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Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbury makes his debut in The Record's bishops' perspective column, urging WA Catholics to differ in charity - Page 2 Children's Court magistrate Susan Gordon argues adults are selling children short- Page 3 The phenomenon of devotion to St Jude - Page 11

nfa bly: no women but also on the part of some faithPope John Paul 11 in his May 30, ful for whom it continues to seem 1994, apostolic letter, On that the exclusion to the priestly WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Reserving Priestly Ordination to ministry represents a violence or Church teaching that women Men Mona discrimination with respect to cannot be ordained priests In that letter the pope said, "I women." declare that the Church has no belongs "to the deposit of "Surely, one could study deeply authority whatsoever to confer faith" and has been taught priestly ordination on women the motives for which the Church "infallibly," the Vatican's and that this judgment is to be does not have the power to confer Congregation for the Doctrine definitively held by all the priestly ordination on women . . But, in every case, it cannot be of the Faith said last weekend Church's faithful." forgotten that the Church teaches, in a ruling that was seen and The new Vatican document said. as an absolutely fundamental n the present circumstances, approved by Pope John Paul II i truth of Christian anthropology, the Roman pontiff, exercising his before it was published. the equal personal dignity proper office of confirming the The teaching is "founded on brethren, has handed on this between men and women, and the written word of God and, same teaching by a formal declathe need to overcome and elimifrom the beginning, constantly ration, explicitly staling what is to nate 'every form of discrimination Bishop Antony Plila Pope John Paul II preserved and applied in the be held always, everywhere and In basic rights (Gaudium et spes. tradition of the Church," the by all, as belonging to the deposit Sacerdotalis to be held definitive- regarding a matter of great 29)."

The congregation's note recalls congregation said. of the faith." ly. is to be understood as belong- Importance, a matter which per- that Pope John Paul, in Ordinatio "It has been set forth infallibly It was signed by Cardinal Joseph ing to the deposit of faith." tains to the Church's divine con- Sacerdotalis. contemplated on Ratzinger, prefect of the doctrinal by the ordinary and universal The congregation answered, "In stitution itself, in virtue of my magisterium (Church teaching congregation, and Archbishop the affirmative." It then followed ministry of confirming the the Blessed Virgin Mary who Tarcisio Bertone, congregational with an explanation that brethren, I declare that the received neither "the mission authority)," it added. proper to the apostles nor the The newly-elected president of secretary. described the papal teaching as Church has no authority whatso- ministerial priesthood." This does the United States' National The text said the Pope approved part of the deposit of faith and set ever to confer priestly ordination not mean a lesser dignity for Conference of Catholic Bishops, It and ordered it published fol- forth "infallibly." on women and that this women: "Diversity for that which Bishop Anthony Pilla of lowing its adoption by an ordiBishop Pilla asked Catholics Judgment is to be held definitive- regards mission does not harm Cleveland, immediately issued a nary session of the doctrinal con- "who have questioned this teach- ly by all the Church's faithful." the equality of personal dignity." statement asking "all in the gregation. ing in the past. . . now prayerful"The Holy Father intended to The commentary continues: The document was dated ly to allow the Holy Spirit to fill clarify," it goes on, "that the Church in the United States, especially theologians and pas- October 28, but not made public you with the wisdom and under- teaching concerning priestly "Also, to understand that there is tors who instruct and form our in Rome until last Saturday, standing that will enable you to ordination being reserved solely neither violence nor discrimination towards women, one must Catholic people in the faith, rev- November 18. accept it." to men cannot be held as 'debat- understand the very nature of erently to receive this teaching as It was issued in the form of a He said the most "fundamental able,' nor can a 'merely disciplireply to a "dubium" - the Latin Christian calling - the call to holi- nary value' be attributed to the ministerial priesthood which is a definitive." service and not a position of "It is not a teaching that dimin- term for a question posed to a ness - was open to all."

Church's decision." human power or privilege over ishes the dignity of woman. . . . Vatican agency about a matter of The accompanying commentary "However, perplexities have not others. Whoever, man or woman, To say that women and men have Church teaching or policy. explained that "the ecclesiologi- been lacking not only on the part conceives the priesthood as a The "dubium" posed was: cal relevance of this apostolic let- of those who, distanced from the different roles in the Church, or in society at large, is not to say "Whether the teaching that the ter" comes from both the date of Catholic faith, do not accept the personal affirmation, as an end or they are unequal," Bishop Pilla Church has no authority whatso- its publication - Pentecost 1994 - existence of a doctrinal authority even as a point of departure for a ever to confer priestly ordination and the concluding words of the in the Church, that is, of the career of human success, is maksaid.

The doctrinal congregation doc- on women, which is presented in Holy Father: "Wherefore, in order Magisterium sacramentally emp- ing a deep mistake."

Continued on Page 13 ument referred to the teaching of the apostolic letter Ordinatio that all doubt may be removed owered by the authority of Christ,

By Jerry Fiiteau

Two more labourers to serve in the WA vineyard

By Peter Rosengren The Pope's inspiring recent message to seminarians in New York, urging them to preach the Gospel uncompromisingly and feed the people spiritually, represented a vision for the priesthood that seminarians should aspire to, Archbishop Barry Hickey said last Friday night before ordaining Phillip Perreau and Nguyen van Huynh to the priesthood in St Mary's Cathedral in Perth.

Archbishop Hickey said that the Pope's talk, given during his recent US visit, was so inspiring that he had arranged for it to be copied and distributed to the seminarians studying for the Archdiocese of Perth.

He welcomed the families of the ordinands and visitors from overseas Malaysia and Vietnam - including members of both Phillip's and Huynh's immediate families who had travelled to Perth to celebrate what the archbishop called "a wonderful spiritual event."

Phillip and Huynh were ordained before a cathedral packed with family members, friends, priests of the diocese and families from the parishes where both Fathers Perreau and Nguyen had worked on pas-

toral placement throughout their training.

Fr Perreau was most recently stationed at Rockingham and Fr Nguyen at Whitfords.

Hundreds of people watched the ceremony which included the laying on of hands by Archbishop Hickey and annointing and vesting, committing Fathers Perreau and Nguyen to the Church as ministerial priests.

Archbishop Hickey said the ordinations represented the self-offering of two young men to a life of service in the priesthood.

"We recognise that this is essentially a spiritual commitment. It is not a position comparable to any in civil life," he said.

As shepherds, they would find their spiritual growth through acts of service for the people, he said.

"It is important, therefore, that they become forgetful of themselves to a certain extent, and offer themselves to you," he told the congregation.

"They will need to understand the realities of the lives of people, of families, of single people, of young ones, of old ones." he said.

"They will need to know the conflicts and share the pains and the sufferings, and the joys and the pleasures of the people that they serve," he said.

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Archbishop Hickey shows respect for the grace of priesthood by kissing newly ordained Father Phillip Perreau's recently anointed hands in the sacristy of St Mary's Cathedral last week.

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Respect and love those you disagree with

n in his concluding way between Bethlehem and the holiness and learning, prePolarisation can cause harmful I address to a group of Jerusalem. vented that polarisation from division when we fail to be comBishop Quinn's Australian Bishops on our "ad A mixed group of Christian peo- causing nastiness, lack of respect mitted to the core values pro1993

limina" visit, the Holy Father ple embracing European, Asian and arrogance. claimed by Christ. strongly urged us to endeavour at and American nationalities, and The exchanges of ideas and To be able to differ and still love all costs to avoid polarisation in comprising Catholic priests, interpretations of history gave us is not only a very sound theologour local churches. And yet it is Protestant pastors, ordained men all new insights and better ical virtue but a fundamental very difficult to do that. and women, non-ordained lay appreciation of the influences of condition for peace, be it peace We live in a time of indepen- people and religious sisters and history that had caused so many between individuals, churches or dent thinking and democratic brothers. of the tragedies to Christian unity nations. self-confidence: I am as good as This Institute was established in so many different cultural, To be able to respect the Godthe next one and my needs must by Pope Paul VI after his visit to political and social environ- given dignity of another, even be respected; I have the right to the Holy Land as part of a thrust ments. when that person uses freedom my opinion andIwill defend that to stimulate and support ecuOur Holy Father has recently and liberty badly, prevents vinright to the end; I am loyal to my menical activities in studies of been engaged in dialogue with dictiveness and vengefulness faith and nobody is going to the Scriptures and interchurch some of the Orthodox Church becoming an irreparable obstaweaken that faith. dialogue.

Patriarchs concerning a contro- cle to justice.

All this leads to explosive situaIt was to encourage spiritual versial passage of the Nicene This doesn't mean that truth tions because we are all con- sharing, mutual research and an Creed which has been a cause of does not matter nor that there is vinced we are on the side of openness to learning about each polarisation for sixteen hundred no right or wrong. right. The recent assassination of others Christian traditions and years.

It means that as Christ's people Israel's Prime Minister is an aspirations - an enriching and Their scholars and ours are re- we do not have to win every example of what personal con- challenging centre of goodwill examining the text and coming to argument or belittle the opposiviction without respecting the and honest scholarly research in the conclusion that in fact we are tion or insist on our rights at all conviction of others can lead to. the name of Jesus. all trying to express the same times because, with Him, we can Earlier this year, I spent three There was polarisation there in truth. commend some such problems months studying at Tantur the theological stances from A very old stubborn misunder- into the hands of the Father, and Ecumenical Institute conducted which we came and yet the hon- standing that may now disap- with Him we can pray that all by the Vatican and situated half esty and goodwill, not to mention pear. may be one.

Timor's Bishop Belo refuses to sign agreement

By Peter Rosengren

Despite pressure from the Vatican's ambassador to Indonesia. the bishop of Dili in East Timor, Bishop Carlos Belo, has refused to sign a multi-faith agreement following a recent meeting in Dili between leaders of the five religious faiths recognised under the Indonesian Constitution.

The report comes from Bishop Hilton Deakin, auxiliary bishop of Melbourne, who has just returned from a month-long visit to East Timor where he saw Bishop Belo and visited outlying regions of the Dili diocese.

The document had been drawn up by the religious leaders in the wake of serious rioting which broke out two months ago following a reported public insult from a Muslim official against the Virgin Mary and other Roman Catholic beliefs.

"There was a meeting in Dili with leaders of various faiths, Bishop Deakin told The Record following his return to Australia.

"The apostolic nuncio (Archbishop Pietro Sambi) came over from Jakarta to Dili - it was regarded as that important - at the end of it a statement was drawn up. Everybody signed it but Bishop Belo refused to sign it," Bishop Deakin said.

He said Bishop Belo refused to

Let me conclude by recommending to you Paragraph 28 of the Vatican II document The Church in the Modern World. It begins like this, ". . . . those also have a claim on our respect and charity who think and act differently from us in social, political and religious matters . ."

Welfare agencies are 'social justice in action'

sign because he had not seen the the ultimate right (that) the East 'fine print' attached to the docu- Timorese people have, and ment. which has never been exercised, "It was signed by a priest of the is that they in proper due process (Dili) diocese but it has as much and with proper control, exercise weight as a priest of the diocese," an act of self-determination.

Bishop Deakin said. Bishop Belo "If, as a result of that determihad taken the wisest course of nation they want to become totalaction by not signing. ly integrated with the Indonesian Bishop Deakin said the docu- Republic he would accept that as ment had been a statement of the will of the people . . .. or if its agreement about developing a return to independence he Monsignor Sean O'Shea, centre, picks up Advent appeal material for his closer links between the faiths on would accept that as well," he Mosman Park parish last week. religious matters and had said.

Parish representatives were of the lay apostolate and very attempted to incorporate a But he said that he did not think able to collect their new Advent much part of the Church's mismethod of procedure to resolve Bishop Belo or East Timorese appeal kits to raise funds for the sion," he said. issues before they got to the stage generally would be interested in Church's work with the needy at Pauline Robertson from the of rioting. a kind of autonomy that the official launch of Lifelink archdiocese's Centrecare Skills He also said that recent reports remained permanently frozen held in Morley last week. "fram ing Centre provided an of the possibility of some degree within the Indonesian system.

Both the appeal and Lifelink, overview to parish representaof autonomy for East Timor Bishop Deakin said the chances the new name for the archdio- tives of the support provided to depended on what was meant by for any act of self-determination cese's ten welfare agencies, were the unemployed by the centre as the term 'autonomy' and who by East Timorese did not look launched by Archbishop Hickey an example of one of the agenwas using it. good at this stage. at the Infant Jesus Centre. cies that receives funds from the He said that very often it was "I think that the honest way to In past years the Advent appeal appeal. used in "an extremely loose fash- measure any sort of discussion has raised about $200,000 annuAmong its programs, the centre ion" and often meant nothing that goes on in East Timor is to ally but the goal was to raise provides training in skills that aid more than something which measure it against what the mili- $300,000 this year, Archbishop the long-term unemployed in operated totally within the frame- tary is actually doing in the coun- Hickey said. their search for work and help work of the Indonesian political try at the present time, and what "Thousands are helped by place them with employers for system - "which for the East they're doing . . . . is being these agencies. Even though six-month traineeships.

Timorese is not autonomy at all." absolutely oppressive," he said. they're not known well in parishOver a six-week period, the He said Bishop Belo's view on Guerrillas were still killing es, they are well-known to other centre managed to place 100 job any solution which offered Indonesian soldiers, he said, as welfare agencies," he said. seekers with Myers, 69 with autonomy for East Timor was the fresh graves of soldiers testiArchbishop Hickey said he saw Target and 100 with Royal Perth that it must be a form of autono- fied. There was also constant their work as very much of the hospital. my that moves towards some- harassment without due process, Church's mission.

Three hundred and sixty indithing else. especially of youth in places like "The work they do is social jus- vidual employers in small busi"Its not to be a frozen thing on Dili as well as elsewhere, accom- tice in action through the provi- ness accepted between one and its own because he believes that panied by torture. sion of services. It is a valid form three trainees.

