The Record Newspaper 21 March 1996

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Dunblane massacre raises the question of the never-ending battle against evil - Page 8 The Blessed Virgin joins herself to God's plan of salvation in the Annunciation - Page 9 PERTH, WA: March 21, 1966

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Archdiocese in black as budget moves bite

By David Kehoe The Perth Catholic Church paid its way last year for the first time in many years.

The Archdiocese of Perth's financial administrator Dm Thomas told parish priests and representatives of parish finance committees gathered at the North Perth Monastery this week the archdiocese registered a final surplus for the 1995 calendar year of $121,737, a marked difference from the $1.2 million deficit In 1994.

Mr Thomas said the archdiocese had budgeted for a $661.185 deficit in 1995 as part of a fiveyear plan to correct its financial position.

The welcome figure was due to a higher than expected dividend from a Church investment and an above-forecast performance by the Archdiocesan Develop-

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ment Fund, he said. However, he warned that a deficit of $140,000 for this year was still projected as part of the plan, which had been developed to bring in an operating surplus after 1997.

The archdiocese spends money each year on interest payments on debt, administering the Archdiocesan Finance Office, the parish planned giving scheme, Archbishop Hickey's office and

the marriage tribunal, paying schools and, in particular, property and motor vehicle costs, Archbishop Hickey and the running St Charles Seminary, diocesan centre hierarchy." and contributing to the cost of The closure of some arc.hdiocethe Australian Catholic Bishops san agencies and tough beltConference and ecumenical tightening by others had also affairs in WA. All this cost $3.4 been crucial. million in 1995.

He said the 1995 turnaround Operating income from interest contrasted with the $4.6 billion on loans, dividends (particularly deficit borne by the archdiocese a $1.3 million dividend from the In 1992. Deficits had been run for ADF), parish contributions, at least six years earlier but the Catholic Church Insurance exact amount could not be deterrebates and Lifelink fundraising mined as an income and expenbrought in $4.9 million. Lifelink diture account form of accountcontributed $183.996 in 1995. ing had been used before 1992 The consequent $1.5 million rather than the present accrual operating surplus enabled the accounting method. archdiocese to distribute $1.3 Nevertheless, accumulated million to the archdiocese's wel- operating losses, a heavy profare, pastoral and educational gram of spending on buildings agencies, leaving a final surplus and land and $10 million lost on of $121,737. a failed investment had left the Mr Thomas said the welcome archdiocese with a $58 million 1995 result would not have come debt in 1992. about without the "wonderful Mr Thomas said this debt had support of priests, religious been cut to $29 million by the orders, laity parishes and end of last year. The sale of

assets, particularly the sale of sub-divided land, had helped retire the debt, he said, and, as interest payments fell, it was anticipated that the surplus would increase.

The improved financial situation of the archdiocese would hopefully continue as a result of continued support from the ADE an improved performance in the archdiocese's property portfolio, and a further increase in fundraising under the Lifelink Advent appeal program.

Mr Thomas said Lifelink would be running a winter appeal for welfare services as well as its usual Advent appeal and be contacting past contributors by newsletter every four months to keep them informed of how their money is being used and encouraging them to donate further.

A.new effort would be made to encourage Catholics to remember the Church in their wills and bequests, he added.

Invitation to Chrism Mass Kalgoorlie celebrates

By Peter Rosengren Archbishop Barry Hickey has invited all Catholics in the archdiocese to experience a first attend the Chrism Mass in St Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday in Holy Week.

Each year at Easter Catholics gather in parishes throughout the suburbs and country centres to celebrate the mysteries of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. But the one Easter event missed by the most Catholics each year is the Chrism Mass, the special and wonderful liturgy where the chrism is consecrated, and the two other oils to be used throughout parishes for the rest of the year - the oil of catechumens and the oil of the sick - are blessed.

And because it occurs only in the Cathedral, most Catholics in parishes do not witness it. But this year, all Catholics have been invited to the cathedral on 2 April at 7.30 pm where they will be invited by the Archbishop to renew their own commitment to holiness of life and service of the Church and society.

Many priests of the diocese will renew their ordination vows before the Archb-shop at the ceremony.

Chrism is a special oil, the most important of the three, consecrated by the archbishop of a diocese

Dean McDonald, left, and Angela McCarthy with olive leaves from trees in the grounds of the Chancery.

The trees once supplied the oil for the Chrism Mass.

at Easter for use in baptism. confirmation and the ordination of priests and bishops.

The oil of catechumens is used to strengthen those who are preparing to become Christians.

It was used most recently in the Rite of Christian Initiation ceremony held in St Mary's Cathedral when 90 adults were presented to Archbishop Hickey to begin their entry into the Church.

Their journey will culminate at Easter when they are baptised and, as part of the baptism ceremony, are anointed with the chrism.

The oil of the sick is not direct-

ly linked with Easter but is traditionally blessed at this time along with the other oils. It is used in the annointing of sick and ill people, both in homes, nursing homes and in hospitals.

