The Record Newspaper 15 February 1996

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Real life stories in Perth that would interest Charles Dickens or John Steinbeck - Page 11 A layman reflects on prayer and penance in Lent as it fast approaches - Page 6 PERTH, WA: February 15, 1996

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A bishop reminds young voters of their chance to make a difference - Page 4 Unemployment: hidden poll issue - Page 3

Bishop Saunders takes reigns in the Kimberley

By Peter Rosengren On a typically hot and humid tropical evening in the heart of the

Kimberley at Broome, an ancient Christian ceremony was performed before nearly 1500 people in the town's Civic Centre last week when Father Christopher Saunders was ordained Bishop by the same man who ordained him as a priest twenty years ago.

Ordaining the new bishop was the retired Bishop of Broome. Bishop John jobst, assisted by bishops Justin Bianchini of Geraldton and Edward Collins MSC of Darwin, the two closest episcopal neighbours of this remote Western Australian diocese.

The ordination was one of the largest events the tourism and pearling industry town has seen in many years and was broadcast live throughout the Kimberley on ABC Radio, with Perth priest Father John legomw as host broadcaster.

Eleven other bishops from around Australia attended and participated. including the Apostolic Pro Nuncio, Archbishop Franco Brambilla from Canberra and Cardinal Edward Clancy of Sydney, the most senior member of the Australian Catholic hierarchy.

As the late afternoon sun set and a thunderstorm gathered out to sea, hundreds more who were unable to fit inside sat on temporary seating around the building and watched a televised broadcast of the ceremony on large television monitors.

Inside, Broome Catholics, members of the community and representatives of Aboriginal communities from throughout the Kimberley, including many who had travelled enormous distances to be there. participated in the ceremony by singing and praying over the new bishop.

As cups of cold water were distributed through the evening by children from St Mary's College. the colourful Kimberleystyle ceremony was conducted before

onlookers and participants in the Civic Centre - Broome's largest venue. The Cathedral Church of the diocese. St Mary's, was unable to hold all those attending - as it was. the Civic Centre was stretched to the limit with locals and visitors.

Before Bishop Saunders ordination.

Pope John Paul II's apostolic letter appointing Fr Saunders as the second bishop of Broome was read out by Pallotine Father Wendelin Lorenz. and assented to by prolonged applause from the congregation.

While young children played in the gathering darkness outside the building and celebrants and members of the congregation sweated in the humidity of Broome's "Wet" season. Fr Saunders was presented to the principal consecrator. Bishop jothst.

In an ancient ceremony stemming from the beginnings of the Catholic Church. he was questioned before the congregation on his resolve to uphold the faith and discharge his duties faithfully.

"My brother, are you resolved by the grace of the Holy Spirit to discharge to the end of your life the office the apostles entrusted to us, which we now pass on to you by the laying on of hands?" Bishop jobst asked.

"I am." Fr Saunders replied.

Following the traditional questioning of the bishop-elect. Bishop fobst ordained Fr Saunders, followed by Bishops Bianchini and Collins and then the other bishops who all came forward to lay hands on the new bishop's head.

Bishop Saunders' ordination was something of a unique ceremony. not likely to he matched anywhere else in Australia in the near future.

Unique - for its strong Aboriginal component which highlighted both the makeup of the diocese's population and the distinctive nature of the Church's work throughout the far north of Western Australia.

Continued on Page 8

The newly ordained Bishop Saunders is led by Stanley Walbidi, right, Stanley's father, Merridoo Walbidi and his mother Agnes Walbidi down into the congregation where members of Aboriginal communities hi be Kimberley, below, came forward to pray over him as a sign of his acceptance as bishop in die Aboriginal community.

More pictures, interview with Bishop Saunders - Pages 8-9

CEO, teachers negotiate on new wage levels

By Peter Rosengren The Catholic Education Office was endeavouring this week to explain its case to teachers in Catholic schools as the teachers considered their response to a wage offer.

The CEO offer of an 11.85 per cent wage increase in three stages comes as part of the current enterprise bargaining process being conducted in the Catholic schools system.

Ivan Sands. secretary of the Independent Schools Salaried Officers' Association of WA (ISSOA), said the union had been discussing the CEO's offer and its own proposals with members and other teachers in Catholic schools throughout the last

week and a decision would be made by Monday. As yet. no work bans or industrial action had been discussed by the union.

Independent schools wage deals in Western Australia have been historically influenced by negotiations conducted in the State school system.

Mr Sands said the ISSOA was pursuing a wage claim that would maintain the salary lead of teachers in Catholic schools over their counterparts in the State system.

"Based on $1200 above the Ministry (of Education) rate which we've had for some time, we're claiming the basis of the Ministry of Education and State School Teachers' Union deal, which was two lots of seven and a half per cent. (15 per cent) and still retain that ($1200) level above it."

However his claims were rejected by Ms Jennifer Nicol, head of the Community and Industrial Relations section of the CEO who said the CEO simply wanted to be assured of moving in tandem with the Education Department instead of in advance of it.

Mr Sands said the CEO had offered an agreement which would provide wage levels slightly below that of teachers in the State system and with two conditions on its implementation.

The first condition was that the CEOISSOA enterprise agreement could not be registered until after the agreement reached between the Ministry of Education and the SSTU. but this could take some time.

But Ms Nicol said the CEO was merely attempting to stop a repetition of problems with the first enterprise bargaining agreement concluded in 1994 when the CEO signed a pay deal with the ISSOA after advice from the Ministry of Education that its own agreement would be concluded shortly after.

"We signed in good faith and then subsequently (the Ministry's) capacity to sign disappeared and they haven't actually even signed one yet," she said.

"So the first round of increases that we gave was on the promise of a similar movement of salaries in the Education Department (which didn't occur)," she said.

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Beloved Archbishop Foley is remembered A

rchbishop Foley went to his eternal reward on February 10th 1991. On Saturday last we celebrated the fifth anniversary of his death.

At Mass at 6.30 pm in St Mary's Cathedral, we joined with his family and friends in giving thanks for his life and his work and in praying for the happy repose of his soul. May he rest in peace.

Earlier in the week, many of us were privileged to join in a celebration of a different kind - the ordination of a new bishop.

Bishop Christopher Saunders was ordained and installed as Bishop of the Diocese of Broome covering the Kimberley.

I am sure we all wish him well as he takes over from Bishop jobst pastoral responsibility for a vast area of the oldest part of our Island continent.

The numbers who attended the ceremony were very impressive but more impressive still was the

fact that they came from all over Australia.

Thirteen bishops attended including Cardinal Clancy of Sydney and the Apostolic Pro Nuncio, the Most Reverend Franco Brambilla.

Of course, the attendance of so many Kimberley people was of special significance.

The Aboriginal people participated in the ceremony in many ways - the smoking ceremony at the outset which sent a beautiful aroma throughout the building, the solemn procession of the Book for the Readings, the presentation of the gifts, the prayer of the blessing of the new Bishop at the end.

These people were obviously delighted to make contact again with some of the elderly Religious who had been responsible for bringing the faith to their people.

In his address at the conclusion.

Bishop Saunders referred to this

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faith. -Please tell the people in your home diocese" he said "that the faith is alive and well in the Kimberley's".

Really, he did not need to tell us. We had seen it with our own eyes.

I suppose I decided to write of Broome because it was fresh in

my mind. I also did it because I suspect the people in this southern diocese are not very aware of the diocese of Broome.

They know little of the history of the Church up there, of the great strides that have been taken especially in the field of Catholic education, of the great advances the Aboriginal communities have made themselves, of how proud the people, Aboriginal and white, are of their beautiful ancient land.

The Church has made a great contribution to the building up of the community in the Kimberley's. Bishops, priests, religious and lay missionaries can be very proud of what has been achieved.

Now another page in the history of the diocese begins with new challenges and new opportunities.

Bishop Saunders, his priests and people will need our prayerful support in the decades ahead

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omen priests resolution withdrawn The Apostolic Pro-Nundo in Australia.

Archbishop Franco Bambilla, has used his influence to have a resolution dealing with access of women to the ordained ministry removed from the agenda of the conference of the World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations meeting in Canberra.

Conference authorities removed the resolution earlier this month after the archbishop made his views known and before the presence of the resolution caused more consternation at the conference.

Other resolutions to be considered included the banning of landmines, the

promotion of literacy, Christian minorities in non-Christian countries, the basic human right of education for women and the reduction of the international debt.

Delegates spoke at the end of the conference of being left with a lasting impression of what can he generated by a gathering of women from differing races and cultures but united with one another in the common bond of their faith.

This is a faith which has been given a deeper meaning after hearing the stories of those who have learned to accept the burdens and difficulties of their

daily lives by putting their trust and hope in the Lord.

At the same time, they have been motivated to action on behalf of those women to whom the world had given less than their due.

The words of Blessed Mary MacKillop quoted by Adelaide's Archbishop Faulkner are an appropriate Australian departing message: "Trust everyone with equal kindness: make real friends with the poor.

Never repay evil with evil.

Do all you can to live at peace with everym(?."

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Melbourne tests new parish model

Terry Curtin The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne is beginning a new way of leading its Melbourne parishes in the bayside suburb of Aspendale.

Archbishop Frank Little commissioned last Sunday a married layman. Thrry Curtin, as the first non-ordained person to be given principal leadership of St Louis de Montfort's parish.

Prompted by the growing shortage of priests. Melbourne Is the first diocese in Australia to undertake a pilot project of this new model of parish leadership.

Mr Curtin. the -Pastoral Leader", will be responsible for providing spiritual, pastoral and organisational lei ulership for the parish.

Unlike the current parish model, there will be no priest in residence. However, a visiting priest will still have an important role in administering the sacraments.

-This is a real opportunity to turn the problem of the shortage of priests into an opportunity for developing parish life,Fr Maurie Cooney. of the Archdiocese's Pastoral Leadership Board. said.

The emphasis of the project is shared leadership. So the pastoral leader will undertake the role as one of a team with the visiting priest, parish council and school principal. according to Fr Cooney.

Politicians reminded of duty to the unemployed l'he Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission has reminded politicians of all parties in the lead-up to the March 2 Federal election of their responsibilities to lower the unemployment rate.

National director Toby O'Connor said this week the current 8.6 per cent rate of unemployment requires a response from Australian political leaders indicating their commitment to tackling the unemployment crisis.

"Our political leaders must give the community clear statements on how their policies will tackle the unemployment crisis.

"Particular attention needs to be given to the prospects that people who are currently long-term unemployed can expect from a future government -Both major parties must promise not to cut support to labour market programs - this commitment has to be given to the Australian public and must be unequivocal," Mr O'Connor said.

He said that without the assis-

tance provided through govern- projects of dead-end jobs. stewardship of natural resources, ment-initiated intervention in the Australia's employers must invest and government intervention as labour market, many long-term in our future human skills base a last resort. unemployed and employment alongside capital investment as The document also puts fordisadvantaged citizens would be part of an integrated strategic ward ten affirmations for politileft behind as Australia recovers employment plan." cal parties to consider. from the last economic downThe commission this week The first three call on parliaturn. joined three Catholic and mentarians and politicians to -The next Australian govern- Catholic-inspired social policy support the philosophical conment has to commit itself to lobby groups in issuing a decla- cepts of the common good, the financing such initiatives for ration of principles for voters to right to life and the importance of more than just one or two years. keep in mind in the current the family unit.

"The success of labour market Federal election campaign.

The remaining seven touch The other organisations are the more directly on matters of poliprograms lies in their ability to co-opt small business, local Jesuit Social Justice Centre cy such as rejection of certain industry and other community- (Uniya): the Australian Catholic levels of unemployment as tolercentred employers into active Health Care Association: and the able, social justice for indigenous partnerships with the sole aim of executive of the Australian peoples, the valid role of responcrating real jobs for local people," Leaders of Religious Orders. sible unions, the provision of he said.

The principles were issued last quality training for the young, the "Real jobs can only come abut week in booklet form. entitled right to affordable housing and for the Common health care and the Importance from a strong economy and Searching Good healthy business practices. These of a generous and just immigrapractices need to reframe labour Citing Catholic social teaching tion policy. market programs as an invest- the consortium said that eight Without commenting on the ment in Australia's future eco- values need to be preserved and specific policies of the parties nomic prosperity rather that as actively promoted in public poli- involved in the election, the some transitory or pseudo wel- cy decision-making. organisations say the document fare payment.

These include: the dignity of the challenges all parties to actively "The dignity of the long-term human person, the common incorporate a set of values and unemployed should not be erod- good, a preferential option for principles into their policy plated by any offer of make-work the poor and disadvantaged. forms.

CEO, teachers debate wage levels Continued from Page 1 not 'afford' to be in advance of those Mr Sands said the second conditiiin of the salaries," she said.

However another concern highlighted by CEO offer was that it would apply for two and a half years from when it was regis- Mr Sands was that the last salary increment in the CEO's offer would not occur until ten tered.

This could mean that teachers in Catholic months after teachers in the State sector schools could conceivably have to wait until had received their own pay rise, leaving 1999 or even the year 2000 before seeking teachers in Catholic schools ten months behind their State counterparts and with further salary increases, he said.

But Ms Nicholl said the agreement offered lower rates of pay.

Ms Nicholl said there was no dispute that by the CEO was for 30 months and would only take teachers through until mid-1998 there would be a nine-month lag between salary levels in the State and Catholic WS' at the latest.

She said that the $1200 lead in the private terns. n the same way, there was a year in '94system had resulted from the hiccup in I 1994's bargaining and that Catholic educa- '95 in which they were in advance of govtion systems around the country would he ernment school salaries, so you're getting adopting State system salaries as the yard- Into the 'see-saw' effect." she said. stick for teachers in Catholic systems.