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Perspective

The Record, November 23, 1995

Prepare a way for the Lord as Christmas comes for us and for all humankind? During these coming weeks hundreds of Perth Amid the hectic pre-Christmas round Catholics will be gathering in small of shopping, holiday planning, end of groups to prepare the way of the Lord year functions, consumer harassment in family homes, parish centres, conand the like, Advent offers a priceless vents, community centre - wherever space to step back, put our lives in per- convenient. spective and look for the sources that lYpically, these groups provide the make sense of it all. opportunity for prayer, reflection and It is a happy discovery to learn (again) sharing; a variety of resources will be that it is not so much Christmas that is drawn upon to provide a Gospel setting coming, but Christ, who never fails to for their meetings. A number of groups come. are likely to be using the liturgical texts How to prepare for the coming of the for the Sundays of Advent, programmes Lord, the birth of the infant Saviour, the found in RCIA manuals or favourite traevent that marks the "fullness of time" ditional resources.

By Brother Des Crowe

Many parish groups are making use of the annual Inform Advent programme made available by the Sydney Catholic Adult Education Centre, entitled this year, Scarred with History, Ringed with Grace.

The Inform programme has been a popular choice during recent Advent seasons. Convenient and inexpensive, it makes it possible for each one to have a personal copy for use at home at all times. Those who missed out may yet obtain copies in time be ordering by phone (02 792 3144) or by fax (02 792 3709) from the Sydney Catholic Education Centre.

Adults selling children shod: agistrate

By Peter Rosengren Adults have allowed moral standards to slip, including allowing unnecessary family breakdown, and the community has lost its direction, thereby selling young Australians short.

These comments, and other hard-hitting criticisms of contemporary Australia were levelled by Children's Court Magistrate, Mrs Susan Gordon, AM, in her recent keynote address given to Iona Presentation College's annual speech and presentation night.

"We, as parents and members of the community, have allowed this to happen to a lot of our young children without realising that we are responsible for guiding youth to the future," Mrs Gordon said.

"As a community we have also lost direction. We've allowed dishonesty at the highest level and through this we've let our young people down, with no real standards being set for them," she said.

Taking aim at politicians who have lowered standards by their behaviour, Mrs Gordon also had some strong words for the community.

"But we as a community are not asking or even demanding that standards be raised. We just sit back and allow both standards and morals to be lowered by people in power who should know better."

In a wide-ranging speech

which also covered the need for reconciliation between Aboriginal and recent Australians, Mrs Gordon also challenged the assumptions of political correctness.

"If you don't agree about a particular cultural issue you are immediately branded a racist.

Now we use that word very readily and I think that's a problem the community has to overcome," she said.

Saying that some people give up too easily on their children, she also said that it was important for families to pay close attention to the need for reconciliation and to put in the effort necessary to make family life worthwhile.

"In my work in the Children's Court, it's not unusual to have eleven-year-olds who are in foster care or wards of the State regularly appearing in court.

"These children, granted, may have their own particular problems but when I hear that their parents have actually abrogated their responsibility either because they have found a new partner or they can't manage their child and simply ask the welfare to take the child. I feel sick in the stomach," she said.

"I think to myself 'Hey, I and other Aboriginal children in their thousands were forcibly removed, our mothers suffered badly and there is somebody who can stand there and simply say "I've had enough, you. the State, look after this kid."

Mrs Gordon also urged families to look closely at whether they needed to effect reconciliation in their own lives before it was too late.

"I would say that in some cases here tonight students and parents will also need to look closely at whether they in fact need to have a reconciliation.

"Families go through periods of turmoil and stress, divorce happens and children often get left out of any discussion. Think about it, and if your family is in this group, do something about getting closer or back with your child or children before its too late," she said.

She said that tolerance was one of the most important virtues that students could learn and that as there would "always be fat, short, skinny, black, brown, white, old and disabled people in our community, it is up to you to learn to live and to work with them all."

Mrs Gordon also said parents should not be in a hurry to get rid of their children when they got old enough to leave the home. "While they always want to spread their wings early, discuss things with them, remain supportive and always leave the way open for them to return."

She said the love and happiness of one's children were the most important goals in parents' lives and that parents must take the time to listen to their children in order to know what they really felt.

Catholic colleges care with their art The art works you're looking at are all set to be used for Catholic Care Christmas cards and the proud winners are representative of 75 excellent entries submitted by 7 Catholic Colleges in the recent Catholic Care competition.

Winners are David Burnett, Mazenod (left) who shared first prize with Mark Ogden of St Norberts, centre, who is also holding (below) a drawing by Anna Gonzalez of Seton College that was highly acclaimed.

Shown with her Highly Commended submission is Natalie Dyson, right, of Seton College. The art was displayed at Garden City Shopping Centre.

Priests 'must wear clerical garb' VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican has re-emphasised that priests must wear ecclesiastical garb, and also said bishops should make sure the rule is followed.

The statement came in response to a query by a Brazilian bishop, who had questioned the legal weight of the norm on clerical dress contained in the 1994 Directory on the Ministry and Life of Priests.

The directory's norm was not merely an encouragement but was also "juridically binding," a seven-point clarification issued by the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of

Legislative Texts said this month.

The council emphasised the Vatican often used directories to establish norms that have "clearly binding juridical force."

The directory, published by the Congregation for Clergy, had repeated an article of canon law and expanded on it.

Church law states simply that clerics are to wear suitable ecclesiastical garb in accord with norms of the bishops' conference and local customs.

The directory went further, saying that when this garb was not the priestly cassock, it must

be different from lay dress and must conform to the "dignity and sacredness" of the priest's ministry.

'The style and colour should be established by the bishops' conference, always in agreement with the dispositions of the universal law," it said. The resulting dress should make the priest immediately identifiable as such, both to Catholics and non-Catholics, it said.

It said contrary practices "cannot be considered legitimate customs and should be removed by the competent authority" That authority is the bishop, the directory said.

Clubs drop in for tea

Morning tea with Archbishop Barry Hickey and his staff seems to be all the rage with AFL football clubs these days - seen as a valuable addition to every club's training program in the quest for total football perfection. Stopping by for tea recently were the Eagles and the Dockers. Top: Dockers foundation member Dean Tom McDonald, left, Fremantle Dockers coach Gerard Neesham, Mrs Peg Neesham, an Eagles supporter posing as Archbishop Hickey, and Mr Ted Neesham at morning tea. Below: Bishop Healy, left, Cathedral presbytery housekeeper Doreen Branch and daughter Sandra Goode look on as Mick Matthouse signs an autograph.

Fit HIV sufferers 'use euthanasia'

Recent reports in the press of the survey of doctors who have killed patients on request because they had HIV or AIDS made the dangers of accepting euthanasia clearer, the Coalition for the Defence of Human Life said during the week.

Coalition state secretary Richard Egan said that "the most worrying figure is the 4 or 5 patients with HIV who were described as healthy and who were aided in committing suicide by their doctor.

"This demonstrates that those doctors willing to kill their patients do not limit themselves to killing those who are suffering in extremis.

"They are willing to kill patients who are merely anticipating future illness."

Mr Egan said some doctors were not killing their patients on the basis of a request from the patient but after making an independent judgement as to whether a patient should be killed or not.

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'Community' is youths' need

By Bruce Downes, Director Catholic Youth and Young Adult Ministry A major aim of Youth Ministry, whether in a Parish youth group or some other kind of youth gathering, is the building of community. Sadly the word community, has so many different meanings that its purpose in a faith orientated youth setting is often misunderstood.

Possibly the best way to describe 'community' in a youth setting is that it is primarily "friendship", where relationships that are built are lasting and important to the individuals that are involved. It is within .these relationships that young people want to spend time that is enjoyable and meaningful.

This group of young people find that the time they spend together is open to others, unconcerned about their backgrounds, economic status or physical appearance.

It is within this environment that openness to new members and the strengthening of old friendships is often found. It is here that deeper questions of faith, spirituality and the desire to express belief in Jesus Christ and be of service is both nurtured and encouraged.

Christian community is about witness to the kind of life that Christ and His Church calls us to.

It is both radical in its call and a

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challenge- for all who attempt to because it is -developmentally apply it in their own particular appropriate." The questions of setting. Wayne Rice. co-founder Identity and Intimacy are very of Youth Specialties in the United important to young people as States, who has over three they are primary questions for decades in Youth Ministry asks, themselves regarding their own "If Youth Ministry cannot offer personal self worth and self young people an alternative to image. what they find in the world, there Community assists in answeris no reason for its existence." ing the question of Identity, "who Community is particularly am I and is that OK?" When important to young people young people try on different

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other meaningful adults, who may or may not be a positive to the young person is very important to them. Once again community is a place where positive and upbuilding acceptance is possible.

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While at the beach I saw a group of six young men around the age of 19 playing touch football and later sitting out the front of their ten quietly drinking and cooking their food.

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life," he said. "Because this is the fundamental consideration which purports to justify euthanasiast killing, we can now see why a clearheaded advocate of voluntary euthanasia cannot consistently oppose non-voluntary euthanasia, that is the killing, supposedly in their own interests, of patients who cannot asked to be killed," he said.

Mr Gormally said that such patients would include handicapped newborn babies, the mentally retarded, those suffering from stvere senile dementia and the irrev3rsibly comatose.

He also criticised Melbourne philosophers Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse who support non-voluntary euthanasia of patients such as the handicapped newborn.

He said their criteria for judging whether a human being had the right to life or not were based on arbitrary choices and that what was at issue in the euthanasia debate was the existence of justice in society. "All of us intuitively recognise that there cannot be justice in a society which determines who are to be treated justly in an arbitrary fashion. And yet it is precisely such arbitrariness which Singer and Kuhse and company are commending to us. They are urging us to jettison the cornerstone of justice: recognition of the ineliminable dignity and value of every human life."," he said.

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The new leadership team: Friars Barry Kirby, left, Cormac Nagle, Paul Smith, Nick Lucas, Provincial Vicar, Stephen Bliss and Provincial Minister, Kevin Goode.

The Franciscan Friars of Australia's Holy Spirit

Province recently held their triennial Provincial Chapter at which they reviewed their life and ministry and made proposals concerning future directions of the order in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

Friar Callistus Sweeney from Japan, who represented the Minister-General in Rome, visited every friar prior to the chapter and then presided at the meeting. He urged the friars to maintain and develop their close prayer relationship with Jesus Christ, "the one who gives meaning and

Fund raising for the annual Christmas Bowl appeal, director of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches' section on Church and Development, Prisca Munonyara, recently visited Perth to tell people about her country and outline project plans for funds raised.

Zimbabwe is a land locked African nation of about 10.3 million with a rapidly rising population.

One of the projects attracting interest frPrises Maissevera om the Council of Churches' membership is the environment, as well as programs for women, youth and education.

Fair land distribution is something else the Council is looking at, according to Mrs Munonyara, as there are too many people on poor soil, which results in land degradation. while the better, amble soil is controlled by a few.

The council therefore hopes to unlock land holdings which are owned by absentee landlords or which are not being worked.

The council is also calling on the Churches to release land and make it available for viable, family plots.

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A visiting English expert on bioethics has added his voice to local concerns that legislation that supported suicidal decisions to refuse medical treatment was not acceptable in any circumstances.

Luke Gormally, director of the Linacre Centre, the principal Catholic bioethics centre in the British Isles, said that while competent patients always have legal rights to refuse treatment, doctors should not be bound to act on advanced directives (such as living wills) if that would mean acting against the best interests of the patient.

Mr Gormally was speaking at a seminar organised by the national pro-family lobby, the Australian Family Association, and held at the L J Goody Bioethics Centre in Glendalough recently.

Mr Gormally's centre advises the Catholic bishops of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and has been touring Australia to speak against euthanasia and its legislation.

He said that doctors who were deciding to carry out euthanasia at the request of a patient were already killing people because of their own judgements.

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Ordinations 1995

Joy for families of new priests

'Preach the Gospel and feed the people,' Pope John Paul said to seminarians recently. Last Friday two new priests joined the ranks of those ordained for that unique task

Above: Nguyen van Huynh receives his ordination at the hands of Archbishop Hickey. Below: moment of mystery as Phillip Perreau becomes Fr Perreau.

Newly ordained Fr Phillip Perreau offers his blessings of peace to his mother and father shortly after the ordination ceremony in St Mary's Cathedral on Friday night.

Earlier - the two deacons are presented to Archbishop Hickey, examined, and found not wanting

Fathers Nguyen and Perreau receive the joyful congratulations and a sign of peace from their brother priests.

The priests of the diocese lay hands on Fathers Nguyen and Perreau, signifying welcome, solidarity and unity of the presbyterium.

Work hard in the vineyard, but be sure to withdraw to pray, Archbishop urges

Continued from Page 1 But while their apostolate was intimately linked with the lives of ordinary people, like Christ their model, they would also have to spend time in prayer, withdrawing occasionally from the world as Christ did, he said.

Citing Pope John Paul's recent talk to seminarians in New York, Archbishop Hickey said the Pope had told the American seminarians that if they wanted to be priests they must preach the Gospel and feed the people.

Press reports at the time said the Pope had told the American seminarians they must preach the Gospel in all its truth and all

its charity, and not to be afraid of confronting the world with their preaching and that they must give it the certainty, love and compassion of Christ.

Archbishop Hickey said this represented a profound vision of the priesthood.

He said that for a priest to give the world the certainty of Christ was to tell them "that Jesus himself has saved the world, that he's come with good news and that people's lives can be changed, that their chains can fall off them, that their suffering can come to an end, that he has given them the news. That is the certainty of Christ in the lives of people." But

In order to to give the world the them into practice in their interlove of Christ it was not sufficient action with those who they will for the priest to preach right and be serving as priests." wrong, the Archbishop said.

