual innuendo, a few crude remarks and minimal profanity.

AIII - adults.

While You Were Sleeping Endearing screwball comedy in which the family of a comatose yuppie (Peter Gallagher) mistakenly believes he's engaged to a Chicago El token attendant (Sandra Bullock) who's actually attracted to the man's gentle brother (Bill Pullman), though neither will admit they're falling in love.

Director Jon Turteltaub strengthens a predictable love story by fleshing it out with appealing characterisations of the brothers' big-hearted Catholic family and their wise Jewish neighbour (jack Warden). Mild sexual innuendo and minimal profanity.

AiII - adults.

The Basketball Diaries

Romantic tale of the struggle for justice waged by the title's 18th-century Scottish highlander (Liam Neeson), who becomes a fugitive after the money loaned him by a venal nobleman (John Hurt) is stolen by a ruthless thief (Tim Roth) who also violated Rob's wife (Jessica Lange).

Although overlong and ponderously directed by Michael Caton-Jones, the result succeeds better as the personal story of a loving couple than as a sweeping historical epic. Some sexual innuendo and intermittent violence, including a restrained rape scene and an off-screen suicide. The US Catholic Conference classification is AIII - adults.

An ace basketball player (Leonardo DiCaprio) in a Manhattan Catholic high school turns to crime with two buddies (Mark Wahlberg and James Madio) when he gets hooked on heroin, ending up in prison to mull going straight.

Directed by Scott Kalvert from Jim Carmll's autobiographical novel, the raw anti-drug tale graphically illustrates how drugs bankrupt body and soul, but the last-minute redemptive ending is weakly delivered and his Catholic background is depicted mainly in negative stereotypes.

Brief violence, graphic scenes of drug abuse and criminal activity, several sexual encounters, fleeting nudity and continuous rough language.

AIV - adults, with reservations.

Son of the Shark

The Browning Version

Abused by an alcoholic father, two preteen runaways (Ludovic Vandendaele and Erick Da Silva) vent their rage in nightly campaigns of theft and vandalism, then escape from foster homes and more punitive environments, each time returning to wreak further havoc on their coastal community.

French writer-director Agnes Merlet paints a bleak though poignant portrait of unloved, violence-prone siblings whom society has tried but failed to help.

Subtitles. Constant juvenile menace and crime, fleeting nudity, occasional crude remarks and some rough language.

AIII - adults.

British production of Terence Rattigan's play about a sour, dispirited classics teacher (Albert Finney) who, on the eve of his forced retirement from a posh boys' school, finds the gumption to stand up to his unfaithful wife (Greta Scacchi) and manipulative headmaster (Michael Gambon) because of a thoughtful end-ofterm gift from a student (Ben Silverstone).

Directed by Mike Figgis, the botched attempt to update the original's setting from the 1950s to the present undercuts the story's credibility, save for Finney's compelling performance as the dried-up pedant who comes to realise too late his failures as educator and husband. Implied adulterous liaisons and some rough language.

Alit - adults.

Rob Roy

Tommy Boy Derivative comedy in which a porky, likable dimwit (Chris Farley) battles the machinations of his late dad's scheming bride (Bo Derek) while trying to save the

Don Juan DeMarco Featherweight romantic comedy in which a delusional patient (Johnny Depp)

claims to be legendary lover Don Juan, whose embroidered tales of loves won and lost inspire his weary psychiatrist (Marlon Brando) to rediscover romance with his delighted wife (Faye Dunaway).

Writer-director Jeremy Leven's fanciful movie offers a wafer-thin narrative of limited appeal beyond a charming veneer which coyly blurs the line between fantasy and reality. Frequent sexual references, fleeting nudity, brief stylised violence and an instance of rough language.

AIII - adults.

French Kiss Dizzy romantic comedy in which an uptight housewife-to-be (Meg Ryan) jets to Paris to save her callow fiance (Timothy Hutton) from a French siren, getting help along the way from a scheming French thief (Kevin Kline) whose crass outlook on life naturally masks a sensitive soul.

Director Lawrence Kasdan's attempts to be bright and witty come over as merely slick and superficial. Some sexual situations and innuendo, occasional coarse expressions and several instances of rough language.

Alit - adults.

Funny Bones Disjointed tale in which a failed Las Vegas comic (Oliver Platt) seeks inspiration by visiting the seaside English town where his successful comedian father (Jerry Lewis) got his start, but learns instead that dad stole his comic routines from others and left behind a troubled illegitimate son (Lee Evans).

Director Peter Chisholm finds occasional flashes of whimsical comedy in a busy but ultimately pointless narrative mixing intense family conflicts with awkward stabs at eccentric humour. Brief violence, sexual references and several instances of rough language.

AIII - adults.

Once Were Warriors Harrowing tale of abuse within a Maori family living in urban New Zealand, where a hard-drinking husband (Temuera Morrison) habitually brutalises his longsuffering wife (Rena Owen) until one of their troubled children (Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell) meets with tragedy, awakening the wife to challenge her spouse.

Director Lee Tamahori's horrific portrayal of domestic abuse clearly condemns the cycle of physical and psychological violence that destroys family life. Vicious spousal beatings and bar-room brawls, restrained treatment of a rape, an offscreen suicide, fleeting nudity and continuous rough language.

AlIt - adults.

Sorrento Beach Leisurely paced dramatisation of Hannie Rayson's play about the strained reunion of three sisters when the eldest (Caroline Gillmer), a widow who stayed at home in Australia to care for a young son and aged father, is visited by the youngest (Tara

Morice) from New York and the middle sister (Caroline Goodall) from London where she wrote an acclaimed autobiographical novel which now becomes a matter of contention between them.

Director Richard Franklin can't quite pull together the past and present strands of a diffuse narrative dealing as much with Australian nationalism, cultural imperialism and a writer's imagination as with sibling rivalries, though the abundant dialogue is always literate and often witty. Implied extramarital affair, some profanity and occasional rough language.

AIII - adults.

Little Odessa

Returning to his Russian-Jewish neighbourhood in Brooklyn to carry out a contract killing, a hardened hit man (Tim Roth) re-enters the lives of his dying mother (Vanessa Redgrave), embittered father (Maximillian Schell) and worshipful younger brother (Edward Furlong) with tragic consequences for them all.

Writer-director James Gray's bleak study of murder and betrayal in a tightly knit ethnic community dramatises the senseless nature of violence but offers few insights into its remorseless central character. Several point-blank shootings, a bedroom scene with partial nudity and much rough language.

AIV - adults, with reservations.

A Man of No Importance Serio-comic tale set in 1960s Dublin. where a bus conductor (Albert Finney) endeavours to stage Oscar Wilde's Salome in the parish hall until gossip of the play's immorality and the unwed pregnancy of the lead (Tara Fitzgerald) dash his hopes and force him to face up to his latent homosexuality.

Director Suni Krishnamma's character study of an obsessive bachelor in his 50s starts in whimsical fashion, then grows increasingly dark in heavy-handed attempts to convey the lonely passion of a sexually inexperienced individual driven by yearnings for another man. Sympathetic treatment of homosexual inclinations, a brutal beating and a brief but intense heterosexual bedroom scene.

MV - adults, with reservations.

Roommates Sweetly sentimental tale in which an elderly Polish-American baker (Peter Falk) raises his 6-year-old orphaned grandson, shares a room with the grown man (D.B. Sweeney) as he completes his medical studies, then at age 100 moves in with him, his social worker wife (Julianne Moore) and two small children. Though occasionally contrived, director Peter Yates presents a credible picture of a feisty, yet very loving 30-year relationship despite the difficulty of both men to express their emotions. An implied premarital affair and a few profanities.

AIII - adults.

Video Classifications The following is a list of recent video cassette releases of theatrical movies that the United States' Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting has rated on the basis of moral suitability and supplied through the US Catholic News Service.

