The Record Newspaper 26 October 1995

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Archbishop Barry Hickey makes an plea in his weekly Perspective column on Page 2 for an end to ways of lobbying in the Church that borrow more from secular politics than the life of charity of the Body of Christ, the Church. The spiritual union of Christ's followers with Jesus Himself in the Church transcends the forms of political organisation that exist in the world, he says, pointing out that matters of faith are not decided by majority vote or powerful lobbies.

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Religions discuss Ti or

By Peter Rosengren A preparatory meeting for religious leaders of the five constitutionally recognised religions of Indonesia has been held in Dili, East Timor, to try to establish common grounds for inter-religious dialogue and defuse the religious tensions that have already caused riots in the troubled Indonesian province.

The five officially recognised religions of the Indonesian republic are Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism and Protestantism.

The apostolic administrator of the Dili Catholic diocese, Bishop Carlos Belo, attended the meeting which took place recently.

The meeting came just days before the Indonesian Minister for Religious Affairs, Tarmizi Taher, left to visit the Vatican, possibly to discuss the religious

and nationalist tensions in the former Portuguese colony.

Mr Taher's visit to Rome was planned as a reciprocal trip following the visit to Indonesia last year by Cardinal Frances Arinze, president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue.

Bishop Belo, speaking to The Record from Dili, the capital of East Timor, said the purpose of the meeting had been to seek harmony between the religions and had been of a preparatory nature. It had lasted only about one hour, he said.

The Jakarta-backed meeting had reportedly been called to address the problem of how to deal with the religious conflicts in East Timor recently.

Press reports have indicated riots broke out in East Timor in September following remarks concerning Catholicism, the

However, he told The Record drafting the Universal DeclaratVirgin Mary and the Immaculate Conception allegedly made by a that while he had heard what he ion of Human Rights.

Bishop Deakin said that one of described as "a rumour" conMuslim official.

East Timor is a predominantly cerning his nomination for the the major qualities of Bishop Roman Catholic country with prestigious prize, which has also Belo which had motivated his over eighty per cent of its popu- been awarded to Mother Teresa, nomination for the Nobel Prize, he had heard nothing else con- had been his "persistent efforts at lation counted as Catholic. inducing peace in his homeland, Speaking from Melbourne, cerning the nomination.

Bishop Belo was nominated for over against the awful tensions of Auxiliary Bishop Hilton Deakin, who has closely followed devel- this year's Nobel Prize by suppression that prevails beopments in East Timor, said the Archbishop Desmond Tutu of cause of the military occupation, religious leaders wanted to "sit South Africa and Irish human because of the Indonesians."

"He's done it persistently over down and talk through these rights activist Maired Maguire.

He has also been awarded the the years but even more so as madnesses that occur from time to time, like personally insulting John Humphrey Freedom Award time's gone on," he said.

Bishop Deakin said that over the Virgin Mary, as happened in for his promotion of human Milliama - that brought on these rights in East Timor, according to the years. because of his own the US-based Catholic News personal bravery, had gained the terrible riots among the youth." the admiration and consequent "Anything that prevents the ter- Service agency.

The award is given each year support of many more of his rible misery that all of this indicates is worth an effort," he said. by the International Center for priests.

Bishop Belo has played a key Bishop Belo was appointed ap- Human Rights and Democratic ostolic administrator of the Dili Development, based in Canada. role in UN-brokered peace talks diocese in 1983, was also recent- It is named after John Peter in East Timor, which was invadly nominated for the Nobel Peace Humphrey, a Canadian human ed by Indonesian troops in 1975 rights activist instrumental in and then annexed.

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Blessing of the fleet a booming, colourful success

Young Halo-Australian women, left, carry the silver statue of Our Lady of Capo d'Orlando through Fremantle before the blessing and procession of the fleet, above, in Fremantle Harbour. Bishop Healy, above right, at the festival of the blessing.

By Peter Rosengren Colour, 'pzazz', brass bands, national costumes, a parade, thousands of participants and onlookers and the best of Italian Catholicism in Australia. . . . it was all on display at the annual Blessing of the Fleet Festival conducted in Fremantle last Sunday afternoon.

And the centres of attraction were Madonna dei Martini (Our Lady of the Martyrs) and Madonna del Capo d'Orlando (Our Lady of Capo d'Orlando).

The two statues of Our Lady wound their way in procession with thousands of followers from St Patrick's basilica church in Adelaide Street down to the waterfront where fishing boats and other gaily decorated craft bobbed gently on the water.

On a bright late-spring afternoon it was a special blessing from God, the interces-

sion of a Queen and the protection of a Mother which was being sought for the fishing fleet - a fleet which not only provides an honourable livelihood for those who sail in it but which provides a significant addition to the Western Australian economy.

Bishop Robert Healy, Auxiliary Bishop of Perth, was present to conduct the blessing.

His boat led a flotilla of more than thirty ocean-going fishing boats around Fremantle harbour as the benedictions and blessings were made. Many of the boats are named to honour the Mother of God. This year's honoured vessels, chosen to carry the statues, were the Leo Maria owned by brothers Angelo and Giuseppe Paparella (carrying Our Lady of Martyrs), and the Karumba, owned by Michele Azzollini, which carried Our Lady of Cape d'Orlando. Among the favours being

asked of Our Lady were those of blessings for the fishermen and a plentiful harvest for the coming year.

And why not? Earning a living from the sea is as old as humanity and has always carried the constant threat of death.

The festival saw the joyful and proud participation also of the Portuguese whom, it scarcely needs to be said, are great fishermen as well.

Forty seven years ago a group of migrants from the Italian coastal town of Molfetta first staged the blessing of the fleet, following a tradition stretching back to the 12th century. As last Sunday's procession snaked through the old streets, a constant stream of Ave Maria's and hymns to the Blessed Virgin poured forth, alternately drowned out by brass hands or bagpipes. Only the Japanese tourists looked slightly mystified.

Some aspects of the festival are preChristian. As the procession wound its way towards the harbour loud, sudden, explosions rocked the city and scared flocks of screaming seagulls into the bright skies above. The explosions, he explained enthusiastically, came from the ancient practice of warding away the evil spirits from the fleet.

The explosions may or may not have scared the evil spirits away. They scared the living daylights out of certain journalists, much to the amusement of some.

But it was a great day and a great display of simple faith and national character as well, which ultimately emphasised the timeless quality of a Queen's motherly love and the faith of generations. One felt a connection in the Antipodes, however remote, with the former ramparts of Christendom in Europe.

Politics not a good model for the Church After my strong words in last week's Record about the need for members of the Church to treat each other with charity and respect, even when they disagree, I would like to say a few more things about the nature of the Church.

The first thing I wish to point out is that the model of politics is not a good model for the Church.

Some politicking within the Church is unavoidable, people being what they are. It goes on at parish level, at Diocesan and national level, and, notoriously, in Rome itself.

The Church transcends all political bodies. It is a community, even a "communion" of those who have committed themselves to follow Jesus in a life of continual conversion. It is the union of

His followers with one another as brothers and sisters, bound by links of common belief and mutual love. It is a deep spiritual union of Christ's followers with Jesus Himself, which St Paul referred to as the Body of Christ.

The Church has a body of teaching and a Teaching Authority. It has a central Act of Worship, the Eucharistic Sacrifice of the Mass in which Jesus' offering of Himself for the salvation of the world is made present to us in the Sacred Liturgy.

I could go on, describing the mystery of the Church in a hundred different ways, but what I have said already places it beyond any mere political body of human origin. If that is all it was, it would have collapsed ages ago.

Of course there will be lobbies in the Church for change as there are in political bodies. There will be calls for more democratic structures and for a greater say in Church affairs by lay people.

Reading the debates and the back room manoeuvring that went on in the Second Vatican Council, one can see divisions and different points of view that existed among the Bishops and their advisers at the time.

Nevertheless, what emerged was a collection of decrees that spoke to the modern world in contemporary language, but firmly within the age-old teachings of the Church.

The guidance of the Holy Spirit was clearly evident in the final outcome. The guidance of the Spirit cannot be guaranteed in

Cameron is 'feigning' co cern: MP

By Peter Rosengren A Catholic federal Labor MP has accused Perth federal Liberal parliamentarian, Eoin Cameron, of crassly seeking publicity at the Pope's expense by writing a letter to Pope John Paul complaining about Prime Minister Paul Keating's reference to the Pope's recent American tour.

Mr Cameron led a group of 17 federal Coalition MPs who call themselves the "Class of 1993" in writing to the Pope seeking clarification regarding the Church's position on Australian Catholics' freedom to vote for whoever they wish at the next election.

Mr Keating took the opportunity of the Pope's refusal to meet with US conservative Republican leaders Robert Dole and Newt Gingrich during his American visit (officially because the Pope does not meet Opposition leaders in democratic countries) to claim the Pope would similarly disapprove of conservative policies espoused by Opposition Leader John Howard and the Coalition parties.

The letter, complaining about what the politicians call Mr Keating's attempts to drag the Pope into politics, urges Pope John Paul to reassure Catholics that they are as free to vote for the Coalition at the next election as they are for the Labor Party.

However NSW Labor MP, Mary Easson, who, like Mr Cameron is a

the operations of a purely political body. Only the Church can have that confidence.

That is why matters of faith cannot be decided by majority vote, or by powerful lobbies.

Take, for instance, the strong pressure the Church is under at present to "update" its teaching on divorce, or contraception or homosexual acts.

These issues cannot be resolved by polling or first-pastthe-post votes. While the insights of the people about faith and life must be taken into account, because the Holy Spirit is active throughout the whole Church, the resolution of these matters finally has to be made in the light of Scripture and Tradition, by those to whom the protection and proclamation of the Faith is

Collie Catholic College is very much a fam- lege throws its hat in the ring for every comily college because of its close knit country petition going in math's, science, writing, setting and also because two families have music, art, drama, public speaking and debatexcelled in the field of mathematics and sport. ing and, significantly, has had numerous sucSince their arrival from Malaysia several cesses. years ago, the Lee brothers have been eduThe Westpac mathematics proved a good cated at CCC and, for two years running, the forum to display the school's ability when boys have topped the state in the Westpac Michael Lee last year won the Professor mathematics competition. Michael won last Neumann Award for a perfect score, the only year, and again this year with brother Jason one achieved. This year the Lee brothers from Year 7 topped the state, receiving medals for excelIn sport, Chris Pike of Year 9, and his sister lence. Out of a total of 542,000 entries from Kelly in Year 10, were chosen to participate in within Australia and neighbouring Pacific the national cross country championships in countries, about 41 medals were awarded.

Tasmania.

Meanwhile younger brother Alex Lee, in High achievement is encouraged under the Year 6, was a prize winner in this year's comleadership of principal, Sister Therese Marie petition along with five other students, while Fleming who believes that when you have a Belinda Waycott of Year 8, "flag raising for the combination of a good school atmosphere, girl" was also a prize winner. the high degree of motivation the school fosBack on the sporting field, four students ters, and the non-threatening family atmos- were selected to represent WA in hockey, basphere which pervades at the school, then the ketball and the cross- country championships chances of success are high. in Tasmania.

Despite the relatively low numbers at this Despite the battle of small country schools comparatively small country school, with 270 to get resources to go ahead, their students students from pre-primary to year 10, the col- continue to do extremely well.

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given, that is, by Peter and the Apostles and their successors, the Holy Father and the Bishops of the Church.

High achievers at Collie Catholic College, left, brother and sister Chris (Year 9) and Kelly Pike (Year 10) who participated in the national cross-country championships in Tasmania; and Westpac Maths Competition Prize winners Belinda Waycoff (Year 8) and Michael (Year 9) and Jason Lee (Year 7)

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Catholic, thought Mr Cameron was merely feigning concern about the issue. She said on the one hand he was objecting to the Prime Minister's comments on the grounds that it dragged the Pope into domestic political debate "but then he is crassly seeking publicity for himself, perhaps at the expense of His Holiness, in terms of making a cheap political stunt by purporting to write in concerned tones to His Holiness about the incident." "I suspect he's making more mileage out of it than really is necessary," she said.

Mr Cameron's group said they were "appalled by the Prime Minister's attempt to harness the power of the Catholic faith for his own political purposes." The letter also says the unity of a tolerant non-sectarian Australian society was now threatened by "the Prime Minister's hijacking of Catholicism for party political ends, an act which threatens to reignite sectarianism in this country."

Mrs Easson said voters at the next election would largely make their decisions on the policy differences between the Government and the Opposition and that, perhaps, the Catholics would also be taking issues such as compassion and social justice into account.

However, on the basis of previous statements by Pope John Paul on social justice issues, she added, it had been a reasonable conclusion on Mr Keating's part that the question of compassion and social justice had been the basis of his refusal to meet the Republicans.

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Chisholm student 'eats his way to the top'

By Colleen McCuiness-Howard A most impressive practical and creative arts exhibition at Chisholm College's junior campus, has just been held, embracing work by some very talented students from Years 8 to 12 inclusive.

In fact, looking at the outstanding work in many areas, and most definitely in the woodworking and steel displays of top professional quality products, it's rather astounding to realise our children are so very, very talented!

Some have made their own beds, lamps, clock settings, a chess table with the student's own turned plastic pieces set on an inset chess board (illuminated from underneath) in a wooden table, to name a tiny few.

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Life Chain set for Nov 4 Archbishop Hickey commissions John Meahan as state President as Willagee parish priest, Fr Lyons, looks on.

New Society of St Vincent de member for 33 years, was reminder against becoming Paul State President Mr John inducted as state president in complacent.

He hoped members would be Meahan last Sunday urged all front of a full congregation.

Mr Meahan said the Society able to conduct debate in an members of the Society to keep an open mind and to focus on should encourage young peo- atmosphere of charity and the Society's objectives in all ple in the community to join the respect.

"If this is the message that Society and use their talents their actions. comes out of conflict, (then) it Speaking at his commission- and energy to best advantage.

SW national president, Mick does serve a purpose. Let us ing ceremony at Our Lady Queen of Peace church in Smith, thanked outgoing state always return to the concept of Willagee, Mr Meahan said president Garry Lambe for his family, where in a solid family members should never lose significant contribution during every member is loved, every sight of the Society's aims of the past five years - often under member is wanted and, most importantly, every member is helping the needy and under- difficult circumstances.

He said Vincentians should forgiven," Mr Smith said. privileged in the community.

"The family unit is a reservoir "The bottom line is everything learn from recent internal conwe do must always be for the flict in the Society. He hoped of love overflowing into the benefit of the needy families we past disagreements was the Church. into the community Holy Spirit's way of shaking and into the world. assist," he said.

