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St Mary's Kalgoorlie-Boulder to celebrate 100 years this weekend - Page 9 Perth charismatics take Jesus' call to preach the Gospel seriously - Page 6 Drug addict tells of how, in his misery, he found Christ - Page 8 Abortion survivor Gianna speaks - Page 3

Bishops condemn new I ttacks on Aborigines

By Peter Rosengren Australia's Catholic Bishops, thmugh their Australian • Catholic Social Justice Council, have condemned as unjust and ill-informed anti-Aboriginal statements made during the Federal election campaign in Queensland.

The Liberal candidate for the seat of Oxley, Ms Pauline Hanson. claim that Aboriginal people received too much money from the Government won her immediate disendorsement as a Coalition tl1 in an election candidate charged with tension over the race issue.

She went on to win Chdey from the Australian Labor Party as a conservative independent with a massive 25 per cent swing in a seat that has been held by the

ALP since the 1960s. Federal Independent Kalgoorlie MHR. Graeme Campbell., backed Ms Hanson's opinions, saying he had been arguing her c.ase for years.

Bishop Kevin Manning, chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Coundl (ACSJC). said this week it was ill-informed and irresponsible to "assert resentfully in the public forum that Aborigines are a privileged gmup."

"There is much more to be gained by encouraging people to be fair and just in their treatment of all Australians." he said.

Bishop Manning's comments follow similar criticism by the Queensland Catholic bishops warning of racist attitudes in Queensland.

The Queensland bishops' and the state's Leaders of Religious Institutes issued a joint statement condening m what they described as "a new wave of racism" which

had appeared in Queensland in recent weeks.

Meeting at Pius XII provincial seminary in the Brisbane suburb of Banyo. the bishops and religious said they deplored the recent resurgence of racist attitudes.

Speaking to The Record from Brisbane, Bishop Raymond Benjamin of Townsville in Queensland's Far North said racism appeared to have flourished around the Federal election in a number of forums.

Refusing to mention Ms Hanson directly, he said that from the beginning of the federal election campaign in late January there seemed to be a growth of quite serious racist material on talkback radio and in letters to newspapers.

He also said there had been "some pretty disgusting neoNazi" material distributed in letterboxes in Brisbane at the time

of the campaign, promoting white supremacist views.

However, he said he thought the rash of racist sentiments was beginning to die down after the election.

• The Queensland Catholic bishops and Religious leaders said they hoped the appmach of the Year 2000 would give all Australians a new sense of urgency about the need to examine attitudes "which could prevent us from being a people who are just and fair in our treatment of all Australians."

Bishop Manning also said the II, bjective for Australian society be equality and harmony.

"Each of us needs to be more awre a and to tak•e personal resIInsibility for confronting racism and building up the community in true equality and harmony." he said.

Speaking after a weekend ACSIC meeting in Kensington.

NSW, Bishop Martning described racism as a blight on society and said it damaged those at whom it was directed as well as destroying goodwill and trust in the community.

"It is particularly unjust," he said. "when racist comments are directed at indigenous peoples on the ill-informed gmund that they receive privileged treatment through goverrunent attention."

He defended Government programs for Aboriginal people. saying that members of indigenous communities who were dispossessed of their land continued to suffer lower life expectancy. poorer health and higher rates of unemployment and imprisonment than the general communitY "Governments respond to these documented areas of disadvantage as they do to the needs of any group of citizens." he said.

Fight anti-religion forces Palmyra in Record•promotion together Archbishop

Archbishop Hkkey preaching at St George's Cathedral last Sunday morning

By Peter Rosengren Archbishop Barry Hickey called last Sunday in a sermon at Perth's Anglican St George's Cathedral for Christian churches and denominations to build solidarity among themselves, especially in the face of mounting hostility from anti-religious forces in Australian society.

He also urged Christians to seriously

live their faith. He was speaking in the cathedral at the invitation of the Dean of St George's, the Rev Dr John Shepherd.

"Christians have their backs to the wall in Australia at present, given the strength of the anti-religious and secular forces around us (which are) setting the agenda," Archbishop Hickey said.

"It is time to call Christians of all denominations to band together to oppose these forces and to restore moral standards that are based on the teachings of Christ."

The archbishop said this challenge had led him to accept the invitation to preach at St George's.

Preaching twice in the Cathedral, at the 8am Eucharist and the 10am Eucharist. the archbishop also participated in a discussion group on prayer and liturgy.

He said that anti- and non-religious forces had substantially changed the way people think about important issues.

"So we see suc.h things as legislation and 1 for business, t 1 medidne social policy, ethics and other pmfessions decided with little, if any, reference to religion or any other belief," he said.

"We cannot accept that position."

He said that he was not calling for politic.al or financial power to be wielded by the Christian churches in Australia but was instead calling on Christians in general and the Churches to assert their moral authority and influence society for the better.

Continued on Page 2.

Our Lady of Fatima parish councillor Moya Streek hands out The Record kist Sunday.

The parish council of Our Lady of Fatima parish, Palmyra. in Perth's south-eastern suburbs is showing the way in promoting The Record.

With no prompting from The Record, parish councillor John Foley, impressed hy the content and new layout of The Record, suggested the parish council order 200 copies, up from the usual 50 copies weekly, and distribute them free at last weekend's three Masses in Palmyra.

The parish council, showing exemplary Christian solidarity, offered to cover the cost of the distribution free to parishioners.

Parish priest Father Michael Ryan backed up the promotion with sermons urging a new look at The Record.

John Foley said many people in recent years, for whatever reason, had stopped reading The Record and were not aware that the archdiocesan paper had been under new editorial and administrative management for the last 10 months. He said the one-off free distribution would enable parishioners to see for themselves the changes in The Record and, hopefully, inspire them to either take out a yearly $65 subscription to The Record or buy a copy each week at their local parish church.

The therapeutic benefits of Christian virtue Call it spiritual therapy, call it growth, in the Christian life, call it the pursuit of virtue but however it is discussed, I keep coming across it and marvel at its extraordinary effects.

We live in an age where therapies abound.

Most of them are drawn from the human sciences like psychology, psychiatry, sociology or medicine.

Some are based on natural remedies or alternative lifestyles.

What I keep running across has little to do with recognised therapies.

In a way it is so simple that it is not usually thought of in terms of therapy.

Iam referring to the therapeutic effects of growing in Christian virtue.

We can say with some truth that if we keep the commandments we will gain eternal life.

But keeping the commandments could become little more than a dogged determination to fulfil the letter of the law or risk disastrous consequences.

We know that formal and rigid adherence to a set of obligations is not what Jesus wanted.

The Pharisees did that.

Jesus wanted more than formal observance of the law.

He wanted the true inner spirit as well.

The motivation for observing of the law should be the love of God. Following Jesus is a way of life that implies a continuous conversion, and a growth in virtue.

The one who leaves everything

to follow Jesus embarks on a course that will radically transform him or her as a person.

There will be a growth in tolerance, love, patience, cheerfulness, forgiveness, generosity, and all the other virtues that give evidence of God's power working within.

This transformation is not only an inner experience of the Kingdom of God, it is also therapeutic.

Let me explain what I mean.

I have come across dozens of young people whose lives were being destroyed by drugs, alcohol addictions, sex and a life of stealing.

They were depressed, angry, hopeless and friendless.

Under the gentle guidance of noble souls they were re-intro-

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ciuced to prayer, and invited to trust a loving God. They were gently guided to make a thorough sacramental confession of sins and be reintroduced to the Bread of Life, the Blessed Eucharist.

Having found a circle of friends who refused to reject them they changed.

Gradually the addictions and the lust fell away and were replaced by trust in God. They learned to respect themselves as Temples of the Holy Spirit, and despite frequent falls, eventually became committed followers of Jesus, growing all the time in self-control, honesty, generosity, inner peace, love and spiritual strength.

Therapy may not be the right word to use but the encounter with people of faith was pro- have to effect deep and lasting foundly therapeutic because it change. That change is possible led to the outpouring of God's in all of us.

It is not just for those whose love and Grace.

This remarkable phenomenon lives are in a terrible state. It is Is happening quietly here in our possible for us all to grow in virtue and inner happiness if we own city of Perth.

Personal transformation is very seek a deep union with God. The scriptural, and very much part of same power is there to enrich marriage and family life. our Catholic faith.

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LONDON (CNS) - The issue of problems involved." he added. women priests needs further "As for women priests, we must study so that a future ecumenical keep in mind two things. The first council of the world's Catholic is the dignity of women and their bishops could reconsider the absolute equality with men: the question, Cardinal Carlo Martini second, that the Catholic Church of Milan, Italy. has said. can't ordain women priests," he The Jesuit cardinal, often put said. forward by the secular media as "These two elements are diffione cardinal who will be consid- cult to put together, but we must ered in the election for the next study and deepen our underPope, also favoured flexibility standing of the problem so that regarding obligatory priestly we can understand all its terms," celibacy that would allow local he added. churches to modify the rule.

"At some point in the future a The cardinal's stands were pub- Vatican council could consider lished in an interview in the the problem, rethinking the March 7-13 edition of The whole question," said the cardiEuropean. nal.

"There are strong tensions "As for celibacy, I think that it among Catholics in Northern will remain but it may be possiEurope, in America and else- ble for local adjustments to be where, and these differences made," he said. must be nursed in such a way -This is not unthinkable, but it that they are understood. Such is for the Church to decide how dialectics are normal," he said. to adapt this law - which I There must be dialogue within believe will remain because of its the Church on these issues "in spiritual value - to particular sitorder to come to terms with the uations or necessities," he said.

Fight united: archbishop Continued from Page 1 In particular, policy in areas such as legislation affecting family life and sexuality, children and their upbringing, unemployment, immigration and refugees needed to be informed by a Christian perspective, he said.

"Because all these are not devoid of religion but must take into account moral standards God expects us to live by," he said.

The archbishop also said that Christians were increasingly pressured to keep their Christianity out of the public sphere. "There is, as yet, no obvious persecution of religion in Australia but something far more subtle - the pressure for us to remain silent and stay out of political life," he said.

Religion could not be relegated to the purely private arena.

"Our belief must have an Impact on society," the archbishop said.

He said that if Christians became indistinguishable from

the rest of society then they would allow injustices to occur.

"My call for solidarity is a call for a return to the life of a true follower of Jesus Christ," he said.

And for Christians to credibly affect society for the better and be taken seriously, he said, they first had to practice what they believed and commit themselves to an ongoing personal conversion to Christ.

Correction: Last week The Record reported that Archbishop Hickey was the first Catholic Archbishop to preach in St George's and that Fr Kevin Long last year was the first Catholic priest to preach there. It has been brought to our attention that Archbishop Lancelot Goody in 1982 was the first Catholic archbishop to preach in St George's, although he was speaking at an ecumenical service and not a eucharistic service as Archbishop Hickey did. Monsignor Michael Keating preached in St George's in 1970, 25 years before Fr Long.

Curtin students get direct access to RE Students at Curtin University's Faculty of Education who are studying to be teachers can now study units offered by the Catholic Institute of Western Australia which will qualify them to teach religious education in Catholic schools.

As classes kicked off in Western Australian universities last week, the first crop of Curtin University undergraduates who wish to be qualified to teach religious education in Catholic schools turned up for their first c.lasses under the supervision of Sister Shelley Long of the Catholic Institute.

Sr Long's classes are part of a new partnership deal between the Catholic Institute and Curtin University.

The dean of the Faculty of Education. Associate Professor Owen Watts, said the units would be available to students who have already qualified as teachers with a three-year Bachelor's Degree of Education prior to this year's intake, as well as to all students who were commencing the new four-year Bachelor of Education course which begins this year at Curtin.

He said he was delighted by the new arrangement.

"I'm very pleased with the development. I think it's long overdue," he said in an interview with The Record at Curtin University.

Under the new system, the subjects would be offered by Institute staff and accredited through Curtin University, he said.

Sister Eleanor Carter, head of

By Peter Rosengren

One of the great arguments often used by those who try to save the unborn is to say 'think of all the geniuses, the wonderful people, the artists, musicians, the individuals and great scientists that are needlessly killed by abortion every year.'

In reply, those who support death dismiss the argument as meaningless.

But the visit of Gianna Jenssen to Perth last week settled the matter on the spot.

For Gianna, a beautiful young woman with an effortlessly personality that charming delights everyone she meets, is living proof of what, in fact, is undeniably killed by abortion: unique, beautiful, people.

When Gianna's mother, at 1Z was seven-and-a-half months pregnant with her, she had her aborted by saline injection.

But, by what can only be called a miracle. Gianna was born alive and rushed to hospital where she was placed in an incubator and survived.

It was a miracle, in part, because in the United States children born alive after an abortion Prof Watts with Curtin students who will study Catholic Institute subjects procedure are usually killed by the Institute. echoed Professor sities. Staff from the institute will the doctor, either by strangulaWatts' remarks saying she was now work within the Curtin fac- tion. suffocation or incineration. delighted to see the way in which ulty providing students with the And as Gianna said before a the existing relationship between four units which fulfil Catholic large audience in the Salvation the faculty and the institute had Education's Accreditation B requirements. developed.