The procession and presentation of the oils will be a central feature of the evening's ceremony with each of the oils.

Archbishop Hickey's special invitation reflects the growing emphasis and something of a 'rediscovery' among Catholics of the Chrism Mass, as it is referred to in the Roman Missal.

It is a unique and a special event tracing its origins back to the beginnings of the Church.

Father Tom McDonald, Dean of St Mary's Cathedral, and Bateman parishioner Mrs Angela McCarthy, both members of the Chrism Mass Committee, said their main message to Catholics throughout the archdiocese was simple: come and be present to witness this ancient and magnificent ceremony.

Fr McDonald said the Chrism Mass was a unique occasion.

"It is to visibly demonstrate the unity in the Church of Perth and the archdiocese. People come to their bishop as the source of that unity, and priests come also to display that unity so you have people and priests gathering around their archbishop. That doesn't happen very often," he said.

100 years of parish life

Looking pack over the years at themselves, Kargoortse CBC -- old boys Ted Miller, centre and Jim O'Neill, right, examine school photo's from the glory days. Both men are 67 years old and both were 11 year-old classmates in 1940, the year the photos were taken. Ted's son, Bernie looks on.

Archbishop Hickey remembers Kalgoorlie - Page 2; More pictures - Page 6

Goldfields' parish shows way of community

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f Paddy Hannan had not found gold in Kalgoorlie, I would never have existed.

These words are not meant to provoke a deep meditation on the tenuousness of human existence. They are rather an act of thanksgiving to Divine Providence, because not long after gold was discovered in Kalgoorlie, my parents' families moved over to the West from Victoria. It was in Boulder that my parents met and decided to marry.

This sobering but joyful reflection is one of the reasons why I travelled back to Kalgoorlie/Boulder to celebrate the establishment of the first Catholic parish in the area, an event which took place on St

Patrick's Day 1896. I wonder if Paddy Hannan had anything to do with the choice of St Patrick's Day for the foundation of the parish.

The happy celebration of the Parish centenary attracted many hundreds of former parishioners, Priests and Religious to Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

It was a time for the sharing of memories, for unearthing old and tattered photographs, and for lots of laughter.

Talk of the "early days" brought back the names of the priests who had served there, the Brothers and Sisters who taught and the Hospital Sisters who looked after them, even brought them into the world.

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The present Catholic community of a strong Catholic community welcomed the visitors with open in the Goldfields.

Because of its relative isola- arms. They expressed their hospition, the Catholic community tality at the barbecue, the big Mass developed a unique identity, in the Arts Centre, at the unveiling forming bonds that lasted, even of the stained glass window in St when families moved from the Mary's Church, and in the numerarea. ous other occasions where they Groups of ex-Goldfields Cath- met. olics still meet for social outTimes have changed, of course. ings and, of course, tennis. There are not the same numbers of Tennis was a great way of hold- Religious there now as in previous ing the Catholic community times. Catholic identity is not tied together and of fostering up so much with a close association Catholic marriages. with Priests and Religious.

Vocations were a feature of Yet, with the emergence of the the Goldfields. How many laity in education, religious instrucReligious Brothers and Sisters, tion and in leadership positions in how many priests and Bishops parish life, the Catholic community proudly point to the vibrant is still strong and vibrant.

Catholic life of the Goldfields as It would be difficult to believe that the source of their vocations? it would be otherwise, given the strong traditions laid down in the past My brief visit to KalgoorlieBoulder brought home to me very forcefully the importance of building a Catholic identity within a strong Catholic community.

When the support of other Catholics is strong, then attendance at Mass and the Sacraments is likewise strong - children are not only taught their Faith, they experience how to live it. Catholic moral values

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and standards are reinforced tc withstand the pressures of secular environment, family life is nourished and vocations flourish.

To be effective in the world around us as Christians we must first be supported and strengthened in our Faith by a happy and loving Catholic community.

In every parish that should be a major goal.

But, Archbishop Hickey said. One Archbishop Barry Hickey deplored this week WA Health could just as truly say that thouMinister Kevin Hince's decision sands of dollars are saved by simto reverse a five-year-long policy ply saying no. Governments and of not distributing condoms to Health Departments should urge young people by distributing chastity and self-control, if not for 40,000 of the contraceptives religious reasons, at least for health through Perth's X-Press rock mag- reasons."

Recalling that he had recently azine. called on Christians to support one Archbishop Hickey said the new another in promoting morals stanpolicy was futile and would have dards when he spoke at St George's the opposite effect of what was Anglican Cathedral, Archbishop intended.