"Let us, as a Society. help keep Archbishop Barry Hickey members out of their lethargy inducted Mr Meahan, a Society and the conflict was useful as a the reservoir overflowing."

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So many women came forward as a response to the cemetery who needed healing, forgiveness and peace."

Mr Egan said a new placard to be used this year would read "No Euthanasia: kill the pain not the patient". He said the passing of the Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill in the Northern Territory has lead to a flurry of attempts to pass euthanasia bills in other states.

Although the Coalition is ecumenical it particularly appreciates the consistent support of Catholic Archbishop Hickey who has attended each Life Chain and plans to be at this year's also, Mr Egan added.

The Life Chain will run from llam to 12 noon and be followed by a Family Fair, which will include activities for the children, pro-life educational material suitable for the entire family, and a sausage sizzle.

"Iwanted to be sure Mum was happy with her funeral.

So I asked her."

Catholic Institute of WA director Sister Eleanor Carter receives a certificate to mar* her having been made a Fellow of the WA institute of Educational Administration last Tuesday from the principal of Corpus Christi College, Bateman, as part of the celebrations at the Redemptorist Monastery, North Perth, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Institute.

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A larger turnout than in previous years is expected at the Life Chain being organised by the Coalition for the Defence of Human Life for Saturday, November 4th.

The Life Chain involves hundreds of Christians and other prolifers lining up along the Causeway and Riverside Drive holding placards expressing their commitment to life. In pervious years placards have read "Abortion kills children" and "Jesus heals and forgives."

Coalition secretary Richard Egan said this week these messages were more pertinent than ever this year.

"The abortion debate in Australia is entering a new phase. We are hearing more from those who have experienced abortion, and from some feminists, about the damage abortion does to women's wellbeing. "Last year we set up the Cemetery of the Innocents, when nine thousand crosses were erected on the Esplanade, and later at St Mary's Cathedral, in memory of the

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['96 Youth Convention looms TOMORROW TODAY

By Bruce Downes. Director Catholic Youth and Young Adult Ministry Planning for the sixth annual Youth Convention is well underway at the Catholic Youth Ministry Office in North Perth.

The convention will be titled Seize the Day. It will run for seven nights and six days commencing on Sunday January 14 next year and concluding on Saturday January 20 with a public closing.

Seize the Day is open to anyone who is turning 16 in 1996 or who is going into year 11 at school.

The convention will once again be held at Aquinas College in Manning. The Christian Brothers are tremendous supporters of this event and have over the years assisted in its development.

The convention planning team has been meeting for the past three months to consider various organisational details from accommodation and catering to the program, topics and speakers.

The convention program is packed with different activities everyday, both at Aquinas College and at other places around Perth.

The speakers at Seize the Day are among the best speakers to have been invited in recent years.

After the impact of Janine Milicich at the 1994 Beyond the Call youth convention, Janine has been invited back. Janine has a wonderful, personal style that will endear her to all those who attend.

For the first time Mark Ratajczak, a past delegate of many of the youth conventions, will join Janine Milicich. Mark has a wild sense of humour and will entertain all who attend.

Also coming back for a second time is Sr Pam Williamson from Sydney. Sr Pam, who is a trained counsellor with many years experience in youth ministry, was also an important member of our speaking team. Sr Pam, a Salesian sister, is bringing with her from Sydney another sister and a priest from her order to assist in the running of the convention.

Myself, as director of the Catholic Youth and Young Adult Ministry in Perth will make up the final member of the keynote speakers.

The recently formed Performing Arts Ministry has been hard at work planning various activities for the convention. The directors of PAM have been meeting on a regular basis to plan the best music and drama to be seen at a convention yet.

Promotions throughout the Archdiocese are about to get

Convention delegates in St Mary's Cathedral at a previous convention underway with the release of posters and the convention registration form. For only the second time a promotional video will also be released to give those who have not attended in the past a better understanding of the event. Also, regular updates

as to the progress in organising the convention will be released on this page of The Record when available. Also the convention 1'Shirt will available from the youth ministry office.

You can commence registering now. This way you will more likely receive your first choices. Just send in your registration form and a deposit of $40.

How you can help Feeding 300 to 400 young people for a week is an extremely expensive exercise.

However, we have been able to reduce costs consistently. With the assistance of parents, the cost of catering has been reduced by over 50 per cent from the first in this series of conventions held since 1991.

Mrs Nola Moyes has agreed to oversee the catering arrangements for Seize the Day but will need assistance.

Please contact our office if you can be of help.

The convention planning team is also seeking assistance from adults who are either magicians, have contacts with fun rides from the Royal Show, a three or four piece band to play at dinner, or any other activity that will add to

Drama will be a major feature of the convention

CHOICES 2000 A DAY FOR YOUR FUTURE

This is a day to help you make important decisions that you may be faced with in your life. Options will be discussed and support provided in a relaxed, friendly environment led by people who know what they talk abut and can offer follow up support.

Choose one stream Stream One: Relationships, Sexuality, Abortion Stream Two: Drugs and Alcohol, I've got the Blues, dealing with anger.

Stream Three: Living for others, work/unemployment, study.

the convention. The organisers are also seeking ideas and suggestions from past delegates or their families as to how to improve the convention with a greater diversity of offerings.

Also required for the convention are parents who can offer assistance in either the kitchen, convention office or the hall during general sessions.

You may be only able to offer a couple of hours once or sometime every day.

Please contact the Catholic Youth Ministry Office by either telephoning 328 9622 or filling out the form below and sending it to the office, PO Box 194, North Perth, WA. 6006.

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When: Sunday 5th November, 9.30-4.30pm Where: Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Hall, Rockingham.

Bookings (essential) and enquiries: Pat 593 4298, Steve 592 5679.

All 16-25 year olds invited.

This day is being provided by Our Lady of Lourdes' Faith and Personal Development Committee, Rockingham.

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Lunch and Mass with Us Come to the Youth and Young Adult Office for Mass and lunch with the staff of the Catholic Youth and Young Adult Ministry each Thursday at 12.15 pm 30 Claverton Street, North Perth Bring your own lunch

For you and those you help Vatican Rosary Beads blessed by Pope John Paul 11 People in former Communist countries are hungry for God. Over 100,000 people have requested Rosary Beads. They are unable to pay for them.

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The likely lads from St Charles Seminary in the kitchen: Rod Western, left, Wayne Bendotti, John Gartner, Chien Nguyen, Shane Beros, Phong Nguyen, Oat Vuong, Huy nguyen, Justin von Pereer, Simon Ramble (hidden) and Demetri Roh

a night of good food, fine wine and superb entertainment.

Finally an appeal to those young men out their in the parishes. God is continually looking for shepherds to guide his flock. Please consider whether He might be calling you? The life of a seminarian is never dull and though like anything it has its difficult moments, the rewards always outweigh the difficulties. God is never - John Gartner outdone in his generosity.

Mary MacKillop design search A national competition will be held to design a world class interpretive centre near the historic schoolhouse in which Blessed Mary MacKillop once taught a Penola.

The schoolhouse, constructed in 1866, was restored and opened to the public in 1989 as anticipation grew for the beatification of Mary MacKillop.

It is now a major attraction. Visitor numbers have grown from only 1,500 in the first year to almost 23,000 during 1994.

Present accommodation at the Catholic Church property at Penola, housing the school, church and presbytery, is unable to cope with the pressure of expected growth as the canonisation of Mary MacKillop approaches.

Archbishop Leonard Faulkner said the Archdiocese of Adelaide had agreed in principle to construct an Interpretive/Administration Centre and the addition of a Mary MacKillop Shrine to the Penola Church.

"The Centre will provide for the needs of visitors and the promotion of a sensitive and thorough interpretation of the life and work of Mary MacKillop," he said.

The competition is sponsored by the Catholic Church Endowment Society Inc. and has gained early sponsorship and support from the SA Tourism Commission which has pledged $70,000 to assist the development of the facility.

The competition will be open to all architects registered to practice in Australia.

All correspondence and enquiries should be made to Mr Ron Greenrod, Manager Property and Competition Executive Officer, GPO Box 1364, Adelaide 5001.

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Friday the 6th of October, saw the the social extravaganza of the year, now known as "An evening with the seminarians". The idea of this dinner, like last year, is to raise money for the St Charles Seminary student fund Just as importantly, the dinner was also a chance for the laity to spend time mixing with these charming, witty, handsome, young men. It also served to promote the fact that, yes, Perth does have its very own seminary. And it was also

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To mark the end of Mental However, for many people, Health Week a mental health including those who are have a nurse, Maureen Ann Milling, mental illness, spiritual distress gives Christian witness to nursing is a major concern and it can be a group of people society and the a major cause of a person's illChurch have neglected for so long. ness and failure to recover.

Spiritual distress can lead to As a mental health nurse, I hopelessness and loss of hope spend my working days caring detracts seriously from a perfor people who have difficulty son's well being. coping with the demands of As a Catholic and a mental every day life. health nurse,I acknowledge the The reasons why individuals importance of spiritual well are unable to cope and need being in a person's health status. assistance varies from person to I am prepared person. Regardless of the cause When required, with their my help patients to of their problems, mental health of patients have the same physical, spiritual needs regardless backor creed their religion, psychological, social and spirituground. Often patients need to al need as anyone else.

As a mental health nurse I aim talk about their beliefs, doubts to ensure that my patients lives and confusions. For these peohave a quality that is meaningful ple I am a willing listener.

Some patients do have unrealto them. ideas about themselves and istic my with I do this by working relationship with God. For their patients to ensure their needs people, I am ready to listhese are met at the best possible level.

This may mean supporting and ten without judgement or critiencouraging the person while cism.

I do not presume to have she/he tackle their daily activito all life's questions to answers ties. In other instances, it may patients' spiritual my direct new learn helping people mean skills or to re-learn forgotten lives. When asked, I acknowledge my own religion and skills.

Sometimes patients lack the beliefs.

If patients ask for spiritual skill, knowledge or will to carry or spiritual susteguidance to needed out activities that are maintain a healthy and satisfy- nance, I direct them to those ing life. When this is the case, I who have the skills and ability to carry out those activities for the help them.

As directed by the Lord, I do patient. In deciding what type of care I give my patients, I am not hide my faith nor apologise guided by my training as a men- for it. I take pride in what I am tal health nurse, my years of and what I believe, and I pray experience and my patients' that in my actions I am a good example of a Catholic nurse. wishes.

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Order must take 'global view'

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard Two historical 'firsts' within the St John of God congregation have now taken place which have brought Australia into even sharper focus.

It is the first time a congregational Chapter has taken place outside of Ireland (held in Safety Bay), and in another unique initiative, Sister Columba Howard from Colac, Victoria, has been elected as the first Australian Congregational Leader ever.

Wexford, Ireland, saw the birth of the St John of God congregation in 1871 and two provinces were created, the Irish, and Australian in 1895.

As seventh worldwide leader, Sister Columba is responsible for her sisters in the Irish Province embracing Ireland, England, in the Irish College in Rome, within the missions in the Camemons, West Africa, and Pakistan; and the Australian province.

Originally the various houses were autonomous but they became an international order in 1931 and a pontifical institute in 1947 Elected as a result of the recent General Chapter, Sr

Columba's term of office will be for six years. And how does she view her new role?

"With some nervousness!" she exclaimed, but after a moment's thought added: "I'm also excited and humbled at the trust the sisters have put in my team, and me."

Expanding on that, Sr Columba considers it "a privilege of trust, and although I'm a little nervous about honouring that trust, I am hopeful I can meet that potential" - and adds significantly "but I cannot do it without God. "It is trusting God and my sisters and when I remember it is God's work, I can trust them and my call by God . . . and let my anxiety go."

Sr Columba is a practical, down to earth Australian lady with her sights set straight ahead in her forward thrust with God and her sisters. Her 30 years within her congregation was spent largely in Subiaco where she worked from 1965 to 1989, apart from a year's stint doing a Diploma of Nursing Education.

For 12 years of this period she was in the School of Nursing when it was a training school.

In 1989 Sr Columba became

Assistant to the Congregational Leader in Wexford, until her election, so she is familiar with the people and the terrain "but the position will be entirely new."

Asked what does she see as the challenges in her new role, Sr Columba responded: "The life of the Church - the people of the Church. To make a difference and to somehow address the crisis of meaning in our world - not just Australia - but the whole global context."

Sr Columba deems it an asset that her team includes two sisters from the Australian province and two from the Irish.

She said we needed to recognise that many are not as well off as we are, and we ought to examine ourselves on our own style and way of living and ask ourselves whether we are part of the solution or part of the problem.

She believes we can all make an effort to be a little less wasteful, to conserve resources, and that each individual can make a difference wherever they are.

"And by being Church!" she explained, by taking responsibility at grass roots level, and having the motivation to be aware of the challenge.

Sr Columba: new worldwide head of the St John of God Sisters

Palliative care, knowledge of rights, preclude euthanasia Following several requests, The Record here publishes the full text of the statement condemning euthanasia made earlier this month by Western Australian Catholic hospitals, doctors, nurses, and other health care workers. o t the present time there are a number A f attempts around Australia to legalise euthanasia.

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.

If we accept euthanasia, we are asking our doctors and 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.

1. Withholding/discontinuing life prolonging treatments In the course of illness, the time arrives when it is no longer possible to restore health, functional consciousness, and no longer possible to reverse the dying process.

The most that even the aggressive use of sophisticated technology can achieve is to prolong that dying process. It is in these situations that we speak correctly of withholding or withdrawing interventions that are not benefiting a person's life, but only prolonging a person's dying. It is in these situations that we speak correctly of allowing a person to die.

We all have the responsibility to take reasonable care of health and life. But in a situation of terminal illness, when a person is dying with no hope of cure or improvement of condition, then any

aggressive medical treatment may well be quite futile and excessively burdensome to the person.

Both the patient and the doctor are ethically entitled to refuse, or to withhold or withdraw such medical treatment once it has become futile and excessively burdensome. It is sound medicine, proper nursing care, traditional ethics, and should always be legally justifiable.

This is not euthanasia.

2. Palliative care Doctors have a professional and moral mandate to use every reasonable means available to free patients from pain and other symptoms that cause them to suffer.

The relief of pain and other symptoms has nothing to do with euthanasia. The purpose of such treatment is to free patients from the pain and intense discomfort that dominates consciousness and leaves no psychic space available for the personally important things people want to think about, say and do before they die.

The aim of such treatment is to liberate life, not to terminate it.