Teachers who wish to teach Although a small number of Curtin University teaching stu- religious education in any dents have previously studied Catholic school in the archdioCatholic Institute subjects this is cese must first complete Accredthe first time they will be able to itation B studies through the take the units on campus as part institute.

Professor Watts said the new of their own course.

Sr Carter said Curtin students arrangement made sense from a had previously to take religious number of points of view. "We education subjects at Edith have accepted the assistance of Cowan. where the institute is the Catholic Institute to offer based, as an overload to their these units: one, because we've been associated with the institute studies at Curtin.

This had raised all sorts of for over ten years and why would problems because the semester we want to 're-invent' the and lecture timetables between wheel?" he said. It also provided the two institutions were differ- greater opportunity for Curtin ent and students constantly had students to work within the to ferry back and forth between Catholic school system," he Edith Cowan and Curtin univer- added.

Gianna Jenssen in Perth last week

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By Peter Rosengren

Beautiful Gianna saved to preach life Army hall in the southern Perth suburb of Gosnells, "By God's incredible grace I am here."

The saline injection, which is designed to kill the unborn child by burning it inside and out, did not kill Gianna but it did cause cerebral palsy and today she walks with a limp.

However, it is typical of the charm of this young woman that she laughingly told her audience that while her limp had caused her to fall many times over the years, when she did fall she always managed to fall with complete grace.

Today she travels the US and the world, telling her story and campaigning for life.

Speaking to The Record. she said that to reject a woman in a crisis pregnancy was the worst thing that could be done to her.

Its at the time when she needs you the most," she said.

Asked what advice she would offer to any woman finding herself faced with the possibility of having an abortion, she said it was important to listen but also to help her see what the wrong choice could lead to.

"I would listen to her and I would tell her that the physical pain of having a child is nothing compared to the pain of an abortion, which lasts a lifetime." she said. "And I would send her to a crisis pregnancy centre where she can be helped through her pregnancy."

She said crisis pregnancy centres were essential work for prolife forces to carry out.

Having survived her own abortion and quite firm about the special life she has been given by God. Gianna believes that before the abortion holocaust can be rolled back people's interior attitudes must first change.

"I believe that people's hearts need to change before their lives can. and God is the one that changes hearts," she said.

"We can do things to try and decrease abortion, like crisis pregnancy centres, but its ultimately God who changes the hearts of people. and that will change things."

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Slow down, make space for God the grades they need, striving on the sporting field, establishing The message of the world is their identity through a turbulent booming out loud and clear. . . . adolescence.

Never a dull moment! Never a Time is money! Cram more in.

Start earlier. Work later. Take reflective moment either.

So often we get busy being work home. ... Performance, performance, performance: it's the busy.

The question then remains, key to promotion, salary increase "How does the still, small voice and power.

If an ordinary car engine turns of God fit into our hectic lives?"

It was with this question in four thousand revolutions per minute, a racing motor can turn mind that twenty nine people, aged between 15 and 27 years, up to ten thousand.

The market place mentality headed to Eagle's Nest to escape, says, "rev that engine up to ten If only for 48 hours.

But how many of you know a thousand as soon as you get up lot can happen within 48 hours! in the morning, and keep it there Authentic Christianity is a walk, until you collapse in the sack at a supernatural walk with a living, night." dynamic, communicating God. Getting caught up in that pace Thus the heart and soul of the can be rewarding.

Christian life is learning to hear It's exciting when the adrenalin God's voice and developing the starts to flow and you get on a courage to do what He wants us roll, when your motor starts rac- to do. ing faster and faster.

Authentic Christians are perBut it leaves precious little time sons who stand apart from others for quiet moments with God. as though they are listening to a Women with small children different drummer. know what it means to do ten Their character seems deeper. thousand rpm's all day long. their ideas fresher, their spirit University students with the softer, their courage greater, their constant pressure of lectures, leadership stronger, their contutorials, assignments, presenta- cerns wider, their compassion tions, exams. more genuine, their convictions School students striving to get more concrete.

promise on the weekend. God rewarded their faithfulness in taking time out of their busy schedules to "seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness".

Our key verse for the weekend became "Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord."

(Acts 3:19).

That word 'refreshing' means to 'revive', as a lifesaver would do to a drowning person. (Corinthians

By Mark Pemery

3:22-23).

Twenty-nine youth and young adults headed off to Eagle's Nest to relax and get away from the cut and thrust of life to make room for God

They are joyful in spite of difficult circumstances and show wisdom beyond their years.

Authentic Christians have strong relationships with the Lord, relationships that are renewed every day.

Any way you look at it, a key Ingredient in authentic Christianity is time.

Not left over time, not throw away time, but quality time.

Time for contemplation, meditation and reflection. Unhurried.

uninterrupted tune. Believers in Christ sometimes come to a point In their relationships with God where they are "choked by life's worries, riches and pleasures (Lk 8:14), they realise they are not growing and maturing.

Their walk with Jesus has slowed to a crawl or stopped altogether.

James writes "Come near to God and He will come near to you (lames, 4:8).

All 29 people experienced this

Where were you on the long weekend?

And refreshing it was.

An experience such as this is very difficult to articulate on paper so I won't even try.

Just to say that if the annual Youth Conventions held at Aquinas College can be such an oasis, this 'Escape Weekend' was an opportunity to come to the water.

Do not despair if you missed out, we will be running more 'Escape Weekends' throughout the year.

I encourage you to get involved In all that is taking place in youth ministry in this city - take the time to reduce your r.p.m.'s take the time to receive.

Keep watch on this page for details of future events.

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The following dates are still available for 1995-1996 (Dates in: bold - weekend, Italics = unconfirmed, underlined = school holidays Available Dates for Eagle's Nest.

March 17-21, 24-29, 29-31 April 7-12, 14-19, 22-26, 27-28, 29-30

Antioch was in full flight with young people from nine parishes making up the Outreach Team which led the weekend held at Notre Dame Primary School in Cloverdale. Recruits were drawn from five parishes. After the week-end, Cloverdale and Lesmurdie are happy to partake in preparatory meetings for several weeks at the Youth Office before launching Antioch in their parishes.

Morley has some enthusiastic participants who will join Dianella Antioch for the present. Kwinana will join Rockingham and Claremont has renewed determination to re-establish itself under the guidance of Tricia Fowler.

Tricia was a significant support throughout the weekend, along with the new parent support for Cloverdale, Greg and Carmel Kempton. It was without doubt a rich week-end for both Team and recruits.

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New disabled directory to help The Bishop's Committee For the Family and for Life has announced the imminent release of the National Directory of Catholic Disability Services.

In a statement issued this week the Committee said that it took much pleasure in announcing the Directory's imminent release later in March.

It said people with disabilities and their families are an integral part of the Church community and the directory would assist families and individuals to access services and resources and raise awareness of their needs.

Since the introduction of the Disability Service Act of 1986 there has been rapid growth and

development in the provision of disability services. The directory lists over 500 agencies and services throughout Australia which are operated or auspiced by Catholic organisations.

The information was obtained through a national survey and the entries briefly describe each service and provide a contact name, address and telephone number.

The cost of the Directory is $10.00 including postage and handling.

Anyone interested in obtaining a copy should contact the Bishop's Committee Secretariat on Phone (06) 28 1377, Fax (06) 285 2399.

A new 330-page Calendar of deceased priests in Australia contains dates of death and the main places of ministry of more than 6000 priests who have worked in Australia.

Terry Father by Compiled Southerwood. the Calendar will enable the present generation to prayerfully bring to mind those who have served God's people in this land.

Father Southerwood has been a member of the Australian Journalists' Association since 1967 and has written 16 books, mainly on historical topics, and more than 100 major articles.

He is parish priest of Bellerive. as well as Diocesan Historian and Defender of the Bond in the Tasmanian marriage tribunal.

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At the Holiday Mariapolis there will be varied activities, moments for relaxation, for prayer and lots more... Separate programs are organised for children and a creche is also available.

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The Mariapolis is one of these activities. It is a unique opportunity for everybody, young and old, to be able to build a New City" based on the Gospel law of mutual love, and to experience Jesus' presence when he said "Where two or three are gath-

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life on the Gospel, together with a small group of people who joined her.

Their ideal became one of striving toward the fulfilment of Jesus' last prayer to the Father "May they all be one".

The life of Chiara and her first companions, and the spiritual way they spontaneously followed, gave rise to the unique form of Spirituality of the Focolare Movement.

It has proven to be a powerful means of introducing the Gospel into modern life, of going to God together.

It is lived by children and students, married and single people, workers in all fields, priests and religious.

Like a huge fire lit by that first candle, this ideal of unity spread throughout Europe then to all the continents.

The Focolare Movement not only crossed the political boundaries of more than 150 countries but has also gone beyond the barriers erected over centuries between the various Christian Churches. Ecumenical activities take place in the different parts of the world where the Movement exists.

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The main theme of the Holiday Mariapolis be held in the beautiful bush setting of the Institute of in Human Development Jarrandale will be talks and experiences focusing on the Focolare spirituality itself.

The Mariopolis will run from Wednesday. April 17 until Sunday April 21.

What strikes people when they first come in contact with the Focolare, whether in small groups or in large gatherings such as the 'Mariapolis'. is the atmosphere.

The word Focolare sums this up well in Italian: it means 'fireplace" or -hearth" and is associated with a warm, welcoming sense of "coming home".

This longing for unity, peace and harmony is shared by people all over the world from different walks of life.

The Holiday Mariapolis is a chance to experience such an atmosphere.

The Focolare Movement began in 1943 In Italy.

In the midst of World War II, Chiara Lubich realised that Jesus offered us a great way to live, the only one worth living for. As a result Chiara began to centre her

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Pemberton School of Evangelisation

Gospel school's success among the tall tree tops

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

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Climbing to paradise the Melbourne team of Adrian, Fr Grech, Antonia and Ana sought safety in numbers

n a first for Western Australia, a School of Evangelisation has just been held in the deep south of WAs glorious tall timber country of Pemberton.

Based at KarrihoIm Christian Centre, it certainly proved an interesting school, and Its team was invited over through the enthusiasm of Holy Spirit of Freedom Community founder, Frank Feain who'd experienced it in Melbourne.

Frank was given full approval from Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbury, Manjimup PP Fatherr William Holmes, and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in WA. The 26 participants did a number of Innovative (and unusual) things from the basics of how to evangelise, to the exciting action of tearing around a forest clearing

Racing to bring the Good News to the world - no limits on participants' enthusiasm

Worn out, but still keen, participants get ready for the big task ahead

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with their bibles in a race to proclaim the word of God. Then, (not for the faint hearted!) they climbed the Diamond Tree with bibles in hand, to dedicate themselves to the evangelisation of God's word from a height of 52 metres above ground level.

Fortunately no one •achieved 'instant sanctity' by an unceremonious and fast descent.

For those who were unable or preferred to be guided by wise survival instinct, they climbed up on benches and made their same statement to God. The three week school also included door knocking around Pemberton, Northcliffe, and surrounding farms.

With their bibles the inspired evangelists approached the locals by announcing they'd come to share the Good News of Jesus and His love for them.

According to Father Joe Grech, who is chaplain to Melbourne's Charismatic Movement and responsible for all such schools in the English-speaking world, some of the householders "got quite a shock."

But he said the response was favourable with many ready to listen to the message of God's love for them.

Participants prayed with many to accept Jesus in a personal response of faith and a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

As a result, Fr Grech said, many reported an experience of God's presence in their lives at that moment, shown by a new joy and peace.

During the evangelisation school, locals were also invited to a healing Mass followed by prayers lasting until late into the night.

"A good response!" Fr Grech considered.

The school was also attended by nonCatholics. who came out of curiosity, and lapsed Catholics. "some of whom who'd been waiting for an invitation to renew their commitment to their Catholic faith."

Last week school participants put on a great Christian concert at the Gloucester Motel consisting of mime, drama, and music, with an invitation to all to commit themselves more to the teachings of Jesus.

The third event was a Holy Spirit mission running for seven Monday nights from March 11.

All these events, Fr Grech explained, had the sole aim of renewing one's Catholic faith and bringing back lapsed Catholics by giving them a personal experience of God's love.

While WA may be experiencing its first school, others in the eastern states are running their second and third since the School of Evangelisation initiative was introduced into Australia in 1992 by Fr Emilien Tardif and Jose Prado Flores.

Initially conducted in Italian and Spanish because the presenters were nonEnglish speaking, other English schools rapidly followed in 1994.

One was held for young people and last year others were conducted in the dioceses of Melbourne, Hobart, Sale and

Brisbane. Late last year, another was held in Manila in the Philippines.

Internationally, the school started in Mexico under Jose Prado Flores, which impressed Fr Tardif sufficiently to adopt it as an important part of his rninistry.

It is the role of these two working as a team to spread the school throughout the Latin American continent.