The Pope had also told the semIt also needed to be done in the inarians to feed the people, context of love and "when we Archbishop Hickey said. preach Christ crucified we must "Feed them with what? Feed also preach his love," he said. them certainly with the Word of As priests, Fathers Perreau and God but feed them also with the Nguyen would be "mixing with sacraments of the Church, espepeople who need the certainty of cially the Blessed Eucharist. so Christ, who will desperately need that they will not go hungry the love of Christ and who will because they lack the bread of want the mercy and the compas- life," the Archbishop said. sion of Christ," Archbishop He said that if a priest was comHickey said. mitted to a vision of the priestHe said the new priests should hood of the kind outlined by the "take those words of our Holy Pope there would never be Father, ponder on them and put enough time to become bored or

to wonder what to do. "Because if we are serving the poorest of the poor materially then our hearts must go out to those who are suffering in this cruel world today.

And if we are to serve those who are the poorest of the poor spiritually . . . . the world is full of them. And, therefore, there is a vision to be grasped," he said.

Following the ordinations Fathers Perreau and Nguyen each gave their special blessings to their families, relatives and friends. Fr Nguyen had not seen his mother and sister, who flew from Vietnam for the ordination, for 10 years since he escaped from there to come to Australia.

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(Vtior &tiers lo Euthanasia book 'matter of grave concern' ecently I borrowed and read a very creator. The error of judgment into since the law was enacted. The infaR disturbing book, When It's Right to which one can fall in good faith does mous American, Dr Jack Kevorlcian, Die by Dick Westley, currently circulat- not change the nature of this murderous who has received the appellation of Dr ing in Perth.

It is an insidiously dangerous book which persuasively argues a pseudotheological case for legalised voluntary euthanasia. It is insidious because Dick Westley is the Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago. Therefore, some people could accept his case as valid.

That it surfaces now in Catholic circles during the debate in Australia on euthanasia, is a matter of grave concern.

The official teaching of the Catholic Church is clear: "An act or omission which, of itself or by intention causes death in order to eliminate suffering constitutes a murder gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his

act, which must always be forbidden Death because of his practice of and excluded. ( Catechism of the euthanasia, is described as: "a person of great intelligence who is totally selfless Catholic Church n. 22-77) Westley maintains that the traditional in his commitment to his principles and teaching of the Church on euthanasia a caring man of genuine compassion."

This is not the first time Westley has should be amended, that is, what he deems to be 'errors' should be removed. publicly dissented with Church teachHe presents an argument based on ing.

Westley is not a theologian just putting compassion for the one who is suffering and wishes to die, and the 'loved ones' forward a contrary opinion for the who do not want to see the person stif- Church and other academics to evalufer. He even goes so far as to propose ate.

He is a propagandist who is openly in that a liturgy should be used where the community assembles saying prayers dissent with the magisterial teaching and who publishes his dissenting opinwhile someone does the killing.

Praise is given to "the ingenious solu- ion in a cheaply produced paperback tion" adopted by the Dutch Parliament for wide distribution. in 1993, despite the published abuses Brian Peachey and the killing of many innocent people Woodlands

Censorship Bill defended

The ritual processions, Feast of the Passover and the Tabernacles, Pentecost and David's dance before the Ark of the Covenant did include swaying, but definitely not dance.

The swaying, as any rabbi will report, is the Jews' literal expression of David's exhortation in the Psalms "I will praise the Lord with all my bones" when they pray.

The Jews still do it today, swaying back and forth when they pray, as can be seen, for example, at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.

Moving on to the Church Fathers, which Sr Shelley also seeks to rely on, she quotes them only from their sermons and letters. When Our Lord delivered His sermons, He on many occasions spoke allegorically (especially in His parables) - see for example St Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 18, 7-8: "Woe to the world for temptations to sin! And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it from you!"

The Church Fathers, in the extracts chosen by Sr Shelley, sought to encourage Catholics to prayer, using David's Psalms allegorically in the context of 'dance'. This allegory can be understood more fully when the background of swaying by the Jews in prayer is brought to light.

Therefore, in no way can these particular citations be seen as an authority to 'dance".

Allegories can also be seen in the paintings of Luca Della Robbia, Botticelli and Fra Angelico. What Sr Shelley fails to realise is that all of these are representations of Heaven, not any earthly liturgy.

They are artistic impressions of effusive joy. While there is a parallel between earthly and Heavenly liturgy, if we were to take the externals of heavenly liturgy as depicted by the Renaissance artists as our norm, not only would there be dance, but also, for example, angels dressed in dalmatics as well. In short, there is not a connection between what we should be doing and what the Renaissance artists are portraying.

The processions in public squares during the Middle Ages which Sr Shelley cites were not strictly liturgy and not strictly 'dance' at all. Processional movement was preparation from the liturgy as something that flowed out of it afterwards.

These most certainly offered a more kinetic dimension than the Mass itself.

However, this reflects a para-liturgical tradition. Ills akin to liturgy, preparation for It, and always takes place outdoors, or certainly ceasing before reaching the sanctuary.

Is Sr Shelley suggesting that such 'dance' actually accompanied the Mass inside the Church? And if so, what is her source?

There is confusion in her argument between the popular, the para-liturgical and the liturgical.

There has always been a distinction made between the popular devotional practices and the liturgy. Processions, and the Mystery Plays (which were performances put on by the Church in the town square to explain to the townsfolk matters of faith, and thus forming no part of the liturgy itself) were secular elements with a

wish to correct an apparent misunderI standing about Western Australia's new Censorship Bill, as contained in your

report headed "Chance to lobby for clean video" (The Record, November 9).

While I support the right of the National Viewers and Listeners Association to lobby on TV and video violence and pornography, its attack on the WA legislation was unfounded.

The truth is that the legislation provides: • an extended definition of child pornography, covering publications and objects as well as pictorial representations • power to refuse classification on the grounds of child pornography • that it will be a crime to see, advertise, possess or display child pornography • increased penalties for persons trading In child pornography.

The legislation includes all forms of communications - including the Internet and other computer services.

In fact, the WA legislation was the first in Australia to tackle the issue of child pornography on the Internet and the Bill is now being considered as a model for other States.

I trust this clarifies the situation for your readers.

Cheryl Edwardes Attorney General

No unbroken tradition Shelley Barlow (The Record, November 9) has failed to show an r S unbroken liturgical tradition of liturgical

dance in the Western Church.

This unbroken tradition was cited as essential in the Vatican document Notitiae of 1975, which quite accurately pointed out that 'dance' in the liturgy has never been part and parcel of Western Catholic liturgical worship, and it was this which was deemed inappropriate in our liturgy.

What Notitiae did state was very much a part of Catholic liturgical tradition was kneeling, genuflection and bowing. These external signals which have been imbedded in the Western Catholic liturgical tradition, are a symbol of man's humility in the presence of Almighty God. To begin with, Sr Shelley quotes exclusively from the Old Testament to support her argument. No reference to the New Testament is made regarding 'dance'. This, Ihasten to add, is due to the fact that such references to 'dance' do not exist in the New Testament. However, relying on the Old Testament, it is appropriate that I make the following comments.

Having spoken to a rabbi regarding the remarks made by Sr Shelley, Miriam's dancing of praise was not any form of liturgical dance, nor dance per se, merely skipping and jumping with joy at the truly great miracle God had performed for His people. This is also the reality regarding Judith's thanksgiving dance.

religious theme, but definitely not a component of the liturgy.

Sr Shelley regards liturgical dance as an integral part of youth culture. This generalisation she has made about youth culture may not ring true to every youth. They certainly don't ring true to me, a 19-yearold. All of my friends, in my age group (both male and female) who went through the Catholic school system, regard liturgical dance as unnecessary, sometimes irreverent, and above all, corny.

The supposed ability of some people to identify with youth culture never ceases to amaze us. In doing so, these people often present hymns which reflect more the secular musical styles of the 1960s and 1970s and then claim these are "up to date" with today's youth! Liturgical dance is part of this time warp.

Earlier I spoke of appropriateness in the Catholic liturgy. In our culture (since Sr Shelley speaks of inculturation) dance is generally associated with more secular activities.

This is seen in its role in courtship and the relationship between the sexes as seen in countless movies. In light of this, such activity would not seem appropriate to divine worship.

Dance's use, purpose and nature in our society, unlike those of Africa and Polynesia, is distinctly secular, and therefore not a liturgical reality.

Adrian Kavanagh OSB in his book Elements of Rite: A Handbook of Liturgical Style explains the impracticality of liturgical dance: "Dance performances in the liturgy are to be avoided: If one wishes to enhance the assembly's appreciation of bodily motion as a means of expressing and communicating sacred values, one might give attention to the liturgy's ceremonial choreography . . . . While such dance events are often exhilarating to many, they are always liturgically superficial.

"The introduction of soloists who dance "for" the assembly has the effect of reinforcing the assembly's passivity by presenting it with . . . . movement none but the soloist can attain."

This illustrates the fact that dance is not participative at all as Sr Shelley claims.

Liturgical dances never involve more than twelve people, while the hundreds in the congregation watch what seems nothing other than a performance.

It takes on the role of a spectator activity and hardly enhances the Holy Sacrifice, the Sacred Banquet, which is what the Mass is, was and always shall be, just as Our Lord instituted in the Last Supper.

In light of all of the above , it seems that the arguments, scriptural, theological and historical do not support liturgical dance forming a constant, unbroken part of Catholic worship to the present day.

Rocco Loiacono Noranda

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what they are saying. Naturally God does not want anyone to go to hell: we are created to go to heaven and enjoy everlasting happiness there.

God is infinite goodness and mercy, but He is also infinitely just He will forgive even the worst sinner provided the sinner wants forgiveness and is repentant.

Those who lead lives trying their best to obey God's and the Church's commandments, have nothing to fear. Those who, however, refuse to do so, would be well advised to change and repent, as they are on the road to eternal banishment from God - which is what hell is.

We must all work at obtaining our salvation: ills not going to be handed to us on a golden platter no matter how utterly disregarding we are of the Commandments during life.

Of course. God is the only final judge of what our eternal destiny is to be at the hour of death: but those who play with fire will probably get burnt. We cannot say that no matter what, we all go to eternal bliss: that is simply not authentic Christian doctrine.

Much to the delight of Satan, we are told by some that Hell and the devil don't exist.

Satan has us exactly where he wants us when we refuse to believe in him.

It is grossly uncaring and uncharitable to bring people to believe that they can lead whatever lives they feel like leading, and that it does not matter.

Jerome Gonzalez Willetton

Willeton applauded t was with interest that I read the report ( The Record, November 2) on the I blessing and opening of the new admin-

istration and meeting centre at Willeton.

The modern concept of the Church demands that each parish have a properly planned building to house the various activities associated with the dayto-day conduct of a parish: and the presbytery should be a building suitably placed to provide the normal frugal comfort (enjoyed by most of us) for the priest(s), without interference from other parish activities.

It is hoped, indeed visualised, that all parishes will in the not too distant future realise that we will very soon be in the twenty-first century and move quickly to emulate Willeton.

Patrick Brophy Mt Lawley

More abortion horror article in the Medical Journal of ustralia (October 16, 1995) Is recommending counselling services 'possibly through schools" for encouraging pregnant girls to present early for their abortions, i.e., in the first three months.

Yes, dear parent, you may be the last one to hear about it when your unborn grandchild is aborted.

hose nowadays who propound that no T one goes to hell, that all are saved, no matter how evil a life they may have led Arnold jag° on earth, do not realise the implications of

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Mental Illness

A person-centred approach

psychological distress. And, men"I think many people in persontally ill persons can choose alist psychology are strongly IRVING, Texas (CNS) - You can whether to deal with moral committed to the traditional be schizophrenic and be a saint, issues affecting their psychologi- Catholic understanding of the or you can be psychologically cal health, said Paul Vitz, profes- human person," said Robert sor of psychology at New York Kugelmann, chairman of the psyhealthy and be a criminal.

Those were the conclusions of University. Vitz presented a chology department at the 40 psychologists and students paper on hatred and forgiveness University of Dallas and a conference presenter. from the United States and at the conference.

"People develop neuroses to He emphasised that personalist Europe who grappled with the relationship between morality protect them against the pangs of psychology is not warmed-over conscience. The one thing people Catholic theology, and it is open and psychology October 20-21.

They gathered at the Catholic- don't want to do is come face to to all faith traditions. Kugelmann also said there are various ways run University of Dallas for the face with sin," said Vitz.

Personalist psychology is part of to articulate the basic Christian second annual conference of the a growing concern about the Institute for Personalist relationship between people's understanding of what a person is.

Psychology. moral and spiritual lives and psyThe Institute for Personalist "Moral evil can be the cause of chotherapy.

Psychology was founded in 1993 mental unhealth, and mental illA number of philosophers, by James DuBois of the ness can give rise to moral evil," including Seifert, who is an International Academy of said Joseph Seifert, rector of the adviser to the Institute for Philosophy. It held its first interInternational Academy of Personalist Psychology, and Karol national conference last year at Philosophy in Liechtenstein.

Wojtyla, who became Pope John the Franciscan University of Although no one chooses to be Paul II, have inspired personalist Steubenville, Ohio, where it has mentally ill, speakers agreed that psychology. Personalists place its headquarters. moral choices can lead to mental the concept of the person at the According to its own literature, illness. A person who cultivates centre of their philosophical the institute promotes a psycholhatred, making another person thought and concern themselves ogy that takes into account or group out to be villains, may with the nature of action, reli- human freedom and rationality, lose touch with reality and suffer gion, moral goodness and society. the objectivity of values and

By Ken Eppes

moral responsibility. It also con- the therapist's values. The siders the spiritual and religious process raises questions about dimensions of human life, protecting the patient's freedom, human limitations, and the per- said the panelists. son's social and familiar nature.

Although their discussion was Besides considering the moral spirited at times, participants issues of the patient, the confer- agreed that psychology cannot be ence dealt with the moral aspects value-free. of psychotherapy. Going beyond "(Psychologists say) it's better to issues of professional ethics, it be psychologically healthy than raised the question, to what to be psychologically distressed extent does a therapist check his that's a value," said Kugelmann. or her values at the door?