She said the 7.5 per cent gap would be "Because we rely so heavily on closed by half in January 1997 and levelled Commonwealth and State funding we can- In October.

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Use your new vote wisely: justice bishop Young people have been urged to overcome their cynicism about politics and vote in the coming Federal election.

Australian Catholic Bishops' Committee for Justice. Development and Peace secretary Bishop Kevin Manning said young people had responsibilities to the community, just as politicians do. and young people had to be wary of politicians trying to seduce the youth vote with unrealistic promises. They should think and pray about their vote.

Bishop Manning is responsible for the Australian Catholic Bishops' social justice consultation on Young People and the Future which commenced last year.

He said the committee would soon be responding fully to them through the consultation, one finding of which was that young people saw little hope of meaningful action through Australia's political system.

They also doubted that many politicians sincerely wished to address the issues that concerned young people and the broader community But he warned young people the opportunity to vote in a Federal election for the first time was an important responsibility, not to be taken lightly.

"Real Christianity is not an otherworldly 'escapist' thing." Bishop Manning said last week.

"All Christians are hound to act to promote the well-being of the whole community- or, in more religious terms, to work to build up the Reign of God. This means participating in the political life of your community."

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the policies of those standing for office and asking questions about the policies.

They should consider carefully the responses and not think only of their own welfare and that of those closest to them.

"Ask. 'who will best serve the good of the whole community?' he said. "Whose policies will do most to respect the dignity and rights of everyone in the community, including especially the poorest and most marginalised?"

The Australian Catholic Social justice Council late last month issued a discussion paper on the duties of politicians and citizens which confronted the problem of widespread disillusionment and cynicism about politicians and their motives.

It called on the Church community and all Australians to be involved in and aware of the political process.

The paper, Politicians and Citizens: Roles and Responsibilities, set out five guidelines that could form a code of conduct for politicians: personal integrity: listening to the people: making modest election promises: avoiding the personal: and exercising courage and decisiveness.

It said that there was also considerable room for improvement in the conduct of Australian politics at the individual and collective levels, and that part of the solution to the problem of cynicism and apathy was for politicians to be more ethical and for their electors to become more educated about both the political system and the issues of the day.

Antioch revs up for 1996

All smiles at the recent Doubleview recruiting weekend

After a break from their regular 111(letill"_;', over the Christmas period Antioch groups are establishing themselves with enthusiasm.

Doubleview recently had a recruiting weekend for thirty young adults led by

David Callaghan and Michaela Hughes.

And last Sunday was a scorcher of a day, hut this did not deter young Antiochers from attending the 5 pm Mass at St

On the same wavelength

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would like to con- r gratulate Glenva i....eflers

the very point /0 the Gamor make that Glenva and Kylie

Austin and Kylie Hughes for the two excellent letters they Published in The Record last week.

There needs to be much more of this intelligent criticism and discussion, particularly from young people.

Glenva and Kylie's letters were stimulated by criticisms of an earlier article I had written on their Youth Convention at Aquinas College. I accept their criticism.

In my defence. I can only write that in my article I had chosen my words care-

fully when I wrote: "to the casual visitor. the convention would have seemed like 'a lot of good fun-.

The thrust of my article was to try and

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Patrick's Basilica in Fremantle. later, a crowd of 250 young adults moved across to CBC Hall to celebrate life and togetherness and to incidentally raise some funds for Antioch.

Despite the heat the musicians performed brilliantly and kept the crowd of revellers on track all night. Thanks to the leader Adam Phillips who was the prime mover behind this initiative, and to his fel-

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have made so eloquently. I particularly enjoyed Kylie's phraseology to express it: "I don't think fun and 'God stuff should be separated. because in my experience most of the 'God stuff is fun".

We might all reflect on how filled with meaning a perceptively simple observation like that is.

I learned a lot from the young people whom I heard opening their hearts at the Seize the Day Convention.

Thank you to every one of you. It was "God stuff" - Good stuff and a lot of fun!

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former BBC newsreader and actor, Gilbert Jones, Abbot President of the world-wide Subiaco congregation of the Benedictine monks, made a singular mistake when he answered an advertisement in an English Catholic newspaper.

The advertisement offered a weekend retreat for men considering the "Religious" life.

Gilbert - or more properly Abbot President Gilbert as he is now known signed up and went along thinking that the weekend would be an introduction to Catholicism.

Thirty-something-years later he heads up the largest congregation of Benedictine monasteries and monks in the Church the Subiaco Congregation - and spends much of his year travelling from his Rome office to visit Subiaco monasteries around the world.

From his point of view it was a lucky mistake.

Visiting Western Australia's own New Norcia monastery - also a member of the Subiaco Congregation - he spoke to The Record about the current state of monasticism in the Church and its continuing appeal.

Things monastic have won world-wide attention over the last few years.

Whether it be smash-hit books aid movies such as The N-,11110 of the Rose ii', more recently, top-of-the-pop recordings 4 the Benedictine monks of Silos in Spain or the pop group Enigma, monkish themes have suddenly become popular again.

A great deal of this is due to the worldwide rediscovery of the timeless, spiritually uplifting and contemplative qualities of Gregorian chant - a traditional speciality of monasteries.

It has also been highly lucrative. Record companies everywhere scrambled to try and repeat the completely unexpected success of the Gregorian recordings by monks at Santo Domingo de Silos.

The recordings, originally made in 1973. soared to the top of the world-wide charts in 1993 and stayed there for the next 18 months or so.

But unlike their pop-group colleagues the monks re-channelled the royalties into charities, keeping a small amount for upkeep of their monastery.

Abbot Gilbert said that despite the good vocations, good strong ones." Visiting downturn that has hit most congregations them has landed Abbot Gilbert in hot throughout the Western world over the water once or twice. last twenty years or so there are signs that "I've been there twice. The first time the people continue to be attracted to monaspolice came on my first night there and tic life. got me out of bed - because I was in a "There isn't a resurgence compared with, monastery without 'permission' - and I say, some of the Third World countries was interrogated by a squad of them," he like Vietnam and some of the African said. nations, but I think there are signs of an But then, you see, this last time I went, I increase in novices and people who enter went to a hotel - it was a tourist hotel - and a monastery," he said. the first night I was there they came again For example, he said, the Benedictine at 11 o'clock and got me out of bed."

Confederation - the representative body of Once bitten and, therefore, twice-shy, the all the different Benedictine congregations doughty Abbot and former actor had had - recently published its Catalogus, a fiveabout as much as he was prepared to take yearly report on the state of all things under the so-called 'new openness' and Benedictine. refused to let his would-be interrogators Numbers recorded over the last five into his room. years indicated that incoming monastic He said, some of the principal challenges vocations were keeping pace with losses, facing the Benedictines now revolve he said. around issues like inculturation in Third But, apart from feeling one has a vocakVorld countries and adhering to the rule tion to enter a monastery, why do people of poverty in places where sometimes, continue to be attracted to a way of life simply living in a building with several Abbot President Gilbert Jones at New Norcia established by St Benedict in the fifth cenrtxmns is equivalent to living In a mansion tury and now over 150o years old? (things) are less certain. There's so much In the eyes of the locals. its difficult to say." Abbot Gilbert said. Instability around: between families, marHe said that around the world there are The attraction. I suppose, is a stable life, riages breaking up. one-parent families currently 65 monasteries belonging to the the liturgical life, and whoever comes to a and the general 'shifting sands' of society, Subiaco congregation, housing something monastery is usually someone looking for and monasteries are seen - and so they In the region of 1400 monks. a liturgical life - that is, prayer in common should be seen - as islands of stability," he Here on a regular canonical visit and to - and willing to, or wanting to submit his said. oversee an election for the position of will to God in the person of the Abbot and In a well-conducted monastery there Abbot at \ew Norcia, he said that his next the Rule," he said. was an element of order, people knew destination would probably be South "(And) the definition of a monk in the where they stood, he said. In an environ- Africa later this year.

Rule is one who lives under a rule and an ment where unnecessary distracAbbot in community. That's a monk - a tions were removed, there was time C HIPPERS • ;.P' cenobite," he added. to replace them with something The Rule' is the famous rule of St more positive - attention to relations Benedict which is followed in all with each other and with God. Benedictine monasteries, laying down always on the basis that one sought how monks are to work and pray together. God within community. how abbots are to discharge their duties to However, he added with a smile. their brother monks and, ultimately, how the challenges always remained the whole monastery is to function suc- because "original sin isn't left at the cessfully. door."

St Benedict's Rule has been called one of But while vocations keep pace the great determining documents of with loss through death or other Europe and European Christianity. guid- means, in some countries, such as ing as it did the lives of monks and monas- Vietnam or Africa. they are booming teries throughout the Dark Ages, preserv- and in the face of persecution have ing the light of learning and the Church - hung on to their rule tenaciously. in other words, civilisation.

Despite twenty years of GovernHe said that, apart from discerning one's ment-organised persecution of the vocation, another reason for attraction to Church in Vietnam. for instance. monasticism was the instability to be four Benedictine monasteries have found in the world. recently re-emerged.

"I think in our world too. perhaps.

Persecution had been especial4 fierce and some monks had been killed as a result. Abbot Gilbert said. but now a real resurgence of monastic life was occurring throug"We N'ant our family to have hout the country.

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Lent 1996

Lent is a time for turning our lives around, back to God

By Peter Dwan Ile holy season of Lent, which begins this year on February 21, Ash Wednesday, is a time of conversion, a time to make a special effort to overcome our faults.

If the average Catholic was asked what characterises Lent, he or she would probably say "Penance."

However, Vatican II taught that Lent stresses baptism and the penitential spirit.

'Way, with the introduction of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (R.C.I.A.) into more Australian parishes, we have a clearer idea of what Lent is meant to be about.

People are only involved in Lent as a means of preparing for their reception into the Church during the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night, or for the renewal of their baptismal vows during the Easter Vigil or (luring Mass on Easter Sunday.

The readings of the Mass and Office of Ash Wednesday show Lent as a time of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. We abstain from food in order to acquire the selfmastery which will enable us to abstain from sin.

In the first reading of the Office of Readings (Isaiah S8: 1-12.) we are given a clear indication of what type of fasting pleases God and what type doesn't: "Look you do business on your

fast days, you oppress all your to fish and you give him food for workmen; look you quarrel and life." squabble when you fast and Most of the money given to strike the poor man with your Project Compassion goes to fund fist. Fasting like yours will never development projects. make your voice heard on high.

In the first reading of today's Is that the sort of fast that pleases Mass, (Joel 2:12-18,) the prophet me, a truly penitential day for Joel conveys God's invitation: men. Is this not the sort of fast 'Come back to me with all your that pleases me - it is the Lord hearts; fasting, weeping, mournwho speaks- to break fetters and ing." undo the thongs of the yoke, to Lent is a period of grace, when let the oppressed go free, to we try to come closer to God. break every yoke, to share your All our Lenten observances, bread with the hungry, and shel- prayers, weekday Masses, parish ter the homeless poor, to clothe devotions, spiritual reading the man you see to be naked and attending ecumenical discussion not turn from your own kin?" groups or/and services are In his Lenten Message for 1996. means to that end.

Pope John Paul II has asked Before Vatican II, every day of Catholics to make a special effort Lent except Sundays and St to feed the hungry.

Patrick's Day was a day of fast.

Our Lenten penances should Tbday, as Ash Wednesday and see us going without luxuries in Good Friday are the only days of order that the hungry might have fast, we are left more to our own their daily bread. generosity.

It has been aptly said that the We have to decide for ourselves world contains enough for each what other days we shall fast and man's need, but not enough for what other penances we shall each man's greed. We need to perform. Meat is now permitted remember that while charity on all the Fridays of Lent except begins at home, it must also go Good Friday (Ash Wednesday is out and embrace people also a day of abstinence). throughout our entire global vilOn fast days we are allowed a lage. full meal and 2 lighter meals. We We need to provide emergency need to realise how lightly we help and help people grow their are let off.

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In the early centuries, food saved by fasting was given to the poor. lbday we Can give the value of the food we save by fasting by supporting Prole( t Compassion, or, if we prefer, by giving donations to Congregations that help missionaries feed the hungry.

Our voluntary fasting makes us think of those compelled to fast because they don't have enough to eat.

We should resolve to share with others and not be selfish.

Selfishness has been defined as loving things and using people. instead of using things and loving people.

The extent to which we have overcome our selfishness is shown by the extent to which we are prepared to share.

When an African Bishop visited Australia some years ago, he commented that while people in affluent countries are prepared to give, they are unwilling to share.

While in parishioners Australian parishes support Project Compassion, few parishes seem prepared to share what God has given them by giving a percentage of their income to help the missions as Vatican II directed.

It is often those who have the least who are the most willing to share.

Many Catholics in the Diocese of Broome, Western Australia. are Aboriginals receiving social service.

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It is pointless for us to make vague plans for the future. as St Paul reminds us in the second reading of today's Mass (1 Corinthians 5:20-6:2.): 'Now is the acceptable time."

We need to realise that the holy season of Lent is a great grace which God expects us to use well.

We don't know whether we shall be here next Lent, so let us resolve to spend Lent 1996 well.

Our prayer, fasting and almsgiving during Lent must be done out of love of God, not to win applause.

The gospel of today's Mass.

(Matthew 6:1-6. 16-18.) records Our Lords advice that we are to keep our good deeds secret.

He said: "Be careful not to parade your good deeds before men to attract their notice."