Hickey, said he hoped that on this "Rather than encouraging sexual issue Christians across denominaresponsibility in young people," he tions would speak with one voice said, "condoms would promote irre- and promote chastity and self-consponsible sexual behaviour." trol as the only effective way of "The Health Department's cam- reducing sexually transmitted dispaign would give people a false eases, AIDS, unwanted pregnancies sense of security that the condom and abortions. would prevent sexually transmitted WA Australian Family Association diseases and unwanted pregnan- president, John Barich, said the AFA cies. Condoms fail because they are did not understand why the revernever one hundred per cent effec- sal had occurred. tive but also because of human fac"We had all this debate in the tors," he said. community five years ago when He said that evaluations of sex Keith Wilson was (Minister), and education programs in the United the next Minister, Foss, went along States had shown a rise in pregnan- with it, Kierath went along with it, cies and abortions when protective and then all of a sudden we get this devices had been promoted. change," he said.

"The level of sexual activity had He said the AFA was extremely risen because young people were upset by the decision, which could told they would be safe. Sexually result in higher incidences of sexutransmitted diseases, unwanted ally transmitted diseases, usually pregnancies and abortions would among girls. be avoided if young people were to Only last year Ansell, a leading say `no," he said. condom manufacturer had been The decision announced by Mr forced to withdraw a batch of conPrince reverses the position adopt- doms from the market after they ed by former Health Minister in the were found to be faulty.

Burke and Lawrence Labor governHe said young people would be ments, Keith Wilson, of promoting encouraged to think that by using an 'It's OK to say No' campaign condoms they would be protected among the young. from diseases when in fact they Mr Prince was quoted in The could still catch them.

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Correction: Catholic Institute Last week's story on Curtin University teaching students and the Catholic Institute reported that the units offered by the Catholic Institute through Curtin University would qualify teaching students to teach religious education in Catholic schools. This should have said the units would only partly qualify teaching students to teach RE in Catholic schools - any three of

the units completed will fulfil only the study component of the Catholic Education Commission's Accreditation B requirements and not other requirements.

Also, Accreditation B studies are not offered solely by the Institute. They are also offered through a number of universities including Edith Cowan, Murdoch, Notre Dame and Curtin.

Evangelisation agenda

By David Kehoe Preparations for the Catholic Church's Australian contribution to Pope John Paul ll's call to evangelise the world in the lead up to the Year 2000 will move into a higher gear this week at a meeting of the central commission of Australia's Catholic bishops.

Archbishop Barry Hickey said as he was about to leave for the meeting earlier this week the reevangelisation of the Catholic Church in Australia and the wider Australian society was likely to be the focus of plans for Australia's contribution to the preparations for the Jubilee 2000.

Pope John Paul has declared that the Church will celebrate the Year 2000 with a Great Jubilee as a sign of inner and outward joy at the salvation of its members and a way of calling all humanity to conversion.

In preparation a series of regional synods of bishops.

Faith, light pilgrimage More than 100 Australians will gather in Broken Hill over the Easter weekend to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the birth of the international organisation, Faith and Light.

Most of Australia's 18 communities - in each State and Territory - will be represented at the celebrations.

Faith and Light International a support group for people with intellectual disabilities, their families and friends began in Europe in 1971 after a pilgrimage to Lourdes attracted 12.000 disabled people and their carers.

The organisation. started by Jean Vanier (of LArche fame) and Marie-Helene Mathieu, is now present in 70 countries on the five continents and embraces people of all faiths.

Synods for Europe, Africa and report to Pope John Paul on the Lebanon have already taken preparations.

Cardinal Schotte said a central place and synods for Asia and synod theme would emerge from the Americas are in planning.

Each year of the preparations consultations with the bishops, for the Great Jubilee between and their consultations with their 1997-1999 will centre on the priests, religious and laity.

While the theme has not been Persons of the Blessed Trinity God the Son. Jesus Christ. in 199Z set, it was likely to come from God the Holy Spirit (1998) and issues already revealing themselves: how to live the Faith in a God the Father (1999).

The general secretary of the pluralist society; inculturation of standing Synod of Bishops in the Faith, particularly in the misRome, Cardinal Jan Schotte, this sionary Churches of Oceania; the week met Australia's archbish- proclamation of the Gospel to ops, who make up the central non-Catholics; a new evangelisacommission, in Canberra to dis- tion for the Year 2000; and the cuss the Australian Catholic establishment of agencies for Bishops Conference's prepara- evangelisation.

Archbishop Hickey said the tions for Oceania's special synod could take place in either assembly.

Cardinal Schotte told The 1998 or 1999 would probably be Record he had already met rep- held in Rome, as the European. resentatives of the bishops' con- African and Lebanon synods had ferences of Australia, New been. He said "many, many" Zealand and Papua New Guinea Oceania bishops wanted all the in New Caledonia to discuss the bishops of the region to attend synod before flying to Canberra. and not just representatives as He will meet other Oceania bish- was the case with the previous ops in Fiji en route to Rome to regional synods.

Courageous women theme

He said evangelisation, the problem of falling clerical and religious vocations and the need for missionary Churches in Oceania to rely on their own personnel were some of the issues to be debated this week as possible items for the agenda of the synod when it meets.