"There's an implicit understandSome cases are easy. If a patient ing of human well-being and expresses the intent to commit what constitutes a good life." murder, the therapist doesn't Kugelmann acknowledged that remain neutral. in a pluralistic society, values are But, the panelists at the confer- "a thorny question," because ence's closing session agreed that there are various "good lives." questions are usually more comIn an interview after the conferplex. ence, Kugelmann said the growth In the therapeutic process, said of personalist psychology could one, the patient often does not mean that psychotherapy would have sufficient ego strength. The better respect patients' spiritual therapist "lends his ego," giving and moral issues. the patient the therapist's value It might also point up the limits system, until the patient can func- of psychotherapy, helping the tion under his or her own. therapist recognise when a In such a therapeutic relation- patient needs spiritual direction ship, the therapist exerts control rather than psychological counover the patient, who takes on selling.

Farm work and therapy helps the mentally ill to heal

By Robert Delaney HOLLY, Michigan (CNS) Rosemary and Daniel Kelly

Rose Hill - a 372 acre property that is helping those who suffer from schizophrenia and manic depression

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had found just the right psychiatric treatment facility for their son, but it was several states away in Massachusetts.

Gould Farm's combination of therapy and farm work had a decided effect on John and his paranoid schizophrenia, but his parents wanted him closer to home.

So the Catholic couple from Bloomfield Hills, members of St. Hugo in the Hills Parish, decided to see how they could replicate the farm somewhere in Michigan.

Today, after much fund raising and hard work, Rose Hill Centre in Holly stands as a testament to the Kellys' love for their son. About an hour's drive north of Detroit, it is a comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation program for people who have major psychiatric disorders.

"What I love is the nature the peace here.I think it's good for the soul," Rosemary Kelly said while conducting a recent tour of the centre, which has been in operation three and a half years.

According to her, Rose Hill's combination of activities and medication has made the centre a success in rehabilitating people with schizophrenia or manic-depressive disorder and allowing them to go on to independent living.

"We had over 80 graduates, and only a couple have had any relapse," Daniel Kelly told The Michigan Catholic, newspaper of the Detroit Archdiocese.

That's pretty remarkable, considering that the average person who comes to Rose Hill has had multiple prior hospitalisations.

Son John, now 34, is among those who have been helped

by Rose Hill. While he will always need to take his medication, he is now on the centre's staff, supervising residents who work with the livestock, which includes horses, cattle and hogs. His job, as he

sees it, is "helping people out, and showing them what to do."

His mother added, "John reminds me of Solanus Casey - he's the doorkeeper here," referring to the recently beatified Capuchin friar who served in Detroit. "He says 'Hi' to everybody everyday, and everyone here is his friend.

He's very proud of being a farmer - John has excelled in

his own way."

In 1986 John Kelly was first

treated at a local hospital. He had begun to behave strangely - rapidly going from complaints of persecution to the point where he was cowering in a corner and not recognising his own father, and then to a catatonic state.

Because his parents could afford the best treatment available, he was soon taken to The Institute for Living in Hartford, Connecticut, a prestigious mental hospital. There doctors diagnosed his illness as paranoid schizophrenia.

But the institute, initially costing over $700 a day, could only offer modest improvement and little hope for the future.

The Kellys could afford the high cost - Daniel Kelly is managing partner for Michigan operations of the major national accounting firm Deloitte & Touche. What they could not face was their son spending the rest of his life in a hospital room.

The alternative, a group home, was not appealing.

Finally they learned about Gould Farm in Monterey, Massachusetts. Its combination of therapy and farm work had a decided effect on the younger Kelly. He became more cheerful and energetic and began to regain his old personality. The Kellys were ecstatic, but Massachusetts was still a long way away.

They began seriously exploring the idea of a Michigan version the farm and learned they would have to raise at least $5 million. That amount grew to $7.5 million when they actually began to acquire the property and do the work They borrowed money to buy

a 372-acre piece of property.

Daniel Kelly began to talk to his friends and associates in the Detroit business community about the need for such a facility.

Many came through with sizable contributions. The Kresge Foundation really helped get things going with a $500,000 challenge grant, the state of Michigan provided $250,000, and the Kellys kicked in $200,000.

The money got Rose Hill up and running, but about $2.5

million is still needed to complete its capital program, according to Daniel Kelly.

The facility has room for 51 residents, plus housing for some staff. There are lounges and rooms for activities and a dining room.

Residents must do their own laundry and take part in a work activity, all geared to helping prepare them to return to society. Some work in the kitchen and some are on the maintenance crew, while others work in the office, care for the grounds, or work in the vegetable gardens or with the livestock Planned leisure activities include bowling, volleyball, fishing, boating, swimming, skating and trips. Classes are taught on personal hygiene and about taking one's medication. The goal is to prepare residents for a return to independent living, to holding a job and living as normal a life as possible.

Rose Hill also plans to be able serve even more people on a day-care basis. And after residents graduate, they come back at least once a month as part of Rose Hill's community support program.

The Kellys appreciate the fact that it was their son's tragic illness that led to so much good being done for so many others.

"The parent of one of our residents recently told John, 'If you hadn't gotten sick, our Paul would have never gotten better,- Rosemary Kelly said.

"I believe God uses us as instruments, and John was the instrument to start Rose Hill."

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Alan Ames returns to Jesus, urges all who listen to follow

Carbyr Alan Ames with his two books about his spiritual life Perth husband and father of two Carver Alan Ames has recently had the fact of his experiences of Jesus, Mary, the saints and angels published in the West Australian.

Record journalist Colleen McGulness-Howard reports here on her talk with Carver Alan about his life and spiritual experiences.

rllean, confident, and a "look you straight in the eye" sort of fellow, 42-year-old Carver Alan (as he's more popularly known) Ames proceeds to recount a life lived until he was almost 40 that was without a doubt on the Wild Side!

English-born with an alcoholic father, from the age of 16, he (and three of his four brothers) were probably the despair of their devout Irish Catholic mother as he confessed to being "almostan alcoholic from the time I was 16."

Along with his friends - "we were all drinkers, fighters, told the usual dirty jokes, lied, occasionally swindled things, and stole bits and pieces" - he thought anyone interested in God would "have to be around the twist."

Mother's despair Having gained a fourth-degree black belt in Aikido, a selfdefence art, Alan used it to hurt people and once nearly killed someone except for an internal voice which said: "Don't!"

Married at 20 to an 18-year-old Australian, Katherine, who was holidaying in England, they settled in Australia in 1976, and had two children.

Settling down more after marriage, Alan started having dreams when he was about 33 years of age which predicted the death of certain people and natural disasters - all of which ultimately happened.

Unnerved by this and turning to drink for supposed comfort, he started returning to his old ways "and, by 1993, I was slipping more deeply into violence and drink."

Graphic dreams increased commensurately with his violence, and more strident, louder, aggressive voices urged him to

fight more and more; sleep was punctuated by shouting and screaming as he felt himself being attacked by individuals.

And then a dramatic incident took place that changed the course of his life while staying in an Adelaide hotel on a working stint.

Sober and alone in his room while watching TV, suddenly a man's image appeared and tried to choke him.

Convinced he would die, he attempted to fight a formless spirit.

The Our Father

him. Alan said the voice described herself as Caddie his angel, and said she was sent by God to tell him about God's love, and asked him to change his life, stop sinning, love people instead of hating them, and learn to know and love God more "as He had a lot for me to do."

Wanting proof of Caddie's identity he was given information about something that would happen the next day - and it did.

Asked for more proof, Caddie then said his house (which they hadn't planned on selling), would be sold, that they'd go for a holiday, then buy a house built with love, in a specific suburb, on sacred ground, and given as a gift from God. Alan said he was unexpectedly tempted by an offer to buy a friend's house, they sold their house in fast time and went on a holiday.

The purchase of their friend's house then fell through, and within a week the Ames' bought a house which they found out subsequently had been lovingly built by a devout Catholic ownerbuilder, it was blessed, was on monastery ground, and in the specific suburb Caddie had said.

Despite, Caddie's request to stop quarrelling and to pray more, he made no serious effort to change his lifestyle, so was told by Caddie that she'd be leaving him and a higher spirit would speak to him.

Then, in Adelaide, according to Alan, a stern, strict, compelling voice whom he later believed to be that of St Teresa of Avila told him to pull himself together, saying he wasn't a child and asking did he want to spend eternity in suffering, adding "You will if you don't change." He said the voice told him to pray the rosary three times a day, "to stop drinking, fighting, sinning and start loving God." Stating he didn't know how to say the rosary and couldn't buy a pair at night, she directed him to a shop where he could and, on return to his hotel, St Teresa taught him how to recite the rosary

Desperately, Alan started praying the Our Father - and the strangling stopped; when he stopped praying, the strangling started again, so he resumed praying all night until falling asleep in exhaustion. Then, after reawakening, more strangling, and subsequent fervent praying throughout intermittent sleep.

Returning to Perth, and needing help, but as a lapsed Catholic without any contacts, Alan got involved with a New Age follower who endeavoured to help him rid himself of a possessive evil spirit.

After sessions, struggles with a perceived inhabiting evil spirit Return to Rosary which he tried to rid himself of, participation in New Age groups He said that he prayed, despite - "all seeking inner peace but loud clanging and banging noisleaving more confused than ever es in his room, and described it and having parted with consider- as "Wonderful!" able amounts of money," - Alan "I'd only prayed the rosary detached himself from the about twice before and never felt groups. Looking back, he thanks anything like it," he said. "It was God for protecting him from fur- amazing! A burst of happiness ther involvement. and joy; a mixture of wonderful He now believes he was given feelings." experience of the New Age After saying three rosaries movement to warn people of the daily for a few months, and a dangers of getting involved. He bit bored with the meditation, emphasises to every age group, Alan said St Teresa advised him "that the Healing Love of Jesus while praying to start thinking cures all, and this beautiful rela- about how God the Father tionship with Him doesn't cost a acted and felt about Jesus' life, cent! - because He has already and His Son's feelings; then the paid the price for each one of us." same with the Holy Spirit, the The battle to claim Alan contin- Apostles and how Our Lady ued, however, with a call to felt, and her actions in Jesus' return to aggression. life.

Torn with uncertainty and lackSometimes she smiled, Alan ing direction, Alan heard one day said, and once cried for the a "soft, gentle, comforting, reas- aborted children. suring voice" that said it loved He now prays the rosary nine

times a day, which has brought him closer to God - and sees it as "such a beautiful prayer which reflects on different aspects of Jesus' life."

He said that after St Teresa left Carver Alan Ames has perhim, he had been spoken to by mission to speak publicly Saints Matthew and Andrew who about his conversion experigave him parables about how ence.

God loved men but men were His claims to visions and turning away from God, and how i nner locutions have not been people should love each other. i nvestigated by the Church St Stephen told Alan about his and should therefore be treatmartyrdom and said when he ed with caution. was being stoned to death, he My support for Mr Ames as a forgave them, and then Jesus led person of integrity and faith him by the hand into Heaven. should not be interpreted in About that time, Alan said he any way as endorsement of his hated most people and found it claims to supernatural mesdifficult to get on with them, "but sages.

St Stephen taught me that no Archbishop Barry Hickey matter how much people abuse you, you should always love them; this sort of opened me up Alan said he cried for a long how to love people instead of time after the vision at what he'd hating them. seen and realised, "but Jesus said "And one of the special things" 'I forgive you,' and then asked me he explained, "was the love of a to change, start afresh, and asked man and a woman before God; I me would I be prepared to work then saw a deeper meaning in for Him." my life for my wife."

That was the moment when Alan said he "fell in love with Forgiving message Jesus," and said he'd do whatever Jesus wanted, "because I truly Later in England, Alan went to love Him." Mass at least weekly and prayed Jesus explained that He may more and, then in St Edmund's, forgive man, but man has to forLondon, was sitting in front of the give himself, "because most peoSacred Heart statue "when it ple carry the sin around after started to shine white, and there they've been forgiven," Alan before me was our Blessed said, confessing that he had diffiMother." culty with that in view of all the A little confused, he could see sins he'd committed. her heart and realised it was her "With Jesus, one feels so Immaculate Heart - Our Lady unworthy, but Jesus said we are encouraged him to receive the worthy because He gave His life sacraments more, to pray more, for us - and that makes us worlove people more and to love and thy!" think about God more, "and with And what is Jesus' work for her help and encouragement I Alan? With full time employdid that and then started going to ment and a family, Alan goes to a Mass a few times weekly and to lot of parishes, having spoken in 'London, Sydney, Darwin, and Confession once a week."

He said Our Lady explained here in Perth, encouraging peohow the Sacraments were under- ple to return to Jesus and the rated by mankind but how Sacraments.

On these occasions Alan prays important they were because they purified, cleansed, and over people for healing and testifies that there have been many strengthened us in God's love.

Saying how Our Lady contin- spiritual, physical and emotional ues to be with him often, Alan healings - and they continue. related how she said her Son Healing testimony would visit him that day.

Alan asked why him "because He's written two hooks as a with my unworthiness I'd be the worst person in the world," but "converted sinner" through inner that day he alleges he first heard locution from Jesus and Mary Jesus who told him how his sins The Way, and The Obvious Way, in life had hurt Him and also the latter containing many mesother people, as well as himself. sages he claims to have received.

A short time later, asserted Both are meant to educate and Alan, he was shown the state of encourage a person's walk in his soul. "It was putrid! I could faith with a call to return to God. almost smell it! There were sores Alan alleges a number of Saints all over it. have spoken to him (with 21 on "And then Jesus said this is how All Saints Day giving different your soul is when you are living messages), and said the Holy in sin and then showed me how Spirit, God the Father, as well as it could look in the state of grace Our Lady and Jesus have spoken .. . it was pure white, and shining to him. like light. It made me feel so He also claims to have been happy." shown Heaven, Purgatory and He said that when Jesus told Hell and says the latter two are him He forgave him all his sins, it like darkness, pits of with Hell so was like a weight lifted off his shoulders because he saw Him terrible, people should strive on the Cross with the nails being very hard not to get there; while driven in and being whipped. "I Heaven was a place of sublime knew it was my sins and that I happiness and peace. could not sin again. Now I try Continued next page my hardest not to sin."