The science and art of palliative care has made such great advances that our doctors and nurses can now keep patients virtually pain-free until they die.

It may indeed sometimes be the case that recourse to proper palliative care and pain control may foreseeably but unintentionally somewhat shorten the life-span of the patient. Hence, when there is no intention to deliberately cause death, the shortening of life is understood as a side-effect of proper palliative care.

Such procedures for the benefit of the patients are morally justifiable and should be free of any legal restrictions.

This is not euthanasia.

3. Euthanasia

Any deliberate destruction of human life by neglect, drug abuse, suicide, or murder Euthanasia is totally different from the Is to be totally rejected by wise legislation. above cases. It is the deliberate decision to The loss of life can be devastating to parterminate the life of the patient. By ents, relatives and friends, and equally euthanasia is understood an action or an devastating to those who have taken the omission which of itself, or by intention, life of another whether by accident or causes death in order that all suffering intent. may in this way be eliminated.

2. After a lifetime of loving and caring.

The exact meaning of euthanasia is service and dedication that so many parfound in the intention of the will and in ents and grandparents, friends and comthe methods used. In good medical care, munity members have given to us all, one is using all proper methods to elimi- rather than seek to dispose of them as nate the distress of the patient and main- unproductive burdens, we should lighten tain all possible patient comfort. In their final days with us by showering on euthanasia, the purpose is to use lethal them the love and care and compassion, methods to eliminate the distress by elim- the best palliative care and every form of personal and spiritual comfort that would inating the patient in distress.

Euthanasia can be used for reasons enable us to give genuine truth to the other than the distress of the patient. phrase 'dying with dignity'.

3. Governments and all health care Convenience, expediency or material gain authorities should make it a high priority can be the motivation for euthanasia.

Legalisation of euthanasia would ask not only to establish well-equipped hosdoctors and nurses to live out a terrible pices, but also to ensure that future doccontradiction in their lives. They would be tors and nurses are given the very best expected to do everything possible to pre- training in palliative care which the wonserve health and promote the life and derful advances in modern medicine and technology have made possible. well-being of their patients.

4. If the community is brought to an adeAt the same time, they would be asked to quate understanding of the patients' and do the opposite and destroy life. We are doctors' right to refuse futile and excesconfident that the great majority of the sively burdensome treatment, and also to medical and nursing professions will find that contradiction unacceptable and keep the patients comfortable and pain free by proper palliative care, then -the abhorrent. medical case for euthanasia disappears.

5. We strongly urge all legislators to CONCLUSIONS ensure that doctors and nurses, hospitals 1. Any acceptance of euthanasia by the and hospices, can continue to be persons community in general would manifest a and places of love and care for our termireduced sense of the worth of individual nally ill patients.

We totally reject any legislative prohuman life. The life of each human person grams which would not only be legalising is of unique value to be protected and the killing of our patients, but also killing nourished by each person and by society in the hearts of doctors and nurses their as a whole through its laws and regula- sensitive dedication to the care and weltions. fare of their patients.

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New Norcia day coming soon "Interesting!" is the first thought that comes to mind when one hears that New Norcia Studies Day is on again.

Scheduled for Saturday, November 18, this fourth annual event promises to be of great interest to any person "with the smallest interest in the history of Western Australia!" according to the Benedictine's archivist Wendy Pearce.

Associate Lecturer in Church History at Murdoch University, Dr Rowan Strong, will present his findings on the New Norcia archives in a paper entitled Studying New Norcia, with an invitation for questions and comments, followed by group discussion.

Dr Strong's requested report was to assess the archives for their potential for researchers, primarily those in academic work

L'ellers lo Dance argument comes under close scrutiny ister Shelley Barlow speaks of a "long and rich tradition" of dancing in liturgical worship. The only example she gives, however, the dance commissioned by St Isidore (who died in 636) seems to have had a chequered and controversial history.

It is associated with the Mozarabic liturgy developed and codified by him, designed for Christians living under and accommodating themselves to Moorish rule.

The fact that the Pope witnessed a revival of this historic dance is no argument for the introduction of invented (lances in a country and culture which has no such tradition.

Sr Shelley states that the Fathers of the Church took liturgical dancing for granted, but the only one she quotes is St Ambrose, who could also be quoted on the other side of the argument. He himself approvingly quotes Cicero: "No one (lances when sober unless he is mad".

The passage from St Luke, quoted by him in the extract she gives which, taken

literally, refers to children's games such as hopscotch or skipping, is used by him elsewhere (On repentance, Bk II, chap.

44) in a purely metaphorical sense, where he speaks figuratively of dancing as a joyful responding to grace: This then is the mystery: "We piped to you singing in truth the song of the New Testament and ye danced not", that is - did not raise your souls to the spiritual grace.

He does indeed say of David's dance before the Ark: "Everything is seemly which is done for religion", but can we conclude from this that there was a living tradition of liturgical dancing in Milan in the 4th century? Can we also draw the logical deduction that since David danced and David is "closely connected" with the psalms, which were used in worship, therefore "dancing was an integral part of Israel's public praise"?

The New Catholic Encyclopedia in its long entry on religious dances includes not a single reference to Jewish or Christian liturgical dancing. Even if there was such an early tradition of what relevance is it to us in our present society?

We are always being told what "20th Century Man" (or "humankind") can and cannot be expected to believe or do.

Why should he (or she or they) be expected to endure what I repeat is the acute embarrassment of liturgical dancing, whether or not such dancing was done in the 4th, 7th or 17th century St Augustine, to quote another Church Father, declared that it is better to dig than to dance (Melius est fodere quam salire).

Sr Shelley is insistent that liturgical dancing is not performance, but I do not see how it can be otherwise. Singing can float down anonymously from a choir unseen in a choir loft, but dancing has to be visible or there is no point to it. Unless the congregation is required to shuffle self-consciously round the church, liturgical dancing is going to be presented - or performed - by a selected, visible group.

The congregation can be fully involved, worshipping God with mind, body and voice without doing anything which could be described as dancing.

Janet Kovesi Watt Claremont

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It is appropriate at this time to call on all priests and faithful Catholics to play their part in promoting The Record - our own Catholic newspaper.

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Bob Boulger Albany

!wish to congratulate you on creating a

ere are some comments on a letter about Internet from Arnold Jago of H Mildura (The Record, October 5) despair-

ing of the intrusion of pornography on the Internet.

What a depressingly negative attitude! I. for one, will never join the white-flag brigade, and refuse to credulously accept platitudes that tell us there is nothing that can be done to control electronic promotion of pornography.

The reality is that the Internet looms large in the future of education and many aspects of life, and provides us (the human race) with an unprecedented opportunity to make known to politicians that government can no longer refuse to recognise the validity of values that are fundamental to the stability of society.

The choice is ours whether or not we will continue to allow a small minority of pornography peddlers and crime promoters to insolently arrogate control of the Internet.

It is a challenge to dispel the myth of "difficulty" associated with technological innovation, to prove the potential of democracy in action, and to turn to good effect the influence of the Internet in society, including accepting the responsibility

Record congratulations

C ongratulations to Mr David Kehoe, recently appointed editor of The Record newspaper on the more comprehensive and topical presentation given to s long as the Social Justice Council articles relevant to the practice of the (Political Ethics Inquiry, The Record, Catholic faith in Western Australia.

Archbishop Barry Hickey is also to be September 21) does not become another congratulated as proprietor of this publi- pressure group, well and good.

Regarding the politicians that we elect, cation for these new directions, and particularly his column "Archbishop's these are a reflection and sample of our society and society is not perfect. The perPerspective".

He clearly understands the need to com- fect politician has not yet been born, but I municate with the faithful, and this is know a number of politicians who are exemplified in his statement quoted in doing their best to help people and young The Record of 25 May which says in part: battling families with young children to "A Catholic newspaper like The Record get by and they will be re-elected.

Perhaps the Social Justice Council would has to provide information to the Catholic people about Church life, about official consider establishing a training college for Church teaching and about movements in aspiring political candidates and training the Church and the world that bear on them to their way of thinking and stanCatholic practice and identity. It is both a dards. means of binding the Catholic community It seems to my mind that in 1995 religious organisations and Church bodies together and of nourishing its faith."

There is no doubt that Mr Kehoe and have to become politically motivated.

Archbishop Hickey are doing their part in Finally,I will look with keen interest at the

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Joseph Lemmon Waikiki

Congratulations again 1lively forum for debate on issues pertinent to the Catholic community.

You have provided an opportunity for both sides to present their views, as for example in the Enneagram debate.

The prominence of the Letters to the Editor page encourages such a vigorous exchange.

Many of my friends have commented on the excellent reading that the Record now provides.

It is readable, interesting and thoughtprovoking. It presents a view of issues within the Church and the wider view of the Church's perspective on issues of concern to all people.

We are fortunate to have such an excellent publication in our Archdiocese and I for one am happy to recommend it to others.

Tess Morawski Warwick Editor's note: both letters of congratulation were unsolicited!

Telling the story of 'Anzac' missionary work for 75 years

The Far East magazine as It is today

over 75,000 in the early every Columban missionary who folA regular visitor to Australian It peaked at settled down to a sta- lowed him. It recorded the stories of has and fifties Catholic homes, The Far East magof nearly 30,000. The their hopes and joys, anxieties and circulation ble azine of the .Columban Missionary moved from the pain, stories of living faith. staff editorial Society is 75 years old. Columban Equally, The Far East has told of in Melbourne to office 's Archbishop Father Charles Rue, who is currently - China, Philippines, Korea, countries 1923 since and researching the history of the society a house in Mentone others - and the story many and Peru Essendon, North in based been has in Australia and New Zealand, tells live there. who individuals of Victoria. of the development of the magazine Far East has The years, the Over magazine East Far The of story The over 75 years. is the story of practical missionary reported on the many forces, both and human in origin, which ome twenty years ago, a mission- activity by Catholics of Australia and natural on missionary and local impinge Zealand.

New ary priest in Africa told the story floods, disease, ecologialike: people the it compiles Gospels, the Like of the conversion of an entire tribal customs, relistarvation, collapse, differin cal people group. They took the Gospel message many stories of how and debt. It wars dictatorships, gions, message the hear to come places ent into their homes and community, beauty natural of stories told also has it. to respond they how and so traditions, their with it blending people, heroic goodness, of art, and missionary of presentation The that it became a total way of life for them. What they did the missionary work has constantly focussed on peo- success and celebrations, all part of called a living, ongoing "Fifth" ple: who they are, how they live and "life to the full."

Vatican II said the whole Church is what are the forces that affect their Gospel.

For 75 years The Far East in lives. This same style is followed both missionary by its nature and all are Australia and New Zealand has refl- in telling about the missionaries who called to be missionaries by their ected the on-going story of the go to set up local churches and the baptism. Its constant message has Columban missionaries and their people to whom the Gospel is been that, in a very practical way, supporters. As the Four Gospels do, it preached. The visual impact of pho- every person can participate in misproclaims life in Jesus Christ as the tos in the magazine has been a major sion: children, old people, educated core of its message. part of this form of conveying the and ordinary; the only condition is that the helpers have faith and want Within the first year of publication, mission story.

1920, the circulation reached 15,000.

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Features

The Father of mercies awaits The recent writings of feminist Naomi Wolf and Australian novelist Peter Carey on the trauma of women and men involved in abortion has accelerated debate on the guilt suffered after abortion. Cardinal James Hickey, Archbishop of Washington in the United States, argues that the only true spiritual healing after abortion is through the Sacrament of Reconciliation. ecently I was very moved by R the anguished words of a young woman who grieved over

her unborn child taken by abortion.

This is what she said: "When I was 16, I found out that I was pregnant . . . . I was carrying a child that was pure, beautiful and, most of all, innocent. I had no one to depend on. I could not depend on the man I had given up friends and family for. I did not trust my parents. Friends could not help.

"But probably worst of all, I did not trust in God, who had given me the privilege of caring for one of his children, a child that was innocent. But I know I gave that child a sentence to die.

"Counsellors convinced me that I was doing the right thing for me and for the baby. I had an abortion two months into my pregnancy. It was and still is the most horrible experience I have ever had. I do not say this lightly, because physically I have been through a lot. Nothing has had the effect on me that killing my child has. In my mind there are no gentle words to describe what I did."

These painful words, written by a woman who had an abortion, give concrete expression to the compassionate words of Pope John Paul II in his recent encyclical Evangelium Vitae "The Church is aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in many cases it was a painful and even shattering decision. The wound in your heart may not yet have healed".

The woman's cry, arising from the depth of her heart, does not ask us to agree with the act of abortion, for she knows all too well that this act is the source of her pain. Rather, hers is a cry for understanding of the pain that led to that decision and a cry to be healed from its terrible effects.

This woman expresses her

deep sense of loss and her need for healing in a uniquely personal way.

But she is not alone. Many women who have had abortions experience the same haunting grief. Many experience what is called "the post-abortion syndrome". Psychologically, many experts look upon the post-abortion syndrome as "a unique collection of stress and grief-related symptoms stemming from deep and complicated conflicts set in motion by an abortion".

In other words, abortion victimises not only the child but also the mother. For many, the aftermath of an abortion includes: the struggle to grieve over the child lost by abortion because of an overwhelming sense of responsibility for contributing to the child's death; intense feelings of guilt, shame and depression following the death of the child; the on-going pain of fragmented relationships, rooted in the loss of a child.

These relationships may contain elements of alienation, hostility, friction and tension that are symptomatic of self-alienation and separation from one's God. Only after many years pass do some recognise the wound and face it for what it really is. Others even claim that it never has to be Abortion: only the Sacrament of Penance can bring peace of mind faced or dealt with except as a decision "that was necessary at proclaims the Gospel of life to them. She expresses this trust clearly and compassionately. If by bringing a heart of contrition the time".

Yet, as Dr Vincent Rue, a well- there is a way to leave home, to the sacrament. This grace of known writer and speaker on there is also a way to come contrition unlocks an authentic inner sorrow for sin as an offence post-abortion trauma, states: "the home!

The way home is the sacrament against God's love - it liberates maintenance of a family secret of Reconciliation. By sharing in the penitent to accept Gods love. always exacts a profound emo- this sacrament, the woman who Surrounded by this love, excustional price from at least one has had an abortion and who es, masks, and projected blame family member". Also, human now seeks to be healed, shows nature teaches us that a loss that deep trust in God to love her, to are no longer needed. There is now no need to hide from onegoes unmourned and unhealed, heal her, to bring her home. self or from God. Sorrow for sin will not allow the human spirit to She expresses this trust by con- brings one to that sacred place rest. fessing her sins. By doing so, she beneath the shadow of the Cross.