Evangelisation in Australia was as much a question often of reevangelisation, Archbishop Hickey noted, as many Catholics and Christians had given up the practice of their faith or the faith itself.

Archbishop Hickey said the central commission would also be investigating the role priests, religious and laity would play in setting the agenda for the Oceania synod.

He has asked the former editor of The Record, Father Pat Cunningham, to help convene a committee of clergy and laity in the Archdiocese of Perth to advise on preparations for the celebration of the Great Jubilee for the Year 2000.

Mercy, St Anne's history interwoven

Women of Courage is the theme for the 1997 Catholic Women's League of Australia in conference national Hobart The CWLA national executive announced this week the conference, to be held at Wrest Point Convention Centre in September, will have as its thrust the challenge to celebrate a new springtime of faith.

CWLA national president Mary Campbell said the CWL should be a "vibrant instrument of the Church, bringing to it our special gifts and making a vigorous response to the Christian vocation of holiness and service.

"We will help women to work unceasingly within the body of Christ and with all citizens of good will. to maintain and defend the dignity of women and to respect their unique role within marriage, the family and the Church."

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'CORK TO CAPRICORN' A History of the Presentation Sisters of Western Australia

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They're into art, and heaps of wool specifically dyed to weave the magical history of St Anne's Hospital in Mt Lawley,, and the Sisters of Mercy who came to Western Australia 150 years ago. Mercy Sisters Jacinta, left, and lrena, at the back, and lay helpers Toni Potulski, Connie Ward and artist/weaver-in-residence Antoinette Carrier are some of the weavers who have brought this beautiful tapestry into being. Antoinette, who trained volunteers and supervised the project, said the aim was to talk about the position of St Anne's Hospital within the Mt Lawley community, the Mercy sisters' contribution to WA over the last 150 years and the hospital's Catholic ethos with its direction towards the family The tapestry, to be hung in the entrance foyer, will be unveiled on April 10.

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Combined weekend a hit

By Penny Ashcroft It was another full weekend for the Catholic Youth and Young Adult Office.

Saturday night saw a large. enthusiastic, group of young adults kicking up their heels at the St Patrick Eve Bush Dance.

The oval of Queen of Apostles Primary School in Riverton reverberated to the lively music of the Eirigh an la Bush Band while the delightful aroma of a sausage sizzle permeated the night air.

The crowd was also treated to an amazing performance by the magician 'Hey Presto', who kept everyone entertained and amused.

Groups from Willetton and Rockingham arrived en masse. A large number of those had attended January's Convention.

On Sunday. thirty youth and adults gathered together at the Leederville Parish Centre for the third Comprehensive Youth Ministry Training Day. Teams from five of the six parishes now implementing the Comprehensive Youth Ministry Program attended the workshop on Ministry and Leadership.

It was an opportunity for the team members of Willetton, Bateman, Riverton, Kwinana and Joondanna Parishes to meet, share their experiences of the planning stages of the program, and be affirmed in the knowl-

Eirigh an la Bush Band played the night away on St Patrick's Eve. edge that their ministry is regard- dimension of ministry. The ed as a treasure.

Comprehensive Youth Ministry Participants were led through Training days are about training the dynamics of working with effective leaders who will nuradult and youth leaders and to a ture and encourage ownership of deeper understanding of min- parish outreach to young people. istry.

It has become increasingly eviBruce Downes spoke about the dent that youth ministry is the fact that ministry can have many responsibility of the total parish dimensions. community.

Bringing Christ into the netThe Parish Teams have the work of relationships of family, challenge now of encouraging friends and community is a con- parishioners to live out their faith stant, vital and often anonymous in the context of their work by offering a small amount of their time to minister to the youth of their parish.

Armadale parish, who are also using the program, are well on the way to achieving this goal.

Father Brian McKenna, our Chaplain. celebrated Mass with us at the end of the day, and during his reflection on the Gospel and readings, made a comment that really struck a chord within me: "God chooses the weak and works through them".

Youth ministry is not always easy, and ministry within one's own family, with one's own teenagers is definitely not always easy.

There have been many times when I have been grappling with one problem or another where I have wondered how on earth I can possibly presume to work with young people when so often I lose the plot trying to communicate with my own children.

It was good to hear that even when I am feeling inadequate, unable, it is still possible for God to touch the lives of others through my actions.

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Kalgoorlie-Boulder Parish Centenary Celebrations

Golden memories abound

Celebrating 100 years of the Catholic parish of Kalgoorffe during last weekend's celebrations were: (top left) Mrs Fran Bell with Mrs Winnie Craig (seated) and Sr Marie Gabriel from the Little Sisters of the Poor. Centre: Partying Josephite Sisters at Saturday night's Barbecue (L to R): Sr Maryrose Dolan, Sr Dolores Coffey, Sr Maureen McCarthy, Sr Mary Keely, Sr Marie Fitzgerald, Sr Regina Blake. Right: Archbishop Hickey receives a piece of Kalgoorlie Vine from a delightful Kalgoorlie girl at Sunday's celebratory Mass. Below: Gathered outside the Kalgoorlie Arts Centre for morning tea after Mass: (left): Mrs Beulah McGinty and husband Peter, Fr Harold Middleton, Mr John McGinty and wife Tess, parents of the well-known Jim.