Archbishop's statement

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Movie Previews

Quirky humour of family relations

By Henry Herx and Gerd Pare Home for the Holidays (Paramount) takes comic aim at the annual ritual of family reunions over Thanksgiving weekend.

Chicago single mum Claudia can't get her 16- year-old. Kitt, to join her for Thanksgiving with her family in Baltimore.

In fact, Kitt informs Mum she's decided to celebrate the weekend by losing her virginity with her boyfriend - unwelcome news - but Claudia offers no verbal protest. What's more, Claudia has just unexpectedly lost her job

and is dreading the fussy attentions of her parents, the disapproving looks of her sister, Joanne, and the possibility that her adored gay brother, Tommy, might not show.

Sure enough, her perceptive mother immediately senses Claudia's been fired. Her solution - to invite over a sad-sack guy who was always sweet on Claudia - is one more nuisance to face. Dotty Aunt Glady is a dear, but her unexpected outbursts keep everyone on edge.

At least Tommy arrives, but with a new guy, Leo. Claudia liked Tommy's last

Adele (Ann Bancroft) and Henry (Charles Doming) still adore each other after decades of marriage in the comedy CNS photo -Home for the Holidays."

boyfriend so is rattled by the stranger in their midst for the weekend. Plus, Tommy's childish pranks only escalate with the arrival of their high-strung sister and her equally uptight husband (Steve Guttenberg). Over dinner a flying turkey lands all over Joanne and fast and furious insults start flying as well.

Will this frazzled family ever get its act together? And is it just possible Claudia will find romance where she least expects it? Director Jodie Foster gets some fine performances from the cast as they attempt to portray the tensions that bubble over

when adult children return to the nest still bristling from sibling rivalries and unresolved parental conflicts.

The audience is expected, like his resigned parents, to accept Tommy's homosexuality, but he is often so intrusive and obnoxious, it's hard to see beyond his juvenile antics to the person within.

The narrative seems contrived to bring out the worst possible scenarios, although this enables the characters to rethink their relationships. Just as often, however, the movie comes off as a magnified sitcom about the now-

typical eccentric-dysfunctional family. The mild romantic subplot is actually a nice diversion from all the real or imagined hurt feelings on display, and its literally up-in-the-air solution is a nice final flourish.

This movie's humour comes from the perspective that, unlike friendships, where usually you get to pick your friends, family relationships are an obligation to be endured more than enjoyed.

Due to assorted sexual references, fleeting violence and frequent profanity, the U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-Ill - adults.

Virtue lacking in Virtuousity, Movie Classifications but fine performances help Reviewed by Br Luke Saker fine

The year is 1999 and the Los Enforcement Angeles Law Technology Advancement Centre has come up with a novel way of training its police force - novel but totally unbelievable.

Using a virtual simulator Sid 6.7 (Russell Crowe) is created by the Advancement centre. Sid 6.7 is a composite of the worst traits of around 182 serial killers.

All is well so long as Sid 6.7 remains in the bounds of virtual reality, but, would you know, he escapes the boundaries of the cyberspace into the 'real world'.

Unfortunately tie director Brett Leonard, (The Lawnmower Man and Hideaway) fails to show the difference between the 'virtual reality world' and 'the real world' and, as a result, the film becomes not only predictable, but also boring.

Meanwhile languishing in prison is ex-cop Parker Barnes (Denzel Washington) who has paid a high price for bringing down a terrorist named Matthew Grimes. Needless to say, Barnes is the only person who is capable of stopping the now raging, Sid

6.Z Enter criminal psychologist Madison Carter (Kelly Lynch Curly Sue, Drugstore Cowboy) whose job it is to decide if Barnes is 'safe' to be allowed out of prison to pursue Sid 6.7 - the way Sid 6.7 was committing mayhem on the streets of Los Angeles there should have been no doubt (hence the rather thin plot).

Aided in the decision to have Barnes released from prison is William Chochran Chief (William Forsythe - Dick Tracy, Raising Arizona) whose performance in the film is praiseworthy and adds some credibility to it.

The pursuit begins in earnest.

The only problem is after the first ten minutes of the film, all the action becomes predictable and violent - 100 minutes of this can become quite boring.

The audience is fully aware of what Sid 6.7 is going to do and is also aware of how this rather ordinary film will end.

The visual effects, supervised

by Jon Townley (Hideaway and Wo/t) and L2 Communications have a commanding presence in the first two action sequences, but, like the rest of this film, are

merely repeated for the remainder - so much so that the action (even as violent as it is) fails to hold attention.

Denzel Washington (Glory, Malcolm X Pelican Brief and Philadelphia) appears to be totally bored with his role as Barnes.

Commanding some 13 million dollars a film, Washington's performance is rather average, which is disappointing as he is a very fine actor.

New Zealand born, Australianraised actor Russell Crowe (The Crossing, Proof, Romper Stomper and The Sum of Us) left our fair shores to 'make it big in Hollywood" - so far the two films he has made in America - The Quick and the Dead and now Virtuosity have left a lot to be desired.

Crowe is wooden in the role of Sid 6.7 and one would hope in his upcoming Urns Rough Magic and No Way Back we will be allowed to see his real acting talent.

Fine performances from Kelly Lynch and William Forsythe help make a very ordinary film a little more bearable.

NEW YORK (CNS) - Here is a list of recent films the United States' Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting has rated on the basis of moral suitability.

The symbol after each title is the USCC classification. USCC classifications: A-I - general patronage: A-II - adults and adolescents: A-HI - adults: A-IV - adults, with reservations (this indicates films that, while not morally offensive in themselves, are not for casual viewing because they require some analysis and explanation in order to avoid false impressions and interpretations); 0 morally offensive.

The Addiction, AIII The Amazing Panda Adventure, All Apollo 13, All The Assassins, 0 Babe, Al Batman Forever, AIII The Big Green, Al Blue in the Face, AM Braveheart, AB/ Broken Harvest, All The Brothers McMullen, API Canadian Bacon, All Clockers, AB/ Clueless, 0 Copycat, 0 Dangerous Minds, AM Dead Presidents, AP/ Desperado, 0 Devil in a Blue Dress, AIII Feast of July, All! Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Al Get Shorty AIII Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain, All Gospa, All Hackers, AIII Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, 0

Home for the Holidays, A111 How to Make an American Quilt, AIII The Indian in the Cupboard. Al Jade, 0 Jeffrey, 0 The Journey of August King, All Kicking and Screaming, AP/ Kids, 0 Last of the Dogmen, AIII Leaving Las Vegas, 0 Les Miserables, AIII Mallrats, 0 Mighty Aphrodite, Al!!

A Month by the Lake, AIII Mortal Kombat, AIII The Net, AIII Never Talk to Strangers, 0 Nine Months, All! Now and Then, AIII Persuasion, All Pocahontas, Al The Postman (11 Postino). All Powder, Al!!

The Prophecy, AIV The Run of the Country AP/ The Scarlet Letter, Al!!

Seven, 0 Showgirls, 0 (NC17) Smoke, AIII Strange Days, 0 Three Wishes, Al! The Tie That Binds, 0 To Die For, MV lb Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!

Julie Newmar, AIII Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, 0 Unstrung Heroes, Al! Unzipped, Al!!

The Usual Suspects, Al!!

Vampire in Brooklyn, AP/ Virtuosity, 0 A Walk in the Clouds, AIII Waterworld, API

Alan Ames returns to Jesus and urges all who will listen to follow in faith Continued from Page 9 Alan said Jesus told him to be a 'normal person' so people would see that one doesn't have to be on their hands and knees all the time, and explained "you can lead a normal life and still love Me." The messages he's been given, Alan pointed out "are plain and simple because there's no need for complication; God loves you and that is it!"

"And the message He gives," he said, "is 10 llye Record,.Novpother 23,109A

about how He loves us so much and wants us to come back, that prayer is talking to God and said this is the time we give Him - that it's our time together."

Alan said he never used to believe that the host was really the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, but one day the Lord said He had the gift of smile for him, and after receiving Holy Communion he was filled with ecstasy and couldn't stop smiling.

Jesus then told him that this is there for everyone if they just opened their hearts

to Him and believe it is truly His body.

Alan was told by Jesus to observe how sad people looked but "they should be happy when they receive Me" and said it was one of the reasons why people fell away from the Church, because in place of sadness, they would experience the happiness and joy of receiving Him through the Eucharist in the Mass.

Sometimes when Alan has been praying in front of statues, they have assumed human form, such as St Therese of

Lisieux, known as 'The Little Flower', accompanied with the smell of roses.

Alan said that he had been given gifts of the Holy Spirit, including the gift of tongues and languages even though he is not multi-lingual.

Finally, Alan emphasised the need for unity within prayer groups to spread God's Word, stating that this was possible despite retaining their individuality "because unified we stand, but divided we fall."

Features

un a pencil in God's hand

By Christopher Guly OTTAWA (CNS) - Canadian writer Lucinda Vardey said she was profoundly moved by Mother Teresa when she set out to co-author the autobiography of the world-famous nun from Calcutta.

"I would say I felt an enormous feeling of grace being in her presence," Ms Vardey told Catholic News Service in an interview from her home in Toronto.

Her perspective of the founder of the Missionaries of Charity is 180 degrees from that of British writer Christopher Hitchens whose book The Missionary Position: The Ideology of Mother Teresa, portrays the founder of the Missionaries of Charity as a not-so-saintly, money-grubbing nun who is "a religious fundamentalist a political operative, a primitive sermoniser and an accomplice of worldly, secular powers."

This Christmas, book buyers will get to choose which literary description of Mother Teresa will make the best reading.

The nun's 200-page life story, A Simple Path, which Ms Vardey helped pen under a commission from Ballantine Books, is appearing in a first printing of 500,000 copies worldwide.

Distributed by Random House, the book sells for $20 in the United States and $19.95 In Australia.

A self-described, left-of-centre Catholic who also penned Belonging: A Book for the Questioning Catholic Today - Ms Vardey spent a month before Christmas 1994 living and working with the worldfamous nun at her Home for the Dying in Calcutta and her San Francisco-based AIDS hospice for homeless gay men.

She also contacted other Missionaries of Charity in India, Britain and the United States about their commitment to the congregation.

Scheduling time with the Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun herself proved the most difficult task, she said.

"You sort of have to be there,and wait," said Ms Vardey. "It taught me a lot about patience and surrender."

But Ms Vardey said she is wary of joining the bandwagon for prematurely canonising Mother Teresa.

"I don't think it's something bestowed on someone," she said. "Mother always says, 'Everybody has the ingredients to be a saint."

The nun calls herself "'a pencil' in God's hand," Ms Vardey said.

But witnessing Mother Teresa's work, Ms Vardey said she was struck by the nun's fortitude and leadership.

"It was amazing, and I felt it, that when

Mother Teresa of Calcutta speaks at a meeting of Indian Christians in New Delhi, in a campaign asking the government to reserve jobs for impoverished Christians in India.

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Mother entered a room, you could relax a bit, because you knew Mother would sort of make clear the path," she said.

"Like other foundresses of religious communities, she is charismatic and is filled with much determination." the author added.

By contrast, Hitchens' book accuses the 85-year-old nun of stashing huge sums of money in concealed bank accounts including the funds from a financial contribution from Charles Keating. now serving a 10-year sentence for his involvement In the US savings-and-loan debacle.

Mother Teresa has established 600 centres for the homeless, the sick and the substance abusers in some 120 countries Including those in the former Soviet Union. her native Albania and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

That and other works on her record achievements has helped put Hitchens in a literary doghouse.

Saturday Night. Canada's monthly current-events magazine, features Mother Teresa on its November 1995 edition cover, and refers to Hitchens' "strange little hobby" of attacking the nun.

Writer David Warren says in the article, "I have no doubt that had (Mother Teresa) flourished SO years ago, she would have visited Hitler with a scheme for housing his unwanted cripples. insane and mental defectives.

"I am not even sure that he could have resisted her entreaties,- he wrote. "And I suppose the Hitchens of the day would use this to prove her complicity in Nazism."

As for Hitchens' criticisms of Mother

Teresa's strong stands against abortion and contraception, Ms Vardey says the nun simply believes "life is sacred."

Ms Vardey said Hitchens' strong attacks could be the expression of someone who "has not quite come to terms with his own faith."

Ms Vardey said interviewing Mother Teresa for A Simple Path helped her "look at the direction" she needs to go in her faith.

Mother Teresa, who typically retires at 2 a.m. and rises at 4:40 am., is beginning to show signs of her age, said Ms Vardey. The nun, who has a weak heart, looks "frail and somewhat bent" But once Mother Teresa goes to her daily Mass, Ms Vardey said "she noticeably picks up."

Mother Teresa's hands also tell a story, she said.

'They are strong and reveal that she has done a lot of manual labour for God," she said.

"She struck me as being very pragmatic, yet pastoral; sacred and very down-toearth; vulnerable, yet very strong," Ms Vardey said. "I think what makes her holy is that she is so whole."

Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu at Skopje now the capital city of the Balkan republic of Macedonia - Mother Teresa spent her novitiate with the Loreto Sisters at Darjeeling, India.

On March 24. 1931, she took her vows and took her name Teresa from St. Therese of Lisieux.

After teaching for two decades Sister Teresa decided to work with the poor.

In 1950 Sister Teresa became Mother Teresa, and the Missionaries of Charity were born in the city's Motijhil district.

Ms Vardey said Mother Teresa distributes "business cards" on yellow mimeographed paper. They contain no e-mail address or fax number.

Instead, the cards bear a simple message: "The fruit of silence is prayer.

-The fruit of prayer is faith.

'The fruit of faith is love.