The Koinonia 'San Giovanni Battista' of Italy has become the prime mover on the European continent with great results reported from many countries and Eastern Europe in particular.

The schools are based on the multiplication principle whereby people are taught, and then trained to teach others in turn.

The school has three basic principles.

The main emphasis is on the message of our Catholic faith that Jesus died, is risen, Is glorified, and gaining a personal experience of this.

The second is charismatic, which means an openness to the gifts of the Holy Spirit so that through Him each person can experience a new reality of Jesus as their personal Lord and Saviour.

Thirdly some form of commitment is made to evangelise as a community, and as a family.

The school consists of six days of discipleship and 12 days on evangelisation.

Individuals are shown how to spread the Good News with lessons accompanied by a dynamic They are geared not merely to the head, but also "to the heart," said Adrian Commadeur who with Ana Snjaric and Antonia Vekic are part of Fr Grech's Evangelisation team from Melbourne.

The vision of the school is to conduct schools in all dioceses of Australia and beyond.

Fr Grech also sees this school as a great introduction to the other course on evangelisation they offer.

Participants are encouraged to use all the God-given gifts they have received and to be evangelised themselves.

"Because you cannot give fire," reinforced Fr Grech, "unless you are on fire."

According to Fr Grech and Adrian, the success of the school lies in the follow ups with a team being formed after every school with the two-fold task to see the participants become part of a cell group.

These meet regularly on a weekly or fortnightly basis for the purpose of living the gospel and for evangelisation.

Another goal is to start another school with courses given on how to teach using the Scriptures and using the spirituality of the leader.

As for Fr Grech and his team their sights are set on Singapore and Papua New Guinea.

There they hope to achieve as much as they can by the year 2,000 in accordance with the Pope's urging for a maximum evangelisation effort for the turn of the century.

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Get the facts, and have your worst fears confirmed F members of the sadism and masochism community in Sydney which portrayed violent sexual activity as 'consensual and safe' I clapped my hands in childish and naive delight to think how lucky we all are to have such ways of life presented to the young as valid alternatives by 'your ABC', 'Aunty' our protector.

The standard of commentary from the broadcast box on the evening was also rivetting as well, adding a certain je ne sais quas to the night's broadcast.

I particularly enjoyed the five-minute breaks between comments on the parade, and comments such as "Here's another float" made me realise my five cents a day was surely going to hire the most expert, dramatic and insightful commentary possible. Please, Aunty, save us from such professionalism!

Anyone who believes that the millions of taxpayers dollars the Federal Government continues to pour into the ABC are working hard to broadcast programs of family-quality which are suitable to families, young children and teenagers for many years to come then they need to have their collective heads read.

The reality is that the ABC hates het-

erosexual marriage and families and does everything it can to promote the homosexual and lesbian community.

'Aunty' wants to celebrate homosexual and lesbian sexuality and sexual activity and to portray it as a moral equal of heterosexual marriage and family life.

Perhaps the new Federal government should consider privatising the ABC. Don't ban it, just let the ABC journalists and management earn the honest living the public will give them as they deliver a cultural product acceptable to the consumers.

Then again, talking pigs might fly.

Ludovic Ryan

the Saints). Yet it is the ordinary people buying your paper from Church stands who are still holding on to their everyday faith.

When I read the thanksgiving advertisements in your paper I don't read "plea bargains", I read of people whose prayers have been answered and who believe this in faith my am a Catholic practising the only way I know: attendance at so firmly that they pay hard-earned cash Mass, receiving the Sacraments and to publicise their gratitude to "their" parin praying simple prayers of praise, love, ticular saints in the hope that others thanksgiving and requests, interceding for need or sorrow will pray and find equal those I love for the things necessary to our relief in these prayers.

So often Vatican II is quoted as the state of life and even, on occasion, for source of some writers' smug self-satisfacsomething I simply want. the I say I practise my faith and that is pre- tion that only he or she is practicing manner. correct exact the in religion cisely what I do practice, practice, practice But my Jesus was a simple man. He In the hope that one day God will make me perfect if. God willing, he takes me to helped us ordinary people pray. He even gave us an enduring prayer of praise, Heaven.

Often when I read The Record letters thanks and requests.

Read and absorb the Our Father, all of page the correspondents confuse me you who appear to want us to practice a utterly.

So mdny people who write seem to me "no frills" faith.

The nuns of my childhood taught me to be self-accredited theologians. They seem to want all of us to worship and never to take anything away from anyone unless I could give back something much practice our religion only as they do.

There is an underlying contempt for better in return.

Are the correspondents who criticise us ordinary people in some letters (oneupmanship which in my opinion is not at ordinary people, really, truly, so sure that all in accordance with our Saviour's life, they alone know God's mind. Somewhat and owes more to the Pharisees than to presumptuous in my opinion.

The majority of the people of God are simple people, ordinary people, called upon to worship an extraordinary God. We do that in the centuries-old tradition of praise, thanksgiving and requests. We do our best, we do it in prayer and humility.

Margeurite Gore Rockingham

or the first time in my life last week I sat down in front of my television set to watch on 'My ABC' the highlights of the Sydney homosexual and lesbian mardi gras, 'helpfully' broadcast in its entirety to families around the nation.

As those who promote homosexual and lesbian relationships as being equal and valid to heterosexual marriage say that one should get the facts before forming an opinion on the matter I decided, therefore, to do what they say.

So I got the facts.

But, guess what, what I presumed was, in fact, true. Among the many floats that sailed past the cameras one presented acts of homosexual intercourse being mimicked live on television before the crowd and for the pornographic corruption of the hundreds of thousands of viewers.

But no! Wasn't it the telling and witty point made at unending rounds of dinner parties that who criticise the ABC as being somehow biased against the family and in favour of promoting homosexuality as a valid lifestyle were obviously wrong?

As I watched the float presented by

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am voicing my opinion at the display projected during the telecast by the taxpayer-funded national ABC station of their coverage of the homosexual and lesbian Mardi Gras on Wednesday, 6 March - blatantly Immoral deviancy was highlighted in this partly Government-funded "socalled" artistic parade.

No doubt many disgusted viewers

turned off and would not be concerned further by this exhibition, but, sadly, the deviant and degrading message would still be heard in the homes of many thousands of impressionable young people.

It is little wonder that social values have progressively deteriorated, and that is something we all should be concerned about.

I objected strongly and have voiced my opinion to the ABC on their highlighting of such scenes as two male homosexuals in a sensual embrace and a morals campaigner being depicted in a shameful and disgusting manner - a float displaying in a graphic and suggestive manner the homosexual act and various exhibitions of lesbianism with suggestive connotations. There was also a group of people dressed up as Christian nuns parading.

What disappoints me is why our leaders, who have accepted high office, are not more concerned. I am sure the good Lord expects them not to be compliant by being complacent.

Too little too late is slightly better than doing nearly nothing.

Martin Faulkner Armadale

could be placed, nourished and kept warm, then a baby would develop there.

This baby would not be part of the machine and the machine's owner would not have the right to destroy the baby put In his or her care, simply because he or she owned the machine.

M.J. Gonzalez Willetton

The chain of life

Beware methadone

ust as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, so an argument is only as persuasive as the truth of its mises.

Those who declare that an embryo or foetus is part of the mother's body and that a woman has a "right" to do what she wants with her own body are starting off with a false premise.

Therefore their whole argument regarding their choice collapses.

An unborn child is no more part of the mother's body than it is part of the father's.

It is a separate entity that is growing in its natural place: the mother's womb. It may be male or female.

If science could devise a machine wherein a fertilised human (or animal) egg

iving methadone to heroin addicts Is a frequently-fatal mistake. This has been known for years.

The figures for the United Kingdom for the decade 1982 to 1991 proved exactly that. During those years, methadone killed more people than heroin did.

These statistics were published in The Lancet of 16 April, 1994.

Now similar figures for Australia have appeared on pages one and two of Melbourne's Herald-Sun of 24 January this year.

Well-motivated heroin addicts can be got off heroin using safer drug regimens which include no narcotics - no methadone, no heroin.

Arnold Jago Mildura.

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Follow the Blind Man and let God's light shine on your life Karrinyup parish priest Father Richard Rutkauskas continues his meditations on the Sunday readings in Lent to help us in our journey to Easter 1996.

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any of the ancient religions passed away because the True and Living God was not at the centre of them.

The ancient Greeks humanised their gods seeing them as lustful, vengeful and greedy. This was to suit what they saw as the important things in life.

Other religions failed because they denied the sanctity of the human body, regarding it as evil.

They looked upon the soul or spirit as the only holy part of the human being.

Jesus came to dispel all these misconceptions. He came to illumine the minds of all humanity.

ated in His image and His Son who, in today's gospel, reveals Himself as the Son of Man - took on our human nature to show just how highly ills regarded by the Creator.

Unfortunately, as beautiful and as pure as we were when first created, we allowed ourselves to be tainted by sin, by the evil one.

As beautiful and as innocent as

a new born baby is, it takes on a human nature that needs the gift of God's Holy Spirit.

It is only through the Sacraments and a continuing openness towards God that we can fight the evil that exists in our world.

The man born blind suffers in this way not because of any personal sin, but because of the collective sinfulness of humanity.

We live in an imperfect world because of our cooperation with evil. Jesus heals the man to show He came to show us the sanctity that the whole human person is and beauty of all of God's cre- loved by God - not just the soul.

Jesus, however, has another ation, especially His most loved concern - spiritual pressing creWe are the human. creation,

with Fr Richard Rutkauskas blindness. As the Son of Man, He wants us to realise our great need for Him. Just as the ancient Greeks and

others had their false gods and religions, so many abound in our time.

All of them can be reduced to one thing - love of the self, making a god out of the human person.

This attitude breeds materialism, greed, hatred and a disregard for fellow man.

The Pharisees of Jesus' time had fallen into this same tap.

Their blindness was much more

debilitating than that of the man who was physically blind.

Their concern was more for their own comfort and power than what was truly the will of God. God Himself was in their midst and they were too blind to recognise Him. The blind man could 'see' something wonderful in Jesus even before his sight was restored. God was able to work in him because his heart was open to the truth.

We often wonder why horrors abound in our world.

It is because the false gods of materialism and power are those which are mostly worshipped.

The cult of self leads us to ignore those who are starving, even though there is more than enough food to feed everyone.

It leads us to disregard the sanctity of all human life, from conception to a natural death.

Life becomes expendable if it

gets in the way or if it is deemed non-productive or worthless.

War, violence and hatred are common because it serves the evil notion that not all people are equal and worthy in the eyes of God. Jesus came to shed some light on the situation.

He came to shine a light on the darkness of sin.

He came to show us that unless we allow his light to shine on our attitudes, on our way of life, on the things we see as important, then we can only be blind to the truth of who God is and what He wants us to

become.

As we continue on our journey through Lent, let us pray for our world, for our society, for the Church and for ourselves: that we will allow the light of Christ to shine out.

Because, it is only when He is at the centre of all we say and do that we will have true peace.

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Features

Open to love, life The fourth excerpt from the Fbntifical Council for the Family's guidelines for sex education.

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arried love is fulfilled in openness to the other person and in self-giving, taking the form of a total gift that belongs to this state of life.

Moreover, the vocation to the consecrated life always finds its meaning in self-giving, sustained by a specialgrace, the gift of oneself "to God alone with an undivided heart in a remarkable manner" (Catechism, 2349) in order to serve him more fully In the Church . . . .

Even in the most delicate situations, Christian parents cannot forget that the gift of God is there at the very basis of all personal and family history.

"As an incarnate spirit, that Is, a soul which expresses Itself in a body and a body informed by an immortal spirit, man is called to love in his unified totality. Love includes the human body. and the body is made a sharer in spiritual love." (Familimis Consortia, 11) . . . . hen love is lived out in marriage, it includes and surpasses friendship.

Love between a man and woman is achieved when they give themselves totally, each in turn according to their own masculinity and femininity, founding on the marriage covenant that communion of persons where God has willed that human life be conceived, grow and develop.

To this married love and to this love alone belongs sexual giving, "realized in a truly human way only if it is an integral part of the love by which a man and a womancommit themselves totally to one another until death."

(Familiar's Consortia, 11) The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2360, recalls: "In marriage the physical intimacy of the spouses becomes a sign and pledge of spiritual communion. Marriage bonds between baptized persons are sanctified by the sacrament." he revealing sign of authentic married love is openness to life: "In its most profound reality, love is essentially a gift; and conjugal love, while leading the spouses to the reciprocal 'knowledge' .... does not end with the couple, because it makes them capable of the greatest possible gift, the gift by which they become cooperators with God for giving life to a new human person.

"Thus the couple, while giving themselves to one another, give not just themselves but also the reality of children, who are a living reflection of their love, a permanent sign of conjugal unity and a living and inseparable synthesis of their being a father and a mother." (Familiaris Consortia 14) From this communion of Jove and life spouses draw that human and spiritual richness and that positive atmosphere for offering their children the support of education for love and chastity.