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he history of the foundation of the Presentation Sisters in Western Australia, like so many other congregations, is one of struggle against what today would be called primitive conditions, often in circumstances of great hardship.

The history is chronicled in Ruth Marchant-James' two-volume work 'Cork to Capricorn': A history of the Presentation Sisters in Western Australia to be launched this Sunday at Iona College in Mosman Park by Archbishop Hickey at 3pm.

Mrs Marchant James' prodigious work shows that, as was so often the case with the early Religious congregations to come to Australia, the more difficult the situation, the more that was ultimately So it was with the achieved.

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Western Australia received Present- The five Sisters who came from the Wagga foundation to Southern Cross in 1900 pictured in ations from two sources: first from Melbourne en route: Sr Paul O'Halloran, back left, Sr John Jones and Sr Columba Moynihan.

Ireland to Geraldton in 1891 and then Front Mother angela Treacy and Sr Joseph O'Dowling. from Wagga Wagga in New South rounded by unattractive black sand and Wagga Wagga in NSW where the first Wales to Southern Cross in 1900.

It wasn't until December 1970 that all box thorn. Nevertheless, they com- five Presentation Sisters in Australia had the branches of the Presentation Sisters menced teaching the morning after their gone from Kildare in Ireland in 1874.

Under the leadership of Mother arrival (Tuesday 7 July) to 150 boys and in WA joined together formally.

Treacy, the Sisters found themAngela Protestants. were whom half of girls, from The Irish plantation came By 1911 the Presentation presence in selves forced to live in conditions that Sneem, a small village in South West Kerry, Ireland, and arrived after an the Geraldton diocese which traced its shocked Bishop Gibney when he visited origins back to Sneem in Ireland had them but which did not ultimately prearduous voyage in Geraldton in 1891.

The group, consisting of four professed increased to 43 Sisters, with seven con- vent them from establishing a convent school for the townspeople. sisters and five postulants under the vents and nine schools.

They then established a boarding In part the success of the Sisters was leadership of Mother Joseph O'Connell, came in response to Bishop Gibney's due to the desire of parents to have their school in the coal-mining town of Collie daughters educated at Catholic schools. and in 1905 established a school in what call for volunteers.

By the time Geraldton had become a is today called Mosman Park. elsewhere, they Like their Sisters There, Bishop Gibney purchased found themselves confronted with con- separate diocese in 1898 the fruit of the House, renamed "Iona" in despite Buckland were clear efforts Presentation ditions far from desirable: an unpretentious bungalow built from a mixture of the various difficulties they had been 1908. From the Iona motherhouse independent branches of the Presentations timber, stone and matchboard, with a faced with.

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&Wei-vs 10 ./Ae Cofilar Who knows where and on whom the Spirit blows? reetings and Peace! Very many thanks for publishing my letter on the tremendous value of Holy Mass in The Record, 15 February.

In the Brisbane Catholic paper, the Catholic Leader, letters are published from non-Catholics if they wish to make a point; and that is how my apostolate started.

A non-Catholic, brought to Mass by her great friend, through her own eyes regarded "Mass as a picnic, little short of being a circus."

A reader responded saying "Mass was not a picnic but of great spiritual value, and the sacrifice of the Eucharist beyond compare" (Catholic Leader, 6 August, 1995).

I wrote to my two spiritual advisers, told them I wished to reply, to help Catholics

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understand some spiritual benefits from attending Mass. I enclosed the card, The Tremendous Value of the Holy Mass.

My priest spiritual adviser sent the address of Sydney's Catholic Weekly and your address. So I wrote to the Editor of the Catholic Leader and the letter was published on 15 October, 1995.

I received 51 requests followed by feedback (22) for multiple copies.

In November, I sent a letter to the Catholic Weekly with a copy of the card.

It was published on 31 December 1995 andI received 67 letters followed by feedback (19) for multiple copies.

So then I sent my letter and card to you.

The response to your letter amazed me as everyone wanted multiple copies.

Then early in February I wrote to our Bishop and asked permission to send the

Ecumenical visits urged

contribution applauded publicly towards the ecumenical life of Perth. It was a refreshing tonic to see the secular media responding so positively to Church life.

My disappointment, however, stemmed from the fact that such worthwhile ecumenical gestures are rather rare here in Perth.

Perhaps the appropriate Catholic authorities could seize upon the obvious pleasure and significance which such events engender, both in Church and secular circles, and ensure that invitations are offered to the leaders of the Orthodox. Anglican, Uniting and Protestant Churches to preach at St Mary's Cathedral?