Our Lord went on to counsel prayer in secret, fasting in secret and almsgiving in secret. telling His hearers that the pharisees who parade their good deeds have already had their reward.

If we are offered something we have given up for Lent, let us just say: "No thankyou." and resist the temptation to add: I've given it up for Lent."

Our Lord indicated that He didn't want his disciples to put on gloomy faces when they were fasting A Redemptorist preacher once advised his hearers not to be like the gentleman who gave up smoking for Lent and whose family did the penance!

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he message -Voters have ethical duty 'along with MP's- and the article following (The Record, 25 January) were a well written summary of the Bishops' social justice council's paper which I have had the opportunity of reading.

The headline message is one that all who take an interest in politics at any level should take heed.

I have always had the belief that those who cannot run their own lives in a decent moral fashion should not be in a position to decide how mine should be run, be they at local, state or federal level or in the party structure.

This may be considered by some to be judgmental but I am always required to make a discernment whenever I cast a vote.

Accordingly I have always looked whenever possible - at their personal 1i‘ f 's, and their working lives either as an

employee or a business operator if such is applicable. I have made those judgements my first criteria for deciding whom I should support.

For example, there are many instances of politicians who admit they tell lies.

Should we support them?

Should we support people who advocate and support abortion, euthanasia and infanticide, as some prominent would-be members of Parliament in Victoria and Tasmania are now doing?

Should we support people who are prepared to let pornography go unchecked?

Should we support people who have a shady business past? Many of us know of these sorts of people who seek office.

I would suggest that this is worthy of consideration when casting a vote in any ballot.

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lukei.% arm in the practice of their faith, because they have never had it explained to them the tremendous value of Holy \ lass.

In 1953 I was a very lukewarm Catholic until a Mission priest gave me two leaflets - Tremendous Value of Holy Mass and ockingham has a large shopping comments by various saints on the imporcentre and, if the need arises, you tance of Mass said for oneself. can buy most anything within the They changed my life. I was motivated large selection of modern shops. into action. I had something worthwhile to However. may I raise one point for future fight for and over the years I learnt the "consideration" by the management of the Mass is the greatest homage a person can shopping centre and Church authorities. give to God. With the future planning of the centre.

This is what the card says: would they consider establishing a At the hour of death the holy Masses you -chapel" which could be non-denomina- have heard devoutly will be your greatest tional similar to hospital chapels. consolation.

Perhaps it could be situated in an unobEvery Mass will go with you to Judgment trusive area, where people so desiring and will plead for pardon for you. could pay a quick visit and meditate in the By every Mass you can diminish the temquietness of the chapel.

You may ask why a chapel in a busy poral punishment due to your sins, more shopping centre? It may well remind peo- or less, according to your fervour. pie that in a busy shopping centre there is By devoutly assisting at Holy Mass you a place and time to pray. render the greatest homage possible to Whereas the local churches have to be the Sacred Humanity of Our Lord. visited only by cars and. in a lot of cases, Through the Holy Sacrifice. Our Lord are locked because of vandals, the shopping centres have security and a chapel Jesus Christ supplies for many of your negligences and omissions. would be safe there.

He forgives you all the venial sins which Joseph Lemrnon you are determined to avoid.

Waikiki He forgives you all your unknown sins which you never confessed.

The power of Satan over you is dimino many articles are written today ished. about the falling away of Mass By piously hearing Holy Mass you afford attendance. So many Catholics are

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mid Smith \ ILA is to be commended for making time to share his views on Politicians and Citizens (The Record. 1 February).

Pope John Paul II's Centesimus Annus commemorated Pope Leo XIII's 1891 -immortal document" on the condition of the working classes - Return Novarum and 100 years of the Church's social teaching. Other documents referred to.

-flesh out" the -moral principles" of David Smith's -dot points".

In Centestmus Annus, Pope John Paul II again defended the natural character of the right to private property" as did Leo XIII had done in Return Novarum.

Rerum Novarum also pointed out that the surrender of working-men has been increased by rapacious usury. . . . under a different guise".

In 1931. Pope Pius XI, in Quadragesimo

Anno enlarged this theme when he referred to -immense power and despotic economic domination (which) are concentrated in the hands of a few".

Pius XI adds another dimension to the reform of institutions" when he claims the -principle of subsidiary function" is a -fundamental principle of social philosophy".

Politicians granted the immense power of rapacious usury to bankers many years ago. Since that time politicians have used every remedy to ameliorate the effects.

They have not even tried to take back from the bankers the primary cause of the problem.

It is this cause which feeds the "marked imbalance in the distribution of wealth" and fosters the accumulation of more and more private property into the hands of "a few John McKay Falcon

computer technology. More importantly. however, it discussed the repercussions that this new technology has unleashed, the most serious being the dangerous byproduct which has materialised in the form of pornography.

In an another article in the same issue. some helpful advice was given to safeguard children from the abuses of such technology.

Modem science today has blessed us with many wonderful inventions. So it is not my intention here to condemn these Innovations.

But if. in fact. technology has advanced the human condition, then why are there so many broken or dysfunctional families?

Why are babies being aborted - accorded only the status of a -bunch of cells"?

Modern technology has had a profound effect on our lives.

In some cases, it has desensitised and demoralised our society.

Even something as seemingly innocent as advertising usually includes sexual connotations; hence the rhetorical question: is nothing sacred anymore?

Now, more than ever, we need to be vigilant, and can no longer afford to adopt a passive attitude towards innovative policies introduced by our social engineers.

We have the right - and indeed a duty to scrutinise any program that may appear to be suspect. he article by Dr Alan Ashton (The Record. 1 February). talked about Joseph Said some of the advantages of the new Noranda

the Souls in Purgatory the greatest possible relief One Holy Mass heard during your life will be of more benefit to you than many heard for you after your death.

Through Holy Mass you are preserved from many dangers and misfortuneswhich would otherwise have befallen you.

You shorten your Purgatory by every Mass.

During Holy Mass you kneel amid a multitude of holy Angels. who are present at the Adorable Sacrifice with reverential awe.

Thmugh Holy Mass you are blessed in your temporal goods and affairs.

When you hear Holy Mass devoutly. offering it to Almighty God in honour of any particular Saint or Angel. thanking God for the favours bestowed on him. etc. etc., you afford that Saint or Angel a new degree of honour, joy and happiness. and draw his special love and protection on yourself I am 78 and over the years I have handed out many cards and any reader who would like a card, please write to: Felicia McKenzie PO Box 692. Innisfail.

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The Chinese year of the rat good for harassed rodents The 1996 Chinese calendar year celebrates the Year of the Rat. This reflection on the humble rat is an adaption from a reflection by Father Stephen Chan OFM. Perth's Catholic Chinese Community will mark the Chinese New Year (19 February) with Mass at 4pm on 25 February at St Anne's Church. 11 Hehir Street, Belmont

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verywhere in the world rats are considered to be lowly creatures, often bringing disease and destruction in their wake.

According to the Chinese, when rats and snakes are in the same den, nothing good can happen. The term "kwai-kwai shee-shee" when used by the Chinese to describe anybody is very derogatory.

Rats, being small, are often natural prey for other animals and they have to be alert and vigilant at all times to stay alive,

Rats migrate all over the world usually foraging for food during and can be found in the fields, the night., Yet, the existence of rats show in the most inconspicuous corus the mystery of 'life' in God's ners of houses and in the tiniest creation. That is, there is life in cracks and chinks of buildings. the darkest and most obscure Any of these places can be their 'home' and there they remain. corners of any environment.

As we approach the third milOutbreaks of plague or disease are caused by the 'care- lennium, the global world has lessness' of human beings who become very much a reality in contaminate and/or disrupt the Australia.

At least 48 per cent of the balance of ecology by destroyChurch in WA is made up of ing rat-eating animals.

Even though rats can be easily people from ethnic backattacked by other animals they grounds.

New migrants are often hardstill exist.

They might not be able to working , taking any opportuniovercome their attackers but ty to earn a living in the country they now call 'home'. they are definitely not losers.

Many have relinquished high In society today, the emphasis is on the gaining of fame or positions in their country of origin but they are willing to work material goods.

However, from the Christian hard so as to be able to conpoint of view, being the 'battler' tribute to society.

Often it is through the experidoesn't mean that we are losers.

It is those who know how to ence of toiling over jobs. no keep afloat, who do not com- matter how menial, that God plain during hardship and who reveals to the individual, the do not despair in times of desti- truth, beauty and essence of tution, who are the true 'win- life. ners' in life.

Rats do not elicit pleasant feel-

The humble rat: a metaphor of a pilgrim, oppressed people?

ings from us but with the eyes of faith, some constructive lessons can be learnt from these rodents.

In this year of the rat. may we continue to be people of integri-

ty, steadfast against all odd.. and radiating our strength as Christians, as we continue tr build our homes and our faint lies.

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The Kimberley takes to itself a new shepherd of Christ's flock

Young bishop to nurture young

Members of Aboriginal communities came from throughout the Kimberley to be present.

Bishop Saunders with retiring Bishop Jobst student and mentor.

Prayers for the new bishop and the Church were offered by all.

Thursday's date, 8 February, also had a double-barrelled significance for the Saunders family. It was the 49th wedding anniversary of Bishop Saunders parents, Joseph and Joan Saunders, both of whom were present to see their son become a bishop. Both spoke to The Record at the reception hosted at Cable Beach Resort the next day and said they were delighted and proud. And not many parents are lucky enough to live to see their son become a bishop either, Mrs Saunders added happily.

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Bishop Collins of Darwin, left, and Bishop Quinn of Bunbury in procession.

Bishop Saunders takes the reigns in the Kimberley Continued from Page 1 In a traditional ritual before the ceremony began. Aboriginal women from the Kutjungka parish moved through the congregation conducting a smoking ceremony. a traditional Aboriginal rite symbolising healing and purification.

And as the ceremony commenced. Bishop-elect Saunders was led in to the Civic Centre Ind up to the sanctuary by singers from the Warmun %original community.

Representatives of the liidyadanga, Kutjungka and Warmun parishes then presented bowls of water to bishop Jobst for his blessing which they then sprinkled on the priests, i:eligious, lay people and bishops la a ceremony representing purification, baptism and new life.

Much of the music and singing during the evening was also indigenous, highlighting the spe.;ial and distinctive nature of the :hurch in the North.

The Kyrie (Lord have Mercy) was sung in the Yulparija and Kukatja Aboriginal languages, vhile a didgeridoo was played during the entrance procession )f the servers, priests and biships. Warmun community mem)ers then sang their own song.

Basil Dhangara, a lone singer corn the Kalumburu community. .ang in his own language as the

Gospel was brought up: while two of the three choirs came from the Aboriginal communities of Balgo and Bidyadangka.

Everything about the ceremony was special - every movement or song had its own significance.

Following the ordination. an Aboriginal family of three Stanley Walbidi. his father, Merridoo Walbidi and his mother Agnes Walbidi - approached the new Bishop Saunders and led him down into the body of the congregation where members of Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley came forward to pray over him.

As they did, hands throughout the building were also raised, one by one, in prayer for the new bishop.

If anything, it was evocative of the famous 4th century 'pressganging' of St Ambrose when he was rocketed into the office of bishop by the people of Milan.

And one of the three who led Bishop Saunders down to the congregation, Stanley Walbidi. was the second child Father Saunders had baptised after arrival in the Kimberley.

Parts of the ceremony were also linked with Aboriginal rites, including the initiation of a boy into manhood. In Aboriginal communities a boy initiate is taken round to local communities and presented to them.

In December. Bishop jobst took Fr Saunders to many of the corn-

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munities the Church works for and presented him formally as their next bishop.

And just as the Aboriginal boy is returned to the community by the women after his initiation, accompanied by singing and dancing, so Fr Saunders was led into the Civic Centre at the beginning of the ordination ceremony by singing women from Warmun.

Presented to the bishops by the people and received back by them after ordination, the prayer over Bishop Saunders symbolised the Aboriginal community's reception of him as their new leader in the Church, one who belonged to them.

In his homily, Bishop Jobst urged the new bishop to foster the Church and its work which had been carved out of the Kimberley by so many committed people.

"Christopher, the diocese entrusted to your care has been established over many years of hard work carried out by committed priests, brothers, sisters, lay missionaries, and supported by the sacrifices made by people of this diocese and the generosity of benefactors at home and abroad," he said.

"It will be your task to nurse the young local Church along and bring it to full maturity. Run your vision to the development of the mystical and contemplative dimension of the future Church,

and may your heart reach out especially to the young generation and to the indigenous people."

Thursday's ceremony was the passing of an era. Not only has Bishop Jobst won an almost legendary reputation throughout the Australian Church for his pioneering work in the Kimberley, he is also the last of the resident Australian bishops to retire who took part in the Second Vatican Council.

But on Thursday evening the emphasis was on future directions for the Kimberley and building on what has gone before.

Among the bishops present were: Perth auxiliary bishop, Bishop Robert Healy. representing the Archdiocese of Perth, Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbury, Bishop Ronald Mulkearns of Ballarat in Victoria. Bishop George Pell from Melbourne.

Bishop Peter de Campo from Port Pirie in South Australia. Bishop James Foley from Cairns in Queensland. Cardinal Clancy from Sydney, Bishop William Brennan from Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, and Bishop Geoffrey Mayne, bishop to Australia's Armed Forces.

Approximately 50 priests from Western Australia and around the country were also present.

The presence of Bishop Bernard Buckland. the Anglican auxiliary bishop of the North

West and the Reverend David Hoskings, the Uniting Church military chaplain stationed at the Australian army base in Darwin, gave an added emphasis of interChurch support for Australia's newest Catholic bishop.