USCC classifications: AI - general patronage; All - adults and adolescents; A111 - adults; MV adults, with reservations (this indicates films, that, while not morally offensive in themselves, are not for casual viewing because they require some analysis and explanation in order to avoid false impressions and interpretations); 0 - morally off-ensive.

The Accompanist, AIII Angels in the Outfield, Al! The Basketball Diaries, AIV Before Sunrise, AIII 10

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Before the Rain, AIII Billy Madison, AIII Blue Sky, AIII) Born to Be Wild, All Boys on the Side, MV The Brady Bunch Movie, AIII Bye Bye, Love, AIII Casper, Al! Cinderella, Al Circle of Friends, AIII Cobb, MV The Crow, 0 Disclosure, AIII Don Juan DeMarco, AIII Drop Squad, AIII Drop Zone, 0 Dumb and Dumber, AIII Eat Drink Man Woman, AIII Ed Wood, AIII Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog, Al French Kiss, AII1 Funny Bones, AIII Getting Even With Dad, AM

A Goofy Movie, Al Heavyweights, Al! Hideaway, AIII Higher Learning, AIII Highlander: The Final Dimension, AIII Hoop Dreams, Al! Houseguest, AIII The Hunted, 0 In the Army Now, AIII In the Mouth of Madness, AIII I.Q., Al! Jefferson in Paris, AIII The Jerky Boys, AIII Junior, AIII Just Cause, AIII Kiss of Death, AN Ladybird Ladybird, AIV Legends of the Fall, AIII Little Giants, MI Little Odessa, AIV A Little Princess, AI Little Women, AI Losing Isaiah, AIII

Madness of King George, AIII Major Payne, AIII A Man of No Importance, AIV Man of the House, Al!!

The Mangler, 0 Miami Rhapsody, AIII Milk Money, MI! Mixed Nuts, AIII Murder in the First, MI! The Next Karate Kid, All Nobody's Fool, AIII Once Were Warriors, AIII One False Move, MV Only You, All Outbreak, AIII The Pagemaster, Al The Pebble and the Penguin, AI The Professional, 0 Pulp Fiction, 0 The Puppet Masters, AIII The Quick and the Dead, 0 Reality Bites, AIII Richie Rich, All Roommates, AIII

The Road to Wellville, AIII Rob Roy, AIII Second Best, All Shallow Grave, AN The Shawshank Redemption, AIV Son of the Shark, Al!!

Sorrento Beach, AIII The Specialist, 0 Speed, AIII Star Trek Generations, All The Swan Princess, Al Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight, 0 Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure, Al! 'lb Live, All Tommy Boy, AIII Top Dog, AIII napped in Paradise, AIII True Lies, 0 Vanya on 42nd Street, Al! The War, All While You Were Sleeping, A111

World Mission Sunday, 22 October

Carpets made with swollen fingers . . . . member the Children, the supplement a meagre faraii W allying call for World income. These children work up Mission Day, on Sunday, to 16 hours a day, making match-

October 22, is a cry from the es, bricks, or in restaurants and heart for the future of children at the loom.

"Many Indian carpets are everywhere in the world orphans of war, the starving, the made by small children with handicapped, blind and leper swollen fingers, aching lungs children, those abused and and crooked backs - some deprived of love, the homeless become crippled and die before reaching the age of 10." and forgotten.

Fr Brock also said that The Australian national director of the Pontifical Mission Australia should be congratulatSocieties, Father Brian Brock, ed on the way that thousands of said the communications explo- Australian families are now consion of the 20th century enables tributing to financially support Australian to see with astonish- the works of Children's Mission.

"It's hard to realise that $15 a ing clarity that so many children in the world just don't get a fair month can make such a difference to the children's circumgo. in fact, it can give them expresstances, time the "Once upon a Sanjay is a 12 year old Indian boy and works as a quarry labourer 12 hours a day for only 20 rupees (Si) digging, back." Fr Brock loading and pushing carts of stone and dirt for road and brick making. The moving of extreme weights leads to cuts sion 'putting your shoulder to their childhood adults said. wheel' would mean the and infections.

"I've just seen video shot in striving to get a job done but in India today you will find 12 year- Calcutta and Bombay which old children working as quarry showed the difference made within a few months of children labourers," Fr Brock said.

"They dig, load and push carts who come from slums and are of stone and dirt for brick and admitted to Children's Mission road making, often seriously inj- funded schools and orphanages.

"World Mission Day is an occauring themselves because of the sion of prayer and gratitude for strain and loads involved."

Fr Brock said that 50 per cent what has been accomplished by of the world's children who live missionaries all around the in absolute poverty live in India, world.

"It is also a sharp reminder that Pakistan and Bangladesh.

"The harsh reality is that if they we don't live in the past but Children slave ten to sixteen street children. They are easy to

By Patsy Godwin, Perth Director hours a day making matches, control and exploit and they are want to live they have to work - must strain every nerve to serve of Pontifical Mission Societies bricks and cigars, in restaurants, neither seen nor heard - easy vic- and for less than a pittance to the future." as domestic servants or at the tims. So we remember especially the children this year. he theme for World Miss- loom. ion Sunday this year is Shabana, for example, worked "Let the little children come to 'Remember the Children' with in an Indian 'memsahib's house'. me, do not stop them, for to such a focus on child labour under n his message for World the Good News. The Holy Father The agreement was 3 rupees as these belongs the kingdom of I the heading: Children With No (15 cents) and some food for two God." Mark 10:16 Mission Sunday 1995, Pope says "may annual Mission I hope you are able to support John Paul said that "Mission Sunday find the whole Church Childhood. hours work each day but she was Parishes in the Archdiocese of kept in the house and expected World Mission Sunday this year. Sunday is the occasion on which ready to proclaim the Truth, and Perth have received kits contain- to work well into the evening. to implore from the Lord an ever the Love of God especially for the ing a parish guide and poster for passion for evangelisa- men and women not yet reached greater Shabana was to be paid at the World Mission Sunday. Schools first and foremost ser- by the Good News of Jesus tion: the have also received material and end of the month. After 30 eight Christians can render Christ!" He urges families, which vice Archbishop Barry Hickey has hour days she was paid 10 women and men of our priests, men and women relito the rupees (about 50 cents) - so added his support. marked by hatred, vio- gious and all believers in Christ, times The Bonded Labour Liberation much for 240 hours of squanand in particular, to always be bold in proclaiming injustice lence, Front and the International dered childhood. by the loss of the real meaning of the Lord Jesus.

Labour Organisation say that 80 The deliberate exploitation of This year's theme for World life." million children are child labour- children as labourers is insidious The Pontifical Mission Societies Mission Sunday focuses on the ers in Asia alone. and appalling. are indispensable structures of plight of millions of children Church workers say 50 per cent formation for cooperation and working virtually as slave labourconin war, suffering Children of all children who live in flict and natural disasters is bad precious instruments for sup- ers. I endorse the work of the absolute poverty on this earth enough but the idea of adults porting all missionaries and mis- Societies and ask you to actively come from India, Pakistan and forcing children as young as six sionary activity. The missionary and prayerfully celebrate World Bangladesh. is always valid and it Mission Sunday. mandate and eight years of age into hard For these, the harsh reality is labour is incomprehensible.

Shabana (left) with some friends obliges Christians to be for those Most Rev B. J. Hickey that if they do not want to die, Archbishop of Perth at Loreto School. near and far joyful witnesses to Many working children are they have to work.

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To Jesus through Ma y . .

NEW YORK (CNS) - Pope John Paul, on the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary last Saturday in New York's Central Park, offered the rosary to busy Catholic families as an occasion for quiet time with each other and with the Mother of God. As modern-day families are confronted by forces attempting to draw them apart, they must come together more and more often for prayer, the Pope said, and added: "To use a phrase made famous by the late Father Patrick Peyton (founder of the Rosary Crusade) - The family that prays together, stays together!"