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Candlemakers prepare their lights of love for Easter vigils across America SYRACUSE, New York (CNS) - the candles sit for a day or two, There's a pretty good chance as employees watch for signs of that Barbara Ryback and Mary blistering or other imperfections.

Merritt of Syracuse contributed After that, Ms Merritt begins something to the Easter celebra- decorating them with bits of tions in just about any US shaped gold foil, Greek letters Catholic parish. and wax-dipped symbols such as As the quality control manager lambs. and decorator, respectively, for Other candles are decorated by the country's oldest Church can- machines, which paint on Easter dle manufacturers, the two symbols and pictures. women probably had hands or "Each one takes an hour to seveyes on the paschal candles eral hours to decorate, dependbeing used in about 10,000 US ing on the order," Ciccone said.

Catholic Churches for Easter celThe cost can also vary widely, ebrations. from $35 for the simplest, smallAt Will and Baumer Candle er styles, to $300 for complicated Company, Ms Merritt is the sole designs on the biggest, 45-pound employee decorating paschal candles, he explained. candles - nearly 5,000 each year It's a painstaking job, but Will by hand. and Baumer is just one of severMs Ryback, who officially al companies that have made retired two years ago, still comes Syracuse a national centre of in daily for quality control candle making for more than a inspections. century.

They're part of a 70-employee An estimated 60 percent of the operation that will be dipping Church candles used in the and decorating beeswax paschal United States come from one candles through Holy Week.

Syracuse company or another, "We'll be working right up according to the Syracuse through Good Friday," said Herald-Journal newspaper.

Marshall Ciccone, executive vice What is now known as Will president. and Baumer was formed in 1896 "We put them on buses and air- with the merging of two smaller planes right up to the last manufacturers, both started by minute" for delivery by Saturday Bavarian immigrants in the midafternoon before Easter Vigil cel- 1800s. ebrations.

Will and Baumer eventually Candle makers at Will and spawned its three remaining Baumer have been working on local competitors, all started by paschal candles since family members or former September, when the first candle employees who struck out on cores were formed in machines their own, explained Ciccone. that extrude the beeswax in one of the current employeewidths up to several inches, owners. explained Ciccone in an interAfter brief forays into the novelview with Catholic News ty candle market that temporariService. ly brought bigger staffs and new Because of the enormous pres- equipment to the company, Will sure required to extrude and Baumer has settled almost beeswax, machines can only be exclusively into the Church canused for candles or cores a cou- dle market. ple of inches across, he said.

The factory that once held hunThose cores are dipped as dreds of workers remains at 65 many times as necessary to to 70 employees these days, reach the four- to five-inch diam- Ciccone said. eters of the biggest cathedralThe closing of inner-city, ethnic size candles.

Churches that once used huge At various steps along the way, quantities of candles and their

Decorator Mary Merritt inspects an Easter candle at the Will and Baumer Candle Company on March 8.

replacement by more modern. better-lighted suburban Churches which purchase fewer candles has cut into the business in recent decades. But Ciccone said demand remains relatively stable these days.

Although there are hundreds of other candle manufacturers around the country, canon law requires beeswax candles of a specific quality for Catholic liturgical use, explained Ciccone.

Producing that quality takes a certain expertise and consisten-

cy of formulas that only about a half-dozen U.S. companies can provide, he said. While Will and Baumer specialises in paschal candles and decorated ceremonial candles for weddings, baptisms and confirmations, the company also sells tens of thousands of regular beeswax altar candles each year, Ciccone said.

"They're the bulk of our business, but we really highlight the paschal candles for their craftsmanship and decorating," he said.

Miraculous conversion on road to Hell

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard The Holy Spirit of Freedom's major thrust is with street kids and stories abound of those encountered along the way who are plucked out of the street, drug and alcohol scene often through the efforts of the HSOF team - but sometimes through Divine intervention.

One such remarkable story is that of 26-year-old 'Michael E' who was on drugs and alcohol for years.

A Catholic, his downhill slide began at the age of 20 when his father died.

Having just started to get close to him, the death threw Michael E into a state of profound grief, withdrawal from his family and others in case he was hurt again.

With a hatred for religion and the world he entred into a numbing, drugged state to blot out all pain.

The only time Michael E would visit his mother was if he wanted something to eat, but little communication took place - because he didn't want it, and so contact

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remained limited. Amazingly enough, Michael was able to hold down a responsible position as a senior laboratory supervisor meta) analyst, "on good money," by using the product Clear Eyes which enabled his drug habit to remain undetected.

After that he spent a year's stint on a drilling rig "where their lifestyle of drugs and drink was the same as mine," before returning to his former job.

Michael was fortunate, because he had a broken hearted but faithful mother praying in the background, and his family of four brothers "whom I never got to know."

One of them had joined the HSOF community six months before and was making his final commitment to them when Michael encountered the Lord on December 21, 1995.

Switching off the TV Michael felt a bit strange so went to lie down on the bed thinking he was coming off drugs.

The moment he did that - "it happened! I was touched by God! It was a very, very person-

al feeling: a touching. . . . It was community "and it was like the an instant realisation that it was Lord said. . . . welcome home" God, with this feeling of love, Added to that, God in his warmth and care."

Instant conversion of Michael That night Michael cried for also took away any withdrawal the first time in many years - symptoms or desire for drugs. "tears of joy, with a giant release Could he return to his former of all the deep hurts, pain and life which he said was filled with anger," and gave his life to God; self-loathing and the belief he'd at that point his life did a com- plumbed the lowest depths? plete turnaround.

"No never. I know God is comWanting to pray but having for- pletely in control now. I have no gotten how, Michael found a fears about what I am doing and friend's bible and the page fell where I am going. open at Matthew when Jesus "As a result of my former life, was on the Mount teaching peo- my eyes are really opened and I ple how to pray, and "God told could never look on people the me - Start Here." same again."

His reconciliation before Michael does prison visits Christmas "was about the great- among other things, and firmly est Christmas present I could believes that with God, there is have received, and my Christmas hope for everyone, and adds that Mass was the first time I've one should never under estimate received the body and blood of the power of prayer.

Christ with the full meaning of He concedes that his past is the sacrament and realisation of always there but says it hapthe real meaning of Christmas." pened for a reason and someToday Michael's relationship thing he's built on "because God with his overjoyed mother, fami- has a purpose for everyone. And ly and society is characterised now I leave everything up to him. with happiness and peace.

"He's never let me down...and I He's also joined the HSOF know he never will."

100 Years of St Mary's Kalgoorlie-Boulder

Hero's Kalgoorlie looms large in Australian history and culture, and St Mary's parish, which celebrates its centenary this weekend, shares in that limelight Br Reg Whitely CFC looks back at a colourful history

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urely the most colourful history of all the parishes in the diocese must be that of the parish of "Hannans", as Kalgoorlie/Boulder was first called.

But if people came to the goldfields to seek a quick fortune, most remained to eke out a living for their families under the harshest of conditions.

Today. a visit to Humans North Gold Mine Museum allows one to descend underground and to capture the atmosphere of working in the mines.

There one can witness, with repulsion, the operating of the rock drill. called "the Widow Maker" and imagine the killer dust, in that confined space, destroying young lives.

In the Boulder cemetery, as in other cemeteries in the area, can be found the graves of miners who died in tragic accidents, such as the following in the Roman Catholic section. in loving memory of my dear husband John Curran Keegan who was killed at the Great Boulder Mine August 13th 1908;" and next to it. Michael Antony Kilgariff who was accidentally killed on the Associated Gold Mine aged 27 Every one of the old mines is represented in these cemeteries.

A few kilometres from Boulder can be found the Pioneers' Cemetery 1899-1904.

One section is designated by a newly painted sign that reads "Roman Catholic Children".

There in that rough bush, with the graves of other children, can be found that of the little twins "Richard and Mary Kilderry, who died at Boulder City 20th October 1903, aged 14 months."

This was not a place for the faint-hearted - it was a "man's town".

With that title came many undesirable aspects such as the brothels and excessive drinking.

There was so much, also, that was unchristian in the Race Riots and the treatment of the indigenous people and, sadly, in the attitude to women.

Certainly, the goldfields has a real Shadow Side, in which the parish shares.

All this is part of its story, yet God loves stories and it is this story that is now being celebrated.

There have been some extraordinary acts of heroic self-giving throughout the history of the parish.

The coming of the St John of God sisters

The parish pries1 of Boulder 1901-1911, Dean Brennan, seated, with an unnamed priest

builds golden parish and the advent of Mother Ursula Tynan of the Josephite Order must surely typify this spirit.

Within such a short time of their arrival in 1895 we find two St John of God Sisters fresh out from the Isle of Saints, travelling overland to Kalgoorlie to attend the victims of typhoid in the new mining town.

The story is related in the memoirs of Mother Ignatius Lynagh: "Typhoid was rampant on the goldfields.

This necessitated the sending of two Sisters to Kalgoorlie, Sr M Magdalen and Sr M Angela. Fr Matti prepared a hospital and convent for them in the shape of a hessian tent, part for the patients and a small portion for the Sisters. This was situated on Mt Charlotte where the reservoir now is. The Sisters remained for six months and did what they could for the poor patients under their awe. One. Sr M Angela broke down in health under the strain: both were recalled."

It is amazing that the Sisters had to live in a tent, let alone share it with their patients. ilvo of the eight pioneering sisters contracted typhoid in Perth but nothing stopped them again coming to the goldfields, after the Mt Charlotte venture.

We read in their centenary history: "Brigid O'Hanlon was 26 when she set out for Kalgoorlie in 1896 just six years alter she left her family at Philpstown Co. Offaly. Sr Brigid (also known as Sr Veronica) was tireless in caring for the sick miners. One week before the Kalgoorlie Hospital opened she died from typhoid fever, her grave, with those of four other sisters, remains as a testimony to those brave generous women."

It is beside these graves that the parish gathers on All Souls Day to offer Mass.

While the Sisters are symbolically the spirit of the parish, it is not just their stories that we commemorate. The bishops also have their special place.

Bishop Gibney's association was probably the most important factor in the establishing of the parish and we recall his constant journeying here to allow this to happen.

The little "asides" in the records tell us what this entailed.

He was able to travel by train with two St John of God Sisters to Southern Cross and then by horse and buggy to Kalgoorlie.

Mother Ignatius relates that on the train the bishop asked the waiter for a drink, who then asked the bishop, "And what will the missus have?"

The new bishop associated with the goldfields was William Bernard Kelly, who from here was appointed the first Bishop of Geraldton.

Born in York. he became the editor of The Record before his posting to the goldfields.

Archbishop Clune had preached several missions in the area as a Redemptorist priest, which also meant, in his case, the visiting of the homes.

When he became the bishop he made a decision that Boulder could no longer have a parish priest.

When his successor, Archbishop Prendiville, first visited Boulder he promised to give the people back their parish priest and appointed Launcelot Goody to this office.

It was he who built the Boulder Presbytery.

Archbishop Hickey lived in Kalgoorlie as a boy and attended the Christian Brothers school in Wilson St. He returns to be the principal celebrant for the centenary.

And in addition Bishop Bianchini was appointed parish priest of Kalgoorlie and hence Dean of the area.

Bishop Quinn's parents were married in All Hallows Church Boulder and both he and Bishop McKeon can be found in the records as associated with the Little Sisters of the Poor in Kalgoorlie.

The most significant presence, however, has been that of Bishop Healy as administrator of the mensal parish of Kalgoorlie, after his time caring for the Boulder area.

Over a decade his contribution was quite considerable under difficult financial conditions.

In the first place Archbishop Prendiville

Bishop Gibney opening St Mary's church in Kalgoorlie in 1903

called on monies to be transferred to himself, because this was his benefice as a mensal parish.

It was not only his ability to administer the area and to obtain financial contributions when the town was passing through a gloomy period that was so significant but more importantly, over the decade that he was present, he made a tremendous Impact on people both within the town besides those in the parish.

Bishop Healy was frequently called upon to speak on civic occasions, which benefited the image of the Church immensely.

A Blessed Sacrament priest now in the Wagga diocese, Father Kevin Kelly, has a unique place in the Kalgoorlie story, for he not only lived but worked here; his trade

taking him into all the mines of the area.

However, if one must look for a representative priest as a symbol of all the selfsacrificing work of the priest. Father Maurict Toop would be the best choice.

As parish priest of Kalgoorlie he agonised over the needs of the Aboriginal people. He was eventually giveh permission to work full time in this apostolate meeting with stiff opposition from other religions, who had earlier established contact with the people.

In spite of amazing difficulties, the establishment of the aged aboriginal home must be attributed to him, in partnership with Mother Miriam, the present superior.

He was surely an example of a prophetic mission: bringing the plight of the marginalised to the attention of all.

The Al! Hallows Catholic school in Boulder flattened by a hurricane in 1903

Children from the Oroya Street Catholic primary school in the 1920s

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The Solemnity of St Joseph, the Husband

The fatherhood of St Joseph was 'truly a human one'

Photo: CNS

drawing, as it were, "what is Hidden behind the feast of St and what is old" (Matthew new Patrick on Monday is the far from the storehouse of 13:52) more important feast on Tuesday figure of Joseph. noble the Joseph, St of of the Solemnity husband of the Blessed Virgin Above all, the "just" man of Mary, more important than the Nazareth possesses the clear lesser feast of St Joseph the characteristics of a husband.