Thanking all those present for their participation.

Bishop Saunders asked his fellow bishops to take back to their own diocese the news of the Kimberley Church's strength and vitality.

"I would like all of you who I have mentioned so far to do me one more little favour - to say to the peoples of your Church. your particular Church in the various dioceses, that the Faith is alive and young and well here in Broome." he said.

"It is but yet a child of Glory. It is a young Church. but a growing Church - a Church of great and deep faith. Please God that it will continue to grow and develop with a wonder of the faith that you here, the people of the Kimberley possess."

Bishop Saunders chose as his motto the Latin phrase "Caritas Christi urget nos" - which translates as 'the love of Christ urges us on'. "(And) please God, it always shall." he told the crowd.

Bishop Saunders presides over one of the largest dioceses in the world and will regularly travel enormous distances, usually by air, to visit parish centres, schools and communities where the Catholic Church is present.

Church fed by past sacrifices

Fr Wendelin Lorenz proclaims Rome's appointment.

Fr Saunders prostrates himself before the ordaining bishops.

The moment when a new apostle is created for the Church.

Bishop Saunders speaks of listening and collaborating process of reconciliation betwpen black and white Australia.

I 'd like to see the indigenous people of ssues of reconciliation. consultation. the Kimberley take their rightful place in healing and lay ministry were priori- Australian society. to be recognised as the ties for the Church in the Kimberley original owners of this country, to be Bishop Saunders told The Record shortly respected in their culture, for them to feel at home and not oppressed, for them to be before his ordination last week. makers of history and not endurers of it "The first thing I'd like to say to the people is that the Church is here as a servant and for all of us, black and white, to be recof the people of God as it always has been, onciled and dedicated to building a greater but we're going to have to place a special future for all our children and our chilemphasis on the faculty of listening." he dren's children." said.

He said that among the priorities to be He also said the Church should meet the set were the continued analysis and Ike lkspil s heti needs of the hopeless. assessment of incultura"(I say) hopeless bection of the liturgy used ause of issues of unemamong Aboriginal comployment, of drugs, of munities, the needs of fractured society of disyouth and the provision enfranchisement from of training for lay minland, of broken relationistry. particularly in comships: he said. munities where priests And those who have could only visit once responded and continue every one or two months. to respond to the Gospel The key to all these message. I think, are iLreas would be collabogoing to be custodians rative ministry with all and heralds of a message members of the Church of hopefulness." playing their role and Indicating he would be bringing their gifts to conscious of social issues bear on the Church's he said social policy in needs, he added.

Australian society did not He said bishops were currently embrace the essentially 'faith conserimportance of the family vationists and enablers.'

Ballajura priest Fr John Jegorow "And the result of it is "A bishop before any. . . the huge marriage- prepared the bishop's coat et arms. thing else is a conservabreakdown rate, there's tionist and he conserves the problems we have with hopelessness the tradition that has been handed on from among the youth and cynicism, lack of the Church for the last 2000 years . .. . and direction, accelerated crime rate - all those he allows it to be open to people to particthings are offspring of the lack of happi- ipate in that tradition . . . . He exercises a ness and wholesomeness," he said. certain authority but only in the sense of a He hopes to enable others to take their servant . . . . the authority that he exercises place in the Church and to assist in the Is spiritual authority."

From Peter Rosengren in the Kimberley

I Warmun singers lead Fr Saunders in to begin.

Conducting the smoking ceremony.

Concelebrating his first Mass as bishop. (L to R): Bishops Collins. Jobst. Saunders and Bianchini

Ibe new bishop.

He is invested with symbols of office.

Bishop Saunders receives the offertery Offs from his parents

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CH ILD SAVE A from perpetual poverty

Priests and nuns working in one of the poorest areas of India have appealed for funds to help subsidise school .Thildren whose parents are unable to pay S15 to S20 a year for education.

The extreme poverty in our Region can best be solved irf• education. We must help the people to help themselves — but we cannot do this without financial assistance.

The poor are simple, friendly, hardworking people. They go hungry because they do not have enough water to grow enough food. They want to learn how to improve their lifestyle. They want to be respected . . . not despised; treated fairly . . . not exploited; spoken to and dealt with honestly . . . not tricked or manipulated.

Children living in extreme poverty need your help.

Parents worry about their children. What kind of life will they lead?

Every year priests and nuns face financial problems trying to keep our parish schools operating. Right now they are in great need of funds 1) Pay teachers' salaries and subsidise over 40,000 children.

2) Feed hungry students in times of frequent food shortages.

3) Buy blackboards, charts, books, teaching aids, writing materials and provide clean drinking water and toilet facilities.

4) Build low cost schools in neglected areas crying out f or education.

S15 to S20 does not buy very much in Australia and New Zealand. But that small amount of money in our Mission Region will help a child to know and appreciate the benefits of education.

Every little contribution helps immensely. If every reader of this report would give just $20 the end result would be of considerable benefit. Mountains of extreme poverty would soon be removed providing hope and know-how for hundreds of thousands of desperately poor people.

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The plight of India's poorest There are over seven million people in our Region . . . the vast majority work on the land as marginal farmers and landless labourers. Some of the problems they encounter during an average year will give you some idea of why we need your help to raise their standard of living.

T HEIR POVERTY is a mud dwelling lacking water, electri,-,ity, sewerage and basic needs for health.

THEIR POVERTY is prolonged hunger - trying to lurkrive on 1 meal a day for 7 months.

T HEIR POVERTY is carrying heavy loads of water over ; ong distances for family use.

-".. -1ElR POVERTY is sickness caused by poor diet and • ;:lorance of basic hygiene.

- THEIR POVERTY is not knowing how to cope with ickness. Many lack the iniative and strength to walk 5, 10, 20 kilometres to the nearest clinic or hospital.

THEIR POVERTY is lack of education and job training not being able to communicate.

THEIR POVERTY is lack of employment and trying to survive on little money.

These are just some of the problems facing our people.

How would you cope in their situation? The people are simple, friendly and cheerful despite all their difficulties.

Their hidden side is one of deep suffering and hardship.

Most have known little else in their lives. Treasured possessions are their children. Feeding them nourishing f ood and keeping them alive is a big problem. Some f amilies are so poor that they have to spend much of each day scouring the country for roots, nuts, berries and anything edible.

All-year-round struggle to survive Few people in affluent countries can imagine the life style of families living in remote areas of our Jesuit Indian Mission. Perhaps you could spend a few moments thinking about the problems caused by their abject poverty.

July to September The monsoon — a mixed blessing.

The coming of the monsoon raises hope that crops can be planted and water resources filled up. A good monsoon enables farmers to produce 2 crops — 1 in September and 1 in November. This will provide the average family with 2 meagre meals a day for perhaps 4 to 6 months. But monsoons are frequently fickle — deluging some areas and leaving other areas with little or no rain. With no follow-up rain crops often fail to produce anything worthwhile. Drought is far from rare in our Region and most people have felt the cruel e xperiences of crop failure and famine.

Water related diseases.

The monsoon is always a mixed blessing for, while it refills water resources, it frequently pollutes them.

Water related diseases such as cholera and typhoid are a major cause of death, especially among infants, young children and people weakened by malnutrition. Cholera k ills them in 4 hours. Many die without ever seeing a doctor or nurse, or knowing relief from a pain killing drug.

October to February Crops are eaten . . . food becomes scarce.

Family crops harvested in September and November don't last very long into the new year. Until the next harvest in September most families will have to exist on 1 meal a day, mostly consisting of fruits, nuts, roots, etc. gathered from the jungle. This lack of proper nourishment leaves them prey to malnutrition and every type of disease. Those who need food most, young children, nursing and expectant mothers, suffer particularly.

Hunger and malnutrition The problems of malnutrition in children are aggravated by a lack of high quality proteins necessary to maintain normal growth and development. For many families these foods are either not available or they cannot afford to buy them. Malnutrition affects the child's learning ability and mental capacity. Without education Indian children face a bleak future. To cope with school work they must be adequately fed. Many children have a learning problem due to hunger and malnutrition. The problem is so widespread that we try to provide them with a mid-day meal when funds are available.

March to June

Intense heat. Lack of food and water.

The climate in our region is harsh: 3 months wet, 9 months dry with dust and devastating heat. This is the hottest period of the year with temperatures ranging f rom 34°C to 47°C. These conditions are overwhelmingly debilitating.

Women have a hard life.

Most families do not have reasonable access to a safe and adequate water supply. Fetching water for all household needs is usually women's work and they spend much time walking long distances for it. In the searing heat many water resources dry up forcing the women to search further for it.

Last year's crops have now been eaten and without a regular water supply new crops cannot be planted.

Employment even for a day is hard to find and is poorly paid. It is difficult to understand how these people survive until the next crops are harvested in September.

An uneducated community is a deprived community, a suffering community, unable to cope with problems, unable to know what to do. No rescue programmes can make progress without the input of education!

Nuns' Grihini Schools transform the lives of shy, superstitious and illiterate village girls... and their families!

Leaving their families and sheltered villages for 10 months education is a shattering experience for girls aged 14-19 years. Village walls and rice fields have been their total existence. The prospect of living, learning and working with strangers in some far off boarding school is an unnerving challenge not easily undertaken.

For the first few weeks they are very shy, tearful, homesick and fearful of their new disciplined routine and concentration. Gradually the nuns' loving concern helps them to accept and cope with the course and to enjoy their new community life.

Grihini education is most comprehensive and what the nuns achieve in 10 months is nothing short of remarkable. Here is a resume of the subjects taught: They receive a general education including reading, writing, simple additions with sewing receiving a high priority. So does budgeting. Grihinis are taught to know the sources of family income and the advantages of saving through cooperatives.

The girls learn how the land can be utilised to increase f ood production. There is a great deal of field work where they sow, water, hoe and weed a wide range of vegetables including cabbage, cauliflower, carrot, pumpkin, peas and potatoes.

They are taught seasonal cropping, preparation of seed and seedlings, methods of sowing and transplanting,

fertilizers and their uses, and crop protection against disease. They gain a basic understanding of the rearing and care of domestic animals: buffalo, cows, goats, pigs and poultry.

Great attention is paid to family health. They are grounded in the essential needs of personal and social hygiene, family welfare, mother/child care, preparation of nutritious meals and the preservation of food. Also included is a basic knowledge of common i l lnesses and their cure.

After 10 months the Grihinis return to their villages e xuding a confidence which accompanies achievement.

She knows her role in the family and her rights as a citizen. She has learnt how to deal with many village problems and can now speak wisely on problems relating to village life and organisation.

By living, eating, working, learning and dancing together shyness, prejudices and barriers of economic status have crumbled. They have learnt to work hard and plan for a better tomorrow.

Only a relatively few girls receive Grihini education each yeat. Yet tens of thousands of sadly ignorant girls are in urgent need of this wonderful course. The annual cost of training a Grihini is about S100. That small sum of money will ultimately save the l ives of at least 2 children in every Grihini trained family.

To the people who support our work in India our most grateful thanks. Every contribution is a big help for the priests and nuns who are doing their utmost to provide education wherever it is so urgently needed. May God bless you and be assured of a special place in the masses and prayers of our missionaries and from the people you assist.

Please make cheques payable to: "Australian Jesuit Mission Overseas Aid Fund" and post to: National Director, Father Tom O'Donovan, SJ., A ustralian Jesuit Mission in India, P.O. Box 193, North Sydney. 2059.

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The struggle against TV Violence

11-chip could be slow in coming United States President Bill Clinton holds up a V-chip" before signing into law new telecommunications legislation in Washington on February 8. The law will require television manufacturers to install the chips so parents can screen out shows they don't want their children watching.

By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) Violence on television has taken another body blow, to use a term that would be familiar to the genre.

It came in the form of an cable TV-financed study conducted by four universities and released on February 7. And it gave plenty of evidence to Catholic and ethical commentators to hand down yet another damning indictment of violence on the tube.

For instance. 73 per cent of all violent acts take place without repercussions. And humour which "tends to trivialise or undermine the seriousness with which violence is regarded." according to the study - occurs in 39 per cent of all violent scenes on TV While it should be noted that the cable industry only funded the study and did not direct its methodology or results, the study nonetheless bit the hand that fed it.

"Premium cable channels present the highest proportion of violent programs, and programs with numerous violent interac-

lions." it said. The study also bent some myths. Few realitybased programs show violence but, those that do, show it in high concentrations.

And slightly less than one-third of music videos contain violence, substantially below TV on average. Music videos also tend not to depict attractive perpetrators and targets of violence, or humour- based violence.

If the goal is to get less violence on TV the steps used to reach that goal will he key, according to Henry Herx, director of the US Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting.

The V-chip, a computer chip to he installed in televisions which allows parents to block out violent shows, is not a panacea, according to US Democrat Senator Paul Simon.

"It's going, to take years before the V-chip is a reality in most people's homes," Senator Simon said. And "the very homes that need it the most are the ones that aren't going to use it." he added.

Barry Forbes, executive director of the Alliance for Community Media. a Washington-based association of community-based television producers, said the newest study "proved once again that when the citizens of this country

program their own material. it is problems they face" in the wake 2,693 programs, including 384 bereft of violence and sexual of that breakdown, he added, reality-based shows. innuendo." including an alienated public The study was so big that four The portion of the study done and closer legislative scrutiny. different state universities across by the University of California at According to Ed Hynes, a the country tackled different Santa Barbara seems to agree. spokesman for Morality in parts of it.