The Pope said that from many points of view, "these are difficult times for parents who wish to pass on to their children the treasure of the Catholic faith."

"Sometimes you yourselves are not sure what the church stands for," he said.

"There are false teachers and dissenting voices. Bad examples cause great harm."

In addition, he said, "a self-indulgent culture undermines many of the values which are at the basis of sound family life."

The Pope offered families two suggestions for keeping their faith and ensuring its transmission to new generations: pray together frequently, especially with the rosary; and study the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

"One prayer in particular I recommend to families: the one we have just been praying, the rosary. And especially the joyful mysteries, which help us to meditate

. . . a column of Marian devotion on the Holy Family of Nazareth," the Pope said.

"Uniting her will with the will of God, Mary conceived the Christ Child, and became the model of every mother carrying her unborn child. By visiting her cousin Elizabeth, Mary took to another family the healing presence of Jesus.

"Mary gave birth to the infant Jesus in the humblest of circumstances and presented him to Simeon in the Temple, as every baby may be presented to God in baptism.

"Mary and Joseph worried over the lost child before they found him in the Temple, so that parents of all generations would know that the trials and sorrows of family life are the road to closer union with Jesus.

He extended a special word of thanks to parents who "make sacrifices, sometimes heroic sacrifices," to send their children to Catholic schools. "Families in difficulties or couples in irregular situations also have a claim on the Church's pastoral care," he said. The Pope encouraged other families to reach out with support to hurting or broken families.

The next day, at the end of Mass in Baltimore's Oriole Park, the Pope led the traditional midday Angelus prayer and entrusted the US and its people to the protection of Mary. In Baltimore, the birthplace of US Catholicism, he prayed she would "look upon the people of this great nation, so richly blessed by God with material and spiritual resources."

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'Be not afraid,' Pope tells US, United Nations BALTIMORE (CNS) - Pope John Paul II, visiting the United States between October 4 to 8, urged Americans to conquer their fears and turn to Christ when times get tough.

"There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us," he told the crowd during a Mass at Oriole Park in Baltimore, the cradle of US Catholicism. 'There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us and does 1 not now bear with us."

He also spoke on tour of the Papa Ma Paal 11 diversity of the US and the need to continue its tradition of wel- rediscover a spirit of hope and a spirit of trust." coming immigrants.

Speaking to seminarians at St In Central Park last Saturday, Joseph Seminary in Yonkers, the the readings for the Mass, marking the feast of Our Lady of the Pope said priests must be strong Rosary, said that Mary was afraid in their faith and unafraid of when the angel told her she denouncing evil.

"You need courage to follow would become the mother of Jesus. "Yes, Mary was afraid, just Christ, especially when you as we are often afraid!" the Pope recognise that so much of our said. But when Mary realised it dominant culture is a culture of was God who was calling her, "all flight from God, a culture which displays a not-so-hidden confear was banished."

"Like Mary, you must not be tempt for human life, beginning afraid to allow the Holy Spirit to with the lives of the unborn, and help you become intimate extending to contempt for the frail and elderly," the Pope said. friends of Christ," he said.

Wherever he went, the Pope At the UN on October 5, the polyglot Polish Pope spoke in was greeted by enthusiastic English, French, Spanish, Russ- crowds: more than 80,000 people ian, Arabic and Chinese, the offi- at Giants Stadium in East cial UN languages, to encourage Rutherford, New Jersey, and the world's people to look to the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York and 125,000 people at future with hope.

"Men and women must learn to Central Park News reports said conquer fear," he said. "We must 350,000 people turned out for the learn not to be afraid; we must papal parade through downtown

Baltimore.

After reciting the rosary with thousands of people in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on Saturday, the Pope walked outside near the crowds that came to see him. The police, Secret Service agents and US bishops' conference officials seemed surprised. "The Pope's escaped on foot down Fifth Ave.!" said one.

He walked to the corner of East 50th St and over to Cardinal John O'Connor's residence on Madison Ave., surrounded by Vatican officials and hundreds of security officials.

At Giants Stadium nearly 83,000 people waited hours in the rain to hear the Pope urge them to remember "the kind of nation America has aspired to be."

He presented his view of the nation as one concerned about the poor and the immigrant.

The Pope reminded his listeners of the nearby Statue of Liberty, emblazoned with the words of Emma Lazarus' poem: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . . ."

"Is present-day America becoming less sensitive, less caring toward the poor, the weak, the stranger, the needy?" asked Pope John Paul. "It must not."

Before leaving from BaltimoreWashington International Airport, Pope John Paul urged Americans to "love life, cherish life, defend life, from conception to natural death."

Children brighten up an old man's day

By Cindy Wooden BALTIMORE (CNS) - Pope John Paul ll sat down with a dozen adults and seven children for a meal of chicken and rice casserole at Baltimore's Our Daily Bread soup kitchen.

The kids drank milk while the grown-ups had their choice of Iced tea or water, but all of them - including the Pope - drank from plastic cups.

After four days of preaching and praising US Catholics' concern for the poor, the sick and those in difficulty, Pope John Paul shared a meal with people who have taken advantage of Church outreach and service programs.

Looking tired and a bit dazed from a very rushed morning that started in New York and included a Mass at Baltimore's Oriole Park, the Pope brightened at the sight of the children.

Cardinal William Keeler of Baltimore introduced the Pope to the families representing Catholic Charities' programs. Each of the parents got a handshake, and each of the children got a kiss on the forehead. Except for fouryear-old Ivan Damian. He got his nose tweaked.

-He's a magnificent, charismatic Pope," said Tom Mulrenin, who with his wife, Judy, and children Kaitlin and Connor represented couples assisted by International Children's Services.

"It was a mystical moment," said Mr Mulrenin. "He blessed my wife for being the mother of adopted children."

Obviously, Mr Mulrenin said, the meal was his highlight of the Pope's US trip.

But he said he was also struck by a message of the trip: "In an opulent society we must serve the poor."

Mr Mulrenin said that after the blessing, when reporters were escorted from the room and the meal was served, Cardinal Keeler re-introduced each family and explained Catholic what Charities' program they had participated in.

When reporters were brought back half an hour later, only the cups and bowls of ice cream remained.

Given the obvious nervousness of the guests and the once-in-alife-time chance to chat with the Pope, did anyone eat?

"Everyone, including the Pope. cleaned their plates," Mr Mulrenin said,

Dissenters speak out BALTIMORE (CNS) - Pope John Paul ll's strong support of human rights doesn't apply within the Catholic Church, a coalition of groups that dissent from Church teaching charged during the tour.

A press conference organised by the Baltimore chapter of Dignity, which describes itself as an organisation "for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Roman Catholics and their Mends," also included representatives of Catholics Speak Out, the Women's Ordination Conference and the pro-abortion Catholics for a Free Choice.

"It is ironic to us that Pope John Paul II has been recognised

around the globe as a champion of human rights," said Marianne Duddy, president of Dignity/USA. "We in Dignity have been praying for the pope's conversion on the issue of his attempted exclusion of gay people from the fullness of the Church," she said.

"We are calling for ... a chance to begin a dialogue on the real, spiritual and practical needs of the gay community, to which the Church could respond more effectively" Church teaching condemns homosexual activity but it has emphasised that homosexuals should not be discriminated against or be targeted for violence.

Reports of the death of Latin might be greatly exaggerated

By Jerry Filteau BALTIMORE (CNS) - At twelve minutes It was one of the briefest stops in Pope John Paul II's five-day US visit. And it was conducted almost entirely in Latin, the ancient, official language of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Pope stopped at St Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore on Sunday for one reason, really - to transfer from car to helicopter in order to get out to BaltimoreWashington International Airport for his return flight to Rome. No speech or tour was scheduled.

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After his long day in Baltimore, he was

50 minutes behind schedule when the

Popemobile pulled into the circular driveway in front of the seminary. As he came into view, shouts of "Viva il papa!" and "John Paul II! We love you!" erupted from about 200 seminarians and faculty from St Mary's and several other seminaries in the region, who were gathered on the steps awaiting him.