Truly abortion is a "soul- implicitly offers an act of faith.

It is there that the grieving mothwound" to the human spirit - for She says in effect: "Lord Jesus, I er can finally realise, "The Lord through abortion, the parents know that the power of your really does love me. I cannot contribute to the death of their healing love is infinitely greater earn his love; it is a gift. I truly own children. Scar tissue may than the sin of abortion which regret that I destroyed the gift of cover the wound, but it will not destroyed my child and wound- life and, in doing so, rejected the eradicate it. ed and alienated me. In aborting Giver who is God.I now seek the The path to spiritual healing is my child, I destroyed a part of forgiveness of God. I choose not a journey of reconciliation. The myself as well". to despair but to hope and to also journey is especially intense for In listening to her own words, 'ask forgiveness from [myl child, those who always have experi- she becomes even more acutely who is now living in the Lord'" enced the Church as a true aware of her need for God's (cf. Evangelium Vitae, n. 99). home. For them, having an abor- grace. And the Lord responds: "In Embraced by God's love in her tion is like leaving home. The your weakness, my power reach- sorrow, the mother now can woman or man involved in such es perfection" (2 Corinthians understand that the very child a decision feel they are no longer 12:9). whose life was lost is helping her She accepts responsibility for find her way home to the Lord! deserving to be part of the her actions, aware of all the presChurch.

She expresses this trust by Yet, Jesus, through the Church, sures and fears that may have led penance, those prayers and

actions which signal not only one's regret and remorse for the past, but also a genuine commitment to a changed life and future.

In the midst of her penance, she experiences the Lord's healing love and the life she lives in God. She expresses this trust by accepting absolution. Absolution brings forgiveness through the death and resurrection of Jesus.

The penitent is welcomed home by the Father.

As the Holy Father said to mothers suffering the aftermath of an abortion: "The Father of mercies is ready to give you his forgiveness and his peace in the Sacrament of Reconciliation" (Evangelium Vitae, n. 99).

Through absolution, the penitent is reconciled with God and with oneself. These are not easy things to do for one has "a wound in [her] heart that is not healed".

Yet she can draw strength from Mary who reaches out in love and understanding. Mary reaches out to those who come to the foot of her Son's Cross, not to jeer and deride him, but to seek forgiveness.

The Mother of Jesus is a powerful intercessor and comfort for those who seek to embrace the child they once rejected.

Pain need not destroy one's faith, even the pain of abortion. It is a sign that one must return home.

The Mother of God is willing to walk with the sorrowing, every step of the way.

In the United States and some other English-speaking countries, a program called "Project Rachel" welcomes those wounded by the decision to have an abortion.

Trained counsellors assist the mother to review her situation in light of God's love.

They offer her a loving invitation to come home to the Church.

Those involved in Project Rachel are agents of healing and "promoters of a new way of looking at human life" (EV, n. 99). Project Rachel has already touched many wounded hearts with the message of the Gospel of life.

Those healed and brought home to the Church are living reflections of the Father's love. In them the Gospel of life comes alive for all the world to see.

May this worthy ministry continue to grow in the Church which proclaims, in season afid out of season, the Gospel of life and salvation.

Suicide not an option for the Faith-filled suffering and disabled

By Darci Smith

jee Brian Messana was 31 1 years old when he was told he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Angie Messana, a mernoer of Our Lady, Queen of All Saints Parish in suburban Fraser in Detroit in the United States, said that her son remained upbeat and positive, and "he couldn't even swallow the last four years.".

In fact, when Michigan's Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted in his first suicide, "Lee thought that was terrible," recalled Mrs Messana. Lee died from the effects on his disease on October 10, 1990.

Kevorkian, 67, has assisted in 25 suicides since June 1990. The retired pathologist will stand trial next April 1 for assisting in the 1991 suicides of two Michigan 8

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women. His last "client," Esther Cohan, 46, of Skokie, Illinois, was found in the back seat of a car parked at William Beaumont Hospital in suburban Royal Oak Lou Gehrig's disease, multiple sclerosis and severe pelvic pain are among the illnesses from which Kervorkian's participants have suffered.

Mrs Messana said she can't understand how people could have so little hope.

"It's wrong," she told The Michigan Catholic, newspaper of the Detroit Archdiocese. "Deep down in my heart I feel this way.

I keep thinking these people must be cowards."

Mrs Messana and her husband, Mario, cared for their son for the last five years of his life.

Immediately after his disease was diagnosed, he was put on a respirator. "My son was affected in his diaphragm and lungs right away," she said.

Within a year, Lee had lost his During the five years of his ill- supportive faith group. That is abilities to walk, talk and use his ness, the Messana family went to what has helped me - my faith." hands. For the last four years of Mass together every week "We Mrs Woodell served on the his life, he used his eyes to com- very rarely missed," Mrs Archdiocesan Pastoral Council municate through the use of a Messana said. Parishioners and on the archbishop's Budget light board. would "come by and give him a and Planning Committee.

"He was very brave, and he pat on the head, a kiss on the 'The people (Kevorkian assistwanted to live," she said. "He forehead. He was very well ed) who had MS have not been never complained." known. I think that gave him in my situation: I'm mobile,I can The former altar boy at Our strength." speak for myself, I can take care Lady, Queen of All Saints always Our Lady, Queen of Saints pas- of myself with some adaptive had a strong faith, his mother tors Father Art Fauser and things," she explained. recalled: "He wanted to do Monsignor Ferdinand DeCneudt, 'The people he dealt with had things," she said. "He had faith in now retired, would come out and no control over bodily functions God, that something would come visit him. and were completely tended to along and he would be cured."

"He kept saying till he couldn't by other people," Mrs Woodell His faith led him to Lourdes, move his eyelids, 'I won't ever said. "The only thing they had France, a year before his death. give up,- Mrs Messana said. "But were their minds, and I can see.

"He wanted to take a bath at I knew it was inevitable." where things could go amok Lourdes," Mrs Messana explKathryn Woodell 12 years ago You'd begin to wonder about the ained. He thought "that some- was found to have MS, and she quality of life." thing would happen," she said. "I too finds the strength to face her She said she could never conmade him promise that he would illness in her faith. demn individual sufferers for know he was OK," even if he did"I have a very good life," said committing suicide but she disn't get up and walk away. He nev- Mrs Woodell, a member of St agreed with Jack Kevorkian er walked again, but, "after that Mary Parish in suburban Wayne. "because he has no right to he became at peace," she said.

"However, I have an incredible assist" in the suicide.

Features

Seventy years prayer and sacrifice on the threshold of Heaven

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

et's face it! It's hard to have L had an exciting life in a worldly sense if you've been an

enclosed Carmelite - and mainly in the one convent - for 70 years!

But then who needs worldly excitement if you're in communion with God and your prayer life is one continuous offering to Him? And thus begins the story of Sister Paul Marie, born in 1907 in Scotland, the ninth child of Jane and Peter Kane who migrated to Australia in 1911 and ultimately had 14 children.

The family lived in Wonthaggi, Victoria and later settled in Newcastle, New South Wales.

Three children died early in childhood and five girls then entered the convent - three becoming Carmelites and two Sisters of St Joseph.

The Carmelites came to Dulwich Hill, NSW from France in 1895 and Sr Paul Marie entered in 1925, joining her older sister.

Entering in those early years when she was almost 18, life within the Carmelite Order was very strict indeed.

But Sr Paul Marie philosophically says quietly: "Well that's the way it was. It was part of the vocation and you knew what to expect when you entered, and you accepted it."

Listening from the lay perspective to a mini sketch of their enclosed life, especially in those early days, you would wonder why anyone would enter a convent knowing they could only see family and send and receive mail very infrequently, but then it's only those who don't have that

unique vocation who think like that.

It's looking at life from a different angle and surely Sr Paul Marie's view is fine and most admirable when she says in her quiet way without any hint of pretentiousness . . ."I entered to sacrifice myself for sinners and the Church."

In 1936, Sr Paul Marie moved from the Dulwich Hill convent to Auckland, New Zealand, to assist in the foundation of a monastery there and, after nine years, transferred to the new WA foundation in Nedlands in 1945, where she was once again preceded by a sister, this time her younger sister, who was a founding member of Nedlands in 1935.

Sr Paul Marie has remained in Nedlands Carmel ever since.

Described in glowing terms by Prioress Mother Scholastica as "generous, full spirited, always ready to help anybody, young at heart and giving of herself along the way," Sr Paul Marie is the second oldest Carmelite at the Nedlands' Carmel after Sister Francis, the oldest nun at 90 years of age.

Sr Paul Marie's younger Carmelite sister, Teresa, died at Nedlands six years ago at the age of 78.

Describing herself as a very reserved person, adding "I'm not exuberant," (but nevertheless with a decided twinkle in her eye!) Sr Paul Marie said she experienced intense happiness during her novitiate.

But then, inevitably with time, "misunderstandings and trials came from living together."

A reflective pause, and then philosophically "but I braved them and they braved me. And grace comes with a vocation to

help you bear any difficulties."

Family visitations, compounded by distance from her home town, meant that she saw her family only occasionally, but more of her two younger sisters, one of whom died two years ago.

However, 70 years of religious life called for an extra effort.

So, for her celebrations at Carmel recently, Sr Paul Marie's younger Josephite sister (probably the last time they'll meet) came over from Sydney with two nieces, a nephew and his wife, daughter, and grand-daughter..

Sr Paul Marie's focus seems continually on her path to heaven.

Referring to her past life with comments such as - "It's not much to look back on, but plenty to look forward to!" - you understand that the inevitable contentment, her well-spring of happiness, and joy, has come through her interior life.

It is a busy routine of rising at 5am, with 7am Mass "the highlight of our day!" plus visits to the Blessed Sacrament and prayer.

This is interspersed with a regular routine "of hum-drum chores," and no chance to have a little chat, apart from specific daily times. You would wonder how one could cope with the urge to share thoughts and the need to unload one's various problems.

Well the answer's simple for Sr Paul Marie because she finds her troubles "vanish before the Blessed Sacrament," and there's trust in her Prioress, "whom we can go to any time of the day.

"We know our superior represents Our Lord so when we come to her, we come to Our Lord."

Even holy, faith-filled sisters can have trials of faith, "and prayer

Nedlands Carmelite Sr Paul Marie: celebrating 70 years of prayer-filled life for God and humanity.

can get very dry, but we have to keep our confidence and pray for an increase in faith; that brings us to reflect on our Last Judgement."

Well, what about the highlights of a Carmelite's life?

Yes, they're there, and once again largely God-centred with High Masses, feast days, a sung Mass, and. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on the first Friday of each month - with just enough frivolity to keep life bouncing along when, for amusement, the novices dress up (with heaps of crepe brown paper for costumes) and put on concerts.

Still very happy after "70 years well spent!" this nun, who in the words of her Prioress has given

her all to God and He has given His all to her, is still an active member of her community, regularly working in the flower garden (her jams and pickles being sought after at every fete!) and taking her turn at allotted chores.

With a flashback to the past, Sr Paul Marie tells of her parents' great faith and generosity in giving up their five daughters to religious life.

Noting how the years have flown by, this soft little Carmelite who's used all her God given years to pray for others, quietly states as she turns confidently to the future in a peace filled voice that comes from being in union with Him . .. "And now I look forward to my Heavenly home."

Bishop warns of Australia's advocate of death

By Peter Rosengren he death culture views of T Monash University philosopher and Greens Party candidate,

Professor Peter Singer, recently came under stinging attack from one of the assistant bishops in the Archdiocese of Melbourne, Bishop George Pell.

Bishop Pell accused Prof Singer of being Australia's "most notorious messenger of death" in a speech the bishop gave at Warrane College, a residential college for students, attached to the University of New South Wales.

He said Prof Singer had for twenty years "never ceased to advocate abortion, euthanasia and infanticide."

Bishop Pell's comments came during a wide-ranging speech which he delivered on the general subject of the roles of the contemporary Church and the media in what he termed the "culture wars."

The culture wars, he said, were "an intellectual struggle, waged also in the media, but predominantly in the 3,600 institutions of higher learning with their

700,000 academic staff in the USA, with profound consequences elsewhere, especially in derivative English speaking societies such as Australia, and for the worlds of politics and religion."

"These conflicts touch almost every aspect of life in Australia, from the fundamental to the frivolous: the sanctity of life (euthanasia, infanticide), gender (feminism), race (multiculturalism), the definition of the family, children (blessing or burden?), the environment, the interpretation of literature, the writing of history and, centrally, the meaning of sex, with all the consequent differences over abortion, contraception and pornography," he said.

Identifying Prof Singer as an advocate of the death culture, Bishop Pell acknowledged he was a prolific writer and determined propagandist.

"His zeal for dispatching 'substandard' humans is accompanied by a great enthusiasm for animals, especially apes, as his 1975 book Anima/ Liberation is sometimes described as the bible of the Animal Liberation movement," he said.

Senate as a Victorian candidate because it is human. It is selfawareness, in his view, which of the Greens Party," he said.

Bishop Pell warned that all grounds a right to life. defenders of life should work "His colleague at the new hard to expose Prof Singer's mes- Monash Centre for Human sage and to deny him a political Bioethics, Helga Kuhse, in 1988 platform and public respectabili- compared the human embryo to ty for his views. a lettuce leaf."

However, he said that Prof Bishop Pell also opened fire on Singer's views were a mixture of the Monash bioethicist for what clear and confused thinking. he termed his "brazen endorse"He is a consistent and explicit ment" of infanticide, but said that atheist. Because he denies the this would not be acceptable to existence of God, there can be no the Australian people despite an purpose to creation, no natural on-going loss of faith and moral law, no universal human rights, decline. no key role for humans. 'The dif"However, the muddle goes ferences between us and nonProfessor Peter Singer further. For no good reamuch human animals are differences related to self-awareness, son "He is our best known philoso- of degree, not of kind,' he writes," that there should suggests Singer bishop said. the pher overseas, author of the a month after ceremony be a Bishop Pell continued his attentry on ethics in the baby would the when birth, Encyclopedia Britannica, a regu- ack saying that, "On some issues right lar contributor to quality journals he is clear headed; on others he acquire the same (limited) people." older as life to such as the New York Review of is muddled, or perhaps just evaBooks. In fact, this attempt of sive. He admits that the foetus is , Bishop Pell said that Prof mine to give him the credit he a living human being and there- Singer's setting a cut-off point for deserves was prompted by an fore claims that he and the Pope infanticide one month after birth article of his in the British maga- 'at least share the virtue of seeing was consistent with Singer's zine of the year, The Spectator, clearly what is at stake in the gradualism, "grotesque but still more plausible than seeking (on) September 16 which was debate' on abortion," he said.