"It will take time for the televi- Media, efforts to decrease TV's The University of California at sion industry to accept that the use of sex and violence are like Santa Barbara looked at TV vioAmerican viewing public will trying to clutch a water-filled bal- lence overall to identify features enjoy programming with lower loon: Clamp down at one spot associated with violent "I'V that amount of violence," it said. and you have problems at anoth- increase the risk of having a Jeff Chester, executive director er. harmful effect on the audience. of the Washington-based Center "(When) the people who develIt offered separate recommenfor Media Education, long an op these programs let up on the dations for the television indusadvocate for better children's sex, they increase the violent try, for public policy-makers and television, said the study "docu- content, and vice versa," Mr for parents. ments that there's an ever- Hynes said.

For parents, the study recomincreasing amount of violence on "Violence seems to work as well mended that they: TV" making it "very harmful as sex" for the producers' benefit, I ! -Be aware of the three potenfrom the public's and the chil- he added. "A little bit of violence tial risks associated with viewing dren's perspective." or a little bit of sex - that attracts television violence" - fear, desenIt further "documents why there people once, and it doesn't seem sitisation, and the possibility that needs to be the V-chip." He to work" unless the levels are children will learn the violent voiced frustration, however, at ratcheted up. behaviours they see. the television industry's "continuMr Forbes vigorously promotes "Consider the context of vioing addiction to violence." the making - and watching - of lent depictions in making viewTelevision is a global business, shows "produced by the people Mr Chester said, and the United themselves, rather than the con- ing decisions for children."

LI "Consider a child's developStates was a leading exporter of glomerate media." That conglommental level when making viewcultural goods. "Violence sells eration is likely to be concentratdecisions." ing globally," he added. ed even more under the rules of "Recognise that different proMr Herx said the first step in the new telecommunications bill genres and channel types gram curbing TV violence should be signed by President Bill Clinton pose different risks for children." industry self-regulation. on February 8.

0 "Watch television with your "The key is creating a staff of When given cameras and propeople who will have the time" duction facilities, individuals' child, and encourage critical evalto watch the "many hours of pro- own programs "suppress violent uation of the content."

The study also recommended. gramming that have to be moni- and sexual content. That's also tored . . . . If that doesn't work. why there is more religious and in part. the television industry: they will find some other way." spiritual programming in com- I"Produce more programs that avoid violence: if a program does Senator Simon has pressed for munity programming. better industry self-regulation in "In fact, religious and spiritual contain violence, keep the numthe past three years since programming is the largest cate- ber of violent incidents low."

Congress got involved in the TV gory in community programming I"Be creative in showing more violence issue.

- which is at odds in what we see violent acts being punished; more negative consequences "In Congress we have to be In commercial programming." careful. When you get into conThe television violence study both short and long-term - of viotent (issues), you get into First claimed to be "the largest and lent acts; more alternatives to the Amendment issues," Senator most representative sample of use of violence in solving probSimon said. television ever examined." It lems."

Television self-regulation broke looked at 2,500 hours of TV on 23 0 "When violence is presented. down in the 1970s, Mr Herx said. channels between 6am and 11 consider greater emphasis on a "The producers now see the pm over 20 weeks - a total of strong anti-violence theme."

Some Christian viewing The Archdiocese of Melbourne's social scientist, then a popular Catholic Communications, in novelist. conjunction with the Bishop's Sunday 10 March Committee for Media and the Reaching out to Pagan City National Catholic Television Library, has arranged for a series In Paris, monks and nuns are of pmgrams on religious themes returning to the heart of the city entitled "Mosaic" to be broadcast and priests to factories as a way on The Nine Network and affili- of making contact with the everyates throughout Australia weekly day working people in France. until Sunday 16 June. The series Sunday 17 March will be broadcast at 6:30am on Gunpowder and Incense Sundays.

Catholic Malta is trying to combine its rich cultural past with a Sunday 18 February quickly changing present and a Secret Priests challenging future.

The story of the 600 priests and Sunday 24 March 12 bishops ordained to serve the The Struggle for the Soul of Czechoslovakian Church under Russia Communism. It tells of their struggle and their hopes since New found religious freedom in Russia means that diverse reliliberation in 1989. gious groups are vying for the Sunday 25 February hearts and minds of the people The Black Holocaust of the former Soviet Union.

In style and outlook Brazil is Sunday 31 March more African than Portuguese, A Church for the Russes and the Church has remained The Russian Orthodox Church, a close to African culture. This is religious institution which mainthe story of the 60 per cent of tained a defiant presence in the Brazilians with black ancestry former Soviet Union. still continues to have the trust of the peoSunday 3 March The novel is the stained glass ple. window Sunday 7 April A portrait of Andrew Greely, a Our debt to the Amerindians priest of Chicago who became a In the 16th Century the indigeThe Reco.rd, February 15 1996 Page 10

nous people of the South America gave Europe one third of its food varieties, many plants and herbs for medicine and silver for the coins of the merchant economy. Today these same people go hungry, suffer grave illness and are desperately poor.

Sunday 14 April Persecution and Restitution Before the Communist revolt in 1949, the Catholic Church owned one third of all property and land in Czechoslovakia. The restitution of this property is proving a very complex matter since the velvet revolution in 1989.

Sunday 21 April Sr Emmanuelle - who lives among the poor in a Cairo garbage dump. Mary Mootahee and her work amongst Kenya's orphaned homeless children.

Fr Dejaeger - a priest living amongst Eskimos in far North Alaska. Abbe Pierre - monk and politician.

Sunday 28 April Smokey Mountain - the Manila rubbish tip which is a home for many people. Prayerful art - an artist inspired by prayer. Bacon Priest - a World War II hero. East Germany - Church involvement in the breaking of the wall.

Sunday 5 May vice of a missionary. Chicago Jamaica - the side which tourists Street gang - a youth worker never see. Prostitution - young who thinks they're not so tough. women talk about their escape Spring Dance- a reflection. from a destructive lifestyle. Sunday 2 June Ramario - a big league soccer Children of Naples - street kids, player who lives by faith. and a woman who cares for Malgosia - a young Polish them. Texas Bishops - three paswoman who cares for the lonely. tors who travel throughout their African dance - the Psalms set to large dioceses. Wind beneath tribal rhythms. my wings - live version by Sunday 12 May Shirley Novak. L'arche - a comRomero - the story of the making munity for the handicapped in of the film about the martyred Poland. Creators Garden - a Archbishop of El Salvador. prayerful place of retreat.

Mother Teresa of Salisbury - a Sunday 9 June woman of compassion on the US Indonesian Lepers - and the East Coast. woman who had built them a hospital. Seoul - the hidden poor Sunday 19 May of a prosperous city. Bishop of Heart of Mercy - a community of Acerra - a man of the people in love for the handicapped in an Italian town. Drug rehabilitaChicago. Poverello community - tion - in Washington DC. Dutch responding to the plight of the Garden - creativity and prayerpoor in Brussels. Aids Hospital - fulness combine in this beautiful an Irish nun runs a clinic in garden.

Uganda. Ragpicker of Bangalore - and an outreach program Sunday 18 June Osaka - where Mr Wanatabe established to assist them. cares for the dispossessed.

Sunday 28 May Guadalajara - homeless children Gipsies in Rome - a nomadic in Mexico. Blind Photographer community and the young peo- whose affliction has helped her ple who have befriended them. "see- new things. Korean Passion Play - in Tegelen. Dancing - a reflection. MonasHolland. Kenya Community tery in the Forest - a contemplaDevelopment - the practical ser- tive community in Texas.

Extraordinary lives at the De Paul Centre Hidden away in Northbridge is an unassuming building holding within it the life stories of people who in another context might be mistaken for characters in some Henry Lawson or John Steinbeck short story. But the De Paul Centre of the Daughters of Charity cares for real people in whom the tragedies and joys of life are writ large. At the instigation of a literacy teacher at the centre, Maxine Tomlin, Brenda Conochie has helped some in the De Paul community to either tell or write down the story of their lives and publish them under the title Extraordinary Lives. Below are excerpts from these snapshots of life. The De Paul Centre would welcome any help in its work

Sadness tinged with occasional joy about arriving in Australia was being let off a bus at Castledare.

We were bewildered and lookwas born in Strabane, ing around at our new surroundNorthern Ireland, on 3 June ings when this man dressed all 1942. I was left in a Catholic in black came over to us and orphanage as a new baby. I recently found out that my moth- started to strap us around the er got married six weeks after I legs and made us line up.

This was our introduction to was born.

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He was over bfl tall and I've only got very few memolooked huge to us five-year-olds. ries of Ireland. The orphanage This man was to cause me a was on a hill and I remember feeling of terror for the next five waving to a little friend of mine over a wall. He was in the junior years. (We moved on to Clontarf when we were 10 years old.) l 'ution of the orphanage. (We Lucky for us there were also IA iiiiiined friends for many Sisters at the orphanage which many years.) . . . . I remember made us feel safer. when some of us little boys Whenever a Brother wanted to made a snowman on a window belt us we would run to the sill and when two Sisters walked past we pushed the snowman Sisters for protection. After about onto them and they laughed and two years the nuns left for New t hought it was funny. The nuns Zealand. I cried because I knew were very nice, kind and moth- we were left in the hands of erly. The love we received in cruel men who would now be t hose early years may have able to do anything they liked to helped us to cope in the bad us boys . .. .

Apart from the nasty things years. .. . there were many happy times I remember standing on the stern (of the liner Asturias) cry- that boys have when growing up ing as we were leaving Ireland. together. I was never lonely That particular sky, with big because I had many friends my black clouds and gaps between own age. We had a lot of fun in them, that's affected me all my summer swimming in the river. I life. I get melancholy when the spent a lot of time fishing.

Later at Clontarf. we made our sky's like that . . . .

The first thing I remember own canoes out of corrugated iron roofing sheets and had lots Hughie McConnell's story

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You, and I, can do anything Sally's story Had anyone have seen me six months ago and compared me then and now just goes to show, no matter how far down you can let yourself go. from there there is only one way to go and that's up.

Actually there are two ways.

1) the coward's way out by suicide and 2) up. I chose the latter.

I've had a lot of support from very good friends and also there is nothing wrong with asking for professional help.

I eventually ended up seeing a psychiatrist, social workers and counsellors. I am now six months down the track and clean.

The De Raul Centre has given me something to strive for by letting me he the new Editor of the De Paul News, which is a monthly newsletter.

This is definitely a challenge since I have never used a computer before. I feel really privileged to be given the opportunity and the trust that goes ‘vith it. I know that future newsletters will be a success.

Not only has the editorial job boosted my spirits but I um now see a lot of light at the end of the tunnel. There is so much potential out there for me and so many things that I always thought I could never do hut IOW I know that when my mind is piu to it I uin do anything.

And so can you!

of fun playing 'Broadside' where you would use your own canoe to sink others . . . .

We saw movies every Saturday and Sunday nights. If you had misbehaved during the week you had to sit on the floor in front of a Brother with your hack to the screen .... .

During those years I missed my mother terribly and wondered why she had left me to such a fate. I had a recurring dream of a beautiful and kind lady who would show up at the gates of the orphanage with outstretched arms and as I ran towards her she would wrap her arms around me and take me away from those heartless men.

As a boy I was badly (-TOSS eyed which caused a lot of problems for me when I was talking to a group of other boys. The wrong boy would answer me because he thought I was looking at him.

Thankfully I was sent to Princess Margaret Hospital to have them straightened.

It seemed I was in hospital for quite a long time but I enjoyed the fact that I was safe from the Brothers. . ..

When I was 16, I left Clontarf Orphanage to work on a farm. I had to work from sunrise to sunset for 13 a week. The work and loneliness were so hard on me

Hughie McConnell

that I ended up having a complete breakdown.

I was sent back to Clontarf where Brother gave me a bad bashing for not making a surrPss of my first job....

About 3 weeks after starting work (again) a young man came to the farm to see how I was getting along. He was the first Child Welfare Officer I had ever seen.

He came out to the paddock with the farmer to talk to me.

When he found out how much work and hours I had to do he turned on the farmer and told him off. . . .

When the Child Welfare Officer had left, the farmer flew

'The longest I was ever out of prison was three months'

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was born in Adelaide in 1937. the youngest of four children.

I hated school so I used to wag it a lot. My motto was 'live fast, die young and have a goodlooking corpse'.

When I was 15, I landed up in a boys' home in Mittagong. after nicking off to Sydney when I was 14. I was picked up for breaking and entering and stealing cars. It was the 1950's and I was a rocker. I was in boys' homes on and off till I was 20. then I went to prisons.

I got out of prison for the last time in 1989. from Adelaide Remand Centre. I told a screw.

"Stuff this! I'm getting too old for this shit. I'm not coming hack."

He said "See you in a week." I said "No you won't!" and he didn't.

I spent about 30 years altogether in boys' homes and prisons in NSW, South Australia. Broome and Fremantle.

The longest I was ever out was three months, the shortest was four hours. I didn't care if I went

into a rage and punched and kicked me to the ground for (lobbing him in.

I was alone for about a year, then. while I was at church a youth introduced himself to me and asked me if I would like to spend the day with his family. I was so shy that I was unable to answer so he asked my farmer, who grudgingly agreed to let me go.

When I was 19, the farmer's wife was hitting me with a toasting fork as she often (lid, when suddenly I blew up.

All the years of being hit by people and all the bitterness I felt finally made me snap.

I grabbed the fork and belted her with it and then bent it in half and broke it.

The farmer stood up to have a go at me and I said "Sit down or I'll knock you down."

He sat down very quickly.

When I saw the fear on his face I felt great!

At last I was a man who would never be treated like dirt again!