In a surprise move the Pope worked his way up the steps through the crowd and disappeared for a few moments inside the seminar for an unexpected private visit to the seminary chapel.

When he re-emerged, the Pope turned and, with a hint of a mischievous smile, asked the seminarians, "Do you remember your Latin?"

He then went into the traditional Latin introduction to a blessing used by a bishop or Pope: "Sit nomen Domini benedicturn" ("Blessed be the name of the Lord").

"Ex hoc, nunc et usque in saeculum" ("Now and forever"), the seminarians answered. "Adjutorium nostrum in nomme Domini" ("Our help is in the name of the Lord"), the Pope intoned.

"Qui fecit caelum et terram" ("Who made heaven and earth"), they responded.

He then gave them his blessing: "Benedicat vos omnipotens Deus, Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus" ("May almighty God bless you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit"). "Amen," they said, using the Latin pronunciation "Ah-men."

As he prepared to go back to the Popemobile the seminarians began singing the Lord's Prayer in Latin: "Pater foster, qui es in caelis . . ."

Then they began singing "Salve Regina, Mater Misericordiae . . ." ("Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy ."), ending with "0 clemens, 0 pia, 0 dulcis Virgo Maria" ("0 clement, 0 loving, 0 sweet Virgin Mary").

International News

Centrist approach to liturgy urged

By Barbara Stinson Lee

sAur LAKE CITY (CNS) - A new organisation dedicated to what one member called "the middle road, common-sense approach" to Catholic liturgy was founded in Salt Lake City on September 24, following a threeday conference titled "Catholic Liturgy 30 Years After Vatican II." The newly formed Society for Catholic Liturgy will be comprised not only of professionally trained liturgists, but also of theologians, social scientists, architects and musicians.

According to Msgr Francis Mannion, who was elected president of the new organisation, the society will seek to make "a most positive and constructive contribution to the development of the liturgical life of the church."

The priest, who is rector of Salt Lake City's Cathedral of the Madeleine, said it would avoid both "a 'restorationism,' opposed to legitimate avenues of liturgical reform, and a 'progressivism,' inadequately attentive to the church's doctrinal, historical and pastoral traditions."

Chicago composer Richard Pmulx. vice president of the new society, said "the exciting thing about our first meeting and about the prospects for the society is its multi-disciplinary character."

The new organisation "is not of liturgists, per se, but an association of people whose Catholic faith and professional expertise qualify them to make a valuable contribution to the study and advancement of the Church's liturgy," Pmulx added.

"The middle road, commonsense approach to worship seems to be the hallmark of this

group." While membership is primarily from the United States, the society also is open to interested persons in the wider English-speaking world.

The society will conduct its business through an annual three-day conference on major liturgical themes and special study projects during the year, as well as a regular newsletter which will keep members informed of significant practical and theoretical developments in the field of liturgy and its attendant disciplines.

The society will offer advice and input to church leadership on liturgical matters, but, according to its new president, "always in a manner that is respectful, dialogical and mindful that there exists a legitimate diversity of opinion on liturgical matters in the Church."

Eamon Duffy, reader in church history at Cambridge University in England and the keynote speaker for the Salt Lake City meeting, said an organisation such as the Society for Catholic Liturgy is "immensely important" and that he wants the society to maintain its distinctly Catholic identity.

"Ours is a very important voice consistently trying to avoid polarisation in the church," Duffy said.

"We are also fully committed to conciliar reform.

"This is a conference that is committing itself to education," he said in an interview with the Intermountain Catholic, diocesan newspaper in Salt Lake City.

"We fully intend to share our outcomes with other organisations, and to locate needed reform in the longer perspective of Catholic history."

Tourism, prostitution, destroying Philippine family values: priest PUERTO GALERA, Philippines (CNS) - Church workers in Puerto Galera, a coastal resort spot 77 miles southwest of Manila, say rapid tourism development is destroying the family values of local residents.

Property schemes in which marriage is used for access to land and child prostitution are linked to the tourist trade, they say.

Divine Word Father Lloyd Fiedler, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, said many foreigners marry local women to enable them to legally own property, UCA News, an Asia church news agency based in Thailand, reported.

Some of the women become wealthy, but many end up separated or divorced, said church worker Ana Robles.

Father Fiedler cited the case of a Swiss tourist who married locally and built a palatial house in the mountains, then after fathering a child left his Filipino wife and returned to Switzerland with the child.

The mother now sees the child cials are supposed to enforce an once a year on vacation. ordinance barring minors from Father Fiedler said he wants the discos and restaurants at night, Church to help women with sim- "this is hardly being done," said ilar problems, but added that Filomena de Lara, president of women with foreign husbands the Sabang Parish Council. have formed a clique apart from Puerto Galera, whose natural other residents. coves sheltered the galleons of The Church plans to establish a Spanish colonisers in the 1500s, Women's Crisis Centre primarily is the country's most visited aimed at teaching women mar- tourist spot today Foreign backpackers escaping ried to foreigners about their rights. crowded and heavily commerThe centre will also assist chil- cialised vacation spots elsewhere dren who are sexually abused or began swooping into the town in otherwise harmed by tourism- the 1970s.

About 70 percent of its popularelated problems. Some 62 percent of Puerto Galera's 20,000 tion is directly dependent on the people are 25 years old or tourism industry.

"Before 1978, the people here younger.

"Even 7-year old schoolchildren were poor," said Ms. Robles.

"Through tourism, we were are exposed to the sex trade, which is openly being tolerated able to send our children to all around," Father Fiedler said. school and raise our lives from The non-governmental organi- poverty."

There are now 102 hotels, sation End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism said child prosti- restaurants and other establishtution is rampant in Puerto ments in Puerto Galera's eight Galera and is probably con- villages, mostly owned by Filipino women married to fortrolled by foreigners.

Although neighbourhood offi- eigners.

Faiths meet in Marian festival MARIAMABAD, Pakistan (CNS) - For each of the past 46 years a festival with Christian, Hindu and Muslim links has been held to celebrate the birthday of Mary The fete, called a "mela" is a rural religious fair centred on the mausoleum or shrine of a saint.

Many mela honour popular Muslim saints in Sindh and Punjab provinces, UCA News, an Asia church news agency based in Thailand, reported. Others honour Christian saints including the Blessed Mother.

As devotees increase year by year, the influence of popular piety borrowed from the surrounding Muslim culture also increases at Mariamabad festivities.

Many rural Christians frequently visit Muslim shrines and adopt some of their pious symbols.

One such symbol is the devotion called "chadar charana" (offering the sheet).

Muslims place over the tomb of their saint a votive silk sheet sometimes 25 feet long and 12 feet wide, with gold embroidered floral patterns.

Most often green, the sheet can be red or yellow.

Held up at the corners, the

sheet is carried in solemn pro- their stomachs in the dust in sincession to chants and drumbeats. gle file.

Passersby often throw money One behind the other in a long into the sheet as an offering. line they crawl up the aisle of the In Christian practice. the sheet, church and lie prostrate before embroidered with a cross, is the altar for a few minutes. spread over the altar and prayers A custom at Muslim shrines is are recited. to buy a mela souvenir. So too at As in Muslim shrines, the focal Mariamabad where some dispoint is the sacred space around tance from the grotto is a shopthe tomb where people come to ping area and amusement park. honour and petition.

Scores of hawkers and vendors This is the most important act display religious articles, statues, In medals and crosses, as well as pilgrimage. the of Mariamabad, the most sacred Bibles with garish religious picarea is the grotto area and the tures.

This year one store displayed 100-year-old parish church next pictures of Hindu deities which to it.

The grotto, a replica of the one sold like hot cakes.