"However he puts the human immediately to legitimise the billed: Peter Singer attacks the sanctity of life. When infanticide foetus at a level much lower than killing of babies up to two or is right, and by the fact that he is a chimpanzee, even lower than a three years of age, until they do seeking election to the Australian dog with no right to life simply develop self-awareness."

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Movies

Medjugorje story stars Martin Sheen

By Mark Pattison HOLLYWOOD (CNS) "Shooting" a movie is supposed to be a figurative term. You aim a camera loaded with film at the actors and yell "Action!"

However, in the case of "Gospa," which was filmed on location in Bosnia-Hercegovina, another kind of shooting was taking place at the same time. It was the continuing civil war in the former Yugoslav republic.

"We hoped to be shooting while not getting shot at," said actress Morgan Fairchild, who stars in the film. The movie was released on October 13 in a few US cities, with plans for a more extensive release to follow.

"We were concluding takes because bombs were falling" and the microphones were picking up the sound, Ms Fairchild said.

She described the night time curfews, the blackouts, and the discussions of whether aid convoys could get into the war-ravaged land that took place during the production schedule.

"I think all those experiences show up in the finished product," Ms Fairchild said.

The actress plays Sister Fabiana Zovko, the sister of Father Jozo Zovko, a real-life Croatian ethnic priest who was put on trial in the early 1980s after protecting the six children who claimed to see repeated apparitions of "Gospa" - Croatian for "Our Lady."

To date, no official church body

Morgan Fairchild, left, as Sister Fabiana and Martin Sheen as Father Jozo

has declared the visions authentic. Martin Sheen plays Fr Zovko, and Michael York portrays the priest's lawyer.

"Despite the religious setting, the dramatic conflict is between a Croat who happens to be a priest and an evil regime which happens to be dominated by Serbs," said a review of "Gospa"

by Henry Herx, director of the US Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting.

Herx called the film "an inspira-

tional tale for those who aren't bothered by questions of credibility or troubling nationalistic tendencies."

The USCC classified the film All - adults and adolescents for "some stylised violence and murky political machinations."

The intended target of the marketing is less Marian groups and devotees of the supposed Medjugorje apparitions than it is supporters, with vocations Sheen's character touted as a

Catholic priests come under unjust fire again in movies

By Nancy Frazier O'Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) - A bestselling book being made into a movie starring Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman and Brad Pitt is not the true story it claims to be, according to an attorney for a priest whose parish school is named in the book.

Author Lorenzo Carcaterra says his book, Sleepers, is a true account of his years at Sacred Heart School in the Hell's Kitchen neighbourhood of Manhattan.

Carcaterra says two of his classmates at Sacred Heart were acquitted of murder years later with the complicity of an assistant district attorney, also a former classmate of the killers, and the perjured testimony of a priest at Sacred Heart.

His publisher, the Random House subsidiary Ballantine Books, stands by the author, saying "he totally satisfied us when it came time to prove that this book was true."

But Thomas Harvey, a Catholic lawyer who is working without fee for Fathers Kevin Nelan and John Duffel!, said Carcaterra, his publisher and the film company have "recklessly disregarded the truth, sacrificed the reputations and good works of devoted clergymen and undermined the public's perception of the Catholic Church" in order to increase book and ticket sales.

Harvey and co-counsel William Callahan, a former federal prosecutor who now heads an investigative firm, have called for a criminal of investigation Sleepers.

"We believe state and federal laws may have been violated by Carcaterra's fabrication of a priest committing perjury in a murder trial fixed by the prose10 The Record, October 26, 1995

cutor to protect his friends," Callahan said. Fr Nelan, current pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, would like - at the minimum - to see the name of the church and school changed for the movie, now being filmed by director Barry Levinson for Propaganda Films Carcaterra sold the film rights to Sleepers for more than $2 million.

Fr Duffell, now at Ascension Parish in Manhattan, was an associate pastor at Sacred Heart at the time when the trial allegedly took place; he believes himself to be the priest on whom "Father Bobby" in the book was based.

"I know all the people who are the characters in the book," Fr Duffell said. "None of the things in this book ever happened. It is totally fictitious."

According to Carcaterra's account, he and three other Sacred Heart students were sent to a reform school in upstate New York in the 1960s after they seriously injured a man in a prank. At the reform school, the four were sexually assaulted and beaten by guards.

Ten years later, according to the book, two of the students had become professional hit men, another went on to become an assistant district attorney and the fourth, Carcaterra, was a copy boy at the Daily News.

When the hit men run into one of the guards and kill him, the book says, the lawyer deliberately sabotages the trial and Carcaterra convinces "Father Bobby" to lie on the witness stand that the killers were with him at a basketball game at the time of the murder.

But Callahan said an investigation into the book's claims showed that it "is pure fiction, is

role model for prospective seminarians.

Besides Gospa, "there aren't films that uplift the priesthood," Father Dick Martini, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles' vocations director, told the Hollywood Reporter, a show business magazine.

Discount tickets were sold at Masses and Catholic gatherings in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles prior to the release of Gospa, which was endorsed by

Cardinal Roger Mahony. Gospa also opened in the Diocese of Las Vegas and the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon. Premieres were planned for Minneapolis and Milwaukee on October 27, and the Texas dioceses of Dallas, Fort Worth and Victoria for November 10.

The chancery in the Diocese of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Mostar, took sharp issue with Gospa in a June statement titled "Falsehoods on Film."

Use of the word "Gospa" was an abuse of a holy name," it said. "A believer would expect a lot more religious content in the film," it added, but "there is little said on Mary," who "does not allow her name to be used as a commercial."

The statement said it was "truly regrettable" a film was made focusing on "a single living religious priest who was just born when others were dying for their faith and fatherland."

The movie also gives "a false presentation of the bishop," the statement said. "To present Bishop (Pavao) Zanic as a collaborator with the communists and as a weakling in conversation with a Franciscan while talking about Medjugorje contradicts all the bishops' public sermons and statements." Relations between Fr Sovko, who recently toured Australia, and the present and former bishops of the diocese containing Medjugorje have not been harmonious.

Movie Classifications

Here is a list of recent films the Jeffrey, 0 Catholic Judge Dredd, 0 States' United Conference Office for Film and A Kid in King Arthur's Court, Broadcasting has rated on the Al! a composite of various charac- basis of moral suitability. The Kids, 0 ters and ideas from other works, symbol after each title is the and the clergy and the church USCC classification: Al general Last of the Dogmen, AIII have as a result been defamed patronage; All adults and ado- Living in Oblivion, AIII and will continue to be defamed lescents; AIII adults; All/ Lord of Illusions, 0 as the book and movie gather adults, with reservations (this A Month by the Lake, AIII momentum." indicates films that, while not Moonlight and Valentino, AIII The only priest associated with them- Mortal Kombat, Al!!

Sacred Heart who ever testified morally offensive in casual view- Mute Witness, AIV selves, are not for in a criminal case offered testimony at grand jury proceedings ing because they require some National Lampoon's Senior against accused murderers analysis and explanation in Trip, 0 James Coonan and Mickey Feath- order to avoid false impreserstone, who were later acquitted sions and interpretations); 0 The Net, Al!!

Nine Months, All! based on the perjured testimony morally offensive. of a lay person, Callahan said.

Operation Dumbo Drop, All That priest never met Carcaterra, The Amazing Panda Advent- Pocahontas, AI he added. ure, All The Postman (II Postino), Al! Callahrn said he had identified The Prophecy, AN "the only student who attended Angus, AIII Seven, 0 Sacred Heart and sat in front of Apollo 13, All Carcaterra, and who went on to Babe, Al Showgirls, 0 become a lawyer and ADA." The BabySitters Club, Al Smoke, Al!!

That man "is also incensed over Batman Forever, AIII Something to Talk About, AIN the slander here, knows the true Species, 0 story and is willing to come for- Beyond Rangoon, AIII ward when appropriate," the Braveheart, MV The Stars Fell on Henrietta, Al!!

The Brothers McMullen, AN investigator said.

Steal Big, Steal Little, Al!!

Harvey and Callahan also said Clockers, AN The Tie That Binds, 0 a study of school records from Clueless, 0 To Die For, MV the 1960s showed that Carcaterra Congo, Al! To Wong Foo, Thanks for days of school only missed 20 during his years there, and had Crimson Tide, AIII Everything! Julie Newrnar, Al!!

Dangerous Minds, Al!! never been to reform school.

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, When an investigation by the Desperado, 0 0 Manhattan district attorney's Die Hard With a Vengeance, 0 office showed that no such trial Free Willy 2: The Adventure Unstrung Heroes, Al! Unzipped, AIII had taken place in Manhattan, Home, AI Ballantine Books said that "in The Usual Suspects, Al!! addition to changing many of Hackers, Al!!

A Walk in the Clouds, AIII the names and altering the dates The Indian in the Cupboard, Al AN Waterworld, in the book," Carcaterra changed The Innocent, AIII "many of the locations and identifying characteristics of people and institutions. to protect the identities of parties involved."

"For example, the prosecution of the murder case described in the book did not take place in USE New York County and was not conducted by the Manhattan district attorney's office," Ballantines said.

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Book Reviews

Cherished life for Merton fans Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation, edited by Trappist Brother Patrick Hart. Harper San Francisco, New York, 1995, 478 pp., $27 50.

Reviewed by Frank Allen ovelist, poet, Trappist monk - Thomas Merton is a man N of contradictions. Despite volu-

minous writings, it is difficult to know how to categorise this pilgrim of the spirit.

When Merton died in 1968 in Bangkok. Thailand, he left behind over 800,000 words of unpublished journals and letters.

Under the stipulation of his trust, 25 years had to elapse before his journals could be published.

The first of these journals, Run to the Mountain: A Story of a Vocation, edited and introduced

by Brother Patrick Hart, Merton's last secretary and general editor of the journals, covers three years, 1939-1941, just before Merton entered a monastery where he was to spend the rest of his life.

It is the first of seven volumes of journals that are to be published in chronological order with very little editing.

Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was born in France, converted to Catholicism, earned a master's in English at Columbia, taught at St Bonaventure's in Olean, New York, then entered the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky.

From the isolation of a monastery and later as a hermit, he

became a leading social voice in novel and mystical desire of a the 1960s for ecumenical and prophet to find "some perfect liturgical revival, inter-racial jus- city."

One day he's analysing Dylan tice and peace.

His 1948 autobiography, Seven Thomas, the next the Feast of the Storey Mountain, depicting how Holy Family. To this inveterate he found spiritual calm in the reader, maker of lists and lover of midst of Cold War and nuclear words, Walt Whitman and Emily anxiety, became a best seller. In Dickinson combined, rebel and 1959, The Secular Journal, man of the cloister, everything revised selections from his jour- has sacredness. nals, gave an overview of his The inner dialogue between movement toward a contempla- intellectual assertiveness and tive life. moral self-surrender, the need to Studying in New York (the jour- embrace the world versus the nal begins on May 2, 1939) and need to seek grace, is idealistic living in Greenwich Village, and deeply felt.

Merton was trying to get novels One enjoys the company of this published. (This first part is worldly humanitarian who sometimes called The Perry sought to heal conflict between Street Journal.) the secular and the spiritual.

"I am beginning to know," says After a trip to Cuba and work as a staff volunteer at the Friendship Merton in 1941, "more surely House in Harlem, the narrative now that there is nothing for me dramatically breaks off on but to pray and do penance and December 5, 1941, two days belong to Christ in poverty, in my before Pearl Harbour, with Mer- whole life and without comproton having received a 1-A notice mise."

This journal may not make a from the draft board.

Ironically, about to be drafted, case for those who wish to make this eloquent poet, choosing the a saint of Merton, but it does austere Trappist life, became one reveal a man for whom life was a of the century's great advocates gift to be cherished.

"Perhaps his best writing" is of peace.

'There's a huge gap between contained in his journal, asserts the monastery and the world," Br Hart, "where he was expressMerton said after his first visit to ing what was deepest in his heart."

Gethsemani at Easter 1941.

When all the journals are pubThe 460 pages of this premonastic journal, against a back- lished, it is likely that they will drop of political turmoil and take place with the famous jourimpending world war, is as pre- nals of Henry David Thoreau, cise as a guide book and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ed"Lebensgefuhl" (full of life), as mund Wilson, and perhaps be Merton refers to it. It combines seen as an American version of the texture of a Thomas Wolfe St Augustine's Confessions.

enigmatic activism and contemplation

The never-ending dream of work for every Australian Work for All: Full Employment In the Nineties (Melbourne University Press, 1994), by John Langmore and John Quiggin.

Reviewed by Keith Abbott his is a book long overdue. It T is a concise and highly readable account about the major ANT causes and costs of unemploy-

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44ezEmployment a mix of free market and government help needed

ment in Australia, and what strategies and policies are needed for a return to full employment.

Its central thesis confronts economic rationalists with the paucity of their assumptions when dealing with questions of unemployment.

It refutes notions that the free market constitutes the 'natural' order of things, that Darwinian competition automatically sorts out the best companies and working practice, that workers should be left to adjust somehow to the disciplines of the market and that governments should do nothing to interfere with these processes.

Langmore and Quiggin show how these ideas have influenced the conduct of public policy and business thinking in Australia over the past decade, and how the resulting processes of deregulation and privatisation have shown little propensity to generate sufficient jobs growth.

In so doing they draw on a range of statistical data to assess the problem this poses for the prosperity of all Australians.

Those out of work have not only had to endure the loss of wages, but also social exclusion, psychological distress poor health and marriage problems.

Indeed, the longer they have remained idle, the more these

problems have been compounded and the more difficult it has proven for them to gain work.

Those in work may consider themselves righteous and unaffected by unemployment, but they, too, have been blighted.

High unemployment has not only stifled economic growth, it has reduced the potential income and spending of those in work.

Promotions and pay increases have become harder to secure, and the more the employed have come to know people made redundant, the more fear has spread and inspired them to spend more carefully and invest more cautiously.

As the jobless have grown in numbers and come to rely more and more heavily on the state, budget deficits have increased and placed pressure on public expenditure.

Governments, both federal and state, have been highly reticent about adopting pro-active measures to tackle this problem for fear of doing anything that appears to interfere with the 'natural' processes of the market.

The end result has been a cycle of periodic demand failure, insufficient saving, poor investment and failing public infrastructure, with the economy levelling at successively higher unemployment equilibriums.