It gave me great joy when he sacked me because I was ready to go. . . .

I eventually got a job in a superphosphate factory in Bunbury and my life was finally my OWT1.

Dennis: get ready to expect what's coming if yew cross the limits

back to prison. You get what they call 'institutionalised." I never had any more contact with my family after I ran away.

My advice to young people now is know your limitations and know your expectations. In other words, realise that if you cross the limits, then get ready to expect what's coming. They think they'll never get caught .

I spend a lot of time in Bunbury.

I ride down there quite often, I've got a mountain bike. I used to keep fit by using the gym in prison. I've ridden to Albany too.

I've been coming to the De Raul Centre for about ten years. In Sister Peter's time I helped her out as a bouncer. This place is like a 5-star hotel for me after all my prison life.

y old man said -Don't join the army." I thought my Dad was an idiot. so I joined the army. I was 18.

After six months training. I was sent to Vietnam, in 196970 and back again in '71 . . . .

Twenty-two months in action up there changed my life.

You walk into a village and open fire with an M60 machine gun and all you're killing is women and children - try and live with that for 25 years - I've got to live with that for the rest of my life. It broke up my marriage - every night I'd wake up screaming.

We came home, Sydney, onto the pier, people were spitting at us . . . . We'd come home, we'd lost and no-one cared. . .

I did one good thing though.

In one village we'd killed everyone except one little boy.

I dragged him 151ans screaming. back to our medical centre and said 'Look after him." I don't know what made me do it. I hope he's still alive Is there a God?

The memory of my parents will always be in my heart' I was horn in Gnowangerup down South. What I remember

of my childhood is what my family have told me.

My birthplace was a rubbish tip. My mother and my cousin had walked to get some oranges and they said that my mother delivered me and brought me

home hut they didn't realise what my mother had until they had a look. Mum had everyone panicking so my Aunty had to call the ambulance to take me and Mum to the hospital.

My Dad was working on a farm and no-one had told him that Mum had a baby until he came

home. Didn't my Dad get a shock!

And as the years followed, my family moved to Albany where I went to school. But I got into the wrong company and was sent away for a couple of years.

Then I came hack. hut I had forgotten what my mother

looked like. After a while I got used to her. But I wasn't settled at all. I didn't want to settle down.

My family moved to Perth hut both my parents had turned to drink. So both my parents are dead now. But their memory will always be in my heart.

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To Jesus through Mary. . . .

By Rev Fr Dennis Duarte, S.D.F.

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lowly the train pulled into the station. Tom jumped down on to the platform, and noticed that there were three other young men coming from the next compartment.They looked as if they might be "freshers" as well. Tom soon discovered that they were bound for the same medical college, and all four were taking medicine.

Evening wore on as the quartet reached the door of the men's Residence.

Tom sat on the edge of his bed.

He felt tired but he knelt down and began to say the Rosary.

The others, after recovering from shock, snickered and laughed him to scorn.

He told them that he had lost his parents, but had received a scholarship for medicine from

the Sisters and he felt grateful to fatal: Tom made the Sign of the God. Cross and took his rosary from Though two of them were the bed. "Where is he, Sir?" Dr Catholic they had not said the Smith led the way from the room.

Rosary for ages, but Tom For a few minutes they walked explained everything to them. in silence, and then the matron Every night the four would say joined them. "Doctor, I'm afraid part of the Rosary, though one of the young Indian student is very weak." They followed her into them, Dinesh, was a Hindu.

After some time, the two lapsed the infirmary.

Dinesh spoke faintly. "Tom ... the Catholics began attending Rosary ... please give it to me ..."

Sunday Mass regularly.

One evening Dinesh had not Tom placed his treasured Rosary returned to his room, and they in the hands of his room mate. *Tom ... you have shown me that started the Rosary with out him.

After a few minutes, there was a you worship the true God. Call a knock on the door, and in walked priest I want to be a Christian."

Dr Smith. For a moment he The resident priest was called in paused, struggling for words, to baptise Dinesh.

"Tom. your Rosary ... take it now, then approached Tom. They all and pray for me ... I will soon be rose to their feet.

"Sorry to Interrupt, Tom, but with Jesus and ..."

Tom dropped to his knees. "Oh there has been an accident rather serious. It's Dinesh. I'm my God. thank You for this wonafraid that his injury may be derful grace."

French create confusion on condom issue PARIS (CNS) - Using condoms he said. The condom is consid- cal approach," he said. "It is true may he a necessary but insuffi- ered a second or third-class that from a medical point of view, cient means for battling AIDS. method of contraception" with a the adjective 'necessary' was said a document prepared by the an 8-10 percent failure rate, he used." he said.

French bishops' Social Comm- said, adding that the risk is even The Social Commission stateission. greater for the transmission of ment said AIDS is more than a In the case of adults who can- AIDS. question of personal morality, not abstain from sexual activity The 235-page document pro- since it affects society as a whole. and who are in danger of con- duced by the bishops also "To discuss AIDS requires taktracting AIDS. a condom could be opposed advocating condoms for ing into account the history of used to avoid risk of infection, adolescents, saying that would each person and the state of a said the February 12 document. hinder youths' understanding of society." it said.

As of February 13. the Vatican their sexual identity and make it "As a condom is understandhad issued no comment on the easier for them to give in to their able for cases in which sexual document.

Impulses. activity, already integrated into Pope john Paul II has advocated The document said that "the the personality, needs to avoid a fidelity in marriage and sexual Church, suspected of being total- grave risk, so is it necessary to abstinence outside of marriage ly opposed" to the use of con- hold that this means is not an as the Church-approved ways of doms. "sees itself accused of education toward adult sexualifighting the sexually transmitted working in favour of death." ty." it said. disease.

However. the Church position But it also said that relying on Public health officials and "is more nuanced." it added. condoms to remove all risk of "many competent doctors affirm Bishop Albert Rouet of Poitiers, Infection is "insufficient" to fight that a good-quality condom is Social Commission president, AIDS. currently the only method of pre- told Vatican Radio on February The causes and conditions vention. In this respect, it is nec- 13 that the part which explicitly which promote the spread of essary." said the French bishops' mentions use of condoms is in a AIDS must also be examined and document. section concerning the position altered, it said.

But in fighting AIDS. greater of doctors and public health offiBishop Rouet said in a French stress must be placed on absti- cials and does not necessarily radio interview that the docunence from sexual relations, commit the bishops to that view. ment reiterates what other fidelity in marriage, and sex eduOnly a declaration at the end of French bishops already have cation programs, it said. the document which alludes to said.

But the head of the Italian condoms commits the bishops, A February 13 statement issued Catholic Medical Association he said.

by Bishop Rouet said that it rejected the bishops' position.

"It was impossible to treat this was"absurd" and "erroneous" to Dr. Domenico Di Virgilio. presi- question without making allu- think that the document opposed dent of the Italian Catholic sions to condoms, but, reading Church teaching.

Medical Association, criticised the text in its entirety. one In a Vatican Radio interview, he the French bishops. becomes aware that, above all, it said it was concerned with pubUse of condoms is morally deals with a social not an indi- lic and social morality rather wrong and scientifically unsafe. vidual approach, and it is a criti- than personal morality.

• • • a column of Marian devotion He was completely unaware of the Matron and doctor who silently left the room. Eventually, he rose to his feet, and looked at the serene face of Dinesh.

He took the Rosary and placed it in his pocket.

"Dear God," he said, if it is Your will I will offer these hands of mine to Your service; to serve as a doctor in the Missions of India. in place of Dinesh, whom You have called to Yourself."

After graduation the young doctors parted company. They had arranged a reunion and to meet at Heathrow Airport, London.

They managed to have a private room all to themselves.

Tom was leaving for India, and they were happy to see him off.

Tom spoke: "I can't tell you how much I appreciate your both coming such great distances to see me off. It is like old times all

being together." He drew his Rosary from his pocket.

"It was the Rosary which was really the foundation of our friendship. And now, could we say together the Rosary in remembrance of Dinesh?"

They had hardly finished the Rosary, when they heard the departure announcement for the flight.

Tom turned towards his two friends. He shook hands with each of them, and then, as one man, they knelt before him, regardless of the surprised looks from many people.

"May Almighty God bless you..."

He raised his hands in blessing above the heads of his friends.

Father Tom the doctor was leaving for India.

From Ave Maria magazine, WA Garabandal Centre

Liverpool Archbishop Derek Worlock dies I ,1 ERN )0L, England (CNS) - from our city." Regarding social krchbishop Derek Warlock of issues. the Archbishop once Liverpool, a Catholic leader on said: "There Is no point there ecumenical and social issues. being a separation between the died on February 8 in Liverpool churches if you are arguing for after suffering from cancer for the same thing. There has to be several years. a joint response."

Regarding Christian unity.

The archbishop was 78 and died in Lourdes Hospital, where Archbishop Worlock urged he had been a patient since July. greater understanding among The death announcement churches.

"We cannot fudge the differfrom the Liverpool Archdiocese said the Archbishop had a brain ences. That would be making a tumour, which could not be new church. But we can try and understand them. It is a painful removed, and lung cancer.

The archbishop had headed separation but one we can overthe Liverpool Archdiocese for come by becoming closer." he 20 years. said.

Derek Warlock was born on The period was filled with many political, economic and February 4. 1920. in London. His social problems. including soc- parents were both Anglican cer hooliganism, growing converts to Catholicism.

The future Archbishop was unemployment and race riots.

Warlock's ordained in 1944 and named Archbishop approach was to face these bishop of Portsmouth in 1985. problems in close cooperation He was secretary to three sucwith his Anglican counterpart, cessive cardinals of the Bishop David Sheppard.

Westminster Archdiocese and The two became known as participated in the Second fish and chips" because they Vatican Council as an expert. were always together and often In a condolence message. in the newspapers. said Pope John Paul H praised the Cardinal George Basil Hume of "abundant fruits of his minestminster after learning of istry." the Archbishop's death.

Archbishop Warlock was Bishop Sheppard said that praised as a tireless worker for "the city and people of ecumenism, a humanitarian.

Liverpool have lost a great and a champion of social juschampion" and that he had lost tice. a close friend.

Paying tribute to his colleague The Anglican bishop said of 20 years, Cardinal Hume said Archbishop Warlock often took in a February 8 statement that the initiative to call him and the Archbishop had been an arrange meetings with labour "outstanding servant of the leaders, business executives, church in this country for close and local and national govern- on 50 years." ment leaders.

In particular, the cardinal paid Both men often faced physical tribute to the late archbishop's danger when they showed up in ecumenical endeavours. the midst of riots or demonstraThe apostolic nuncio in tions that turned violent.

London, Archbishop Luigi City Council member Harry Barbarito, said the Archbishop's Rimmer said the two church death "has deprived this counleaders "helped to finally ban- try of a religious leader of conish the spectre of sectarianism siderable stature."

Don't lose hope for peace after IRA bombing: Irish cardinal ARMAGH, Northern Ireland (CNS) The Cardinal stated his "absolute and said the bomb attack isolated the IRA and Cardinal Cahal Daly of Armagh. Northern unqualified condemnation" of the was disastrous for people favouring politiIreland, has called on Britain and Ireland February 9 blast, which killed two men cal ties between Northern Ireland and the to keep hopes for all-party talks on the and left more than 100 people injured.

Irish republic. political future of Northern Ireland alive.

Damage to property was estimated at In Britain, many commentators said the His call followed the end of the cease-fire millions of dollars. explosion had effectively wrecked the by the Irish Republican Army, marked by It was the first IRA bombing since the peace process. a massive bomb attack in London. movement announced a cease-fire in In Ireland, many blamed British Prime "I most earnestly appeal to the IRA to August 1994 that led many people to hope Minister john Major for delaying the start think again and to think long and hard that peace would come after decades of of political talks involving the IRAs politibefore plunging this community again into fighting over the political status of British- cal wing, Sinn Fein. the deep, dark pit of violence," he said, ruled Northern Ireland.

In a February 11 radio interview with the adding that "peace can still be saved. I In a statement released on February 11, BBC, Cardinal Daly said that "this is not a most earnestly implore them to save it - Cardinal Daly called the bombing "moral- time for recriminations or for blaming othfor God's sake, for their own sake and for ly evil and gravely sinful" and offered sym- ers." all our sakes." pathy to the families of the victim,. He It is a time to unite efforts "to see what The Record, February 15 1996 Page 12

we can retrieve from the peace process and see how we can ensure that this is not a resumption of full-se.ale violence." he said.

Cardinal Daly said that many people feel that the progress of the peace process had been too slow.

It had been initially estimated that the IRA and Sinn Fein would be invited to talks within six months after a cease-fire began.

But with strong pressure from the Unionists in Northern Ireland, who favour continued British ties, the British government insisted that the IRA begin to turn in weapons before talks could begin.

International News

Hint of Romero beatification Pope said that without a changed approach to economics, politics CARACAS, Venezuela (CNS) - and human rights, Catholics To Latin American countries lac- would not live up to the demands erated by civil war and social of their faith and could not guarinjustice, Pope John Paul II antee peace and prosperity for offered advice for binding their children. wounds and reuniting people.

True peace, he said in During his February 5-11 trip, Guatemala. -is a gift of God and Pope John Paul praised Latin the fruit of dialogue, a spirit of America's progress toward last- reconciliation, a serious commiting peace, but insisted the ment to holistic development process could be completed only along with solidarity reaching all with a conversion to solidarity sectors of society and, in a particular way, of respect for the digniand respect for human rights. ty of every person."