Food, an essential part of every at the Marian shrine in Lourdes, France, is the main focus. Day mela, is eaten in religious spirit. and night, pilgrims form long Feeding the poor is an act of lines, patiently waiting for up to piety at every Muslim shrine. two hours for their turn to climb People order large cauldrons of the steps and present their offer- rice, cook them on open fires and ings. give the food freely to all.

This practice too has been Votive gifts such as crowns, women's veils, animals, candles adapted by Pakistani Christians. or money are offered in thanksIn addition, just the same way giving for favours received. that Christians visit Muslim In recent years, some young shrines, Muslims too come to male pilgrims, adapting a Mariamabad to make vows and Muslim form of abnegation and pray for favours from the Blessed dedication, cover the last 50 feet Mother who is a holy figure in to the old church crawling on Islam as well as Christianity.

How a star's fading glamour fogged media eyes and lenses

By John Travis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Brigitte Bardot showed up at the Vatican the other day. As a media event, it ranked somewhere between a Papal election and the Second Coming.

Photographers tripped over each other.

Reporters lost their cool. A small army of video and sound technicians surrounded sex-symbol-turned-animal-rightsthe activist to capture her every gesture and syllable.

After Pope John Paul II shook her hand at the end of a general audience September 27, the camera flashes lit up her path with almost thermonuclear intensity.

Sitting a few steps away was a less-recognized celebrity.

Twelve-year-old Lejla Jasarevic was famous in July, though, when a dramatic photograph of her bloodied face appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world. She had been struck by shell frag-

ments as she walked with her mother in downtown Sarajevo, and the photo quickly became a symbol of Bosnian suffering and desperation.

Two months later, smiling despite the loss of one eye, she was one of several Bosnian war victims to meet the Pope.

They did so without fanfare. The Pope walked over to their section and said a few words, lingering next to the wheelchairs.

A Vatican media official who tried to point out the group of recovering Bosnians to photographers - wouldn't it make a timely picture? - was politely ignored.

Brigitte Bardot was in the room. as she is still known to aging fans in Europe, was pleading the cause of the animal kingdom. She was convinced the Pope could do a lot "in the struggle on behalf of animals."

What did she tell him during their brief exchange, eager reporters wanted to know afterward.

"Don't forget the animals," the French actress said. The pontiff offered a greeting

newspaper, the Vatican Only to her organization, the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Members were L'Osservatore Romano, failed to report preparing to meet in Assisi, the birthplace Brigitte Bardot's papal encounter. Instead of St Francis, the medieval mystic who it ran a photo of Lejla, the Sarajevo girl, who had been fitted with an ocular pmsspoke to the birds.

In his audience remarks, the Pope also thesis while in Italy. The smile showed called for peace and justice in Bosnia. But through there, too, as the Pope put his that's been done many times before, and hand on her cheek. news that repeats soon falls out of newsIt was a strange contrast, Brigitte and papers.

Lejla, but papal audiences are like that.

The headlines the next day were all for There are two VIP sections: on the left is Brigitte. "The Pope and Bardot Hand in the "prima fila," the front row usually Hand." "SOS for Animals: Brigitte Meets reserved for celebrities or people with the Pope." There were the inevitable refer- pull, many of whom have a cause or a ences to her starring role in the movie, message or a publication to promote.

"And God Created Woman." And detailed The section on the right, at every audidescriptions of her every move at the 90minute audience, including a small yawn ence since this Pope's election, is the place ("Stupendous," said the reviews in one of honor for the sick and suffering. Many come in wheelchairs or on crutches. newspaper.)

Increasingly, the group has included vicThe actress was, in fact, a bit surprised at tims of the fighting in the Balkans. the notoriety given her return to Rome The Pope always visits with them, someafter a 30-year absence. "I'm not used to these photographers anymore," she con- times at length, well after the cameras have stopped clicking. fessed.

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In Brief Church's oldest bishop WEST POINT, Nebraska (CNS) - Retired Bishop John Paschang, of the Diocese of Grand Island, Nebraska is the oldest Roman Catholic bishop in the world, a distinction verified in the pages of the Vatican yearbook, the Annuario.

Bishop Paschang celebrated his 100th birthday on October 5 with a small reception at St Joseph's Retirement Home in West Point.

The centenarian celebrates Mass daily in his apartment. "I pray for the diocese every day for the best of God's blessings," he said.

Burundi prayers VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II offered his condolences and his prayers for peace with justice in the central African country of Burundi after two Italian missionary priests and an elderly Italian laywoman were murdered there.

Xaverian Missionary Fathers Ottorino Maule, 53, and Aldo Marchiol, 65, and lay missionary Katina Gubert, 74, were killed on September 30, each with a shot to the back of the head.

Robbery has been ruled out as a motive because no money or other valuables were taken.

Soldiers defended ZAGREB. Croatia (CNS) Cardinal Franjo Kuharic of Zagreb has defended Croatian soldiers against allegations that they committed human rights abuses while retaking Serbheld territory in the Krajina region of Croatia in August.

Any atrocities were committed by robbers and marauders who swept in after the army, he said.

Priest shortage WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Hungary has fully implemented religious freedom six years after the end of communism, but the Church still faces major problems in providing enough priests, Archbishop Istvan Seregely of Eger said last month.

In rural areas up to 40 percent of the parishes are without fulltime pastors, said the archbishop, president of Hungary's bishops conference.

More than 75 per cent of the nuns and more than 50 per cent of the monks are over 60 years old and total membership in the country's 21 male and 54 female religious orders is expected to fall by 40 per cent by the year 2000, he said.

Since the end of communism, however, the Church has been able to re-establish religious orders and publications and has built a network of military chaplains and a Catholic education system with over 100 schools, the archbishop said.

Other Church leaders have said that plans to ease the priest shortage include encouraging broader lay involvement in family life and communitybased programs.

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Victims of French Revolution and Spanish Civil War honoured

109 martyrs beatified

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) Martyrdom is a profession of faith sealed with the believer's own blood, Pope John Paul II said as he beatified 109 martyrs from the Spanish Civil War and the French Revolution.

"Martyrdom is a special gift of the Holy Spirit, a gift for the whole Church," the Pope said at the October 1 Mass in St Peter's Square, during which he also beatified an Italian Piarist priest who promoted the education of

poor children in the early 1600s.

Thousands of pilgrims from France and Spain, including government officials, attended the outdoor Mass.

The 64 French martyrs were among more than 800 priests and religious arrested in the 1790s.

They were imprisoned on two rotting ships and left to die slowly of malnutrition and disease.

The group included diocesan and religious-order priests and Christian Brothers, who, the Pope said, experienced a "long Calvary by remaining loyal to

their faith and to the church," continuing to pledge full obedience to Pope Pius VI and refusing to accept new French laws concerning the Church and its structure.

"Slowly, they allowed themselves to be identified with the sacrifice of Christ, which they celebrated by virtue of their ordination," the pope said.

Meeting French, Italian and Spanish pilgrims on October 2, the Pope said the French martyrs knew that "in times of crisis like in every time, fidelity to the successor of Peter is a criterion of

Hmong ordination rewards four decades of missionary effort

By Tracy Early NEW YORK (CNS) - The number of Catholic priests from the Hmong community will double with the ordination of two in China on October 22, according to a French priest who has spent his life working with the Hmong.

During an interview in New York, Oblate Father Yves Bertrais, a short, white-headed man of 74, talked about his missionary efforts among the Hmong that began in Laos in 1950. It continued there until the communist victory of 1975 forced him, along with many Hmong, to take refuge in Thailand.

In 1979, the French government Provided land for him to take 400 Hmong to French Guiana for resettlement, and he continues to use that as a base for serving the international Hmong community.

Yunnan is a province on the border of Laos, and many Hmong live in its southern mountains. The ordinations Father Bertrais spoke about are scheduled for a church in Kunming, a city in that province.