This might ensure that Archbishop Hickey's call to all Christians to stand in solidarity against the forces of secularism doesn't run the risk of falling on deaf eyes.

It might also mean that we don't have to wait long for some more significant ecumenical news!

Ms Emma Nanas Warwick

letter and card to the Diocesan News, our bi-monthly newsletter. The Diocesan News has a circulation of 5,000 and they printed the Mass Value card. Even then I got 11 requests for multiple copies of cards.

Now, I'll be honest. I only visualised about a dozen requests for cards.

Being 79 in August, and handicapped, I only wanted to help confused folk to learn more of the spiritual merits they could gain for eternal happiness.

I am a pensioner and was very dismayed when requests came pouring in.

I told the Lord I was willing to work hard for Him but he had to do the supplying. He did. I was sent 1,000 cards with compliments from the printer.

Who paid for them? I made inquiries.

Blank Then long envelopes appeared.

No one knows or, if they do, are not saying. However the stamps are my responsibility.

Imake it clean all cards are free. I have 127 left from the 1,000. What happens then is up to the Lord. I had absolutely no idea of starting an apostolate.

My priest spiritual adviser told me some words were a little dated but the message was loud and clear and relevant to the Catholics of today.

When priests and nuns want multiple copies, what is there for me to say. Only that through the merits of the Tremendous Value of Holy Mass, I slowly learnt to pray sincerely for repentance and forgiveness, then to pray for souls in Purgatory with no-one to pray for them.

Felicia McKenzie SFO Innisfail, North Queensland

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tribute to serious and fatal crashes, such as alcohol, speed, non-use of seat restraints, carelessness and fatigue, also lie Sydney Mardi Gras TV coverage known as the silent killer. on ABC was bound to create comment and the promoters will be Completed figures for 1994 show almost very happy because, as they say in show 75 per cent of all country crashes involved a single vehicle, and investigations indi- business, bad publicity travels twice as fast as good publicity and costs less. cated fatigue was a factor.

However, I believe the authorities should A disturbing statistic is the failure of drieach float in the Sydney parade nspect i vers and passengers to wear seat participant in the parade and every and restraints, with at least 50 per cent of one parading whose activity any prevent country fatalities being attributed to public moral standards. the to up not is motorists not wearing seat belts at the The small part I viewed reminded me of time of the crash.

Dante's Inferno without the flames.

People intending to travel this Easter need to be aware of the danger of com- Joseph Lemmon Waikiki placency - it is not just another trip, it may and well be the difference between life death.

The following five tips can help reduce lie letter to the editor. 7 March. on road trauma: Freemasonry was a welcome clarifi1Plan your trip and include rest breaks; cation of a serious and confusing 1Commence the trip rested, not after a problem that existed about the time of the new Canon Law that came into effect in busy day at work; 1 Drive during your normal awake 1983.

The 1983 code no longer imposed hours, not when the body believes it excommunication for joining Masonic should be still asleep; IConsume non-alcoholic refreshment associations. Some then concluded that before and during your travels - alcohol membership was now generally unobjectionable. will increase the risk of fatigue; and The Vatican's Congregation of the Faith, IIf you are tired, SRN' - rest is the only asked about this in 1983. answered when he purpose of this letter is to seek cure for fatigue. there was no excommunicaalthough that, the of your support for the efforts The Police Service will conduct a major WA Police Service in reducing road campaign during the Easter period to tion in the new Code, Catholics enrolled in Masonic associations were involved in trauma. ensure the safe passage of all road users. serious sin and may not approach Holy Each year around two hundred people However, the success of the campaign Communion." The Church regards are killed on Western Australian roads, depend on the co-operation of the Masonry as a real religion that does not will and during the Easter weekend in 1995, public to take all care during any travel, accept Christ as God or the Scriptures as four people died as the result of road regardless of whether ills a short or long the revealed word of God. crashes in this State.

To be a Catholic and a Mason is contrajourney.

This most significant time of the Many other Churches, from dictory. and I extend my best wishes for a safe Christian calendar is an opportune time Pentecostal to Mennonites to Lutherans Easter. happy to reflect on one's attitude to other road and the Salvation Army are hostile to membership in the Masons. users and to resolve to become a caring, R. J. Devlin APM sharing road user.

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read with great pleasure and with some disappointment your account of Archbishop Hickey's recent visit to St George's Anglican Cathedral.

My obvious pleasure came from seeing our Archbishop make a serious and

Only through Jesus is there hope of real life now and hereafter Karrinyup parish priest Father Richard Rutkauskas continues his meditations on the Sunday readings in Lent to help us on our journey to Easter 1996.

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hen we think of the horror of pain and agony, we automatically think of physical pain as being the worst.

Most of us have known somebody in our lives who has suffered the terrible agony of disease and sickness. Nobody likes to see others suffer, least of all those we love.