'The fruit of love is service.

'The fruit of service is peace."

Ms Vardey said that six-point creed blends the spirituality of Buddhism and Hinduism, and positions the nun as a link to historic figures devoted to peace.

"Mother always said that she believes evil does exist" said Ms Vardey. "But no matter how disgusting someone may behave, Mother sees those moments simply as 'Christ in His distressing disguise.— "For her," the writer said. "it's a matter of love in all things."

St Jude, patron of hopeless, finds Still learning from Newman 150 years on popularity with the ladies

By George Russo DAYTON, Ohio (CNS) - Robert 1996 from Yale University Press.

Orsi's flight was en route to New It is based on Orsi's research of 150 years ago the Passionist York when the pilot came on the 2,500 prayers published in a loudspeaker to announce that devotional periodical called The priest, Dominic Barberi arrived at weather conditions would not Voice of St Jude. It focuses on Littlemore outside of Oxford, longest confession permit the plane to land. women who pray to St Jude and, after the had ever heard, priest the Without much thought, Orsi, about matters of childbirth and Henry John Newman received who happened to be writing a family. into the Church. "The long agony book about the patron saint of "They seem to hold him in hopeless causes, made a quick reserve for when all things seem was over," he wrote, "to be replaced in time by a sense of plea: "St Jude, you have to do to slip out of control," he said. i nner peace." something."

He said the following of the Newman felt at the time that Within a few seconds the pilot saint began in a poor church in a the Church of Rome possessed a came back on the loudspeaker. Chicago suburb in 1929, during a sanctity far removed from any'Folks, I've 'never seen anything time of extreme economic and thing that could be found in the like this, but the weather has social change, especially for England. Formerly an Church of cleared and we will be landing women. ordained minister, he ministered shortly," the pilot said.

St Jude was a saint who was not Orsi, a professor of religious deeply rooted in the heritage of as the Anglican vicar of St Mary's studies at Indiana University, traditional Catholic families. Orsi Oxford.

His sermons at St Mary's had a related that story in a speech at said that second-generation profound influence on the relithe University of Dayton on immigrant women turned to this November 10. In talking about obscure saint with their prayers gious life, not only of Oxford, but his forthcoming book on devo- of despair because many of the also of the whole of England. His tions to St. Jude .he said he's not saints were already spoken for spirituality was firmly based on the Fathers of the Church who, in a St. Jude devotee but would be within the family. including that account in his Orsi recounted the desperate turn, led him into the Holy book. stories that women shared in Catholic Church. But, beforeThank You St. Jude: Women's their prayers to St. Jude, many hand, he was the leading figure Devotions to the Patron Saint of involving fears of marriage, in the 'Praetorian Movement, better known as the Oxford Hopeless Causes is due out in childbirth and infertility.

Movement, whose tracts changed

the course of religion in Briton.

Newman loved Oxford and University life, and had many friends. He gave them up to follow Christ, but first farewelled them in his famous sermon, The Parting of Friends'.

Quickly, he went on to become a priest of the Catholic Church in order that he might do the work of God more strenuously. Again he experienced sufferings in his new calling.

Moves to have Newman made a saint began in 1958 when English Catholics sent his cause to Rome.

Little progress has been made, but this sesquicentenary of his entry in to the Church of the Saints calls for a further evaluation.

Christians of all persuasions should see in Newman a leader from whom they may learn to draw closer to each other.

Therefore, he deserves a tribute on this sesquicentenary no less for his spiritual and intellectual virtues, as for his personal saintliness, which some day soon, hopefully, will be recognised by the Church he served so well.

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To Jesus through M VATICAN CITY (CNS) Christians' devotion to Mary is not a superficial attachment, but a reflection of her influence over people's hearts and the church's mission, Pope John Paul II said at a general audience on November 15.

The Pope said Mary's importance to church life could be seen in popular prayer, in pilgrimages, and in artistic works

..

. . . a column of Marian devotion

that see in the Mother of Christ involved is not a superficial a "sublime sign of hope" for the sentiment, but a profound and conscious emotional bond, whole world.

"The Marian dimension of the rooted in the faith, which has Church constitutes an undeni- led Christians of past and preable element in the experience sent to turn to Mary in order to of the Christian people," he enter into communion with Christ," he said. said.

The pope said the Hail Mary This was evident in the intense ways in which the faithful has remained the most popular have honoured, loved and prayer among Christians since prayed to her, he said. "What is the Middle Ages, while the

faithful have added a wide vari- Portugal, Loreto and Pompei in ety of other local prayers to Italy, Guadalupe in Mexico and Czestochowa in Poland - were Mary. where Mary's intercesplaces He said painters, sculptors, musicians and poets have also sion had produced miraculous found inspiration in the figure physical healings and spiritual of Mary to produce innumer- conversions. able works.

"These are clear signs that He said that pilgrimage sites Mary continues, with Christ dedicated to Mary - such as and in the Spirit, her work of Lourdes in France, Fatima in helper and mother," he said.

US Bishops criticise welfare budget cuts WASHINGTON (CNS) - As the budget crisis threatened to paralyse the federal government, the US Catholic bishops came to Washington to warn that human and moral considerations must not be discarded in favour of purely financial factors.

During their November 13-16 autumn meeting in Washington. members of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and US Catholic Conference declared themselves solidly on the side of the poor and rejected attempts to make the working poor and children bear the brunt of federal budget cuts.

In a last-minute addition to the agenda, they made their own appeal to national leaders from their president, Cardinal William Keeler of Baltimore. The docu- Bishop Alfred Abramowicz, retired auxiliary of Chicago, looks over some ment, called "A Catholic Appeal: notes during the conference.

CNS PhotaNancy Wiechez Leadership for the Common Good." said the budget debates "appear to represent a massive Minneapolis, was chosen as con"have fundamental moral dimen- disinvestment in poor children ference secretary sions and human consequences." and working families - $110 bilThe bishops also acted on: "We do not think we can come lion by some estimates."

• A national strategy for vocato Washington at this critical time "This legislation falls far short tions, approved unanimously by and remain silent as our leaders of the bishops' criteria for reform, voice vote, that calls on each face policy decisions that will and deserves to be rejected, and Catholic to take seriously the affect every one of us, especially replaced by genuine reform "privilege and responsibility" of the poorest members of our which will encourage work, inviting others to consider a country," said Cardinal Roger strengthen families and protect vocation to the priesthood or reliMahony of Los Angeles, who had human life and dignity," said the gious life. suggested the appeal. letter from Cardinal Mahony and • A pastoral statement on "The The bishops also reaffirmed the Auxiliary Bishop John Ricard of Hispanic Presence in the New principles of their 1986 pastoral Baltimore.

Evangelization in the United on the economy and harshly critNear the close of their meeting, States." Passed on a 224-4 vote, icised welfare reform measures the bishops heard a joint report the document says the linkage of pending in Congress. from several committees urging faith and culture that historically By a 236-2 vote on November Catholics to "take positive steps has helped define the US 14, the bishops approved a pas- to promote reconciliation" in Hispanic community holds toral message marking the 10th light of the current racial divi- lessons for the entire US Church. anniversary of "Economic Justice sions in the United States.

• A brief letter to Catholic colfor All." In the new message the But the bishops also found time lege students, approved on a bishops call for "greater econom- to look at some pressing matters unanimous voice vote, that urges ic justice in an economy with of internal church business, such them to "create a climate of hope remarkable strength and creativ- as vocations, liturgy, and lay min- and a community of welcome" ity, but with too little economic istry. on the nation's campuses. growth distributed too Bishop Anthony Pilla of • "Called and Gifted for the inequitably."

Cleveland was elected to succeed Third Millennium," a pastoral On the same day, the bishops' Cardinal Keeler as NCCB-USCC reflection on lay ministry that conference released a letter from president for the next three years. marks the 30th anniversary of the chairmen of its pro-life and Bishop Joseph Fiorenza of the Second Vatican Council's domestic policy committees Galveston-Houston was elected Decree on the Apostolate of the which said the current welfare vice president, and Archbishop Laity. reform proposals in Congress Harry Flynn of St Paul.

• The Pastoral Introduction to

Liturgical reforms backed VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II strongly defended the Second Vatican Council's liturgical reforms, saying the Church has been enriched by Mass in the vernacular and more active participation by the faithful.

"With these innovations the Church did not break away from tradition, but on the contrary interpreted fully its richness and Its demands," he said.

"The council offered truly wise directions on making the liturgy more significant and effective," he said.

This included bringing the rites back to their doctrinal meaning and giving new vigour to the proclamation of God's word, he said. It also involved promoting deeper participation by the laity and designing forms of ministry that reflect the Church's wide variety of gifts, he said.

"The desire to adapt the rites to the various languages and cultures was decisive, so that the Church can fully express its universal character, even in the liturgy," he said.

the Order of the Mass and US adaptations to it, as well as the fourth segment of the seven-part Sacramentary. Both passed easily, but Vatican approval is still needed.

In other business, the bishops voted to approve a $41.8 million budget for 1996, new guidelines for the retirement of bishops, a 28-page list of priorities and plans for 1996, and the extension of the collection for retired religious until the year 2007. In its first seven years the collection has brought in about $180 million.

The bishops also approved a new formula to determine how much each diocese contributes to the operation of the bishops' national offices.

Instead of the current per-capita formula, half of the assessment will now be based on net parish offertory income in the diocese.

Thirty percent will be based on the number of registered Catholic households in the diocese. The remaining 20 percent will be assessed on the basis of each diocese's contributions to three of the annual national collections.

The bishops had further discusVATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope sion, but no decision yet, on John Paul II. addressing restructuring the NCCB-USCC in Pakistan's ambassador to the various ways as part of an effort Vatican, said the predominantly to get more bishops more direct- Muslim country should protect ly involved in conference work its tradition of openness and Much of one afternoon was avoid religious discrimination. devoted to a report from the Ad The Pope's remarks appeared Hoc Committee on Mission and to react to recent cases of Structure and three focus groups Christians receiving death penalon the restructuring plan. ties - later overturned - under Cardinal Keeler, ending his Pakistan's blasphemy laws. term as NCCB-USCC president, The Pope said religious freedevoted most of his final presi- dom is a right that is "so fundadential address on November 13 mental that it precedes civil laws, to an assessment of Pope John and all civil authorities are therePaul II's October 4-8 visit to the fore obliged to defend and guarantee it."

United States.

He said Pakistan had a tradition Echoing the Pope's call to "Be not afraid," Cardinal Keeler said, of openness and respect for dif"This antiphon of Pope John ferences, a tradition that must be Paul's pontificate ought to inspire protected "in order to avoid what we bishops do and say as unjustifiable bias and discrimipublic witnesses to the truth here nation, including discrimination on the basis of religious belief." in the United States."

Tolerance for believers

Bishop-theologian demarcation text considered for universities

By Jerry Fitteau WASHINGIUN (CNS) - A draft proposal aimed at breaking a long-standing deadlock over the Vatican requirement that Catholic theology professors have a mandate from their local bishop to teach was presented to the US bishops on November 15.

The draft proposal, the result of several years of discussion and dialogue between US bishops and academic representatives, is to be further refined in light of comments before it comes to the bishops for a vote, possibly at the bishops' June 1996 or November 1996 meeting.

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Bishop John Leibrecht of SpringfieldCape Girardeau, who presented the proposal, is head of a committee of bishops and Catholic college and university presidents that has been working since 1991 to develop a US document implementing the Corde "Ex constitution apostolic Ecclesiae."

The Roman document, which set out general norms for Catholic institutions of higher learning around the world, called for bishops' conferences to develop local norms adapting the general norms to the institutions in their own country.

A key element in the draft proposal is a statement regarding a 1989 document approved by the US bishops called

"Doctrinal Responsibilities: Approaches to Promoting Cooperation and Resolving Misunderstandings Between Bishops and Theologians." The statement says the document would be adopted as normative for resolving any situation in which a bishop believes a theologian has departed from orthodox Catholic teaching.

Cardinal James Hickey of Washington, a member of Bishop Leibrecht's committee, strongly endorsed the draft proposal as "a pastoral and practical way to implement 'Ex Garde Ecclesiae" in the complex legal and historical context of US Catholic higher education.

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago also stood to support the draft text, saying

he had discussed it with Catholic college and university leaders in the Chicago Archdiocese and their reaction was "very positive."

Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua of Philadelphia said he supported the draft text's approach of emphasising that the Roman document is the main text.

But he said that in his view the proposed US text "bypasses" the canon law requirement that theology professors have a mandate from the bishop to teach.

He said the bishops will be acting like cafeteria Catholics," setting a poor example to their people, if they try to get around a law they don't like instead of dealing directly with it.

Vatican rules again on women's ordination

Simmering debate forces strong restatement a million German Catholics signed a peti-

By John Travis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In declaring that the all-male priesthood belongs to the deposit of faith and has been "infallibly" taught, the Vatican is aiming to shut the door on debate about women's ordination and slide a theological bolt across it.

The statement, published on November 18 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is the strongest effort yet to end a simmering discussion inside and outside the Church.

The brief text took an already authoritative teaching by Pope John Paul II and presented it as even more final. It appeared only a year and a half after the Pope delivered what he described as the Church's "definitive" position on the matter.

Why, then, was another statement needed?

One reason is that the teaching has continued to be openly questioned by many faithful and some theologians.

In recent weeks, for example, more than

tion calling for women priests and other changes in the Church. Opinion polls elsewhere have shown that substantial percentages of Catholics support the idea of women priests.

In a much-publicised case in November, a 65-year-old woman said she was ordained a priest in the "underground Church" when Czechoslovakia was under communism. The Vatican said the ordination would have been invalid; the woman said she would continue her battle for women's ordination, though recognising that the Church's tradition "cannot be changed overnight."

Meanwhile, there have been increasing calls - by cardinals, bishops, canon law experts and the faithful - to explore the possibility of ordaining women as deacons. The Vatican considers this a separate issue that merits careful study, but in the minds of some it would be an opening toward ordaining women as priests.