Langmore and Quiggin will have none of this. They are unable to contemplate a government, charged with the responsibility of looking after a nation's welfare, doing next to nothing to combat the waste of unemployment. They instead insist upon a positive role for government in generating civic collaboration as a means of advancing the cause of full employment.

To this end they advocate the need to overhaul Australia's financial and taxation systems, with some cautious but genuine government pump-priming. Funding for education and health should also be improved, as well expenditure on designated areas of research and development.

Other measures recommended include reductions in defence expenditure and the introduction of progressive tax changes that encourage investment and advantage the less well-off. The federal government should mobilise its resources to restore run-down public infrastructure and put people back to work.

It is not so long ago that this course of redemptive action would have seemed improbable.

Yet it is becoming increasingly apparent that the most insidious effect of perpetually high unemployment is the way it degrades all those it touches.

It is not merely reflected in the jobless trying to get through each bleak day, but in the way the employed are party to the problem. For just as those who hate are inevitably degraded by their own venom, so living in a society that accepts unemployment demeans us all. It denies our humanity.

Work for MI recognises this and the failure of market fundamentalism to redress the problem. Its strategies and recommendations thus appear more practical and more reasonable than any of its present rivals.

If adopted, they will surely evidence a return to reason and the pattern of successively higher levels of unemployment experienced in Australia in recent years may have some prospect of being reversed.

The Record, October 26, 1995

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Catholics, Hindus in dialogue

By Cindy Wooden

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In a letter to Hindus celebrating a major feast day, Cardinal Francis Arinze has called for closer CatholicHindu cooperation in promoting religious and environmental values.

"Ignorance of the teachings of our respective religions ... and Inattention to their injunctions have led our world to certain negative consequences," said the cardinal, president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue.

The letter was released on October 20 at the Vatican in anticipation of the October 23 Hindu feast of Deepavali, or Diwali, which commemorates the victory of light over darkness and goodness over evil.

It was the first time Cardinal Arinze had addressed a letter and greeting to all the world's Hindus; for years he has sent a similar letter to Muslims to mark Ramadan, a month of fasting, and this year he also wrote to the world's Buddhists.

Europe's last monarchs watch, wait, hoping to be loved again

By Jonathan Luxmoore

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) - In Eastern Europe, the idea of a post-communist return to monarchies is fading along with the tradition of a throne-altar alliance.

The return of monarchies was widely seen as a potential political option after the fall of communism, since almost every East European country has a royal Cardinal Arinze said Hindu claimant.

But attitudes have cooled in the teachings on nonviolence, uniyears after communism's colsix the and versal brotherhood even among churches lapse, human family "find an echo in as natural royal allies. seen once the Christian Gospel." "Hindu Most of the historical royal dharma (teaching) has always alliances were forged with the upheld the interconnectedness Orthodox. Catholic ties were between all beings and taught strong in Hungary and Poland. that the whole universe, with all When would-be Queen Ana of 'pranimatre' (living beings) in it, Romania arrived in Bucharest in is a single family," he said. October to tour Orthodox Christianity shares the view, but churches, it highlighted the onceInsists that the human being, cre- close links between Eastern ated in God's image and likeness, Europe's deposed monarchs and has a particular place and role in Christian churches. creation.

Her husband, the former King Whenever people ignore or are Michael, was forced to abdicate inattentive to their relationship in 1947, and his possible reinwith the created world, the envi- statement became a hot political ronment and people themselves issue after Romania's bloody will ultimately suffer, the cardinal 1989 -Winter Revolution" topsaid. pled communist nrle.

"Believers of all religions and Mobbed by thousands when he all people of good will" must visited in 1992 as a guest of an work together to stop the damage Orthodox archbishop, he was caused by air and water pollu- deported when he tried to return tion, deforestation, the disappear- in 1994, and he refused a subseance of plant and animal species, quent invitation by an Orthodox natural church leader for fear he would the depletion of resources and the problems not be let in again.

In Romania, the Orthodox caused by industrial and nuclear Church sees restoring royalty "as waste," he said.

a political issue and has avoided getting officially involved," said a spokesman for the Orthodox Patriarchate of Bucharest.

"Each bishop makes his own decision, and it's hard to tell how much the monarchy is supported among priests and laity," he said.

A possible exception to the cooling attitudes is the Russian The last Orthodox Church. undisputed heir to the Russian throne, Grand Duke Vladimir, died in Miami in 1992 and was buried in style in St Petersburg

by Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow.

In 1993, the Russian Orthodox Church's governing synod started canonisation procedures for Czar Nicholas II, the last reigning monarch, and his family.

Although there are 70 Russian groups lobbying for the royalist cause, general support is weak.

A 1994 survey showed that 12 per cent favoured restoration.

Eastern Europe's main Catholic claimant to the throne is Count Otto von Hapsburg, descendent of the Austro-Hungarian ruling family. He is popular in Hungary for his support of Hungarian causes as a representative in the European Parliament.

In 1945, a campaign to seat Otto on the throne was backed by Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, Hungary's controversial Catholic leader. But the ruling Hungarian communists never let the restoration movement gather steam.

Today, bringing back the monarchy is not a major theme. "The monarchy issue hasn't really been taken seriously in Catholic

To Jesus through Maly .

A Perth university student sent the following letter to his parents in Albany earlier this month after the visit of the Franciscan priest, Father Jozo Sovko, eager to testify to the graces he received upon hearing Fr Sovko's speak of Our Lady's messages delivered in the Bosnia-Hercegovina village of Medjugorje during the last 14 years.

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Mum and Dad, I realise "'I don't write to you very often; only once, truth be told, but the phone is so convenient.

But what I have to say in this letter demands a more permanent form of communication, and so I say it this way.

List night, I spent what may be the most important five and a half hours of my life at St Mary's Cathedral in Perth. The reason for this was initially because of one man - Father Jozo Zovko, a Croatian priest, a Franciscan priest.

Of himself, he has little significance. But when I tell you he is the parish priest in the village of Medjugorje in Yugoslavia (as it was), his name assumes much greater importance.

He is the priest in the little town where for the past 14 years and 3 months, the Virgin Mary has been appearing to a group of children. A place where the links of Rosary beads turn from silver to gold. A place where terminal cancer has been reversed and completely cured.

At St Mary's, he came to speak, as part of a crusade of prayer across the world. A crusade to spread the words of Mary to all the world.

And they came to hear him in their thousands. No place, no venue he visited in Australia was large enough to contain the 12

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crowds that came to hear him.

As it was, I was standing in an aisle for nearly all of the time.

He spoke through a translator, as he cannot speak English. Yet his words still drew the people, and his message came across.

This man taught with authority, unlike any other sermon I have ever heard. He was not afraid to say that abortion and euthanasia were wrong; he was not afraid to say that we all need the special grace of God. Yet he did not hold his audience in his own hands, he was not a charismatic man of himself, for people began to leave even in his first hour of speaking.

I firmly believe that what I heard was the teaching of Mary, and through her the words of God, in this man. I don't know if I can express it - his whole manner - any better than through Psalm 42: "He does not cry out or raise his voice, his voice is not heard in the street, he does not break the crushed reed or snuff the faltering wick" And yet I want to stress that people did not hear him; they heard the simple, one-syllable words that were the message of Mary.

I have told you all of this, that you may know the nature of the man I heard. Here is a man who is close to God, both in his heart and in body through Mary's presence at Medjugorje.

Here is a man who told us everything he had seen at Medjugorje, and how, while he was initially sceptical of the children, he came to believe as well.

No myth. No rumour. Words from one who had seen it himself.

And what words did he bring from Mary?

Church circles," said Father Laszlo Lukacs, Hungarian bishops' conference spokesman.

In Poland, when the bones of the last elected king, Stanislaw Poniatowski, were reburied in the Warsaw cathedral in early 1995, nationalists objected that as the reputed lover of Russian Empress Catherine the Great, he did not deserve the honour.

One Polish royal claimant, Prince Albert, visited the country in 1993 at the invitation of a student Conservative Monarchist Club. But there is a rival monarchist movement led by Grand Leszek Regent Prince Wierzchowski, a former communist. It reportedly prefers that the title of king be given to President Lech Walesa.

In other, traditionally Orthodox, countries, most surviving royalty watch events from abroad with little expectations of returning.

King Alexander II of Yugoslavia is an insurance broker in London.

Albania's Leka I was spirited abroad in 1939 when he was three days old. Now, he lives on a fortified ranch in South Africa.

Relatives of King Simeon of Bulgaria attended an Orthodox requiem in Sofia in 1993 for his father, Boris II. A monument to Boris was unveiled in Sofia on September 22.

Although monarchists have urged Simeon to run in upcoming presidential elections, he has said he can best serve the country from a safe distance in Madrid, Spain.

• • • a column of Marian devotion There are five stones we can all use, she says: 1. Daily recitation of the Rosary 2. Holy Eucharist 3. The Bible 4. Fasting 5. Monthly confession.

Of the Eucharist, Fr Jozo this: "Even Judas Iscariot took of the Bread of Life at the last Supper. Therefore you must come unto Mass with a pure heart, or else the tremendous gift of Christ's real body and blood is squandered, wasted."

And he adds: "A drop of water is added to the wine. It is us. And that drop of water is also transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of Christ. We become one with God, because we are united with him."

And if we are one with God through Jesus, how can we act any less towards our neighbour?

Of the Bible, Mary also asks that it be "read every day. That is the living Word of God. It is under attack from many sources.

Learn it, keep it in your heart.

And even if you only read one line of it, kiss it afterwards," for it is the Word, and "the Word became flesh."

It is Jesus who is in the Bible, for without his teachings, what is he? "Place it in a special place," she requests.

Of fasting, Fr Jozo says that it should not be seen as punishing oneself for one's sins, but rather as a sacrifice made out of love for Jesus. Mary asks that we fast every Friday at least, on bread and water.I once knew this road, and I abandoned it. Now I take it up again.

Of confession. Mary says that it in not an adjunct to our faith; it is necessary to it. For in that cersays

Fr Jozo Sovko Mary says this: that the heart can be changed. That forgiveness is possible. That to really love God with all your heart is not an ideal, but a reality. We have forgotten love of God; we do not remember how to pray.

Fr Jozo asked us to recall the story of David and Goliath. How King Saul concluded on mere mathematics that he would lose against the Philistines. So God sent a boy named David to teach him. David picked up five smooth stones from a river bed and slew the mightiest of the Philistines with the first of them.

Fr Jozo held up the rosary and indicated its five decades. "Here are your five stones: says Mary", he said. Mary's message is that through praying - and praying the Rosary - every day, anything can be conquered.

The implication is clear. If a little boy can beat an entire army with only five stones, with God's help - with faith alone in God see how much you can do with prayer!

emony is an encounter with Jesus. And it is through it that we learn God's all-encompassing love for us.

And finally, of the Rosary, Fr Jozo showed us that the way for it to be held was with the centrepiece in the right hand, so that it truly becomes the hand of Mary.

It is held as a lantern to light our way. And each bead is a drop of oil in that lantern to light our way. I wish I had time and space to fully speak of everything that was said, but I cannot. I will say, though, that after my retreat to New Norcia, I really understood what faith was.

And yet, somewhere along that road, I lost my way, through my own weakness. I had that fire within and then it was dampened. But now I have found that mighty road again. This time, God willing,I will not fall from it again. That fire has come home again. Or rather I have come home to it.

My final words are of Mary.

She knows that many dark things have been said of her message, that woe will befall the world. But she says her message is one of hope. It is the devil who spreads such dark tidings, making mankind frightened. But Mary is the Queen of hope and peace. If we follow her, we will come to no evil. If we follow her beacon in the night to guide our ships to safe harbour in Christ, we will be safe.

My beloved parents, please hear and consider all that I have said. Or not all that I say, but all that Mary has to say, that you, too, may find the path Mary and God is calling us to. The grace and peace of Christ our Lord be with you and everyone at home.

Greetings in Christ!

Your son, Michael

International News

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challenges Catholic health care

ST LOUIS (CNS) - New medical technologies, especially those that apply to the end of life, challenge the Church's consistent ethic of life.

Jesuit Father Richard McCormick, professor of Christian ethics at the University of Notre Dame, made the comment on October 18 in the inaugural talk of the Jesuit lecture series at St Louis University Health Sciences Centre.

His lecture centred on 'The Consistent Ethic of Life Under Challenge: Can Provide Health Care Catholic Leadership?"

Father McCormick traced the history of the consistent ethic of life, first articulated

by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago in 1983. It calls for a basic attitude of respect for life on a wide range of issues - war, capital punishment, abortion, care of the dying, genetics and sexuality.

"The consistent ethic, therefore, calls all

of us to rise above our one-eyed enthusiasms to become multi-issue persons always remembering that different issues are different but unavoidably interdependent," he said.

But the changing face of health care, as well as new attitudes toward patient autonomy, threaten the consistent ethic, he said, citing physician-assisted suicide as a "symbol of our societal problems in dealing with dying."

He called assisted suicide "a flight from compassion, not an expression of it," saying, "It should be suspect not because it is too hard, but because it is too easy."

Citing "the souring of the physicianpatient relationship" as another threat to the consistent ethic, Father McCormick said the problem was based on "the loss of a culture of compassion and culture" and its replacement with a business ethos.

"The Catholic tradition has moved

between two extremes: medico-moral optimism or vitalism (which preserves life with all means, at any cost no matter what its condition) and medico-moral pessimism (which actively kills when life becomes onerous, dysfunctional, boring)," he said. "Merely technological judgments could fall into either of these technological traps."

He outlined seven ways that Catholic health care could help to assure that the consistent ethic of life is preserved.

In a recommendation that he admitted was "bound to be controversial," the Jesuit theologian called on Catholic leaders to "teach honestly and realistically on life matters," acknowledging disagreements on such issues as nutrition and hydration of patients in a persistent vegetative state, contraception and sterilisation. "Failure to acknowledge such division or to dismiss it as invalid dissent makes the church's

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teaching office incredible," he said. Father McCormick also urged Catholic health care leaders to "be exemplars of justice" by maintaining their outreach to the poor.

"If we fail to meet the health care needs of the poor, we are undermining our resistance to physician-assisted suicide," he said.

"Failure to meet the health needs of the poor reveals an attitude, and that attitude is inconsistent with the one that founds our resistance to physician-assisted suicide."

Among his other recommendations were: education about the factors that lead to physician assistance suicide; clarification of the Catholic "value judgment about the meaning of life and death:" support for and promotion of the hospice movement; expanded ecumenical efforts in health care; and, avoidance of for-profit health care systems.