But there is a kind of agony that is worse than any physical pain imaginable: the pain of despair - the pain of having no hope in the future, of having nothing to hold on to in times of sickness, grief or trouble, the kind of pain that led Judas, Jesus' betrayer, to hang himself.

ends, but our life in and through But in the Gospel for the fifth our Saviour continues for all Sunday of Lent, Jesus holds out eternity. the hand of hope to all believers.

In revealing the power of God. It is with this faith that we must live each day of our lives. We are Jesus shows His humanity as well as His Divinity. He weeps at united to the Resurrection and the death of His friend Lazarus. the Life and, so, must live with This is a common human reacaccordingly. tion and nothing to be ashamed It is not enough to say: "I have Fr Richard of. or "I am baptised", we faith", Rutkauskas We all miss those we love have to remain connected to the when they go away; even more source of that life. That begs the so when they pass from life on Christ, are baptised we enter question: "How do I cut myself into that same mystery of His off from the source of eternal this earth to another life.

It is as the Son of God that death and resurrection. As the life?"

Jesus speaks of everlasting life. second acclamation of the mysThe answer is simple and has He reveals Himself as the source tery of our faith says: "Dying, you been the same for the last two of that eternal life - "the resur- destroyed our death; Rising, you thousand years - mortal sin. restored our life. . .". rection and the life".

Mortal sin is sin which has Our faith in the Son of God He goes on to proclaim that grave matter attached and is life. to death from away us leads Him in anyone who believes committed with full knowledge will have that everlasting life. He Even though we still go through and consent. faith baptismal our who believes in Him becomes a bodily death, None of us have any excuses: part of that eternal life here and reminds us that it is only that the Word of God and His now, not just at some event at "life is changed. not ended" the end of time.

(Preface of Christian Death I). Church make it clear exactly When we, as disciples of Our temporary life on earth what mortal sin is and which

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offences contain grave (serious) matter. As was the focus of the very first day of Lent, we are called to "turn away from sin and believe in the Gospel".

Our life in Christ begins now.

It's not something we begin to worry about in times of trouble, sickness or in our old age.

Jesus brought Lazarus back to life on the earth to illustrate to us all that He, indeed, is the Lord of Life.

Even though we have pain, suffering and troubles and eventually death (just like He did), our faith in Him will lead us to something better than we could ever imagine.

During this Lent, as we remember just how short our earthly lives are, let us pray that Jesus will be the centre of all our decisions.

It is only through Him that we will find the hope of real life.

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Bible deals with forces of murder as well as love

By Father John Castelot

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urder is the topic in one of the Bible's very first stories.

Cain was envious of Abel's success and killed him (Genesis 4:8). Not to be outdone, Lamech boasted to his wives: "I have killed a man for wounding me, a boy for bruising me. If Cain is avenged seven-fold then Lamech seventy fold" (Genesis 4:23-24).

Cain's resentment and Lamech's vicious brutality are just two examples of the forces of death in our world.

These are not abstractions, but very real forces.

Consider warfare. It is heinous enough, but already in ancient times it was aggravated by senseless brutality: the wiping out of whole populations - men, women, children, even livestock. ‘\.hat is even worse, people tried to justify it by invoking the sanction of the deity. The author of life was made to bear the burden of others' total lack of respect for life!

The real causes were the forces of death: greed and inhuman savagery.

In the Book of Genesis. unbridled lust led Shechem to rape Dinah, daughter of Jacob.

When later, now out of real love for her, he asked to marry Dinah. her brothers agreed, but on condition that all the men of Shechem's tribe be circumcised.

The condition was accepted and, when the pain of the operation was at its fiercest, Simeon and Levi avenged the family honour. They "took their swords. advanced against the city without any trouble, and massacred all the males.... Then the othbr sons of Jacob followed up the slaughter and sacked the city in reprisal for their sister Dinah's defilement.... They carried off all their wealth, their women and their children, and took for loot whatever was in the houses" (Genesis 34:25-29).

The forces of death: lust, revenge, offended honour. cruelty, lack of respect for human life. Jesus countered such forces of death by striking at their root causes.

"But I say to you whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment . . . .

Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar and there recall that you brother has anything against you, leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift" (Matthew 5:23-24).

Jesus opposed the forces of death by encouraging the forces of life: thoughtful reconciliation, love. "Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44). The forces of death are not abstractions, and they cannot be conquered by retaliating in kind - by becoming forces of death ourselves.

Violence only begets further violence, and a culture of death thrives thereby.

Life is always more powerful than death The horror of the slaugher of sixteen young school children and a school teacher in Dunblan, Scodanck recently was a reaction that could not be dismissed with a psychological or sociological explanation. It was an intrusion of evil that needed a more than earthly explanation. Several weeks before the tragedy, the Catholic News Service in the Unted States transmitted these three features on the problem of evil, suffering and hope.