Worker on Labour Day, 1 May. Luke refers to Mary as "a virThe modem-day St Joseph, Pope betrothed to a man whose gin John Paul II, wrote in 1989 a meditation on the life of St name was Joseph" (Luke 1:27).

Joseph as an apostolic exhorta- Even before the "mystery hidtion entitled "Guardian of the den for ages" (Ephesians 3:9) Redeemer". The following are began to be fulfilled, the excerpts from the short medita- Gospels set before us the image of husband and wife. tion.

According to Jewish custom, n the course of that pilgrim- marriage took place in two age of faith which was his stages: first, the legal, or true life, Joseph, like Mary, marriage was celebrated, and remained faithful to God's call then, only after a certain period until the end. of time, the husband brought While Mary's life was the the wife into his own house. bringing to fullness of that fiat Thus, before he lived with first spoken at the Annunciation, Mary, Joseph was already her at the moment of Joseph's own "husband." Mary, however, pre"annunciation" he said nothing; served her deep desire to give instead he simply "did as the herself exclusively to God. angel of the Lord commanded One may well ask how this him" (Matthew 1:24). of Mary's could be recondesire And this first "doing" became ciled with a "wedding." the beginning of "Joseph 's way."

The answer can only come The Gospels do not record any the saving events as they from word ever spoken by Joseph along that way. But the silence unfold, from the special action of Joseph has its own special of God himself. eloquence, for thanks to that From the moment of the silence we can understand the Annunciation, Mary knew that truth of the Gospel's judgement she was to fulfil her virginal that he was "a just man" desire to give herself exclusively (Matthew 1:19). and fully to God precisely by One must come to understand becoming the Mother of God's this truth, for it contains one of Son. the most important testimonies Becoming a Mother by the concerning man and his voca- power of the Holy Spirit was the tion. form taken by her gift of self: a Through many generations the form which God himself expectChurch has read this testimony ed of the Virgin Mary, who was with ever greater attention and "betrothed" to Joseph. Mary with deeper understanding, uttered her fiat.

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The fact that Mary was "betrothed" to Joseph was part of the very plan of God. This is pointed out by Luke and especially by Matthew. The words spoken to Joseph are very significant: "Do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 1:20).

These words explain the mystery of Joseph's wife: In her motherhood Mary is a virgin. In her. "the Son of the Most High" assumed a human body and became "the Son of Man." Addressing Joseph through the words of the angel, God speaks to him as the husband of the Virgin of Nazareth.

What took place in her through the power of the Holy Spirit also confirmed in a special way the marriage bond which already existed between Joseph and Mary.

God's messenger was clear in what he said to Joseph: "Do not fear to take Mary your wife into your home." Hence, what had taken place earlier, namely.

Joseph's marriage to Mary, happened in accord with God's will and was meant to endure.

In her divine motherhood Mary had to continue to live as "a virgin, the wife of her husband" (cf. Luke 1:27).

In the words of the "annunciation" by night, Joseph not only heard the divine truth concerning his wife's indescribable vocation; he also heard once again the truth about his own

eminent dignity whereby the Mother of God towers above all creatures.

"Since marriage is the highest degree of association and friendship, involving by its very nature a communion of goods, it follows that God, by giving Joseph to the Virgin, did not give him to her only as a companion for life, a witness of her virginity and protector of her honour he also gave Joseph to Mary in order that he might share. through the marriage pact, in her own sublime greatness."

This bond of charity was the core of the Holy Family's life, first in the poverty of Bethlehem, then in their exile in Egypt, and later in the house of Nazareth.

The Church deeply venerates this Family, and proposes it as the model of all families.

Inserted directly in the mystery of the Incarnation, the Family of Nazareth has its own special mystery.

And in this mystery, as in the Incarnation, one finds a true fatherhood: the human form of the family of the Son of God, a true human family, formed by the divine mystery.

In this family, Joseph is the father his fatherhood is not one that derives from begetting offspring; but neither is it an "apparent" or merely "substitute" fatherhood. Rather, it is one that fully shares in authentic human fatherhood and the mission of a father in the family.

This is a consequence of the hypostatic union: humanity taken up into the unity of the Divine Person of the Word-Son. Jesus Christ.

Together with human nature, all that is human, and especially the Covenant which is a com- the family - as the first dimenmunion of love between God sion of man's existence in the and human beings. world - is also taken up in Through his complete self-sac- Christ. rifice, Joseph expressed his genWithin this context, Joseph's erous love for the Mother of human fatherhood was also God, and gave her a husband's "taken up" in the mystery of "gift of self."

Christ's Incarnation.

Even though he decided to On the basis of this principle, draw back so as not to interfere the words which Mary spoke to in the plan of God which was the twelve-year-old Jesus in the coming to pass in Mary, Joseph Temple take on their full signifiobeyed the explicit command of cance: "Your father and I . . . . the angel and took Mary into his have been looking for you." home, while respecting the fact This is no conventional phrase: that she belonged exclusively to Mary's words to Jesus show the God. complete reality of the incarnaOn the other hand, it was from tion present in the mystery of his marriage to Mary that the Family of Nazareth.

Joseph derived his singular digFrom the beginning, Joseph nity and his rights in regard to accepted with the "obedience of Jesus. faith" his human fatherhood "It is certain that the dignity of over Jesus. the Mother of God is so exalted And thus, following the light of that nothing could be more sub- the Holy Spirit who gives himlime; yet because Mary was self to human beings through united to Joseph by the bond of faith, he certainly came to dismarriage, there can be no doubt cover even more fully the indebut that Joseph approached as scribable gift that was his no other person ever could that human fatherhood.

authentic communion according to the model of the Blessed Trinity.

"Joseph . . . . took his wife; but he knew her not, until she had borne a son" (Matthew 1:24-25).

These words indicate another kind of closeness in marriage.

The deep spiritual closeness arising from marital union and contact interpersonal the between man and woman have their definitive origin in the Spirit, the Giver of Life (cf. John OM).

Joseph, in obedience to the Spirit, found in the Spirit the source of love, the conjugal love which he experienced as a man.

And this love proved to be greater than this "just man" could ever have expected within the limits of his human heart.

In the Liturgy. Mary is celebrated as "united to Joseph, the just man, by a bond of marital and virginal love."

There are really two kinds of love here, both of which together represent the mystery of the Church - virgin and spouse - as symbolised in the marriage of Mary and Joseph.

"Virginity or celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom of God not only does not contradict the dignity of marriage but presupposes and confirms it.

"Marriage and virginity are two ways of expressing and living the one mystery of the Covenant of God with his people," (Familiar's Consortia 16)

The 'just man' of Nazareth's complete self-sacrifice made for a true marriage vocation. This "just" man, who, In the spirit of the noblest traditions of the Chosen People, loved the Virgin of Nazareth and was bound to her by a husband's love, was once again called by God to this love.

"Joseph did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took his wife" into his home (Matt hew 1:24); what was conceived in Mary was "of the Holy Spirit."

From expressions such as these are we not to suppose that his love as a man was also given new birth by the Holy Spirit?

Are we not to think that the love of God which has been poured forth into the human heart through the Holy Spirit (cf.

Romans 5:5) moulds every human.love to perfection?

This love of God also moulds - in a completely unique way the love of husband and wife, deepening within it everything of human worth and beauty, everything that bespeaks an exclusive gift of self, a covenant between persons, and an

St Patrick's Day 1996

May St Patrick obtain for us a true missionary spirit

By Peter Dwan BA

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ecause March 17 falls on a Sunday this year, St Patrick's Day is transferred to March 18.

We Australian Catholics have good reason to be grateful to God for St Patrick's great work in converting Ireland, for the Church in Australia owes a great debt of gratitude to the Irish Priests, Brothers and Nuns, who have come to Australia as missionaries.

The readings of the Mass of St Patrick provide much food for thought.

The first reading from the prophet Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 1:4-9,) shows something of the hesitancy with which Jeremiah began his prophetic ministry.

God calls different people in different ways, usually through the events of life.

Jeremiah's case was exceptional in that God spoke to him directly and entrusted him with his prophetic mission.

St Patrick's case was also exceptional, in that, following his escape from captivity in Ireland, St Patrick had a dream in which he saw Irish people, who asked him to come and labour among them.

Our call to apostolic work will probably be less dramatic.

It might come through listening to a sermon. doing spiritual reading, watching a religious program on television, or even in engaging in what seems to be an ordinary conversation, that we see a need which we feel we can help fill.

On the other hand, it may also happen that when we read of the heroic efforts made by members of various Catholic organisations and movements, the Devil will try to convince us that they are to be admired rather than emulated.

When we undertake apostolic tasks, we can expect much opposition from the Devil. who will induce others to oppose our plans.

We should therefore be encouraged by God's words in the first reading: "Do not be afraid of them for I am with you to protect you."

It was only because God was -with him

St Patrick

that St Patrick succeeded in his efforts to convert Ireland.

It doesn't give God any pleasure to see His apostles struggling, and He is always ready to assist those who pray to Him for help.

Although all the saints prayed. few prayed as much as St Patrick, who would spend eight hours every night in prayer.

The second reading, (Acts 13:46-49) records the words of Sts Paul and Bamabas to the Jews: "We had to proclaim the word of God to you first. but since you have rejected it, since you do not think yourselves worthy of eternal life, we must turn to the pagans."

This passage shows that concern for the salvation of one's compatriots is the hall-

mark of a true apostle and we Australian Catholics need to realise that our nearest mission field isn't Papua New Guinea but our own street.

While concern for the foreign missions is commendable, it must never be used as an excuse for neglecting to pray and work for the conversion of Australia.

The evangelisation of one's own country Is one's primary, but not sole, missionary responsibility.

The foreign missions seem so romantic, while the home mission is more readily seen for what it really is - a long, hard slog.

Although Our Lord wanted His apostles to preach the Gospel to all nations, He gave them an apprenticeship during His Public Life - and that apprenticeship consisted in preaching the Gospel to their fellow Jews.

The gospel (Luke 10:1-12, 17-20), records the commissioning of the 72 disciples.

This passage dearly shows that Our Lord certainly didn't want the work of spreading the Gospel to be solely the work of 12 apostles.

St Patrick realised, perhaps more clearly than many other apostles that the task of converting a country is a large one.

His success was due. under God, to the fact that he undertook what is called the Intensive apostolate.

The intensive apostolate involves placing a large number of apostolic workers into a small area, to remain there until the area Is converted.

Whenever St Patrick obtained the permission of an Irish chieftain to preach in his area, he would always take with him a large retinue of priests. Religious and lay missionaries to help him.

While working in an area. St Patrick would foster vocations to the priesthood and the religious life.

By the time St Patrick and his retinue left the area, there would always be enough Irish priests there to look after the sacramental and pastoral needs of the Irish converts, thereby freeing St Patrick and his retinue to go and repeat the process elsewhere in Ireland.

St Patrick's apostolate was so successful that, by the time of his death, Ireland was a Catholic country Throughout the history of the Church, it has always been found that the intensive apostolate always produces the best long term results.

In nineteenth century Africa, two groups of missionaries began their apostolate at the same time.

It was found that the group that spread Its personnel thinly, covering a wider area, achieved the better short term results, with more chapels built and more converts received into the Church.

However, it was found, after a number of years. the group which undertook the intensive apostolate obtained the better results.

With a large number of converts, Christian communities were formed, and the converts persevered far better than the converts who were living amongst pagans.

It was as a result of reading about this apostolic endeavour in Africa that the former Australian Redemptorist. Fr john Whiting. became convinced of the value of the intensive apostolate.

He subsequently sought and obtained permission to leave the Redemptorists and found the Confraternity of Christ the Priest to undertake the intensive apostolate.

When some years later, he read a life of St Patrick. Fr Whiting realised that St Patrick's success was due. under God, to the fact that he had undertaken the intensive apostolate.

Those requiring further information about the Confraternity of Christ the Priest and its intensive apostolate may write to Christ the Priest Seminary, 42 Bewsell Avenue, Scoresby 3179. Victoria.

Just as St Patrick faced the challenging task of converting a pagan nation, so we Australian Catholics face the challenging task of converting a nation which is largely pagan in its attitudes, accepting abortion. contraception and divorce.

Let us ask St Patrick to obtain for us something of his great missionary spirit.

New Vatican rules put the brakes to the distribution of Saints' relics

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has made sure the Catholic Church has plenty of new saints and martyrs, but the Vatican is gently putting the brakes on the distribution of their relics.

"They were being passed around like candy," said Monsignor Piero Marini, the papal master of liturgical ceremonies.

It was Msgr. Marini who, with the Pope's approval, issued the new norms that limit the distribution of relics conserved in the Vatican's Apostolic Sacristy.