Faced with all these questions and chal-

lenges, the Vatican could either ignore them or spotlight its message. It chose the spotlight.

In using terms like "deposit of faith" and "infallible," the Vatican was speaking as much to the average Catholic as to theologians. Some believe these are the only terms able to break through widespread doctrinal confusion today.

"A lot of people have come to believe that until it is defined as infallible by a solemn act of the Pope, a doctrine of the Church can be subject to any type of interpretation," said Father Rino Fisichella, a professor of fundamental theology at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, writing in the Italian Catholic newspaper Awenire.

He said the critical reaction to the Pope's 1994 apostolic letter, "On Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone," was worrisome for that reason. With dissenting voices echoing loudly in the mass media, a climate of uncertainty was being kept alive, he said.

Catholics must accept ruling: top US cardinal

WASHINGTON (CNS) - "All Bishops, he added, should take Catholics must accept" papal "particular care that, above all on teaching that the Church cannot the part of theologians, pastors of ordain women priests, Cardinal souls and religious, ambiguous and contrary positions will not James Hickey of Washington said on November 18 after a new again be proposed."

Vatican document repeated that Cardinal Ratzinger said the teaching. congregation issued the reply "Let me urge those who have because the papal teaching difficulty in accepting this teachagainst women priests, in a May ing not to react in a hasty or 1994 apostolic letter "Ordinatio angry fashion," he added.

Sacerdotalis," "was followed by a Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of number of problematic and negChicago called the new docuative statements by certain thement "a technical but nonetheologians, organisations of priests less important clarification." and religious, as well as some Cardinal Hickey "Iwill continue to be pastorally associations of lay people." present to those women and men The reply said Pope John Paul "The reactions attempted to cast for whom this clarification may II's teaching that the Church canbe a source of disappointment," not ordain women to the priest- doubt on the definitive character of the letter's teaching in the he said. hood is "infallibly" taught and He said he joined with Bishop must be "held always, every- inadmissibility of women to the Anthony PiIla of Cleveland, pres- where and by all as belonging to ministerial priesthood and also questioned whether this teaching ident of the National Conference the deposit of the faith." belonged to the deposit of faith," of Catholic Bishops, "in asking all Joseph Ratzinger, Cardinal he said. to allow the Holy Spirit to fill Cardinal Hickey said. "I fully them with the wisdom and head of the congregation, sent understanding necessary to copies of the reply to heads of and unequivocally support this bishops' conferences around the teaching, which has been conaccept this teaching." firmed as infallible. It belongs to The two cardinals and Bishop world.

In a cover letter he said his con- that body of truth which all PiIla were among Church leaders commenting on a one-page gregation "is confident that the Catholics must accept." "responstun ad dubitun" (reply to conference itself, as well as the He asked "pastors, theologians, a question) released on individual bishops, will do every- religious men and women and November 18 by the Vatican thing possible to ensure its (the indeed all the faithful of the archdistribution and diocese to accept this doctrine in Congregation for the Doctrine of reply's) favourable reception." the Faith. a loving and prayerful spirit."

He said there was also a tendency emerging to relegate the teaching against women priests to "a momentary historical period that would be changed as time progressed."

In contrast, the doctrinal congregation stressed that the all-male priesthood could never change. And by saying the teaching was founded in Christ's own words and actions - and not just a papal pronouncement - it set up the natural consequence.

In fact, the statement said it was dealing less with the teaching than with the type of assent required by the faithful. That assent must be "full, definitive" and "irrevocable," it said.

According to Father Fisichella, that means refusing to accept this doctrine would bring one "outside the communion of the Catholic Church."

The congregation reminded Catholics that the Church finds its basic truths of faith in revelation and tradition, not in "the principles of social life of each historical moment."

'In confirming bretheren Pope exercises his office' VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Here is

the text of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's response, released November 18, to a question on whether Church teaching against ordaining women priests must be tmderstood as part of the deposit of faith.

Reply to the dubium" concerning the teaching contained in the "Ordinatio letter apostolic Sacerdotalis."

Dubium: Whether the teaching that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women, which is presented in the apostolic letter "Ordinatio Sacerdotalis' to be held definitively, is to be understood as belonging to the deposit of the faith.

Responsum: In the affirmative.

This teaching requires definitive assent, since, founded on the written word of God and from the beginning constantly preserved and applied in the tradition of the church, it has been set forth infallibly by the ordinary

and universal magisterium (cf.

Council, Vatican Second Dogmatic Constitution on the Church "Lumen Gentium," 25, 2).

Thus, in the present circumstances, the Roman pontiff, exercising his proper office of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32), has handed on this same teaching by a formal declaration, explicitly stating what is to be held always, everywhere, and by all, as belonging to the deposit of the faith.

The sovereign pontiff John Paul II, at the audience granted to the undersigned cardinal prefect, approved this reply, adopted in the ordinary session of this congregation, and ordered it to be published.

Rome, from the offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on the Feast of the Apostles Sts. Simon and Jude, Oct. 28. 1995.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Prefect Tarcisio Bertone Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli Secretary

Teaching is 'infallible' conditioning, less still for an Continued from Page 1.

The congregation spoke of the Imagined inferiority of women."

To those who have observed "essential interdependence betwthat the Apostolic Letter een Sacred Scripture and Ordinatio Sacerdotalis creates Tradition . . . . in transmitting the further difficulties for the ecuGospel." And added: "In the spe- menical movement, the congrecific case of priestly ordination, gation writes: "In this regard, one the successors of the apostles must not forget that, according to have always observed the norm the letter and the spirit of Vatican of conferring priestly ordination II, the authentic ecumenical comonly on men, and the mitment, in which the Catholic Magisterium, with the assistance Church does not wish to be nor of the Holy Spirit, teaches us that can she be lacking, demands a this came about not by chance, full sincerity and clarity in the nor by habit of repetition, nor by presentation of the identity of her being subjective to sociological own faith"

Papal ruling on ordination a gift of Christ to Church: theologian

By Jerry Filteau WASHINGION (CNS) - A new Vatican text on women's ordination clarifies that the papal teaching against ordaining women priests is "an instance of an infallible teaching" and not just "a purely disciplinary matter," said the US bishops' chief staff theologian for doctrinal issues.

Dominican Father Gus DiNoia, secretary for doctrine and pastoral practices for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the new Vatican document "dpes not say anything new

about the Church's teaching" on whether women can be ordained priests.

But it does rule out a purely disciplinary interpretation of that teaching and links it directly to papal "infallibility" and the fundamental "deposit of faith" that the Church must guard, he said.

In a commentary issued in Washington the same day as the new Vatican statement, Father DiNoia said an accompanying letter from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the doctrinal congregation, indicated that "the occasion for its issuance is the

persistence of doubts about the faith." Father DiNoia's 2,500- sacramental economy is entirely definitive character of 'Ordinatio word commentary on the new the gift of Christ to his Church. To Sacerdotalis," the 1994 papal Vatican document addressed say that a teaching about a parstatement on women's ordina- numerous questions and broader ticular sacrament belongs to the tion. issues of whether the newly clar- deposit of faith is to affirm that it "Although the 'responsum' ified papal teaching is discrimi- belongs to what the Church has (reply) does not say so explicitly, natory or arbitrary, or based on received from Christ."

"If we believe, as we must, that this formulation seems to be teachings and example from addressed to interpretations of Jesus that the Church cannot the divine wisdom is truly at 'OS' ('Ordinatio Sacerdotalis') repudiate without abandoning its work in the sacramental econothat suggested that the restriction responsibility to "the will of my, then we cannot view Christ's of holy orders to men is a purely Christ and the plan of God for action in this regard as arbitrary or, worse, as suppressive of disciplinary matter," Father the Church."

On how the teaching belongs to women," he said. The call to DiNoia wrote. "The responsum' rules out such an interpretation the deposit of faith, Father Christians. he said, is to try to by stating explicitly that the mat- DiNoia commented: "The crucial understand why this is the way ter pertains to the deposit of point to consider here is that the God willed it.

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International News

In Brief Convert or face God: Pope to Mafia Italians eat religious cake Philippine priest OK

By Agostino Bono

DAVAO CITY, Philippines (CNS) - An 81-year-old American Jesuit preparing for Mass inside the Davao City municipal jail was stabbed by an inmate in an escape attempt.

Jesuit Father Paul Finster suffered a punctured lung in addition to stab wounds, but he was later declared to be out of danger, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

Superior agenda NASUGBU, Philippines (CNS) - Religious superiors of Southeast Asia pledged to work for economic development that would preserve the threatened environment of their region.

The 41 major superiors at the Ninth Southeast Asia Major Superiors Congress in Nasugbu, 50 miles south of Manila, said that environmental issues will be a major focus (luring the next three years, 11CA News reported.

Suicide shock

OTTAWA (CNS) - The suicide death of Catholic theologian and politician Hans Daigeler has come as a shock to colleagues.

A former member of the Ontario legislature, he was a theologian on the pastoral team of the Canadian bishops' conference from September 1974 to November 1987 He took leaves of absence in 1981 and in 1985 to seek a seat in the legislature but was defeated both times. He was successful in his third try in

ROME (CNS) - More than 2,000 Italian clergy and lay leaders plan to meet November 20-24 to update Catholic life on issues ranging from the fight against the Mafia to bioethics.

The agenda includes grappling with new problems - such as integrating ethnic and religiously diverse immigrants with the predominantly Catholic population - and examining new approaches to old problems such as protecting family values.

Pope John Paul II is expected to lead the attack on organised crime during a one-day trip to the meeting, held in the Mafia stronghold of Palermo, Sicily.

The Pope plans a morning talk to the delegates on November 23, followed by an outdoor Mass for the general public. The bishops chose Palermo as an encouragement to crime-fighting Church workers.

MERRIAM, Kan. (CNS) - As the US Congress writes the 1995 farm bill, Kansas Catholic bishops are calling for a policy that supports care for the land and "for those who work the land."

The bishops said current farm policy "favours an increasingly industrialised system of agriculture requiring large amounts of capital" that rewards large farms more than smaller ones.

Missionary dies DARJEELING, India (CNS) The king of Bhutan, his mother, and government officials paid homage to the late Jesuit Father William Mackey, the first Catholic missionary in Bhutan, who died at age 80, Jesuit officials in Darjeeling said.

Father Mackey was the only foreign missionary to become a Bhutanese citizen.

Syriac diocese WASHINGTON (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has formed the first Syriac-rite diocese in the United States and named Chorbishop Joseph Younan to head it.

He also formed the first Maronite-rite diocese in Mexico and named a Mamnite pastor in Miami, Chorbishop Pierre Wadih Tayah, as its first head.

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A summary of the results was reported in the November 16 Milan-based Catholic newspaper, Avvenire. The full survey, done by the Catholic University of Milan, is scheduled for publication in book form during the second half of November.

The survey was based on a sampling of 4,500 Italians between the ages of 18 and 74.

Regarding sexual morality 55.5 percent said that they support all forms of contraception. Only 18 percent said they oppose premarital sex.

The trip will mark the third consecutive year in which the Pope has visited Sicily. In the 1993 and 1994 trips he included calls for Mafia members to convert or face "the judgment of God" and for law-abiding society

to end its "timid mediocrity" in fighting crime.

The Pope's words drew violent Mafia reaction. After the 1993 trip, two Rome churches were bombed, and a Mafia-fighting priest was killed in Palermo.

'Seamless' pro-life approach attacked

By Nancy Frazier O'Brien

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MILAN, Italy (CNS) - A majority of Italian Catholics support many Church positions on bioethics but differ significantly with Church sexual morality, according to a nationwide survey sponsored by the Italian bishops' conference.

The survey also reported that 84 percent of the Italian population considers itself Catholic, far less than the official church estimate of 98 percent.

Slightly more than 31 percent of all Italians fulfil the weekly Mass obligation, it said.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The US bishops' "seamless garment" approach to pro-life issues represents an "unwarranted moral equivalence" of abortion and lesser issues, a leading pro-life member of Congress charged on November 17 Henry Hyde, chairman of the House judiciary Committee. made the comment in a talk to the national convention of the Catholic Campaign for America, which drew about 700 people to Washington November 17-18.

Hyde said Pope John Paul II "did not suggest that abortion is one issue among many" when he visited the United States in October. Instead, the Pope presented abortion as "the great civil rights issue of our time," Hyde added.

The seamless garment theory, first articulated by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, calls for a consistent ethic of life on issues such as abortion, war, capital punishment, euthanasia and embryo experimentation.

Hyde also criticised the political responsibility statement issued earlier in November by the US Catholic Conference. "I regret the suggestion of moral equivalence contained in the USCC statement," he said.

As evidence of his claim of "moral equivalence," Hyde cited a section of the document that says, "We stand with the unborn and the undocumented.... We defend children in the womb and on welfare. We oppose the violence of abortion and the

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Police blamed the Mafia for the incidents.

During the Pope's 1994 visit, an anti-Mafia priest found a dead lamb on his doorstep with a warning that the same would happen to him.

But the Pope's words also gave encouragement to civic and Church leaders in Sicily and other areas where organised crime is a dominating social factor.

The Palermo meeting is a national congress held every 10 years to discuss Church activities in the light of changing times.

Its conclusions will be given to the bishops' conference as a basis for updating pastoral programs.

Slightly more than half the delegates are lay people, either chosen in their dioceses or picked because they head major Catholic lay groups.

The remaining delegates are bishops, priests and religious.

Bishops must be 'fathers' and guide

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The authority of bishops in the Catholic Church must be understood in the context of their call to serve the people of God and ensure the unity of local churches with the universal Church, Pope John Paul II said.

The model of a bishop drawn by the Second Vatican Council was one of a "pastor who exercises in the name of Christ the function of teaching, sanctifying and governing the people of God," the Pope said on November 19.

Pope John Paul's remarks about the role of bishops in the Church was part of a series of Sunday talks he has been making on the various documents of the Second Vatican Council, which ended in

1965.