He also indicated that he would Guatemala is the only Central beatify the late Archbishop Oscar American nation that has yet to Romero of El Salvador. sign a definitive agreement end- Pope John Paul II prays at the tomb of Archbishop Oscar Romero In San Salvador on February 8.

"Ii-ue conversion to Jesus and war. although The gift of the Spirit makes it faith in his victory over death ing its civil Alvaro Arzu possible to love our enemies, to must fill the region's people with President peace talks would do good to those who hate us and strength to follow the path of announced resume almost immediately. pray for those who persecute and and peace justice, the Pope said. the thunder of war." the slander us." he said.

-Stop The message of my visits is arriving in the country.

The Pope had the same me,.always the Gospel, which is good Pope said, Pope sage for the people of Nicaragua Arzu told the news, but there are also CARACAS. Venezuela (CNS) reproaches, strong words, procla- Guatemalans are filled with six years after they voted the While rumours of ill health made their having Marxist-inspired Sandinistas out mations and counsels." the Pope remorse for swirled around him. Pope John said on the airplane as he began homeland "a nation bloodied by of office and ended their dvil Paul II visited four countries in Injustice and armed conflict." war. his four- nation trip. seven days, giving 22 speeches or Pope John Paul travelled by While the Pope rejoiced at the homilies in six cities.

The Pope's message of the need encouraged he for reconciliation was also helicopter on February 6 to changes, At times the 75-year-old Pope stronger in El Salvador, where he Esquipulas. the Guatemalan Nicaraguans to keep the dignity looked weary, stiff or shaky durprayed at the tombs of the late town where in 1988 the presi- of the human person at the cen- ing the February 5-12 visit to Archbishops Oscar Romero and dents of Central America agreed tre of their policies, working for Guatemala. El Salvador, Nicaragon a regional plan for ending the more equitable distribution ua and Venezuela.

Arturo Rivera Damas. of goods and for a political and Archbishop Romero was assas- their civil wars.

But a Vatican spokesman system that would economic The accords were signed in the sinated in 1980 by members of a away rumours of bad explained sidelines. military death squad as he cele- Basilica of the Holy Christ, a leave no one on the health, citing misinformation and shrine which houses the "Black In Venezuela - an oil-rich, some journalists' inexperience. brated Mass.

Esquipulas." a smoke- bustling, developed country The papal schedule was Archbishop Rivera Dumas died Christ of crucifix that is the Pope John Paul kept his focus on enough to tax younger journalin 1994 after years of involve- darkened of popular devotion the need for building a new ists, let alone a 75-year-old Pope. Ma Pope: more likely to be praying ment in the Salvadoran peace object Central America. throughout economy based on solidarity and process, culminating in 1992.

In between the 13-and-a-halfVisiting the shrine and preach- a new political order where cor- hour flight from Rome to had missed them by coming Pope John Paul II ended his ruption would become a thing of Guatemala and the nine-and-a- back early from Esquipulas.

February 8 trip to San Salvador ing on the power of Christ's cru- the past.

By the time the Pope reached summarised the Pope cifixion. half-hour flight back from with a brief prayer at the tomb of February 9-11 Venezuela. the Pope made seven Coromoto. on the Venezuela. began He Church in the message to his Archbishop Oscar Romero. who of the Navarro-Valls said shores on the 10. stop February passWith the America: Central airplane and an trips in other in the words of the Pope was he was almost over his jet lag 'brutally assassinated" in 1980 by ing of war. Church workers must Caribbean with an address to four by helicopter. most Venezuela's at inmates spirintensely on the more focus During some events - for and sleeping almost normally a military death squad. notorious prison. itual lives of Catholics. his February 10 evening without any medication. instance At the beginning of the But Pope John Paul was expectThe Pope told the inmates - like meeting with Venezuelan politiBut leaving behind direct conFebruary 5-12 trip to four nations. ed to suffer that day, as were all cultural leaders and business cal, the Pope said he would beatify frontations with or active involve- he told politicians and business of the foreign visitors. Navarmseemed dazed John Paul Pope governments, "open area's later in the day to ment in the leaders the Archbishop once his cause Valls said. progressed through the Vatican the Church must continue to your hearts, accept the challenge and ready to leave before the An overnight rain had cooled began. even program and social of moral conversion." its code of teach process. by the end, he was sitting the region known as the Valley of But ethics, the Pope said.

While the Pope did not pretend Civil war has become mainly a relaxed, listening to a cham- the Virgin to a mere 95 humidly And he said on February 8 dur- the prisoners were innocent, he back memory and a history lesson for ber orchestra with an 11-year-old sticky degrees. the region's people, but the ing his San Salvador homily that told the political and business Wearing silk vestments, the violinist. poverty and social injustice God placed before Salvadorans leaders that unless the country guest celebrated a morning Mass Pope the Another performer gave which contributed to decades of two roads from which they must reformed its economic life and in front of the Shrine of Our Lady "cuaguitar called a a small Pope death still linger. choose the future of their nation: unless ethical values were tro." which he examined careful- of Coromoto.

Visiting Guatemala, Nicaragua, the way of death or the way of strengthened, the country's crime ly before plucking a few of its The spokesman said the Pope rate would continue to grow.

El Salvador and Venezuela. the life. strings, then flashing the audi- suffers from heat more than from intense cold, and although silk is ence a big grin.

Bad weather forced him to cut lightweight, it keeps heat in.

In one earlier incident. short his February 6 visit to Esquipulas. a Guatemalan town Navarm-Valls shrugged off as a which is home to a major Central sign of a US reporter's inexperiCALCUTTA. India (CNS) - An the service of God and men... group, I stop and hold out one ence her story saying the Pope American pilgrimage site. octogenarian Jesuit missionary Mondol told UCA News. "It is book, open, and announce in ill and frail. looked contains the life simthat it who missed the Bengali said he has found fulfilment in a more their dedication and Reporters As evidence of his flagging story of Jesus Christ from his railway station in eastern India. plicity that appeals to us."

Vatican spokesman's mid-morn"I left home for India some 50 Dressed in a white cassock birth to his death, and it costs ing advisory to journalists that health, the reporter wrote the years ago to make Christ known with a cloth bag slung from his only two rupees," he said. the pilots were warning of wors- Pope seemed to doze through He said he announces the to the world, and in preaching left shoulder, the bearded priest ening weather conditions sent services and required a priest to to people in the railway station, has become a common figure at book price because people out bulletins saying the Pope was guide him through the liturgy.

I feel my purpose is fulfilled," the station in the afternoon. value only those things that cost Navarro-Valls said anyone who said Jesuit Father Joseph Segers.

Affectionately called "dadu" them something.

The reports were -surprising has watched Pope John Paul 87 who was born in Belgium.

"If given free, they may not (grandpa) by locals, Father and irresponsible in face of the knows he closes his eyes and For the past 10 years, Father Segers visits the railway station even read them, but throw them evidence" of a Pope who cele- rests his head on his hands when Segers has preached the Gospel daily. spending an hour with away," he said. brated Mass, visited the basilica he is praying or concentrating.

He is often surrounded by at Ambika KaIna railway station people waiting for or getting off And Monsignor Piero Marini is and posed for pictures with the in a predominantly Hindu area, incoming trains. people, though their responses waiters who were to serve lunch always at the Pope's side during about 50 miles north of In his bag are picture books of vary. Once he gets people's to him and the Guatemalan bish- Mass because he is the papal Calcutta, reported UCA News, the life of Jesus with Bengali attention, he summarises Jesus' ops, said Joaquin Navarro-Valls, master of ceremonies. life for them. an Asian church news agency text. the spokesman.

But the best rumour was saved -There is only one God, by based in Thailand.

-Selling books is not my main showed for last.

Pope evening the That Paritosh Mondol, a regular purpose: it is only a means whatever name he is called. up about 40 minutes late for a A Venezuelan television camtraveller from Ambika KaIna to through which I can start con- This one God loves all men, for in a eraman claimed to have seen the Word the of Liturgy Calcutta, said the elderly priest versations with people." Father whom he works incessantly. Not Guatemala City park.

Pope being administered oxygen satisfied with working for us, he is a -father figure" who -easily Segers said. in the sacristy after a February 11 not was tardiness papal The with and live to come appeals to the religious spirit of carried seven copies decided Once he in Caracas.

Mass proeven a or illness due to local people." of the life of Jesus and sold -six us." he has it on tape, let him back "If driven had nap: He longed "Occasionally people will not within the first five minutes and Asked if he gets tired. Father out to the airport to see the show it," Navarro-Valls said in mind listening to such men, the last one after 10 minutes."

Segers said, "If you like some"alfombras," carpets of crushed the Vatican's only official comwho are dedicated entirely to "When I come near the first thing, you do not feel tired." flowers on the road. The Pope ment.

By Cindy Wooden

Rumours of papal frailty are vastly exaggerated

Lifetime's preaching not so tiring: Jesuit

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International News

In Brief athanson urges action Royal first on genetic engineering for priest

By Brian Caulfield NEW YORK (CNS) - Action is needed now to protect the human race from rapidly unfolding dangers in genetic engineering, Dr Bernard Nathanson told a Manhattan audience.

The growing ability to alter the human gene pool for generations to come raises the question whether human beings own their DNA or are entrusted with it by God to pass on to their children, he said.

"We have to wake everyone up.

This is by far the most dangerous threat we have to our species," he said. "I'm telling you it's here, it's now. The issue of what is life is upon us. Do we control it or not control it?"

Nathanson once headed the largest abortion clinic in the Western world and was a leader of the movement to legalise abortion.

In the 1970s he became inc.reasinglv opposed to abortion, and by

1985 he had become a leading if they admit innocent human life 1990 with an expectation that it pro-life advocate and producer of is taken, he said. would take 15 years, but computthe dramatic anti-abortion film, He warned that euthanasia and er technology has moved the The Silent Scream." assisted suicide eventually will research way ahead of schedule Now a bioethicist at the Centre become as entrenched in and "the general public doesn't for Research and Clinical Ethics America as abortion unless even know what is happening." at Vanderbilt University in efforts to legalise it meet stronger he said.

Nashville, Tennessee, he recently resistance.

As examples of the power of announced his intention to enter Oregon has a law permitting genetic technology he cited the the Catholic Church. assisted suicide, currently tied up planting of human genes in -The Hand of God," his book in court appeals. "transgenetic" laboratory animals about his conversion, is due out "The minute a state passes in AIDS research and recent in February. (such a law) and a court upholds research on the role of genes in Nathanson spoke on January 25 It, there will be so-called 'thana- aggressive behaviour and in at a fund-raiser for the Legal toria' (death clinics) set up all homosexual orientation.

Centre for the Defence of Life around that state," he said.

He said the "mind-boggling" and Expectant Mother Care in "People will be coming to these technology of genetic manipulaManhattan. clinics to be killed." tion is leading some behavioural In bioethics, he said, there are He said the genetic engineering researchers to "a darker vision" three basic ranges of vision: issue is given extreme urgency In which a person's genetic abortion, euthanasia and assisted by the approaching completion makeup would be modified. suicide, and "the firing line of the human genome project.

"Even the geneticists are frightOn abortion, he said, 'There are The project's director recently ened." he said, by the possibilino circumstances under which it reported that 75 percent of the ties of using genetic engineering is justified, not medical or any genes in the human body have to create a whole underclass of other reason.** been mapped and predicted the menial workers or an elite class But the issue is scarcely dis- project will be completed in of "philosopher kings" overcussed any more by bioethicists 1998, he said. loaded with genes linked to high because so many accept it. even The $15 billion project began in intelligence.

Mass and a peace agreement brings Statue of tears inquiry former enemies together in the rain continues

By Agostino Bono ROME (CNS) - A year after eyewitnesses said they first saw a tiny plaster statue of Mary crying blood, Italian Church officials are gathering data about presumed miraculous cures attributed to it.

A Church-appointed commission is collecting documentation about cases reported from around the world, said Bishop Girolamo Grillo of CivitavecchiaTarquinia on February 7 The 17-inch statue is located in Civitavecchia. about 40 miles north of Rome, and the bishop is among those who said they saw the statue cry blood.

"It's premature to speak of miracles now" because the Church needs time to evaluate medical and scientific evidence, he told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview.

"But presumed cures are being reported to us," he said.

Last year, the bishop, in consultation with the Vatican, appointed a special theological commission to investigate the incidents surrounding the statue.

The commission is also studying the cases of presumed miraculous cures, but will need years to complete its examinations, the bishop said.

Eyewitnesses first said they saw the statue cry on February 2, 1995, when it was still in the backyard of its owners, the Fabio Gregori family of Civitavecchia. .

The statue was then placed in the custody of Bishop Grillo and the red liquid which had flowed from the eyes examined scientifically in parallel tests ordered by Church and judicial officials.

The tests showed that the liquid was male human blood and that the statue contained no openings by which liquid could be concealed or squirted.

The statue was brought to the town in 1994 from Medjugorje.

Bosnia-Herzegovina, site of alleged Marian apparitions since 1981.

England MANCHESTER, (CNS) - Monsignor Noel Mullin, the Royal Navy's chief Catholic chaplain, has been named Honourary Chaplain to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Msgr Mullin is the first Catholic in the United Kingdom to receive the title, although an Australian priest was appointed Honourary Chaplain to the Queen in 1976.

The appointment makes Msgr Mullin a member of the corps of chaplains authorised to participate in royal religious ceremonies.

Divorce appeal liUBL1N. Ireland (CNS) - The Irish High Court has upheld a November referendum that ended the constitutional ban on divorce.

On February 7, the court rejected an appeal that referendum results be overturned because the government had used public funds to campaign for ending the ban. Des Hanafin, a prominent Catholic I,,N man who has served in the Irish Senate, made the appeal.