The new rules are not a sign that the Catholic Church is moving away from the veneration of relics, but it is an attempt to restore order, dignity and meaning to the practice, Vatican officials and theologians in Rome said in late February The early Christian practice of building altars over the tombs of the martyrs "had meaning," said Jesuit Father Robert Taft, an expert in Eastern-rite liturgies.

"But this practice of digging up bodies, cutting them up and shipping the pieces all over the place" goes against the traditional Judeo-Christian respect for the dead.

Relics have been stored at the Vatican "since time immemorial" and include pieces of the mortal remains of some of the church's newest saints and martyrs.

If it can be done without unduly mutilating the body, relics are taken from the sainthood candidate's grave during the exhumation, identification and inspection process required before beatification.

Part of the relics often are presented to the Pope as a gift during beatification and canonisation ceremonies and are placed in the custody of the Apostolic Sacristy.

The other common source for relics is the diocese or religious order promoting the saint's cause.

The new rules govern the Vatican and the Diocese of Rome. But in the preface to the norms, Msgr. Marini said he hoped they would serve "as a model for the elaboration of norms for distributing relics" by religious orders and other dioceses as well.

Previously, Catholics who had a special devotion to a particular saint, or bishops seeking relics to be imbedded in the "mensa." the top of altars, would write to the Vatican asking for small particles from the relics.

The new rules, quietly published in mid-1994. rule out both possibilities.

Very small pieces of the bones or flesh of saints and martyrs will be distributed "only for public veneration in a church, oratory or chapel," the norms said.

"No relic from the Apostolic Sacristy will be given to individual faithful for private veneration."

As far as bishops seeking relics for the dedication of altars goes, the new norms support liturgical guidelines from the 1970s and the 1983 Latin-rite Code of Canon Law. Together they overturned an almost 400-year-old requirement that permanent altars not built over the tomb of a martyr have relics placed in a small space cut into the altar stone.

The new rules recommended that relics be placed under the altar and that they be big enough to be recognisable as parts of a human body.

"Because the law now requires large relics, it means gradually the practice" of martyr's remains being part of an altar will disappear, said Jesuit Father Peter Gumpel, a former official at the Congregation for Sainthood Causes.

The Apostolic Sacristy distributes only very small fragments

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of relics, so they are not suitable for the dedication of an altar, Msgr. Marini wrote in the norms.

The rules did not affect the variety of practices followed by Catholic Eastern rites.

And the Vatican norms still allow for the distribution of relics from the Apostolic Sacristy for use in the Byzantine rite's "antimension," an altar cloth into which an envelope of relics are sewn.

The changes in liturgical guidelines and in procedures for the distribution of relics rein-

force the original connection between martyr's relics and the altar.

When a church was build over a martyr's grave, the altar was directly above the tomb to signify that "the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross is imitated in the martyr's death and in the consecration of the Eucharist on the altar," Father Taft said.

"The entire dignity of an altar consists in this: The altar is the table of the Lord," says the Rite of Dedication.

"It is not, then, the bodies of the martyrs that render the altar glorious: it is the altar that renders the burial place of the martyrs glorious."

The new norms do not rule out veneration of even small relics exposed in churches.

And, while the Vatican will not give relics to individuals, there has been no effort to convince dioceses to do the same.

"We do not adore the relics or the saints themselves - we adore God." said Father Gumpel, who works at the Jesuits' Rome headquarters researching and promoting new saints' causes.

"We do not attribute any healing power or an expectation of miracles to the relics, but we do venerate the holiness and heroism of Christians who died for Christ and his church," he said. ,14 1996 Page .11

To Jesus through Mary. . . .

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Id Testament passages recounting the miraculous birth of sons to sterile women paved the way for faith in Mary's virgin motherhood of Jesus, Pope John Paul II said.

The biblical stories also highlight "the gratuitous dimension" of motherhood, "the special alliance of God with the woman and the special bond between the destiny of the mother and her son."

The gratitude of the Old

Testament women, their realisa- telling of miracles, it presents tion that their sons were gifts of pregnancy and childbirth as the God and the important role their results of God's intervention, the sons went on to play in the histo- Pope said. ry of God's people all foreshad-With the help of the Lord, I ow the motherhood of Mary and have brought a man into being,' the birth of Jesus, the Pope said exclaimed Eve after giving birth on March 6 during his weekly to Cain, her first child," the Pope general audience. said.

"Maternity is a gift of God," the "With these words the Book of Pope said in his audience talk, Genesis presents the first materwhich was part of a continuing nity of human history as a grace series about the Blessed Virgin and joy which flows from the Mary. goodness of the Creator."

Even when the Bible is not But the power and direct inven-

. . . a column of Marian devotion tion of God are even clearer in ing character of divine interventhe "agonising situations" of Old tion in these particular cases," he Testament women who were said, "but at the same time its points out the gratuitous dimenthought to be sterile, he said.

Sarah's giving birth to Isaac, sion of every maternity."

Rachel's giving birth to Joseph, By showing how God has acted and Anna's giving birth to Samuel illustrate how "God at decisive moments in the histotransforms into experiences of ry of his people "to make certain joy" the prayers of "those who sterile women fertile, it prepares humanly were without hope," for faith in the intervention of God who in the fullness of time the Pope said.

"Underlining the initial condi- will make a virgin fertile for the tion of the sterility of the women, incarnation of his son," the Pope the Bible highlights the astonish- said.

Family subsidies questioned

By Cindy Wooden

vivricAN crrY (CNS) - "If

you make it cheaper, you'll sell more of it," a Nobel laureate told a group of cardinals, bishops and priests.

Economics professor Gary Becker wasn't talking about rosaries or religious videos when he addressed a Vatican conference in early March.

He was talking about how economic policies impact on the family.

Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family and organiser of the symposium on the family and economics, regularly convokes an international array of experts to discuss various topics.

The cardinal let it be known he agreed with the points raised by Becker. a University of Chicago professor who won the Nobel Prize in economics for his research on the importance of the family in economics.

The March meeting provided "dollars-and-cents" arguments for the value of traditional fami-

Zimbabwe AIDS policy 'wrong' HARARE. Zimbabwe (CNS) Catholic and other church leaders in Zimbabwe have criticised the government's AIDS campaign, which promotes condom use, as morally superficial and misleading.

"The churches question the manner in which the ministry of health appears to have surrendered to policies formulated by Western governments and agencies in the area of population control without any comprehension of the effects of these policies will have on the cultural and moral attitudes of the people of Zimbabwe," Heads of Denominations, a group of church leaders, said.

The statement was issued by the group's executive secretary, Father Anthony Berridge, also secretary of the Zimbabwe bishops' conference.

The statement said that using condoms is not a guaranteed protection against HIV infection.

It said abstinence outside of marriage and fidelity within marriage are the solution to the AIDS crisis.

Health Minister Timothy Stamps said on February 15 that an estimated 170,000 Zimbabweans have died of AIDS.

lessor said. 'There is no evidence that large families and rapid population growth lead to economic make families once more the crisis," Becker said. "In fact, popmain protagonists of family poli- ulation growth under the right circumstances is conducive to cies," Pope John Paul said.

Pope John Paul said a major economic growth."

But Becker and French econochallenge for economists is to Lecaillon jean-Didier find ways in which economic sys- mist tems can be organised "so that emphasised that the "human couples will have the necessary capital" represented by a family's time and tranquility for being children need a stable environtogether, for having and raising ment in which to grow and learn children, for all those things in order to be active, creative which make the home and fami- contributors to the economy.

The low birth rates found in ly life the place of human fulfillmost European and other indusment." trialised countries and economic stagnation "have the same cause: probably would not find unani- a lack of confidence in the mous support among Vatican human person and in the future," officials, and least of all with the said Lecaillon, a professor at the chief executive officer.

University of Paris.

Pope John Paul II recently "Human capital is an investincreased maternity leave bene- ment, and like all investments, it fits for Vatican employees. bears a cost at the beginning, but Becker also put his academic it brings great rewards," he said. credentials behind one of Unfortunately, with economic Cardinal Lopez Trujillo's deepest policies that lack tax breaks for convictions and most frequent large families and seem to force themes: Assertions that popula- both parents into the job market, tion growth leads to economic the cost of having numerous chilhardship or disaster are "fear- dren and raising them well is too mongering at its worst," the pro- high for many couples, he said.

'Honesty, hard work' for a strong economy VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Moral and religious values such as honesty, hard work and solidarity are necessary ingredients in a strong economy, Pope John Paul II said.

Because those values are best taught within the family, he said, the economic organisation of society must support strong families.

The impact of economies on families and the influence families have on the economy were the themes of a March 7-9 sym-

posium of economists and Church leaders, sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Family.

"In many countries, the tax systems penalise families or aggravate their economic condition." he said.

"It is paradoxical that in such a situation, political authorities often seem incapable of taking measures, including economic investments, which will strengthen the family institution and

lies with a large number of children and a division of labour which normally would see Mum staying at home.

Becker said that while the changing profile of families throughout the world has many causes, some of the most damaging to marriage and family stability have been exacerbated by government spending programs.

That's where he mentionedcheaper being easier to sell.

"The United States, Great Britain and Sweden provide

Income in various ways to unwed mothers," he said.

Making single motherhood "cheaper" in some ways "encourages young people to have children out of wedlock" He also questioned the wisdom of paid maternity leave and subsidised child care. Rather than giving mothers greater freedom in choosing between a career and full-time child-rearing. economic assistance actually can push them into the job market, he said.

The economist's statement

So really, just what exactly does make Pat tick?

By Jerry Fitteau WASHINGTON (CNS) - Pat Buchanan's narrow victory in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary on February 20 brought a sudden spate of What Makes Pat Tick?" analysis in the US media.

Like a pack of baying hounds, over the next few days a number of secular reporters and commentators seemed suddenly to catch the scent of the same fox: Irish Catholic Buchanan's upbringing.

With varying degrees of nuance, they took essentially the same focus: El Buchanan's crusader mentalPresidential hopeful Pat Buchanan ity? His Catholic background.

1His opposition to abortion? issue that the bishops have said His Catholic background. has serious moral and ethical El His populist, anti-immigra- consequences," said an editorial tion, America-first views? His on February 16 in The Tidings, Catholic background.

Los Angeles archdiocesan news0 His nostalgia for traditional paper.

The Tidings warned that a family values and aura of moral certitude about nearly every- Buchanan presidency "would almost certainly result in a conthing? His Catholic background.

El His views on women and stant series of high-profile clashes between the nation's Catholic Jews? His Catholic background.

Several commentators in the bishops and the president" and Catholic press sounded a sharply could "sow seeds of confusion among Catholics over who legitidifferent note.

"Media cannot seem to shake a mately speaks for the Catholic generally held nativist stereotype Church in this country."

The National Catholic Register, of Catholicism," said Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic week- an independent weekly, editorily, in an editorial scheduled for alised on Buchanan on March 3: "Accompanying his pro-life its March 17edition.

"With the exception of abortion, stance are views inconsistent the US Catholic hierarchy and with Catholic (social) teaching: Buchanan are at odds on just his sweeping anti-immigration about every (US public policy) philosophy; his 'America first'

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motto with its nativist sentiments; his call for punitive tariffs on imported goods; the dismantling of NAHA; the withdrawal of US troops from Bosnia."

Tom Fox. editor of another independent weekly, the national Catholic Reporter, in a March 1 column called Buchanan "a frightening act ... an intemperate, opportunistic, divisive man who preys on fears and insecurities."

But The Wanderer, also an independent Catholic weekly, gave Buchanan its "enthusiastic and unqualified endorsement" for president in a February 8 editorial.

Before he gave up political jourcampaigning, for nalism Buchanan was one of The Wanderer's regular columnists.

Secular media reports that linked Buchanan's populist rhetoric and alleged antiSemitism to his 1950s Catholic youth and education brought protests from some Catholic groups.

The March 17 Our Sunday Visitor editorial summarised the objections: "It is downright prejudicial, as well as bad history, to make the generalisation that all Catholics were raised in an anti-Semitic environment in the 1950s....

"If Catholics were exposed to anti-Semitism at all, it was far more likely to come (less from their Catholic environment than) from the general white-bread culture of the times, where Jews, as well as Catholics, were still barred from many private clubs, certain businesses, as well as

leadership positions in civil and professional life."

The controversy also drew some commentary in The New York Times and The Washington Post on Buchanan's positions and his Catholicism.

In an op-ed column in the Post March 5, political commentator E.J. Dionne said, "To the extent that there is some antiCatholicism in the coverage and there is - it lies mostly in efforts to link all of Buchanan's views, prejudices and predilections to his Catholic background.

"Somehow all Catholics are made complicit in Buchanan's world view. That's a heavy burden for Catholics to bear, and a lot of us resent being made out to be a bunch of authoritarian, close-minded anti-Semites."

Both Dionne's column and a similar analysis on March 3 by New York Times religion correspondent Peter Steinfels cited the February 16 editorial in The Tidings on the contrasts between Buchanan's views and many public policy positions of the bishops.

Buchanan was effectively removed from serious contention for the Republican nomination when he came in second to Bob Dole throughout the eight-state "junior Tuesday" primaries on March 5.