Father Bertrais, speaking partly in English and partly through an interpreter, said French missionaries developed a Catholic community among the Hmong in the first half of the century, but members were all executed or dispersed after the communists gained control in 1950.

He said that some 20 "praying families" were found when religious work began again.

Although he no longer visits Laos, he spends four weeks in southern China each year, he

said.

Father Bertrais was in New York to give an address under the auspices of the Wethersfield Institute, which is an arm of the Homeland foundation and makes grants to Catholic projects.

Msgr Eugene Clark, a pastor of the New York Archdiocese and president of the foundation, introduced Father Bertrais and said the foundation had assisted radio broadcasts he produces.

In the lecture and the interview, Father Bertrais explained that he arranges for the production of cassettes that are sent to Rome for transmission to Manila. They are broadcast from there and reach Hmong in China. Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, he said.

Father Bertrais said France gave the Hmong vacant property used in the last century by Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey (17791851), a French woman who founded the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, for a ministry to freed slaves.

He said the Hmong arrived in the bicentennial year of her birth, and he had the place named for her. The voices heard on the radio broadcasts are Hmong he has enlisted there, he said.

Father Bertrais expressed hope that he could raise a $500,000 endowment fund to provide continuing support for the programs.

The only other religious broadcast to the Hmong, he said, conveys a perspective of US Protestant fundamentalists and tells the Hmong they must renounce their customs.

"All my life I have strived to explain exactly the contrary," he

said. "It is not at all compulsory to impose an outside vision or another lifestyle on the people we are trying to convert."

Father Bertrais said that he baptised the first Hmongs on the Feast of the Assumption in 1954.

They were the local shaman, Ya Ja No, now living in French Guiana, his parents and two younger relatives.

Father Bertrais was accompanied by one of the Hmong priests, Father Chue Ying Vang, one of some 100,000 Hmong in the United States. Baptised in a Thailand refugee camp, he was ordained in 1992 for the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis and currently serves St Peter Church in North St Paul.

They said the only other Hmong priest was Father Bancitone Thopanhong, who serves in Laos but not among the Hmong.

Father Bertrais, whose first assignment in Laos was teaching French at a minor seminary in Paksane, said that when he moved to a Hmong village in the mountainous north he learned the language without any teacher and just by listening.

"I had a little metal box with a booklet and pencil that I carried, and every day when I heard new words I wrote them down," he said. "Then during the night,I put each word on a separate card and I would compare them to figure out the patterns."

In 1964 he finally got a Hmong dictionary published in mimeograph form in Vientiane, Laos, and then had it printed in Bangkok in 1978.

fidelity to Christ." The 45 Spanish martyrs, who died between 1936 and 1939 - including 17 Sisters of Christian Doctrine, Augustin-ians, Marianists, Piarists and a married layman "were not heroes of a human war," but were educators and ministers who gave their lives for Christ, the Pope said.

The Pope prayed that "the light of faith, which led them to accept martyrdom, would free the men and women of our time from religious ignorance and slavery to evil and lead them to true freedom."

Gregory Peck award for films LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Gregory Peck will receive a lifetime achievement from award Catholics in Media Associates at the organisation's annual awards ceremony October 29 in Los Angeles.

Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles is scheduled to present the awards after a Mass he celebrates at the award site.

Peck was called by Catholics in Media "an actor, a producer, an industry leader, a citizen and a remarkable human being who has not only embodied, in his life and work, the highest ethical standards, but has expressed them with magnificent artistry."

He has served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

He has been given lifetime achievement awards from the Lincoln Centre and the American Film Institute.

Peck also has been awarded the Medal of Freedom, which is the nation's highest civilian decoration, has received Kennedy Centre Honours and the French Legion of Honour.

The Catholics in Media lifetime achievement award is meant to honour an individual who has affirmed "the highest ethical standards of the Judeo-Christian tradition."

Other winners of the Catholics in Media awards are "Mi Familia" for movies; "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" for television; and "Mister Rogers' Neighbourhood" for children's television.

Trains that won the West: rail chapels up for sale

By Cathy Tilzey HELENA, Montana (CNS) What is thought to be the last remaining chapel on rails sits on a railroad siding in Nevada City, Montana. part of an Old West museum collection that might go on sale during October.

Named the St Paul, it is one of three railroad cars used earlier this century as mobile chapels.

The cars were developed by Father Francis Kelly, founder of the Catholic Church Extension Society in 1905, to service rural communities that did not have churches.

In the 1960s, Charles Bovey, a former Montana state senator, and his wife, Sue, assembled an

Old West tourist attraction in the possible dispersal of the Bovey abandoned mining town of collection, since it contains a vital Nevada City. part of history, not only for Along with the chapel car, the Montana but also for the collection consists of other rail- Catholic Church," said Richard road cars, antiques and historic Ritter, vice president of the buildings brought by the Boveys Extension Society, in a statement from around the state. Included from its Chicago headquarters. are other Catholic items, such as In their heyday, the St Paul, St rosaries and medals, that were Peter and St Anthony railway willed to the now-deceased cou- cars enabled chaplains to deliver ple. mission talks and administer But on October 1 the Nevada sacraments in isolated outposts City museum was closed, its in the South and West. employees laid off. Ford Bovey, "You can actually follow the son of the founders, was quoted railroad lines - especially in as saying "the money has run Florida's panhandle and Oregon out." The holdings, including - and see how many Catholic some century-old buildings in churches exist there today nearby Virginia City, reportedly because of the chapel cars' will he auctioned. stops," Ritter said.

'We are saddened to hear of the Built in 1915 in Dayton, Ohio,

the St Paul was donated to the Extension Society by the Peter' Kuntz family. It was christened in New Orleans before beginning a southern circuit.

John Ellingsen of Nevada City, who managed the collection until October 1, told The Montana Catholic, newspaper of the Diocese of Helena, that the chapel car was his favourite. He said the builder lavished care on it, finishing the interior in Cuban mahogany and stained glass windows.

The 86-foot-long car has an altar. organ, confessional and pews for 75 people. It also contains living quarters for a chaplain and two assistants.

During the 1920s, the Extension Society retired the cars.

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ELECTRICAL, contractor rewires fans, power points, lights, lic 004003. Phone Stephen Tierney 354 2263.

HANDYMAN, painting, gar- FIRST Holy Communion dening, pruning, tree lop- and Baptism outfits, for ping, rubbish re-moved, boys and girls. We have the clean windows, houses, will largest and best range in do contract work Perth. We are a one stop 377 2314, Martin. shop. We have everything Credit cards welcomed. you need. We are the speBUILDING estimator/ ,cialists in raw silk garquantifier/handyman, all ments.

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Monday to Friday 9.30am Thomas Hoey on 342 0073 UPHOLSTERY: lounge to 6pm, Saturday 10am to f or competitive quotes. s uite repairs, recover 5pm. Ring Orial 479 7120.

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PAINTING & Decorating, etc. Phone L & K Upholstery This service is definitely reg. no. 3622. For all your 457 6996. non-sexual. painting needs, all work FURNITURE CARRIED, professionally done and housefuls, units, flats, guaranteed, references ACCOMMODATION o ffices, including single available. Call Carlo 444 items, small medium and AVAILABLE 6797. large vans available with 1 MASTER plumber and gas or 2 men, all metro areas fitter, Lic No. 140, bathroom and near country. Mike committed Murphy 008 016 310 (free renovations, sewer conver- D EEPLY sions, all maintenance Catholic in fully furnished 4 call all areas); or 24 hour work, new houses. Good bed house seeks others to 480 5006. r ates, all hours. Contact share. If the Lord leads you, call me 277 3619. All other John on 457 7771. c riteria open, viz: age HOLIDAY PERROTT PAINTING Pty group, nationality, long or A CCOMMODATION Ltd for all your residential, short term, male/female, c ommercial painting student, job seeker, or requirements. Phone Tom unemployed, etc.

WINTER SUNSHINE, Perrott 444 1200.