Justice Frank Murphy, president of the three-member court, said he was not convinced that the government's ads had materially influenced voters.

Vision report KVVANGIU CITY. South Korea (CNS) The Archdiocese of Kwang fu has cautioned Catholics against claims of Marian apparitions.

The archdiocese has been investigating the case of an alleged message of the Blessed Mother to a laywoman in the town of Naju. which is in the archdiocese, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

However, no conclusion has been reached on the case.

Film controversy

Catholics from all sides of the Bosnian conflict shield themselves from the rain during Mass in a gutted church in a suburb of Sarajevo on February 4. Mass was celebrated there for the first time in three-and-a-half years due to the freedom of movement in the Dayton peace agreement.

Married bishop warns on Czech problem PRAGUE, Czech Republic (CNS) - A married bishop secretly ordained in communist-era Czechoslovakia has warned that many secretly ordained priests will return to ministering clandestinely unless the Czech Catholic bishops ease the procedures for incorporating them into normal ministry.

"If no dialogue occurs, we will simply return to the catacombs, as in the times of communist captivity," said Bishop Fridolin Zahradnik.

"No one needs more secret ordinations. But we have already waited six years for the situation to be sorted out," he said.

Vatican guidelines on how to deal with secretly ordained clergy have been narrowly interpreted by the Czech bishops, Bishop Zahradnik said.

Reacting to the accusations,

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Monsignor Karel Simandl, bishops' conference secretary-general, said the Church had "publicly, on many occasions" expressed gratitude to those who "gave their freedom, and often also their lives" under communist rule.

However, he added that the bishops' conference had stressed the need to overcome "obsessions with the past," and had called on Catholics to serve "in unity and faithfulness."

About 220 married men were secretly ordained priests during the communist era.

These included Bishop Zahradnik, who was later one of about 15 priests secretly ordained a bishop.

Married men were ordained because they drew less attention from state authorities and the measure was judged necessary by the Vatican to keep the

Church alive under a harsh, anticlerical regime.

Technically, the married men were ordained for Eastern-rite churches, which allow a married clergy.

De facto, they ministered to Czechoslovakia's mostly Latinrite Catholics.

The Vatican and the Czech bishops have offered to allow the married priests to minister as Latin-rite permanent deacons or transfer to an Eastern-rite diocese in neighbouring Slovakia.

Some have accepted, but a group led by Bishop Zahradnik refuses to cooperate, said Father Miloslav Fiala, Czech bishops' conference spokesman.

The dissident group wanted to meet Pope John Paul II during the Pope's May visit to the Czech Republic, but no meeting has been scheduled.

MANILA. Philippines (CNS) \ request from Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila that theatre owners not show the controversial British movie "Priest" resulted in a decrease in the number of screens showing the film from 10 to three.

However, after the film's lateJanuary premiere, lines were reported to be long at the three locations showing the film, and outlets providing videocassette rentals of "Priest" were doing a brisk business.

Pornography Bill CAPE TOWN. South Africa (CNS) - The southern African bishops' conference said proposed legislation could open the country to widespread pornography.

The conference, in a January 22 letter to the South African Department of Home Affairs, said the legislation "failed to recognise either •ubuntu' (traditional African values) or the common good."

Pornography can no more be protected as a right of free expression than could contempt of court, the ridiculing of public offices, or the deriding of ethnic and national symbols, the letter said.

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WINDOW CLEANING, professional job done, prompt and reliable service, competitive price, years. established 10 Phone 368 2444 or mobile 015 994 034.

ELECTRICAL, contractor house rewires, ceiling fans, power points, lights, safety switches, boat pumps, pool pumps. Lic. 004003. Phone Stephen Tierney 354 2264 PERGOLAS. Free design and quote. Quality work and materials. General carpentry and maintenance. Competitive prices.

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ANTIQUE METAL REPAIRS ANTIQUE Metal Repairs, Chalices, restorations and repairs. Silver, Pewter, Brass and Copper. Prop. Robert Bonolo. For appointment phone 349 4306 or 015 779 170.

Lesmurdie Units $120,000 Beautifully designed 2 bedroom units with carpet. curtains, light fittings, gas heater and security supplied. Lock-up garage.

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SUNSHINE, WINTER BREEZES. SUMMER Kalbarri. comfortable, self contained accommodation by the sea, within walking distance of shops and entertainment. $140 for t wo: $210 for four, for seven days. (09) 459 8554.

THANK YOU More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams or (Tennyson).

Pat and Don McGillivray and family wish to thank all the wonderful people. whose prayers were heard when God gave Don back his life.

Among these are: our relatives and friends, the Sisters of Mercy, the Cathedral, Carlise, and Brentwood pnests and their parishioners, and many many others.

Mass will be offered for the intentions of all these caring people.

-May God bless you all"

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

MEMORIAL FUND FATHER Lawrence Attard Memorial Fund The relatives of the late Fr Lawrence Attard wish to thank everyone for the sympathy and condolences they received after their sad loss A Holy Mass will be celebrated in thanksgiving for everyone concerned. A memorial fund has been set up for anyone wishing to contribute towards a tombstone. Donations should be sent to: Rev. Father Attard Memorial Fund, PO Box No. Guildford.

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Enquiries please contact John (09) 457 7771 or mobile 015 385 209.

ACCOMMODATION WANTED FAMILIES required to host Japan. from people Short/long term stays. Call the Nichigo Center, 325 4441,

ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE

Telephone 328 6433

PERSON to share tidy 3 bedroom house with father and 14 year-old son Phone Len 342 2752

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FERNDALE. 2 rooms available in 4 bedroom furnished house.

Public transport shops close. Suit Curtin/Murdoch students. single workers. $45 per week plus expenses per person.

Contact (09) 458 6947

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

Phone (008) 11 4010 ( local charge) Natural Family Planning Centre 29 Victoria Square Member of the Australian Council of Natural Family Planning Inc.

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Terracotta / slate tiles and brick paving Keep them like new - by sealing against grease. stains and dirt.

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Our greatful thanks to tne Infant Jesus of Prague.

Blessed Virgin Mary, St Jude, St Anthony, and Blessed Mary Immaculate f or favours granted Please continue to help us M.L.A.H.

PUBUC NOTICE MASSEUSE: Bethany Clinic, professional masseuse, dealing with skeletal and muscular pain sporting injuries, stress. relaxation and deep tissue massage. acupressure Monday to Friday 9.30am to 6pm, Saturday 10am to 5pm. Ring Orial 479 7120 $5 discount pensioners This service is definitely non-sexual.

FURNITURE CARRIED housefuls, units, flats offices, including single items, small medium and large vans available with 1 or 2 men, all metro areas and near country. Mike Murphy 008 016 310 (free call all areas): or 24 hour 480 5006.

LIFEGATE Clinic. Herbal medicine, healing hands, weight control, meditation. exercise, massage and physiotherapy Monday to Saturday 9am - 6.30pm.

Pensioners 20% discount.

This service is definitely non-sexual. Ring Grant 378 2059.

FREE accommodation, Duplex. in exchange for household duties. Quiet area in Northern Suburb. pleasant surroundings.

Telephone 309 2213.

FIRST Holy Communion and Baptism outfits, for boys and girls. We have the largest and best range in Perth. We are a one stop shop. We have everything you need. We are the specialists in raw silk garments.

The Rosa Linen 267 William Street, North-bridge Tel & Fax (09) 227 5634

SHARED 3x1 house.

Beckenham, $60 per week Ph: 451 2711

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ROOM to let, family home. bus stop at gate to city. rail or Joondalup uni. suit student or employed person.

Meals and/or facilities by arrangement. Non-smokers please. Ph. 306 4142.

WOODLANDS: Room. fully furnished, in attractive 2-bedroom triplex unit close to all amenities.

Prefer working female non-smoker). $60 week. shared expenses plus bond.

Phone: (09) 446 3796

MECHANIC Wanted (hungry but professional) With own small business within approximately 30 hours of Trigg by extended family with seven or eight cars.

We have just lost our family mechanic (Osborne Park) due to his retirement.

He was a Christian (non Catholic) fair, honest and competent and good working at older cars. Is there anyone out there to replace him? If so there is a reasonable amount of business in our family. Please phone 447 3527.

THE P ARISH S CENE R ECONCILIATION A n evening of information and f ormation on the Sacrament of Reconciliation, presented by Fr V incent Glynn. Thursday 22 February. 7.30-9.30pm Willetton Parish Centre. 5 Ingham Court, Willetton or Thursday 7 March.

7.30-9.30pm. Woodvale Parish 29 Duffy Terrace.

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21 Woodvale or Thursday March, 7.30-9.30pm Leederville Parish Centre, 40 Franklin St. Leedervil le. Cost S5 donation.

For further information and registration contact the A rchdiocesan Liturgy Office. phone (09) 221 1548.

ENVIRONMENT AND ART A workshop for those interested in creating liturgical environments, banners and art for the Lenten and Easter seasons.

Saturday 2 March, 10.30am3pm. Subiaco Parish Centre. 1 Salvado Rd, Wembley. Cost S10. please bring your own lunch. provided.

Wear t ea/coffee c lothes that are comfortable and can get dirty etc. For further information and registration p lease the contact A rchdiocesan Liturgy Office, phone (09) 221 1548.

BOSNIA: REFUGEES AND ME The Catholic Social Justice Commission is pleased to present guest international speaker Ms Sally Trench at a public meeting/lecture on the Bosnian situation. Tuesday 27 February.

7.30pm Subiaco parish Hall. 1 Salvado Rd. Wembley. Cost $5.

She was recognised as UK Catholic Woman of the year, and has been personally active in aiding Bosnian refugees since 1991. For more information and

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Social contact r egistration Justice Commission. phone (09) 325 1212.

LENTEN PERPETUAL A DORATION WEEKEND On the long weekend 1-4 March.

Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will be held at Gracewood - God's Farm.

C owaramup at the request of God through the teaching of his servant Pope John Paul II. This retreat with Fr Brain Morgan, c ommences at 7-8pm. Friday 1 March to 2pm Monday 4 March.

R e: Voting day. The Electoral Dept. recommends absentee in v oting on Saturday The program C owaramup. includes a period for groups to go to vote, thus no other preparations are necessary.

For more details and bookings p lease cal l Gracewood-God's Farm. Phone/fax 097 556 212 or w rite to Box 24 PO Cowaramup W A 6284. The suggested donation for 3 days is 575. or by special arrangement.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE The monthly pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of The R evelation wi l l take place on Sunday. February 28, at the church of "Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. Chittering Rd. Bullsbrook at 2pm. Al l are welcome. For bus reservations please ring 444 7565 or 458 6302 for buses to and from Bullsbrook. via Marangaroo.

Tuart Hill. Pertn, Highgate and Midland. For the Fremantle bus r ing 339 4015. For further enquiries please ring 444 2285 or 447 3292. SACRI Association, PO Box 311, Tuart Hill, 6050.

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HOLY Spirit, thou who makes me see everything and shows me the way to reach the ideal. You who give me the divine gift to forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me and who are in all instances in my life with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for everything and confirm I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desire may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. Say this prayer for three consecutive days stating your favour. Thank you Holy Spirit. Liz

HOLY Spirit. Thou who makes me see everything and shows mew the way to reach the ideal. You who gives me the divine gift to forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me and who are in all instances in my life with me, I, in a short dialogue want to thank you for everything and confirm from you once more that I never want to be separated from you. no matter how great the material desire may be.

I want to be with you and my loved ones in your pe-petual glory. Amen. A.D.F

PRAYER to the Virgin Mary (never known to fail).

Oh most beautiful flower of Mount Carmel, Fruitful vine, Splendour of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this my necessity. Oh Star of the Sea, help me and show me herein you are my Mother.

Oh holy Mary, Mother of God. Queen of Heaven and earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to suffer me in this my necessity.

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

Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine.

Amen. D.N.

HOLY Spirit, thou wh makes me see everything and shows me the way to reach the ideal. You, who gives me the divine gift to forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me and who in all instances in mu life is with me. I in a short dialogue want to thank you for everything and confirm to you once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desire may be I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. Say this prayer for three consecutive days stating your wish.

PRAISE, glory and thanksgiving to the Blessed Trinity, Mother Mary, St Joseph, St Jude. St Anthony, St Theresa of Avila, St Theresa of the Little Flower. St Anne, St Gerard Majella, St Dominic Savio and Fr Agnello D'Souza and all the saints and angels for prayers answered. PH.

THANKS THANKS to St Jude for many favours past and present. I have always put my trust in Him and my prayers have been answered. For those in need or distress pray to St Jude T P.

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A LAN AT MIRRABOOKA AND WANNER00 The following parishes will host Talks given by Alan Ames on his

Conversion experiences. Holy Mass (7.30pm) will precede the talks to be followed by healing: Tuesday 27 February St Gerard's parish. 37 Changton Way, Mirrabooka. Wed. 28 February St Antony's parish, 1000 Wanneroo R d, Wanneroo. All welcome.

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M ARIAN MOVEMENT The monthly Cenacles for February will be held at 10.30am at the following parishes: Tuesday 13th at St Gerards, Mirrabooka: Tuesday 20th, St Pauls, Swanbourne: Tuesday 27th, All Saints, Greenwood.

ST BENEDICT The Benedictine Oblates of Perth will meet on Sunday February 18 a t 2.30pm at lona College, Mosman Park. Discussion will be from Chapter 16 of "The Rule of St Benedict," The Celebration of the Divine Office. Inquiries about this gathering and future meetings contact Tony Smurthwaite 337 8212 (a/h).

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