In the council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, he said, the discussion of the Church's hierarchy rightly came after its description of the Church as the People of God. "It is, in fact, within and at the service of this people that the ministry of those 'who by divine

institution have taken the place of the apostles as pastors of the Church' is carried out," the Pope said.

The council's Decree on the Bishops' Pastoral Office in the Church, he said, dedicated much of its attention to the main sphere of a bishop's activity, the diocese or local Church where he is called to exercise his ministry.

It is in the local churches, "guided by the bishop with the strength of the Word of God and the Eucharist," that the universal Church is built up and grows each day.

The bishop must be a true father to all the people in the diocese. the Pope said.

"He must be able to listen and value all the gifts, ready to understand the legitimate needs of every believer," he said.

To help a bishop listen, evaluate and respond to the talents and needs of people in his diocese, the Second Vatican Council recommended that every diocese have a pastoral council made up of priests, religious and lay people to advise their bishop, he said.

UK bishops support law Hemy Hyde

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vengeance of capital punishment." The political responsibility statement also says, "Abortion has become the fundamental human rights issue of our day because it is the deliberate destruction of a human being before birth."

Hyde, who received standing ovations at the beginning and end of his talk, devoted much of his address to an apology for changes made in Congress to the Hyde Amendment, which used to prohibit the use of federal funds for any abortion except to save the mother's life.

In the current session of Congress, it was changed to allow federal funding of abortions in cases of rape and incest.

Hyde said that decision was politically necessary.

"When the house is burning down and you can't save everyone. you try to save as many as you can," he said.

LONDON (CNS) - The English and Welsh bishops said they favor greater government programs to aid family life and reaffirmed support for government proposals to tighten the divorce law.

Britain needs greater investment in marriage counseling services and a comprehensive family policy covering taxes, benefits, housing, unemployment and child-care, they said in a November 17 statement.

The statement followed the November 13-16 bishops' conference meeting in London.

Divorce is a tragic reality that has to be tolerated in certain circumstances by society as the "only way of safeguarding the legal rights of the spouses and the children, or the division of property," the bishops said.

The divorce reform proposals were published by the government in April in a "White Paper," a preliminary consultation document prior to presenting legislation.

In April, the bishops welcomed

the proposals as "an attempt toward minimizing the distress and damage of divorce."

Under the reforms, couples would have to wait at least 12 months for a divorce, and the granting of divorce would not require allegations of fault by either of the parties. Under present law, divorce can be granted almost immediately if allegations of adultery or desertion are made.

"Requiring a delay in order to encourage a couple to face up to their responsibilities and to the consequences of seeking a divorce may offer a better chance of reconciliation and may also minimize the harm done to the spouses, and particularly to the children," the bishops said in November.

The bishops also encouraged priests and laity to uphold Church teachings on marriage and family life and to provide care and support for people facing "intolerable suffering" because of separation or divorce.

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A VONDOWN INN, 44 thank the bishops, priests, Stirling Terrace, Toodyay sisters and friends for their 6566. Ideal for school love, care and support of camps, retreat for church our brother and uncle. A groups, dormitory style Thanksgiving Mass will be accommodation for 60 offered for all. plus, also guest-house accommodation for families and travellers, fully THANKS catered, set in 6 acres on the Avon River in historic Martha I resort to thee Toodyay. Phone Sally 574 0 St and to thy petition and 2995. faith. I offer up thee this light which I shall burn every Tuesday for nine THANKS Tuesdays. Comfort me in PRAYER to the Blessed all my difficulties through didst Virgin never known to fail. the great favour thou enjoy when Our Saviour Oh most beautiful flower of lodged in thy house. I Mt Carmel, fruit of the vine, beseech thee to have defisplendour of heaven, nite pity in regard to the Blessed Mother of the Son favour I ask (mention of God, Immaculate Virgin, favour). Intercede for my assist me in this my necesfamily that we may always sity. Oh Star of the Sea, help me and show me be provided for in our One Our herein you are my mother. necessities.

Hail Oh holy Mary, mother of Father and three Mary's and lighted candle God, Queen of heaven and earth, I humbly beseech every Tuesday and the you from the bottom of my above prayer made known heart to suffer (or help) me with the intention of in this my necessity. There spreading devotion to St are none that can with- Martha. Thank you R.L. stand your power. Show HOLY Spirit, You who made me that you are my mother. me see everything, and Oh Mary, conceived with- show me the way to reach out sin, pray for us who my ideal. You who give the have recourse to thee (3 divine gift to forgive and times). Holy Mary I place forget the wrong that is this cause in your hands (3 done to me and Who are in times). Thank you for your all instances of my life with mercy towards me and me. I, in this short diamine, Amen. Thank you logue, want to thank You Holy Mary for answering for everything and confirm once more that I never my prayers. D.G. want to be separated from You. No matter how great THANK you St Jude. L.E. the material desire may be, MAY the Sacred Heart 01 I want to be with You and my loved ones in Your perJesus be praised, adorec petual glory. Amen. and glorified throughout

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THANKS 0 Holy St Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked.

St Jude pray for us and all who invoke your aid.

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Say three Our Fathers, three Hail Mary's and Gloria's. D.G. MANY thanks for all favours and petitions granted. S.A. PRAY the following prayers daily St Joseph, St Rita, Holy Spirit, Blessed Virgin of Mt Carmel, St Anthony. All these prayers are printed regularly.

Thanks Saints for prayers answered. J.P. OH HOLY Spirit, in thee I found refuge. You heard my cry and healed me.

Glory and thanks to you Father, Son and Holy Spirit. G.C.K.

NOVENA to St Clare

Ask for three favours. Say nine Hail Mary's for nine days with a lighted candle.

Pray whether you believe or not. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised, adored, glorified, and loved today and every day for ever and ever.

the world forever and ever.

Many thanks for all favours and petitions granted. S.A.

SACRED Heart of Jesus and Saint Jude thank you for favours granted. D.Mc.

Official Engagements NOVEMBER 23 School Principal's Mass, CEO Chapel - Archbishop Hickey/ Bishop Healy 24 Reception of Ministries (Lector/Acolyte), St Charles Seminary - Archbishop Hickey Confirmation Nedlands Monsignor Keating 24-26 Visitation and Confirmation, Bassendean - Bishop Healy 26 Italian Mass, Morley A rchbishop Hickey P rocession for Feast of Christ the King, Bullsbrook Monsignor Keating Confirmation, Girrawheen Monsignor O'Shea 27(-1 Dec) Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, Plenary Meeting - Archbishop Hickey/ Bishop Healy 28 Reception Shenton Park Rehabilitation Hospital Rev S Bredin OSCam Commissioning of Catechists, Subiaco - Monsignor Keating DECEMBER 1 Ecumenical Gathering for World AIDS Day, Subiaco Sr Bernadette Waring PBVM Golden Jubilee Mass for Fr Basil Noseda OSB, Moora A rchbishop Hickey 3 Mass to mark the Canonisation of Blessed Eugene de Mazenod, St Patrick's, Fremantle A rchbishop Hickey Indonesian Catholic Community, Christmas celebration, S Perth Civic Centre Bishop Healy A nnual Senior Citizen's Christmas Dinner (Association f or the Welfare of Migrant Families, WA Italian Club Monsignor Keating 4 Mass of Thanksgiving and Graduation, Maranatha Institute - Archbishop Hickey 5 Speech Night, Mercy College Monsignor Keating 6 Blessing of extensions and renovations, St Jude's Primary School - Bishop Healy Blessing of Mausoleum, K arrakatta Cemetery Monsignor Keating Fr Frank Pavone, Meeting for Priests, Cathedral Presbytery

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DAY OF PRAYER AND REFLECTION Day of Prayer & Reflection a prayerful/reflective opportunity to review the past year; focus on the preparation for Christmas time; and look forward to what may be ahead in 1996. Facilitators: Celia Joyce & Stephen Truscott - Fullness of Life Centre (Inc.) When: Sunday 3 December, 10am - 3pm (including Eucharist). Where: 37 Hampden Road, Nedlands. Bookings and enquiries by telephoning (09) 389 8550.

FAREWELL TO ST BRENDAN'S Anybody who has had any involvement with St Brendan's College, York Street, Hilton, is cordially invited to a great get-together at the College for the farewell to St Brendan's on Sunday 3 December 1995 from 11.30am.

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474 1533 WE CARE! Rev. Fr Donal McIllraith, the responsible for the Marian Movement of Priests, South Pacific Area and Rector of Pacific Regional Seminary in Suva, Fiji will be visiting WA from 25 Nov to 30 Nov. He will be speaking at the following venues: Country: Mon. 25 Nov. Bunbury, St Mary's Church, cnr Mary/Columbia Sts, Day of Reflection (Holy Mass) 9.30am to 2.30pm. B.Y.O.L. Wed. 29 Nov. Mt Barker, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Day of Reflection (Holy Mass) 10am to 2.30pm. B.Y.O.L. City: Mon. 27 Nov. Sacred Heart Church, 50 Ovens Rd, Thornlie, . 7pm, Cenacle/Talk/Benediction Tues. 28 Nov. Holy Trinity Church, 8 Burnett St, Embleton, Day of Reflection (Holy Mass) 9.30am to 2.30pm, B.Y.O.L. Tuesd. 28 Nov. 7.30pm, Our Lady of the Missions Church (Whitford), 270 Camberwarra Dr. Craigie. Holy Mass/Cenacle/Talk.

Turs. 30 Nov. Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Scarb .Beach Rd, Scarborough, 8.30am Holy Mass/Cenacle/Talk.

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PARISH SCENE: CHANGE OF DEADLINE

THE, PARISH S CENE EAST TIMOR THEATRE GROUP TOUR A drama and dance production Wall of Testimony will be performed by the East Timor Theatre Group at Nagle Hall, lona College, 33 Palmerston Street, Mosman Park at 7 pm.

Tickets from One World Centre 388-2508; Christian Centre for Social Action 3812474, Uniting Church 220 3333 at $10 single, $8 unwaged, $20 family.

NEWMAN SOCIETY The Annual General Meeting w ill be held on Monday December 4 at 7.30 pm in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College, Crawley. The elections and the President's Annual Report will be the main business. Contact 446-7340.

FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING CELEBRATION On Sunday November 26 the Feast of Christ the King will be celebrated with devotions and a procession at the Schoenstatt Shrine, Talus Drive, Armadale, commencing at 4 pm. Everyone welcome. For further information contact the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary 399-2349.

A NNUAL ROSARY PROCESSION All are invited to St Joseph's Catholic Church, Hamilton Street, Bassendean on Sunday, December 3 for the annual Rosary procession in honour of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary commencing at 3.30 pm. Enquiries to Mr V Carbone 279-4812.

CHILD LABOUR The YCW will hold a discussion session on child labour.

Guest Speaker, Kavita Ratna will speak about her experiences in India and the efforts to address the issue of exploited child labourers in that country.

Tuesday, November 28 at 7.30 pm, second floor, 459 Hay Street, Perth. Enquiries Annemarie da Cruz at YCW 325-7209.

ALAN AMES AT THORNLIE On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, Friday 8 December after the 7 pm Mass, Alan Ames will speak on his conversion experiences at Thorn lie Parish, Ovens Road.

The evening will conclude with Healing. Please bring a plate. Enquiries Michael 4591256 and Russel 274-6018.

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Eucharistic Adoration will begin each Friday, from December 1 at St Joseph's Church, 1 Salvado Road, Subiaco, from 6 - 7 pm.

Please join us.

A DVENT CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION The Chinese Catholic community invites all to join in the Advent Christmas celebration on Sunday, December 3 at St Anne's Church, 11 Hehir Street, Belmont.

2 pm Reconciliation, 3 pm Mass in Chinese, 4 pm Christmas celebration and 5 pm dinner (please bring a plate).

Enquiries to Sr Margaret Ng 478-1038.

PRIESTS FOR LIFE Fr Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life in A merica will speak at the invitation of Archbishop Hickey to priests and laity.

Father will be at St Joseph's Church, Hamilton St, Bassendean to concelebrate Mass at 7.30 pm on Tuesday, December 5. He will be at Holy Spirit Church, Keaney PI, City Beach on Thursday, December 7 for Rosary at 7.10 pm and Mass at 7.30 pm.

Fr will be giving his unique pro-life message after each Mass.

A POSTLES OF CHRIST PRAYER GROUP WILLETON Charismatic Healing Mass with anointing of the sick will be held on Sunday, November 26 at 9 am at R egina Coeli Catholic Church, 5 Ingham Court, Brentwood (end of the street). Praise & Worship at 8.30 am. All welcome.

DO YOU REMEMBER EDITH LITTLE? A t the Pallottine Centre there is special Mass to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her death; pay tribute to the work she did at Pallottine Centre and explore the ways in which Aboriginal people can enrich the Church.

Any friends and relatives of Edith or people interested in this topic are invited to this Mass and refreshments and discussion afterwards on Sunday 3 December at 11.00am at Pallottine Centre, 60 Fifth Ave, Rossmoyne.

For further information ring (09) 457 7906 or (09) 354 4061.

TAIZE HOUR OF PRAYER FOR A DVENT Maranatha: Come Lord Jesus 7.30pm, Friday, 1 December 1 995 Monastery, North Perth.

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Assistant Secretary (part time)

St Thomas More College We are a Catholic Residential College, affiliated

with the University of Western Australia, administered by the Jesuit Fathers.

St Thomas More College is seeking the services of a part time assistant secretary.

The successful applicant must have - an understanding and commitment to the Catholic faith - sound computer skills - ability to work in a team environment - good interpersonal skills.

The position is for three days per week, a total of

45 hours per fortnight.

There is a possibility of full time work during annual holidays.

A written application with names and telephone numbers of 2 referees, should be addressed to:

The Administrator, St Thomas More College Mounts Bay Rd, Crawley WA 6009 by the 6th of December 1995

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