But the flap over his Catholic roots during his brief moment as front-runner highlighted the fact that in some media circles Catholics are still treated differently on the issue of religion and politics.

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Big sting in the tale of a Vatican appointment

By Paulinus Barnes LONDON (CNS) - The rock singer Sting once prevented an angry Amazon Indian chief from hitting Pope John Paul II, according to an extract from the singer's biography.

The incident occurred at the Vatican in the late 1980s when Sting and the Indian Chief Raoni met the Pope after a 20minute wait, said the excerpt, published on February 28 in the London Daily MaiL As of March 4, the Vatican had not commented on the incident mentioned in the

book, Sting: The Secret Life of Gordon Sumner, by Wensley Clarksondue.

The book was scheduled for publication on March 6 by Blake Publishing.

"Unshaven and exhausted, Sting stood in an office in the Vatican, waiting for an audience with the Pope. Beside him was Chief Raoni, the leader of an Amazonian tribe. After being kept waiting for 20 minutes Raoni was getting angry. He was about to leave when the Pope finally appeared," said the excerpt.

As the Pope began to speak. Raorti interrupted him, it said.

"You have a God and I have a God too and he is right here with me," the excerpt quotes Raoni as saying.

"My God is saying to your God that your missionaries should get off Indian land.

We respect your religion. Now please respect ours," Raoni was quoted as saying.

The stunned Pope gave each of the visitors a plastic rosary and turned to leave, but Raoni was so outraged at being shunted that Sting and fellow rain forest campaigner Jean-Pierre Dutilleux had to hold him back to stop him hitting the Pope, according to the excerpt.

'Constitutional' suicide ruling chilling: Law

By Jerry Fitteau (CNS) WASHINGTON Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston said a federal appeals court decision calling physician-assisted suicide a constitutional right sends a "chilling" message to "millions of elderly and seriously ill people in our society."

This ruling paves and broadens the road to a complete culture of death." said Cardinal Law, chairman of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities.

"Human life - every human life - is of incomparable and irreplaceable worth. Bad court decisions are not," he said.

"This decision treats the vulnerable elderly the way 'Roe vs.

Wade' treated unborn children," he added, referring to the 1973 Supreme Court decision which legalised abortion across the country Mark Chopko. NCCB general counsel, said the appeals court decision ends -a centuries-old prohibition in law."

"That decision is wrong. It obliterates the tradition of Western law by allowing for the deliberate taking of a life allegedly in the name of compassion," he said.

Cardinal Law and Chopko issued their statements in Washington on March 7, the day after the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Washington 'state law that prohibits anyone from helping another commit suicide is unconstitutional.

society's understanding and interpretation of suicide and assisted suicide. If it stands, the ruling invalidates all the existing laws in the nine Western states which now protect those who are terminally ill from assisted suicide."

In the federal appellate system the 9th Circuit has jurisdiction over nine Western states and Guam.

"Yesterday's ruling blurs the fundamental moral distinction between withdrawal of treatment from those who are terminally ill and active intervention to take a Cardinal Bernard Law human life," Washington's bishThe court said the law denies ops said. terminally ill patients who wish "It does not create a 'right to to end their lives with a doctor's die,' it creates a right to be help the constitutional "due killed," they said. process liberty interest" of decid"Just as people are a gift to us in ing when and how they will die. the prime of life, the dying and "Most Americans would be the elderly remain a gift to us, no shocked to learn that having their matter how ill they may be." they physicians make them die is fun- added. damental to their rights as citi"We must be willing to share zens," Chopko said. our own gifts and talents to nur"Until yesterday, the supposed ture and care for them in their 'right to die' was not part of our final days."

Constitution," he said.

Cardinal Law expressed con"In reality it is not part of our cern about the immediate spiriConstitution today.... It (the new tual and psychological impact of court decision) should be resist- the ruling on millions of ed by other courts and reversed Americans who are elderly or by the Supreme Court at the ear- seriously ill. liest possible time."

"It tells them that their lives are The bishops of Washington relatively worthless under the state urged Attorney General founding charter of our nation Christine Gregoire to appeal the that a state is not even allowed to protect them as it would protect decision to the Supreme Court.

In a joint statement on March 7 the young and able-bodied who they said the appellate ruling may be tempted to suicide," he "marks a dramatic shift in our said.

Bishop and friar stand up for unborn NEW YORK (CNS) - A retired bishop and a Franciscan friar plan to appeal a federal judge's ruling saying they violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances law.

US District Judge John Sprizzo's February 21 decision in the United States vs Lynch case granted the US attorney general's request for a permanent injunction against retired Auxiliary Bishop George Lynch of Raleigh, in North Carolina, and Brother Fidelis Moscinski, a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal.

US Attorney General Janet Reno and the US attorney for the

Southern District of New York, Mary Jo White, filed civil suit last year after Bishop Lynch and Brother Moscinski were arrested on May 13 for sitting in the driveway of the Women's Medical Pavilion, an abortion clinic in Dobbs Ferry north of New York.

The men were accused of blocking the driveway and preventing cars from entering the clinic's parking lot.

The civil suit - the first such action brought by the Southern District of New York under the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act - sought an injunction ordering the bishop and friar

to stay at least 15 feet away from the clinic.

Judge Sprizzo's decision said the defendants made entering the clinic "unreasonably difficult," and he said the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances law makes civil disobedience a "federal crime."

Lawrence Washburn, the attorney for Bishop Lynch and Brother Moscinski, said the case would be appealed based on the fact that the judge did not answer whether the judicial branch of the government has the power to make a finding on when human life begins.

"It was a disaster," Dutilleux was quoted as saying.

"I told Raoni that the Pope was the chief of the missionaries. Unfortunately Raoni doesn't like missionaries, and he would never allow them on his land," Dutilleux was quoted as saying.

The extract does not give a date for this meeting, but it said that Sting met Dutilleux, a Belgian photographer. in 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was the Belgian who interested the pop star in the destruction of the rain forests and the plight of the Amazonian Indians.

Japanese prepare cases for martyrs' beatification TOKYO (CNS) - The Japanese Church is preparing to ask the Vatican to beatify Father Peter Kasui and 187 others killed in the 17th century for their faith.

The Special Committee for Promoting the Cause of Japanese Martyrs said the 1.700 pages of documents prepared for presentation to Rome are the fruit of a 10-year effort, reported UCA News, an Asia Church news service based in Thailand.

The committee president.

Seiichi Peter Cardinal Shirayanagi of Tokyo, asked all concerned to continue promoting the cause of the martyrs and to pray that the beatification will take place before the end of the century Cardinal Shirayanagi and Bishop Peter Hirayama Takaaki of Oita, who chairs the Fostering for Committee Devotion to the Japanese Martyrs. will present the petition to the Congregation for Sainthood Causes.

Catholicism, brought to Japan in 1549 by St. Francis Xavier, grew rapidly until 1587. when

the Church began to face persecution.

Christianity was outlawed in Japan in 1613.

Estimates of Japanese killed for their faith vary from 5.000 to 230,000.

Most scholars place the number at tens of thousands.

Twenty-six martyrs crucified at Nagasaki in 1597 were canonised in 1862.

Another 205 killed between 1617 and 1632 in various places throughout Japan were beatified in 1867.

The 188 martyrs named in the current petition died at various times in the 1600s, in 19 different locations in nine present dioceses.

The movement for their beatification started in 1980. and surged with Pope John Paul ll's visit to Japan in 1981.

It continued until 1984 when the Bishops' Conference of Japan sent material to Rome.

In 1985, Pope John Paul gave permission to begin an official investigation, and the special committee began the process in 1986.

Penance in Lent can help us conquer self Penance is exercised first of all VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The practice of performing acts of in one's daily life, meeting the penance during Lent strengthens obligations of work. family and one's ability to face the trials that community and accepting the unexpectedly come into one's difficulties that naturally come along, he said. life, Pope John Paul II said.

"Some voluntary penances, like Fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, abstaining from those suggested by the Church, meat on the Fridays of Lent and support such an attitude," the giving up something for the 40- Pope said.

"In this way, one is invited to day period before Easter were never meant to imply a condem- participate in the cross of Christ, nation of material things, the and human will is strengthened Pope said on March 3 during his under the influence of divine grace to be ready to obey the midday Angelus address.

"For Christianity, in fact, all laws of God quickly and fully."

Pope John Paul celebrated Mass things are positive because they were created by God, and their earlier in the day at Rome's St use is positive as well when it Bibiana Church, which was built conforms to the design of the in the 1600s by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Creator," he said.

There he said Christ's death So the true meaning and value of giving things up, the Pope said, and resurrection show believers Is not found in the exercise itself the original state of beauty and but in the attitudes of repentance blessedness in which they were and conversion that voluntary created.

Art is an important tool for witsacrifice shows.

Because of the reality of sin, nessing to the Good News, the people often feel that instead of Pope said, because it reflects being masters over their actions "feelings of faith, adoration and and desires, they are victims of praise for God, who is supreme beauty and goodness." their instincts, he said.

Preparing for the celebration of "Isn't this what daily experience tells us, most of all in well-off the year 2000 and the coming of societies, when it is so difficult to the new millenium, he said, exercise moral responsibility, Catholics in Rome must rediscovespecially when this involves er the artistic heritage of their renouncing one's immediate city and find ways to use the interests and comfort?" the Pope masterpieces as tools for evangelisation. asked.

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Czech's second chance after 580 years PRAGUE, Czech Republic (CNS) - A leading Czech Protestant scholar welcomed Catholic plans to reconsider the condemnation of Czech reformer Jan Hus, burned at the stake in 1415 at the Council of Constance for his allegedly heretical teachings.

Reconsideration of the case would have a "great ecumenical impact" and allow "the first real discussion" of the Church's structure of authority, said Jakub Trojan, dean of Prague University's evangelical theological department.

Trojan is a member of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, which combines elements of Lutheranism and Calvinism.

"Our absolute objective would be a Catholic Church acknowledgement that Hus' direct appeal to Jesus Christ was biblically and theologically correct," said Trojan.

"Although some gesture of rehabilitation would have great significance for the issue of Church authority, it seems highly unlikely that the Catholic Church would acknowledge previous

mistakes in this way," he added.

Trojan spoke after news reports that as part of celebrations for the year 2000, the Vatican might consider re-examining the cases of historical religious figures condemned by the Church.

The Czech bishops' conference spokesman, Father Miloslav Fiala, however, said any Vatican decision would depend on recommendations by a commission set up by Cardinal Miloslav Vlk of Prague in 1993.

The aim "is not Hus' rehabilitation or canonisation," but "an objective re-evaluation of his

work," said Father Fiala. Hus was a Catholic priest and rector of Prague University He was put to death after being summoned to Constance on a safe-conduct pledge to defend his teachings on biblical authority and the Church's role.

The reformer, whose death was followed by five German military campaigns against his followers, is widely regarded as the father of Czech culture and religiosity.

In July 1995, Cardinal Vlk became the first Catholic leader to join Czech Protestants in commemorating Hus' death.

Vatican abhors 'vile, cowardly' bombers

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In the wake of terrorist attacks in Israel. the Vatican has expressed in unusually strong terms its horror at the human carnage and its apprehension about the fragile Middle East peace process.

"The pain of Israel is stirring the conscience of the world." said the March 6 headline in the Vatican news paper, L'Osservatore Romano.

Over the previous 10 days, more than 60 people were killed and hundreds injured in attacks for which Palestinian extremists claimed responsibility.

The newspaper warned against giving the terrorists anything in exchange for their suicide bombings of two Israeli buses and a crowded shopping centre.

They are "butchers of the innocent" and no one should support their "vileness and cowardice," it said.

The newspaper called for a rebellion" in order to unmask and condemn the terrorists, and "draw them out of their hiding places." This public reaction

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Mourners carry the coffin of George lonan, a 39-year-old Christian Arab victim of a llamas suicide bomber that blew up a Jerusalem bus on 3 March.

should also unveil the illegal conduits through which weapons are furnished, it said.

Pope John Paul IL speaking March 3, said the recourse to terrorism against innocent people can have no justification.

He called the attacks coldblooded and cruel.

A commentary by Vatican Radio's program director, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, said

the latest attacks had clearly threatened the peace process. He said "violence is harassing a process that is still fragile" and is unfortunately succeeding to some extent in stirring up opposition to dialogue.

Father Lombardi said the method used in the bombings explosives strapped to terrorists who died in the attacks - was a sign of the deep hatred that moti-

vales them. He called it a method devoid of all humanity.

He said the region's leaders who remain committed to the peace process deserve strong international support, because they are putting their lives on the line.

He referred to the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. slain by an Israeli dissident for his role in peace negotiations.

Israel's commitment to dialogue was underlined by Israel's ambassador to the Vatican, Samuel Hadas. who said cutting off peace talks would be "not only a move against the Palestinians but against ourselves."

"This is not a war between Palestinians and Israelis, but a war by Palestinians and Israelis against terrorism, and it is vital to have the support of the whole world," he told Vatican Radio on March 5.