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - With a cease-fire taking hold in Bosnia-Herzegovina and a peace conference scheduled.

Pope John Paul II gathered Vatican and Balkan church officials together to plan for the future.

"Our meeting must be a sign to all that a 'tomorrow' is still possible, that violence and domination cannot have the last word," the Pope said at an October 17 meeting of bishops from the five nations of the former Yugoslavia.

Vatican ambassadors to the region and top Vatican officials.

As a concrete sign of his faith in a peaceful future for the region, Pope John Paul earmarked some of the royalties from his 1994 best-selling book. "Crossing the Threshold of Hope," for the rebuilding of churches and other places of worship.

According to an October 18 Vatican statement, the participants in the meeting outlined a plan of action for the spiritual and material rebuilding of the region.

Among other things, it called for the reconstruction, without delay, of places of worship in the former Yugoslavia as "signs of hope and instruments of communion."

A fund established with papal book royalties will be disbursed to the area's bishops and dioceses; the bishops could contribute some of the funds to assist with the rebuilding of Orthodox churches and Muslim mosques,

Two Bosnian nuns collect water in Sarajevo recently said the Vatican press office.

Neither the statement from the meeting nor Vatican press officials specified how much money the Pope was contributing.

Pope John Paul, Vatican officials and Balkan bishops said restoring peace to region will require much more than repairing buildings damaged or destroyed during four years of warfare.

The Church, the Pope said, must examine "what we can possibly do so that, in the light and

with the strength of the Gospel, we can help all people of good will map out a journey of brotherhood for the spiritual and material rebuilding of the peoples of the Balkans so that the younger generations can look to the future with full trust."

The first obligation, beginning with • Balkan Catholics, "is to make an opening for peace and coexistence," Archbishop Franc Perko of Belgrade told Vatican Radio on the eve of the meeting.

In addition to a greater cam-

paign of prayer for peace, the archbishop said, Church leaders must make "a strong appeal to all political leaders in the Balkans so that they do something, so that they realise the time has come for making peace, not war."

"Al! the peoples have had enough of this war; they are tired of this war," he said.

The week before the Vatican meeting, the bishops of Croatia met in Zagreb to develop their own guidelines for rebuilding their war-torn nation.

Catholics have duty to support missions, says Cardinal

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - With Christians making up one-third of the world's population, the Catholic Church "cannot wait until we have an abundance of personnel" to increase its missionary activity, said Cardinal Jozef Tomko.

"We must give out of our poverty," said the cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.

In a L'Osservatore Romano interview in anticipation of the

October 22 celebration of World Mission Sunday, Cardinal Tomko called on the entire Church to be generous in giving to missions.

Generosity, he said, is measured not only by money, but by the willingness of Catholic laity, dioceses and religious orders to send priests and other church workers into the mission field, even if that means additional sacrifices because of an existing personnel shortage.

"Our planet has five-and-a-half billion inhabitants, of whom only one-third are Christian and one billion are Catholic. Two-thirds

of humanity, then, does not know or accept Jesus Christ," he said.

The cardinal's Congregation is responsible for activity in the 991 Catholic dioceses and jurisdictions defined as missionary terriaddition, the in tory; Congregation is charged with helping all Catholics to he aware of their obligation to participate in missionary activity.

"There are regions and entire populations where the message of Jesus Christ has not yet arrived," Cardinal Tomko said.

Catholic missions have recently opened in Mongolia, he said, and

in some regions of the former Soviet Union. For the first time ever, a Catholic Church was opened this year in Nepal.

In other places, the Catholic presence is too small to meet the challenge of announcing the Gospel for the first time, he said.

Such places include Siberia, Afghanistan, some Arab states, China, India, parts of Africa and Asia. The reason for lack of personnel in those areas is not always a shortage of missionaries, he said; in some places missionary activity is limited by government regulations.

No election of priests: Archbishop VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The few Catholics in the Church today who advocate democratic election of priests misunderstand the priesthood and the nature of the Church itself, said the Vatican's top canon law official.

"The one who elects the priest is the same one who consecrates and sends him: that is. Christ himself through the Apostles and said successors," their Archbishop Julian Herranz, president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts.

Archbishop Herranz gave the opening talk at an October 23-28 Vatican symposium on the 30th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's document on priestly life and ministry.

The archbishop said the idea of democratically electing priests comes from a misunderstanding of the Council's basic teaching on the Church as "the People of God." in which all the baptised are called to participate in the priesthood of Christ.

The Catholic Church recognises itself and shows itself to the world as a "priestly community organically structured," he said.

It is characterised by a "diversity and complementarily of vocations and conditions of life, ministries, charisms and responsibilities."

"The priest is a member of the People of God, chosen from among others with a particular call to be consecrated by a special sacrament and sent to perform specific functions in the service of the People of God and all humanity," the archbishop said.

Throughout its history, the Catholic Church has had only one response to the question of who chooses and calls its priests, he said.

Those who try to push the idea of electing priests or who say a priest chooses and calls himself create "insidious problems for the Church and in the face of public opinion," Archbishop Herranz said.

A priest is "a man chosen by God from among men to realise in the name of Christ the mystery of salvation," he said.

The archbishop said the idea of the church as a democracy rather than a divinely structured hierarchy is more common to Central Europe and North America than to other parts of the world.

It "can be born only from a deformed vision of the very nature of the Church," he said.

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Conference says 'deaconesses' possible

By Jerry Fitteau WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Catholic Church can ordain women as permanent deacons, and this "may even be desirable for the United States," says a report accepted on October 18 by the Canon Law Society of America.

The report, three years in the making, said that only a few changes in current Church law all "within the authority of the Apostolic See to make" - would be needed to permit the ordination of deaconesses.

-The practical effect, however, would be to open up ordained ministry as permanent deacons to women, enabling them to receive all seven sacraments, and making them capable of assuming offices," it said.

Rome could leave it up to bishops' conferences to decide whether to permit deaconesses in their area, it said. Within a conference that decided to permit deaconesses, each bishop would be free to decide whether his diocese should have them.

"Women have been ordained permanent deacons in the past, and it would be possible for the church to determine to do so

Call for Irish synod WNDON (CNS) - Priests in Ireland favour a national synod to discuss priestly celibacy and the handling of child sex abuse allegations against clergy, according to a survey by London's Sunday Times.

The survey also reported that priestly morale had been damaged by recent sex scandals and that priests wanted more openness from the bishops.

The Sunday Times questioned 227 priests in all the dioceses of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

The results were reported on October 15.

Most said they were dissatisfied with the present structure of the Church. There should be more involvement by priests and lay people in decision making, said 167 respondents.

Satisfaction with the present level of participation was expressed by 44 respondents.

-The whole patriarchal structure of the church will have to change," said a priest of the Killala Diocese. "It is a totally male set-up. There is no way forward for us all to get together bishops, clergy and laity" Regarding priestly morale, 134 priests said it had been damaged or badly affected by recent sex scandals, and 99 said their morale had not been affected.

The morale of parishioners also has suffered, said 103 priests.

again,"said the 53-page report.

"Cultural factors," it added, "were a major element in the decision, in various local areas of the Church in the past, to ordain women as permanent deacons; cultural factors continue to be a major consideration in the decision to ordain men as permanent deacons today and would be a major element in any decision to ordain women as permanent deacons in a local area of the Church."

The report, titled "The Canonical Implications of Ordaining Women to the Permanent Diaconate," was presented to the Canon Law Society of America during the society's annual convention from October 16-19 in Montreal.

At a business meeting on October 18, the society voted

almost unanimously to receive the report, ordering its publication and asking the society's governing board to send copies to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and various scholarly and professional organisations.

The report was written by an ad hoc committee the society established in 1992 to investigate the question. Heading the committee were Sister of Providence Nancy

Reynolds, associate director of the San Francisco archdiocesan tribunal, and Father Harmon Skillin, episcopal vicar for judicial affairs of the Diocese of Stockton, California.

The report notes that for nearly 1,000 years prior to 1967, the question of deaconesses was scarcely an issue because the permanent diaconate had largely died out, and virtually all deacons were simply in transition to the priesthood, which was not open to women.

But the church's 1967 restoration of the permanent diaconate as a ministry in its own right has helped to resurface the deaconess question, it said.

The report follows extensive discussion in some Catholic Church quarters of the possibility of ordained deaconesses, a possibility that the Vatican has clearly indicated remains an open question, at least for now.

In May 1994 Pope John Paul II declared that "the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women," but he said nothing about the church's authority or lack of authority to ordain women to the diaconate.

In this he followed the approach taken 18 years earlier

by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The congregation's 1976 "Declaration on Women in the Ministerial Priesthood" said the Church does not consider itself free to ordain women priests, but it made no mention of women deacons.

An explanatory note issued by the Vatican in connection with the 1976 document said the document intentionally passed over the issue of women deacons because "it is a question which must be taken up fully by direct study of the texts, without preconceived ideas."

In 1975 a meeting of the joint synod of all West German dioceses had asked Rome to consider the possibility of ordaining women to the diaconate.

The Canon Law Society report acknowledged that scholars disagree on how to interpret some of the evidence of ordained deaconesses in the early centuries of the church. "The term 'deaconess' is certainly not a univocal concept" in Church history, it said.

But it argued that various sources give substantial evidence of the use of ordained deaconesses for ministry over a period of centuries, especially in the churches of the East.

Church teaching a service: Pope

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Catholic Church provides a service to individuals and to nations when it insists that certain things are right and others are wrong, Pope John Paul II told a group of Brazilian bishops.

Rather than toning down its moral teaching to avoid confrontations with modern culture, he said on October 18, the Church must respond to "the unhealthy confusion which many people feel regarding basic questions of good and evil," The Pope met bishops from the southern states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina at the end of their "ad limina" visits.

In his October 18 talk the Pope cited the "very painful" abandonment of faith and morals in Christian countries. The Church must continue to insist that freedom is authentic only when it respects the truth about God, human life and behavior necessary for peaceful coexistence, he said.

"How can a modern society free

itself from the growing decadence of its destructive behavior - including the violation of human rights - without reaffirming the inviolable character of the moral norms which must guide human conduct always and everywhere?" he asked.

Adhering to moral principles also has practical benefits for society, he said.

"When the idea of a universal truth about good is lost, it tends to concede to the individual conscience the privilege of autonomously establishing criteria for good and evil and to act accordingly," he said. In that case, each person has "his truth," which may or may not be valid for another, and makes agreeing on norms for social behavior difficult.

Pope John Paul encouraged the bishops to exercise special vigilance over the teaching of moral theology in their seminaries and to ensure professors of moral theology closely follow Church teaching.

"Opposition to the teaching of the magisterium of the Church cannot be considered an expres-

sion of Christian freedom or of the diversity of the gifts of the Spirit," he said."

"All the faithful - laity, religious and priests - have the right to receive Catholic doctrine in its purity and integrity."

Adherence to Church guidelines in the liturgy, while allowing for legitimate expressions of Brazilian culture in the Mass, was the topic of the Pope's to the previous group of bishops making their "ad limina" visits.

While the liturgy should include elements of local culture, the Pope said, it must never be so specific to one ethnic group that it sows division within the community or dilutes the universality of the Church expressed through the Mass.

"An erroneous interpretation of the value of creativity and spontaneity in celebrations, even if typical of so many expressions of your people's life, must not lead to the alteration of rites and texts nor, above all, of the sense of mystery which is celebrated in the liturgy," the Pope told the bishops from north eastern Brazil on September 29.

Gospel is not opium but dynamite, leaders told

FLORENCE, Italy (CNS) - The toppling of Polish communism and the overthrow of a Philippine dictatorship are lessons in how Catholic values can bring about nonviolent revolutions, said the leaders of both revolts.

"The Poles defeated communism through the strength of will and spirit," said Polish President Lech Walesa, who founded the anti-communist Solidarity movement in the 1980s.

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zen and person of faith," said Corazon Aquino, former Filipino president and leader of the movement that overthrew Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.

Both leaders said support from the Catholic bishops was crucial for their successes in the heavily Catholic countries.

Walesa and Mrs Aquino spoke on October 22 at the start of a four-day meeting in Florence organised by the Archdiocese of Florence and the Community of San Egidio, a Rome-based

Catholic lay organisation. "It is possible to oppose the power of a totalitarian system without recourse to violence," said Walesa.

But the peaceful revolt "would not have been possible without the moral support of the Church, without its great wisdom and Gospel principles," he said. The hierarchy's support "confirmed that the road chosen was right."

The revolt against Marcos "underlines the prophetic role of religion," said Mrs Aquino.

"The Gospel is not opium but dynamite" when proclaimed against a tyranny, she added.

Mrs Aquino said she chose civil disobedience because "nonviolence is fighting in a manner which Christ would have used."

"Nonviolent action stirs up social tension and forces the community to confront issues that have been ignored," she added.

"Let us kneel down and pray, then sit down and think, then stand up and fight," she said.

World Pro-life

Briefs

Spain vote sidelined MADRID, Spain (CNS) Through parliamentary manoeuvering, abortion foes say they have nearly ensured that a bill to liberalise Spain's abortion law will not come to a vote this session.

The nine-member Board of Congress, which sets parliamentary procedures, approved a list of more than 30 experts on October 17 to testify on proposed legislation and expects that these people will not complete their testimony before the current session ends on December 31.

The government-supported bill would allow abortion during the first three months if a pregnancy were to cause a "personal, family or social conflict" for the mother.

Currently, abortion is allowed only in the case of fetal deformation, rape, incest or a threat to the mother's life.

Businessmen hit WARSAW, Poland (CNS) - A Polish court has handed out suspended one-year jail sentences to three businessmen who organised abortions abroad for women wishing to circumvent the country's 1993 law.

Prosecutors said at least 200 women from various parts of Poland had paid about $400 apiece for illegal visits to gynaecologists in the neighbouring Czech Republic during the 18 months after March 1993, when the law was first enforced.

Mexico protest MEXICO CITY (CNS) Thousands of Mexican Catholics marched in Mexico City on October 15 to protest what they considered threats to family and fetal life in some of the positions taken by the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in September.

Organisers said the marchers were protesting references to the desirability of divorce, gender preference, and the use of family planning methods that include contraception and abortion.

Appeal rejected

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The US Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by anti-abortion picketers arrested under an ordinance that prohibits "residential picketing."

The appeal, rejected on October 16, came from 16 people taken into custody in 1993 for picketing within 300 feet of the home of a doctor who performs abortions. The high court turned down the case without comment.