SUMMER BREEZES. Kalbarri, comfortable, selfHELP WANTED contained accommodation Enquiries/ by the sea, within walking distance of shops and Appointments HELP needed by entertainment, S140 for Daughters of Charity to t wo; S210 for four; for 335 7075 assist in Opportunity Shops seven days. (09) 459 8554. on Saturday mornings.

Peter Watt Also urgently need good A VONDOWN INN, 44 quality household goods, Stirling Terrace, Toodyay PSYCHOLOGIST utensils, nick-nacks, etc. 6566. Ideal for school Contact Sr. Clare 227 6616. c amps, retreat for church Counselling/ g roups, dormitory style a ccommodation for 60 Therapy plus, also guest-house THANKS accommodation for fami1 58 Canning Hwy lies and travellers, fully East Fremantle THANKING St Clare for c atered, set in 6 acres on favours granted. M.K. the Avon River in historic Toodyay. Phone Sally 574 2995.

S AFETY BAY, self-contained holiday apartments, near beach, weekly $240, weekends $100. ph: 418 1439 TO LET: Fremantle, city apartments, fully self-contained, ocean and harbour views. $65 per night per couple. Longer stays negotiable. ph: 418 1439

FAITH & LIGHT INTERNATIONAL

Two young ladies with Intellectual disabilities, one in Claremont parish and the other one in Fremantle, need a friend to accompany them to monthly gatherings of Faith & Light, Western Australia.

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T OWNSEND (Bridget Frances) On 7.10.95 peacefully at home and after a long illness. Third daughter of Patrick James and Mary Blanche Hogan (both dec.) Much loved wife of Alan, mother of Joy-Anne Tricia, Frank, Peter, Julie, Marcia, Angela and Susan.

Mother-in-law of Colin, Barbara, Pam, Rob, Gary, Chris and Anthony. Loved Nanna of 19. My darling, despite your suffering you inspired and brightened so many lives. Rest now in the beauty of Gods Garden R.I.P.

BAPTISMS HAINES: Aasha Rose , Daughter of Ian and Sabrina, Baptised at Holy Family Church, Albany, on October 1st. Godparents.

Margaret Hetherington and Melville Sigler.

THANKS THANKS Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail. Oh most beautiful flower of Mt Carmel, fruitful vine and splendour of heaven, blessed Mother of the Son of God, immaculate Virgin. assist me in my necessities.

Oh star of the sea, help me and show me you are my mother. Oh holy Mary.

Mother of God, Queen of heaven and earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart, to succour me in my necessities.

There are none that can withstand your power. Oh show me, my mother, show me herein you are my mother. Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (three times). Sweet mother I place this cause in your hands (three times).

Thanks for favours granted.

Marie.

HOLY SPIRIT. You who make me see everything and show me the way to reach my ideal. You who give me the Divine Gift to f orgive and forget the wrong that is done to me and who are in all instances of my life with me. I in this short dialogue want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you. No matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen.

Thankyou most sincerely to the Mother of perpetual help, to the Holy Spirit for favours answered. M.S.

HEAIJNG MASS

"BENEDICTION/TALK/ HEALING"

Alan Ames will speak on his c onversion experiences at St Mary's Church, 21 James St, G uildford, Friday 27th Oct 7pm and at St Kieran's, 120 Waterloo St, Tuart Hill, Sunday 29th O ctober 2pm. The evening will c onclude with Healing. Enq: Russel 274 6018, Fr Attard 279 4226)

MAJELLAN RETREAT O ctober 27th, 28th and 29th.

R etreat leader Sr Helen Giles ( SJA). Bookings to Pauline Kirwan. Phone 446 6135, 103 Birchwood Ave, Woodlands 6018. Full cost S65. Deposit $20 on booking. Cheque payable to M ajellan groups of Western Australia. Location of retreat: Safety Bay.

ANNUAL MASS OF ST GERARD Majellan. St Joseph's church, S alvado Road, Subiaco.

Tuesday, 17th October at 7.45 pm. Welcome all Majellans.

OPENING OF THE MARY MACKILLOP CENTRE

A healing mass in honour of St Peregrine, patron of cancer suftefers and helper of all in need will be held at the Church of SS John and Paul, Pinetree Gully R d, off South St, Willetton, on Friday, October 20th, at 7pm.

There will be Veneration of the Relic and Anointing of the sick.

For further information please contact Noreen Monaghan, Tel. 332 8292.

KOJONUP'S 39Th ROSARY RALLY Y ou are cordially invited to attend and celebrate our Rosary R ally in honour of the Blessed V irgin Mary, Mother of God, M other of the Church on Sunday, 29 October 1 995 at St Bernard's school grounds, cnr Albany H'way and Katanning Rd, s tarting at 11am with Mass ( principal celebrant Bishop Q uinn of Bunbury). Finishing 2.15pm with Benediction.

Enquiries Fr Brian Morgan 098 31 1135, John Kelly 098 33 1 229. Please bring own lunch.

Tea and coffee provided.

NEWMAN SOCIETY

The Mary MacKillop Centre at the Convent, 16 York Street, South Perth will be blessed and officially opened by Monsignor Keating on Sunday, October 15, 1 995 at 3.30pm. The Centre consists of an exhibition of photos and life size scenes from the life of Mary MacKillop, a place to r ead, pray and reflect and a shop where literature and merchandise may be purchased. All welcome.

CATHOLIC PASTORAL WORKERS' ASSOCIATION REFLECTION DAY Date: Wednesday 18 October 1 995. Theme: Prayer. Facilitator Sr Mary Berry. Venue: Convent of Mercy, 113 Tyler Street, Tuart Hill. Time: 10.00am to 3.00 pm (includes Mass). Cost: S10.00 p er person (includes lunch, m orning and afternoon teas ) RSVP to Sr Mary Berry (ph: 444 5750) by Monday 16/10/95.

Newman Sunday will be celebrated on October 22, with M ass in St Thomas More C ollege Chapel at 10.30am.

Bishop Healy will preside and preach and Mr David Kehoe, Editor of The Record will speak o n "The Importance of the C atholic Press in Today's Society" at the subsequent lunch in the West Tutorial Room.

Cost S10. Open to all interested.

COUNTRY DAY OF R EFLECTION

Holy Cross Parish is the host parish for the 19th Day of R eflection on Monday 6th November 1995, commencing 9.30am with Rosary Cenacle, c oncluding with Holy Mass at 2 pm . "Reconciliation" is the theme for the day with Fr Paul Carey (St Columbans's Mission Society) of Rivervale, guest speaker. B.Y.O.L. Tea/coffee supplied. Enquiries 096 35 1403 or metro 446 1935 .

THANKS

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MAY the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us . St Jude the worker of miracles pray for us. St Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us. Say this prayer nine times a day and on the eighth day your prayers will be answered. Say for nine days . Thankyou St Jude and Our Lady.

THANKS Infant Jesus of Prague, Our Lady, St Anthony, Our Mother of Help. Trhank you for helping me. Hi. D.

MAY the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved, honoured, adored, glorified and renowned throughout the world, forever and ever , Amen. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us. St Jude and St Rita, helpers of hopeless cases, pray for us. Humble thanks for answering my petitions.

THANKS Grateful thanks St Jude and God in heaven.

BT.

THANK you St Jude N OVENA to St. Jude (Patron Saint of last causes). In the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit Amen.

THANKS to Our Lady.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church Matrimonial Consent The parties to a marriage covenant are a baptised man and woman, free to contract marriage, who freely express their consent; "to be free" means: not being under constraint; not impeded by any natural or ecclesiastical law.

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The Church holds the exchange of consent between the spouses to be the indispensable element that "makes the marriage." If consent is lacking there Is no marriage.

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The consent consists in a "human act by which the part-

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ners mutually give themselves to each other": "I take you to be my wife" - "I take you to be my husband." This consent that binds the spouses to each other finds its fulfilment in the two "becoming one flesh."

declare the nullity of a marriage, i.e., that the marriage never existed. In this case, the contracting parties are free to marry provided the natural obligations of a previous union are discharged.