But he said the country is facing a difficult moment in which "irrationality seems to dominate."

"After the massacre of last week and those of this week it will be a little difficult for the ideal of peace to be revived in Israel," he said.

Feminists in Catholic media helps Church dialogue evangelise, Pope tells council ROME (CNS) - The leadership of Italy's religious orders of women and some of the country's best known feminists celebrated International Women's Day together in the shadow of St Peter's dome.

"We as religious women are called to contribute to the search for the proper place for women in society, for the recognition of their dignity and their full selfrealisation," said Pallottine Mother Lilia Capretti, president of the Italian Union of Major Superiors.

The organisation of Italian women's orders sponsored what it called "an opening of dialogue" between Catholic religious and Italian feminists at a March 8 meeting a few blocks from the Vatican.

"From the hidden, silent places where we have lived, there has matured a vision of who we are as women, as consecrated members of the Church, as builders of culture and as ministers to the hurting," Mother Capretti said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Church should help families around the world press for higher standards of decency in the modern media, Pope John Paul II told a Vatican meeting of communications experts.

At the same time, the Church's own press and broadcast initiatives should use new communications instruments to take the Gospel message to all peoples, he said at a plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Social Communication which was held on March 7 "Not infrequently we hear complaints from families and from men and women of good will all over the world that films, television programs and advertisements often include violent and sexually explicit scenes which erode moral and cultural values," he said.

This is true even in children's programs, and some young viewers themselves admit they are deeply disturbed at these trends, he said.

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The Pope said the Church's pastors and media activists should "encourage all efforts genuinely aimed at bringing to the media a renewed sense of public service and higher standards of decency:1 He said this was part of a legitimate effort toward greater media accountability in building a more decent and just society. one which respects moral and religious values.

This year's meeting of the pontifical council, which is headed

by US Archbishop John Foley, took a close look at ethics in advertising.

It is an issue that poses complex moral questions, the Pope said.

He said two guiding principles in advertising should be respect for the truth and the importance for society of "avoiding the pitfalls of an artificial and manipulative consumerism."

He said the Catholic press is essential not just in presenting Christ's message but in reporting news about the Church and its activities throughout the world in such areas as education, health care, refugee programs and aid to the poor.

"Evangelization is reinforced by a good Catholic press and good Catholic broadcasting, which explain and defend the teaching of Christ's Church and which help to deepen the commitment of the faithful by continuing the work of adult Christian education," he said.

In Brief Templeton prize win NEW YORK (CNS) - The 1996 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion will go to William Bright. a Presbyterian layman who is founder and president of Campus Crusade for Christ International, it was announced at a March 6 press conference in New York Bright and his wife, Vonette. natives of Oklahoma, started Campus Crusade in 1951 in Los Angeles after giving up a career in business. Although they began the organisation as an effort to evangelise college students, they have since expanded it to include numerous other programs as well.

China Church PARIS (CNS) - French President Jacques Chirac has asked Chinese Prime Minister Li Pang for greater religious freedom for Chinese Catholics, Collona. said Catherine Chirac's spokeswoman.

Chirac's request was made during a private meeting with Li Pang on February 29 in Bangkok. Thailand, she said.

Both leaders were there for a summit of European and Asian government leaders.

Scherer dies VATICAN crrY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has offered his condolences to Brazilian Catholics after the death on March 8 of 93-year-old Cardinal Alfred Vicente Scherer, the retired archbishop of Porto Alegre.

The Brazilian churchman served on the doctrinal commission of the Second Vatican Council and on the committee which revised the texts of two of the main council documents: the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church and the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.

Meeting request BONN, Germany (CNS) Europeans who initiated petitions to reform the Catholic Church have requested an audience with Pope John Paul The one-page petition was distributed last fall in all of Germany's 11,000 parishes.

More than a million of Germany's 28 million Catholics signed it.

Similar drives also have been started in Switzerland, France, Belgium and the mostly German-speaking Southern Tirol region of Italy.

Escriva church ROME (CNS) -- Pope John Paul has dedicated a Rome church to Blessed Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Del, and urged parishioners to take up Blessed Escriva's call for holiness in everyday life.

The Pope made the remarks on March 10 after blessing the new structure in a Rome suburb of high-rise apartments and office buildings. Serving some 8.000 people, it was the first church dedicated to Blessed Escriva, who was beatified in 1992.

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Our Lady of Vailankanni and Blessed Mother Mary MacKillop of the Cross for prayers answered. Please continue to bless. P.H.

Persons interested in countering the growing "New Age" movement write to PO Box 14, Midland. 6056 for formation of positive action group.

Pray the following prayers daily. St Joseph. St Rita, Holy Spirit. Blessed Virgin of Mt Carmel, St Anthony, all these prayers are printed regularly. Thanks saints' for prayers answered. J.P. Thanks to St Joseph for interceding. P.G.

THANKS May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised, adored and glorified today and every day. Grateful thanks to Our Blessed Lady and St Clare. Thank you. D.K.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church V. Who can confer this Sacrament of Holy Orders?

1575 Christ himself chose the apostles and gave them a share in his mission and authority.

Raised to the Father's right hand, he has not forsaken his flock but he keeps it under his constant protection through the apostles, and guides it still through these same pastors who continue his work today. Thus, it is Christ whose gift it is that some be apostles, others pastors. He continues to act through the bishops.

1576 Since the sacrament of Holy Orders is the sacrament of the

apostolic ministry, it is for the bishops as the successors of the apostles to hand on the "gift of the Spirit," the "apostolic line."

Validly ordained bishops, i.e., those who are in the line of apostolic succession, validly confer the three degrees of the sacrament of Holy Orders.

VI. Who can receive this Sacrament?

1577 "Only a baptised man (vir)

validly receives sacred ordination." The Lord Jesus chose men (viii) to form the college of the twelve apostles, and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry. The college of

bishops, with whom the priests are united in the priesthood, makes the college of the twelve an ever-present and ever-active reality until Christ's return. The Church recognises herself to be bound by this choice made by the Lord himself. For this reason the ordination of women is not possible.

1578 No one has a right to receive the sacrament of Holy Orders. Indeed no one claims this office for himself; he is called to it by God. Anyone who thinks he recognises the signs of God's call to the ordained ministry must humbly submit his desire to the authority of the Church, who has the responsibility and right to

call someone to receive orders.

Like every grace this sacrament can be received only as an unmerited gift.

1579 All the ordained ministers of the Latin Church, with the exception of permanent deacons, are normally chosen from among men of faith who live a celibate life and who intend to remain celibate "for the sake of the kingdom of heaven." Called to consecrate themselves with undivided heart to the Lord and to "the affairs of the Lord," they give themselves entirely to God and to men. Celibacy is a sign of this new life to the service of which the Church's minister is consecrated; accepted with a joyous

heart celibacy radiantly proclaims the Reign of God. 1580 In the Eastern Churches a different discipline has been in force for many centuries: while bishops are chosen solely from among celibates, married' men can be ordained as deacons and priests. This practice has long been considered legitimate: these priests exercise a fruitful ministry within their communities. Moreover, priestly celibacy Is held in great honour in the Eastern Churches and many priests have freely chosen it for the sake of the Kingdom of God. In the East as in the West a man who has already received the sacrament of Holy Orders can no longer marry.

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PREACHED/GUIDED RETREAT a) April 12 - 19. b) April 26 - May 3 at Penola, 27 Penguin Road, Safety Bay. Team: Lyn Beck RSM, Fr Ian Esmond, Wendy Lailey RSJ. Cost S300.00. Concessions may be negotiated if necessary.

Apply: (Inc. stamped addressed envelope) Wendy Lailey RSJ, PO Box 593, South Perth 6151 WA. Ph 474 3349 a/h 478 1038. Fax 368 2018.

by: Fr Dan Magill CSsR From 4pm, 12 April to 10am 19 April Booking enquiries: Jan Broderick 328 6600

P & F ASSOCIATION St Jerome's School, Troode Street. Munster (near Ski Park) are soon holding their annual Mad March Fair, on Sunday 31 March at 10.15 am to 3 pm. They promise heaps of mouthwatering food with lots of rides and activities plus on stage entertainment, a chocolate wheel, and all the old favourite stalls. Word is that it's too good to miss!

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BOOKSALE Up to 50% off selected items.

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BOOKS ON: Prayer: Catholic Faith; Marriage and Family; Social Issues: Marian Apparitions: Biographies: Spirituality Also: Many books for children.

FREMANTLE CURIA-ACIES The Legion of Mary, Fremantle Curia will hold its Acies on 24 March at 2 pm at St Patrick's church, Adelaide St, Fremantle.

All Auxiliary Legionaries and friends of the Legion are cordially invited.

PLUS: Bibles, Videos, pious objects, greeting cards Monday 18 March to Sunday 24 March inclusive 10am - 4pm Weekdays 10am - 3pm Saturday and Sunday

FR BOB CARDIN Liaison priest for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal continues with the second talk of a two-part series of dynamic talks on the Charismatic Renewal at Bethel Friday Night prayer meeting, March 22 at 8 pm at the Bethel 236 Railway Pde, Centre, Leederville (opp railway station).

All welcome, enq (09) 388 1333.

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Tel. 325 3474 Fax 325 6917

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RETENTION AND DISPOSAL OF RECORDS A Workshop for secretarial and clerical staff working within the Catholic Church of Perth, including parish archivists, school archivists, religious archivists.

Topics include: Relevance of Archives to the Community; Archdiocesan Schedule for the retention and Disposal of Records; Implementation of the Schedule. Thursday 21 March 2 5 pm LJ Goody Bioethics Centre, 39 Jugan Street, Glendalough.

Cost $10 refreshments included.

Further info and registration pl ring Margarethe Eccles ph 221 1548.

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NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING 221 3866 Country clients welcome. Phone or write Phone (008) 11 4010 (local charge)

RECONCILIATION An evening of information and formation on the Sacrament of Reconciliation presented by Fr

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

Vincent Glynn.

Thursday 21 March 7.30 - 9.30 pm, Leederville Parish Centre, 40 Franklin Street, Leederville. Cost $5 donation.

Further info and registration pl contact the Archdiocesan Liturgy Office, ph 221 1548.

FEAST OF ST JOSEPH The feast of St Joseph will be celebrated on Tuesday, 19 March at the Shrine of The Virgin of The R evelation, Chittering Road, Bullsbrook. Holy Rosary will commence at 10.30 am followed

by Holy Mass at 11 am. Public transport available. All welcome.

ST PAUL'S MT LAWLEY MISSION St Paul's Parish Mt Lawley is beginning the celebration of the first 40 years as a parish with a Mission being conducted by Frs Leon Pollard and Peter Hung CSsR. The preached Mission will extend from 18 to 22 March with morning Mass followed by instruction at 7 am and 9.15 am and evening sessions at 7.30 pm from Monday. March 18 to Friday 22. Parishioners, former parishioners and those who have strayed are invited to join in this time of renewal of Faith, Hope and Love to be conducted at St Paul's parish church during the coming week, at 106 Rookwood St, Mt Lawley near Alexander Drive, one street north of Walcott St, Mt Lawley. Ph 271 5253 for further info.

NEW LIFE IN GOD'S SPIRIT SEMINAR To be held on 22 April for 8 consecutive weeks at 7.30 pm at St Bernadette's School Library, Grand Ocean Boulevard, Port Kennedy.

Registration forms available at the church hall or the primary school office. Ample parking space. Cuppa after each session. All welcome. For further info pl phone/fax John Acland on 537 3390 HOMELESS HOUSING THE Centrecare is in desperate need of secondhand furniture in order to equip 8 new houses for use by homeless people. We need at least: 24 single beds and mattresses plus cupboards/chests; 8 double beds, mattresses and wardrobes; tables and chairs; refrigerators; couches; easy chairs. If you can help with a donation of some furniture you no longer need, please ph Laurie Turner at work on 472 3938.

MARCH Meeting of School Chaplains, 15 Catholic Education Office Bishop Healy Centenary Celebrations, 15-17 Kalgoorlie - Archbishop Hickey Mass for St Patrick's Day, 16 Subiaco - Bishop Healy Mass for St Patrick's Day, 17 Fremantle - Bishop Healy Central Commission, 19/20 Canberra - Archbishop Hickey 19& 21 Finance Meeting for Parish Priests and Parish Finance Committee, Redemptorist Monastery - Bishop Healy Finance Meeting for Diocesan 20 Agencies, Redemptorist Monastery- Bishop Healy National Liturgy Commission 21/22 Archbishop Hickey Farewell Dinner for Mr Chris O'Malley of Catholic Church Insurances - Bishop Healy Christian Blind Mission International Supporters' Meeting Barbara Harris (Emmanuel Centre) Mass, Procession and Benediction for Festival of St Joseph - Rev Fr A Pittarello CS Legion of Mary Acies Ceremony, St Mary's Cathedral - Bishop Healy Launch of "Cork to Capricorn" (Presentation Sisters) Archbishop Hickey Continued on page 15

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