The arrested picketers, who have not yet been tried, argued that the ordinance approved by the San Jose City Council in early 1993 unlawfully violated their rights to free speech.

A state judge threw out the ordinance as unconstitutionally overbroad, but a state appeals court reversed the decision, saying that the ordinance is a valid time, place or manner regulation of speech which is narrowly tailored to Prevent residential picketing.

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East Fremantle

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MAY the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised, adored and glorified throughout the whole world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus hear our prayer. St Jude worker of miracles, pray for us St Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

Say this prayer 9 times a day for 9 days. Grateful thanks to our Lady and St Jude. C.H.

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For a obligation free quote on Application Service or Do It Your Self - contact Peter at Armercoat on 015 19 77 55 or a/h 447 0314

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION WINTER SUNSHINE, SUMMER BREEZES. Kalbarri, comfortable, selfcontained accommodation by the sea, within walking distance of shops and entertainment, S140 for t wo; S210 for four; for seven days. (09) 459 8554.

A VONDOWN INN, 44 Stirling Terrace, Toodyay 6566. Ideal for school camps, retreat for church groups, dormitory style accommodation for 60 plus, also guest-house accommodation for families and travellers, fully catered, set in 6 acres on the Avon River in historic Toodyay. Phone Sally 574 2995.

HELP WANTED

IN MEMORIAM

needed HELP by Daughters of Charity to assist in Opportunity Shops on Saturday mornings.

Also urgently need good quality household goods, utensils, nick-nacks, etc.

Contact Sr. Clare 227 6616.

SMITH, Rita (nee North), Please pray for the repose of the soul of my beloved 11th whose mother anniversary occurs on 25th October. Sweet heart of Jesus, fount of love and mercy. Gwen, Joe and Seph.

ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE

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TO LET. Joondana 2 bedroom unfurnished end unit town house in block of 10.

Full security, lock -up garage. S110 per week.

Ph: 242 5351 1 SPACIOUS 2 bedroom freestanding, also 1 single bedroom, flats. Fully furnished, security screened, off-street aprking, quiet, close to Church, shops, Edith Cowan University. Mt Lawley. Rents negotiable.

Fax/phone 328 5171.

TOWNSEND (Biddy), Alan and family sincerely thank friends and relations for their support cards, letters, phone calls and attandance at the Rosary, Mass and funeral for our much loved wife, mother and nanna As the expressions of sympathy and tribute were too numerous to reply to individually, please accept this as our personal message of thanks.

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DEEPLY committed Catholic in fully durnished THANKS to St Jude, Our 4 bed house seeks others Lady, and Most Sacred to share. If the Lord leads Heart of Jesus for lidstenyou, call me, 277 3619. All ing to our prayers. C.J.S other criteria open, viz: age group, nationality, long or PRAYER to the Blessed short term, male/female, Virgin, never known to fail) student, job seeker or Oh most beautiful flower of • Mount Carmel, fruit of the unemployed etc vine, splendour of heaven, blessed mother of the Son FREMANTLE, city apartof God, Immaculate Virgin, ments, 1 and 2-bedroom, assist this in this my necesocean and harbour views, sity. Oh star of the sea, 3 mins walk to train, fully help me and show me self contained. $65 per herein you are my mother. night per couple, longer Oh holy Mary, Mother of stays negotiable. ph: (09) God, Queen of Heaven and 418 1439 mobile 019 405 earth, I humbly beseech 585 you from the bottom of my heart to suffer (or help) me HOUSE share. Room $70 in this my necessity. There per week, close to the are none that can withbeautiful Coogee beach. stand your power. Show Bus stop in front 15 mins me that you are my Mother. to Fremantle station. . ph: Oh Mary, conceived with(09) 418 1439 mobile 019 out sin, pray for us who 405 585 have recourse to thee (3 times). Holy Mary I place APARTMENT for sale. this cause in your hands (3 Fremantle city centre. Fully times). Thank you for your f urnished one bedroom mercy towards me and apartment with full occean mine. Amen. Thank you views. $79,500 ph: (09) Holy Mary for answering my prayers. NM. 418 1439

25&27 Confirmation, Hilton Monsignor McCrann 27-29 Visitation and Confirmation, Subiaco A rchbishop Hickey Visitation and Confirmation, Kambalda - Bishop Healy Confirmation, Beaconsfield 28 Monsignor Keating 28&29 Confirmation, Morley - Rev G Carroll Confirmation, Mundaring 29 Monsignor Keating Open Pre-primary School, 31 Bateman - Bishop Healy

November 1 Opening of new library, Matthew Gibney Primary School Bishop Healy 2 Opening of extensions, Thornlie Primary School - Bishop Healy Opening of Pre-primary School, Leederville - Bishop Healy Confirmation, Karrinyup 3 Monsignor Keating Visitation and Confirmation, 3-5 Osborne Park A rchbishop Hickey Visitation and Confirmation, Bedford/Inglewood Bishop Healy Confirmation City Beach/ 5 Wembley Downs Monsignor McCrann Confirmation, Kwinana Monsignor O'Shea Confirmation, West Perth Monsignor Keating Mass and Dinner St Charles' 6 Seminary, Feast of St Charles Borromeo - Archbishop Hickey and Bishop Healy 7 Heads of Churches Meeting A rchbishop Hickey 9 Profession of Sr Miriam Rose OCD, Nedlands Archbishop Hickey

T HE PARISH Continued from Page 16 SCENE TALK & HEAUNG IN LESMURDIE Alan Ames will give a talk on his conversion experiences in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Cnr Lesmurdie Rd and Glyde Rd on the first Friday, 3 November after the 7.30pm Mass, to . be followed by the Healing. Enquiries: Russell 274 6018.

THANKS THANKS St Jude, St Bernadette and Our Lady of Perpetual Succour for helping us in our financial problems, also to guide and bless our children away from home. NL MANY thanks to Our Lord, Our Lady, St Anthony and Saint Jude for finding me a polace to live after selling my home. I was desperate.

Thank you Saint Anthony for finding a buyer previously. GC

The Catechism of the Catholic Church Effects of the sacrament of matrimony 1838 From a valid marriage arises a bond between the spouses which by its very nature is perpetual and exclusive; furthermore, in a Christian marriage the spouses are strengthened and, as it were, consecrated for the duties and the dignity of their state by a special sacrament.

The marriage bond 1639 The consent by which the

spouses mutually give and receive one another is sealed by God himself. From their covenant arises "an institution, confirmed by the divine law . . . even in the eyes of society." The covenant between the spouses is Integrated into God's covenant with man: "Authentic married love is caught up into divine love."

1640 Thus the marriage bond has been established by God himself in such a way that a marriage concluded and consum-

mated between baptised persons can never be dissolved. This bond, which results from the free human act of the spouses and their consummation of the marriage, is a reality henceforth irrevocable, and gives rise to a covenant guaranteed by God's fidelity The Church does not have the power to contravene this disposition of divine wisdom.

The grace of the Sacrament of Matrimony 1641 "By reason of their state in

life and of their order, [Christian spouses] have their own special gifts in the People of God." This grace proper to the Sacrament of Matrimony is intended to perfect the couple's love and to strengthen their indissoluble unity. By this grace they "help one another to attain holiness in their married life and in welcoming and educating their children."

1642 Christ is the source of this grace. "Just as of old God encountered His people with a covenant of love and fidelity, so our Saviour, the spouse of the

Church, now encounters Christian spouses through the sacrament of Matrimony." Christ dwells with them, gives them the strength to take up their crosses and so follow him, to rise again after they have fallen, to forgive one another, to bear one another's burdens, to "be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ," and to love one another with supernatural, tender, and fruitful love. In the joys of their love and family life he gives them here on earth a foretaste of the wedding feast of the Lamb ...

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HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCIES 1. Royal Perth Hospital Applications are called for a Hospital Chaplain for denominations other than Catholic and Anglican at Royal Perth Hospital.

2. Fremantle Hospital Applications are called for a new part-time (10 hours per week) position in Mental Health Chaplaincy at the Alma Street Centre of Fremantle Hospital.

3. Hollywood Private Hospital Applications are called for the position of Chaplain at the Hollywood Private Hospital (formerly Repatriation Hospital).

For job description, conditions and qualifications apply to Conference of Churches of WA, 10 Pier Street, Perth, 6000.

Phone 09 22 11 732, Fax 09 22 11 733 Applications for positions 1 & 2 now close on 20 November 1995, not 23 October as previously advertised Applications for position 3 close on 20 November, 1995

CLINICAL PASTORAL EDUCATION AT THE ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL Bringing new insights to your ministry and specialised training in pastoral care and pastoral formation for clergy and lay persons within a hospital setting. We are now receiving applications from persons who wish to train in 1996.

Several places exist for a 35 week internship to commence 11 March - 8 November 1996. We also invite applications for CPE basic quarters of 10-11 weeks commencing throughout the year.

Applications close 31 December 1995.

Application Form and details from: Director of Clinical Pastoral Education, Chaplaincy Services, Royal Perth Hospital, GPO Box X2213, Perth 6001, Tel. (09) 224 2482

Think CARPET! Think Peter RINEY 242 1002 L.>

AH 446 6238

DIAL-A-CARPET 504 Charles St, North Perth (opposite Charles Hotel)

Carpets for home, school, church and office.

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Does your home have special modifications?

Are you thinking of buying or selling?

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Are you having difficulties with finance?

We care - try the difference?

Phone Kaite, Mark, David or Shirley 474 1414 all hours

Getting married soon ...?

We'd love to talk to you, near or far, our phone's close

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING 221 3866 Country clients welcome. Phone or write.

Phone (008) 11 4010 (local charge)

Natural Family Planning Centre 29 Victoria Squaie Member of the Australian Council of Natural Family Planning Inc.

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

CHESTERTON SOCIETY A Chesterton Anthology presented by the GK Chesterton Society of WA at the University of Notre Dame University, Mouat St. Fremantle on Tuesday 31 October at 7.30pm. An evening of Chesterton's poetry accompanied by wine, cheese and coffee, and conviviality. Readers, well known Perth actors, Faith Clayton and Geoff Gibbs. All w elcome. Members free; guests asked to make a donation.

MARIAN MOVEMENT OF PRIESTS There will be a Cenacle Mass at Holy Family Parish, Maddington, Monday, 30 October 7pm.

Please come, join us as this will be our first cenacle Mass in the new Church. Reconciliation will be available. Enquiries Marisa Valentino 453 1580 BURMESE MEMORIAL The annual memorial Mass for the deceased members of the Burmese community will be celebrated on Sunday 5th November at Columban House, 48 Riversdale Rd, Riversdale.

Holy Mass will commence at 11.00am and this will be followed by sharing of meal.

Please bring a plate and your own drinks.

Enquiries: 361 1093, 272 1379 or 227 1444

CUNDERDIN DAY OF REFLECTION The 19th day of reflection is to be held at Cunderdin hosted by Holy Cross Parish on Monday 6 November with the theme of the day being "Reconciliation".

C ommencing 9.30am in the Town Hall with Rosary Cenacle and concluding 2.00pm with Holy Mass. Speaker: Fr Paul C arey (Columban Mission Society). All welcome. BYO lunch. Tea/coffee supplied.

Please wear name tag.

Enquiries: M Cunnold (096) 351 403, E McClean (096) 351 159, metro (09) 446 1935.

EUTHANASIA, AUTONOMY AND THE RIGHT TO DIE What are the arguments for euthanasia? Do we have a 'right to die?' What should the law allow? Mr Luke Gormally, director of the Linacre Centre for Health Care ethics (London) since 1981 will address these questions on Wednesday 15 November at 7.30pm at the LJ Goody Bioethics Centre, 39 Jugan St Glendalough. There will be time for questions and discussion. The meeting will be chaired by Mr Keith Wilson.

PAINTING POETRY POTTERY NO 2 Weekend Retreat - date change.

This weekend retreat of creative meditation is now being held on Friday 10 November at 7.00pm Sun 12 November, 3.00pm at Mercy Retreat Centre, Sholl Ave, North Beach. Facilitator: Sr A nne Noonan RNDM of W ellsprings Centre of Spirituality. Information and enquiries - Angela 447 8130

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PROCLAIMING 'THE WORD OF GOD A workshop for readers to prepare for Christmas. This workshop will provide an opportunity for readers to prepare to celebrate God's word by: exploring the liturgy of the Word as a whole, reflecting upon and practising how best to proclaim the Christmas readings, offering suggestions of how to proclaim and present the Christmas readings prayerfully and creatively.

Tuesday 7 November 7.309.30pm, Spearwood Parish Hall, 2 4 Troode St, Munster.

Donation $5 Further inquiries please contact the Archdiocesan Liturgy Office: (09) 221 1548 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION TALK An introduction to meditation in the Christian tradition will be given by Vesta and Sam Gamalatge, coordinators of the Christian Meditation Community in WA at the Holy Rosray parish hall, Nedlands (cnr Tyrell and Elizabeth Sts) on Tuesday 31 October at 7.30pm. The director of the International Christian Meditation is Fr Laurence Freeman OSB. All welcome.

Donation at the door. Inquiries 386 4408.

KOJONUP'S 39TH ROSARY RALLY Y ou are cordially invited to attend and celebrate our Rosary Rally in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Mother of the Church on Sunday, 29 October 1995 at St Bernard's school grounds, cnr Albany H'way and Katanning Rd, s tarting at 11am with Mass (principal celebrant Bishop Quinn 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.

APOSTLES OF CHRIST PRAYER GROUP WILLETTON Charismatic Healing Mass with anointing of the sick will be held on Friday 3 November, 7.30pm at the Sts John and Paul Catholic Church, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. There will be fellowship and refreshments thereafter. All are welcome.

PERTH CITY MISSION VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Perth City Mission is conducting its annual Christmas Street Appeal on Friday 22 December between 7am and 7pm. We are urgently seeking volunteers who can "rattle a can" for a couple of hours in Perth, Fremantle or Joondalup. We are also looking for volunteers in the lead up to Christmas who are prepared to wrap presents in Myers stores in Perth and Garden City. Plus, the Mission is once again putting on Christmas lunch in Wellington Square for 1600 peopie and requires volunteers leading up to and on Christmas Day. If you would like to volunteer please phone Fiona or Julie on 481 1900 during office hours.

ARANMORE CATHOLIC COLLEGE FETE Franklin St, Leederville. Sunday 5 November 10.00am-4.00pm.

Family entertainment, Devonshire teas, Cake stalls, Hamburgers and chips, Beer garden, Arts and Crafts stall and more. All welcome to this funfilled day.

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