The consent must be an act of the will of each of the contracting parties, free of coercion or grave external fear. No human power can substitute for this consent. If this freedom is lacking, the marriage is invalid.

assists at the celebration of a marriage receives the consent of the spouses in the name of the Church and gives the blessing of the Church. The presence of the Church's minister (and also of the witnesses) visibly expresses the fact that marriage is an ecclesial reality.

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For this reason (or for other reasons that render the marriage null and void) the Church, after an examination of the situation by the competent ecclesiastical tribunal, can

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Church normally requires that the faithful contract marriage according to the ecclesiastical

form. Several reasons converge spouses may be a free and responsible act, and so that the to explain this requirement: * Sacramental marriage is a litur- marriage covenant may have gical act. It is therefore appropri- solid and lasting human and ate that it should be celebrated in Christian foundations, preparation for marriage is of prime the public liturgy of the Church; * Marriage introduces one into importance. an ecclesial order, and creates The example and teaching rights and duties in the Church given by parents and families between the spouses and remain the special form of this preparation. towards their children; The role of pastors and of the * Since marriage is a state of life in the Church, certainty about it Christian community as the is necessary (hence the obliga- "family of God" is indispensable for the transmission of the tion to have witnesses); * The public character of the con- human and Christian values of sent protects the "I do" once marriage and family, and much given and helps the spouses more so in our era when many remain faithful to it. young people experience broken homes which no longer suffi1832 So that the "I do" of the ciently assure this initiation.

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Liwara Place are holding a day of Prayer and Reflection at Liwara Catholic School on Sunday 29th October. Reflection will commence at 1:00pm.

R efreshment will be provided and afternoon tea will be served.

The day will conclude at 5.30pm . The theme of the Day will be: Winding Down and Preparing for Advent, to be conducted by Sr Mary Berry. For Enquiries and Bookings please contact June Tardrew on 246 1575 or Rosemary Zappia on 246 2375 by the 22nd of October.

BRUCE ROCK CONVENT RE-UNION A re-union for all past pupils (including music pupils) and anyone associated in any way with St Mary's' Presentation C onvent, Bruce Rock, will be held on Sunday 12th November 1995 with Mass at 10 am at St Mary's Church followed by shared lunch at 11:30 am at Bruce Rock Recreation centre.

(BYO food and drink, tea/coffee provided) RSVP Monday 6th November, Kathy Schilling (090) 611114, Fax (090) 611108 or Bev Dunstall (090) 611494, (090) 611594. PS If you know the w hereabouts of any former pupils, please contact them.

MARIAN PILGRIMAGE

COURSES STARTING SOON Tuesday OCT 17: 9.30-12.00: UNDERSTANDING THE SACRAMENTS, Fr Vincent Glynn (7 weeks) 1.00-3pm: GRIEF AND LOSS, Gerry Smith (7 weeks) Friday Oct 20: 9.30-12.00: MINISTRY, Sr Mary Berry RSM (7 weeks)

The annual Marian Pilgrimage to Wooraloo with Cenacle/Mass to be held at Grotto on Priestley's f arm, Sat. 21st October, commencing 10.30am. All welcome.

B.B.Q. lunch meat provided.

Bring salad, hat and chair.

Directions: 1st turn right at El C aballo Resort (1 hr from Perth), off Great Eastern H/way into Wariin Rd. Continue 1.7km, then left into Chinganning Rd, C ontinue 2.3km to farm.

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Sister Anne Noonan RNDM invites you to a weekend of creative meditation, painting, poetry, pottery No.2 at Mercy Retreat House, North Beach, Friday 3 November 7.30pm to Sunday 5 November, 3pm. Bookings now being taken. Phone Angela 447 8130.

Official Engagements MENTAL HEALTH WEEK

The annual Mental Health Week Mass will be celebrated at St Francis Xavier Church, Windsor Street, East Perth on Sunday 22nd October 1995 at 3.30 pm.

All interested people are invited to participate in showing solidarity with one another and to ask Gods' blessing for all concerned. Archbishop Hickey hopes to be present after Mass to meet people. All are invited to afternoon tea.

GATEWAYS TO THE INTERIOR

A programme to facilitate the learning and experiencing of basic practical skills to develop y our personal and spiritual growth. The skills explored are: focusing exercises, active imagination, journalling and working with your inner child. Presented

by Celia Joyce and Stephen Truscott, Fullness of L_ife Centre (Inc.) Weekend 21/22 October 10am-3pm (includes Eucharist o n Sunday). Bookings and enquiries on (09) 389 8550.

GROUP FIFTY PRAYER GROUP CHARISMATIC RETREAT

From Friday evening 27 October to Sunday afternoon 29 October, a t the Redemptorist Retreat House, Camelia St, North Perth.

R etreat Leader Fr Michael Brown, OFM. Theme: "The Human Face of Christ in Our Lives". Cost $78 live-in, all meals, $54 live out, lunch and tea provided. Registrations: Vi 364 4546 or 364 1718. All welcome.

APOSTLES OF CHRIST CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP

Willetton invites everyone to join our Prayer Day on 18th October 1995, from 12.15pm to 6.45pm at Sts John and Paul Church .

Pinetree Gully Road, Willetton.

This will be followed by a prayer and praise Mass at 7.00pm and a Rally from 7.30 to 9.00 pm.

The theme of the Rally is "Jesus: The Centre of our Relationship" and the guest speaker is Mr Philip Kok (presiding Elder of the Light of the Lord Community, Singapore). Coffee/Tea thereafter. All are welcome! For more information contact John Acland, Tel. 537 3390.

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EUTHANASIA, AUTONOMY AND THE "RIGHT TO DIE"

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858 Hay St Perth (near His Majesty's) Mon-Thurs Friday Saturday Sunday

Civic Reception, High Commissioner for India Monsignor McCrann Catenian Provincial 15 President's Mass, St Mary's Cathedral - Bishop Healy C onfirmation, Bruce Rock Monsignor Keating St Luke's Ecumenical Service, 17 St Mary's Cathedral A rchbishop Hickey Visit to Hospitals for Mental 19 Health Week A rchbishop Hickey Knights of the Southern 21 Cross, State Conference Mass, Ballajura A rchbishop Hickey C onfirmation, C omo/Kensington Monsignor Keating Fishing Fleet Festival Mass, 22 St Patricks, Fremantle A rchbishop Hickey Blessing of Fleet, Fremantle Bishop Healy Newman Society Mass, St Thomas More College Bishop Healy St Vincent de Paul Society, Installation of new President A rchbishop Hickey Prendiville Catholic College, 23 10th Aniversary A rchbishop Hickey Catholic Institute, 24 20th Anniversary Mass, R edemptoristMonastery A rchbishop Hickey, Bishop Healy Launch of "Josephites Go 25 West" at Notre Dame University - Bishop Healy 25 & 27 Confirmation, Hilton Monsignor McCrann

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OCTOBER

Members of the Newman Society and all Catholic Graduates of local, interstate and overseas universities, and their families, are warmly invited to the

ANNUAL NEWMAN SUNDAY MASS to be celebrated by Bishop Healy at St Thomas More College, Crawley on Sunday, 22 October 1995 at 10.30am.

Following the Mass there will be a buffet lunch at the college at which Mr David Kehoe, Editor of "The Record" will speak.

RSVP by 20 October, telephone 386 0111

What are the arguments for euthanasia?

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Mr Luke Gormally Director of the Linacre Centre for Health Care Ethics (London) since 1981. He has been a member of the Catholic Bishops Joint Committee on Bioethical issues for the past ten years. His publications include a recently edited volume on "The Dependent Elderly: Autonomy, Justice and the Quality of Care" and "Euthanasia, Clinical Practice and the Law".

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