By Father Lawrence Mick

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ngry words punctuate the air. Sirens and flashing lights cut through the darkness.

The weeping of mothers over the deaths of children resonates through the night.

This scenario is repeated over and over in many big cities and is not uncommon even in smaller tot% us.

For residents of troubled neighbourhoods, going to church may offer a respite from the daily struggle to survive.

Celebrating in the midst of a Christian community can and should offer such an experience.

We celebrate the power of the God who is the Lord of life - who gives life and sustains our lives every day.

The values the liturgy reflects stand in marked contrast to the values that often rule elsewhere.

The liturgy, though, is not intended as an escape from "real life," as if going to church meant entering another world distinct from our daily existence.

Good liturgy confronts the reality of evil and the forces of death in our world.

The core of Christian worship is the mystery of Christ's death and resurrection: the paschal mystery.

Both dimensions of that mystery - death and resurrection receive sustained attention.

The crucifixion of the Lord stands as one of the clearest examples of injustice and violence in history.

This totally innocent person suffered greatly and died as a victim of death's forces.

All who suffer injustice and violence can identify with the crucified Lord and know that he is with them.

However, Christ's suffering and death is only the first half of the story.

It is the stunning fact of the resurrection that sustains our celebration.

Death is not the victor that it seemed.

Life triumphs. No force can ultimately conquer the power of the living Lord, who dies no more.

Christ's resurrection is the basis for Christian hope in the face of life's difficulties.

We who follow the crucified and risen One know that God brings life out of death.

Life has the final word.

We first entered into the mystery of Christ's death and resurrection in our baptism.

As this mystery is the core of our worship, so it should be the core of our daily living.

We are called to embrace the cross repeatedly, knowing that God can and will draw us through suffering and even death to fullness of life.

But what dying are we called to embrace?

Much of the answer to that is found in the death of sin and selfishness within us: the death of the hatred within: the death of violence.

The forces of evil and violence and death are not just around us.

We find them within us as well.

When sin and selfishness die within, we can grow in love.

Jesus' example teaches us that love, not violence. is the most powerful force when it comes to countering evil and death.

Even on the cross he prays for those who crucify him, loving to the end. Lent is a time to honestly face the evil inside us.

We want the power of Christ's love to purify us and enable us to overcome the forces of death.

All the focus on sin and evil takes place against the background of the resurrection.

We already know the end of the story: Life is more powerful than

death. Even the experience of great violence and deep loss will not defeat us - or impel us to respond in kind - if we cling to the mystery of Christ's death and resurrection.

He never gave in to the temptation to respond to violence with violence, to return hate for hate.

So we are able to sing out our joy and our hope even in the face of death.

'Jesus,I am here in the still darkness tonight'

By Dan Luby

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esus.I am in the dark tonight.

The TV news is over, and I have switched off the lamp to In the quiet of a sleeping house.

Most nights I find this a comforting darkness, opening me to solitude and a sense of your presence.

But tonight is different. Tonight the darkness is oppressive and chilled.

The warm beacon of the night light at the top of the stairs seems puny tonight, its weakness making the darkness more menacing.

The TV news tonight took my breath away. rnvo stories about children have covered me with such a weight that I sit here frozen.

It opened with a story about the discovery of the body of a little girl who was snatched while riding her bike. That hit close to home, Lord.

It happened right here, in my town - my safe, friendly, familiar town. She was only a year younger than my son.

They showed her parents walk-

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The next story was about a teen-ager killed in a gang shootTeen gets 20 years ing in another city. for attack on tourist ShOriOng It shocked me to recognise her History of hatred mother on the screen, a womanI met last spring. I remember her talking about her daughter with pride and affection.

Kids offered support, Again. I imagined the hole that \ I wounded protection 0 will be left in her heart. members victims Jesus, I am beside myself. I am Ws • deadly stunned by the incomprehensigenie no nEA bility of a life so without boundmatter who 1./ is the hated aries, so empty of capacity for benk robberies human connection and sympa42 t 'dodged thy that it could undertake the ing bullet: abduction and murder of a 9year-old child.

I am confounded by the complexity and apparent insolubility ing the gauntlet of cameras, of the social problems that conglassy-eyed with grief and regret. tribute to the rise of gangs, and It was the work of an instant to racial violence, and loss of meaning for young people, and I lose imagine myself in their place. hope of a solution.

Sorrow, despair, grief, rage, It makes me weary. Lord, and guilt, denial: They would be like inclined to bad choices. a boiling volcano in my heart, Protect me in your mercy from Lord. despairing isolation. Tonight, in Safety for the people I most love the dark, I can feel myself wantiseems an illusion tonight in the ng to live like the comical statue face of such a brutal and sinister of the three monkeys, with eyes, crime. ears and mouth covered: "See no

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evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."

Help me remember your passion, Jesus. Death's stranglehold must have seemed to you, at some level, beyond shaking.

Help me remember that you faced death and torture, and human cruelty, and the treachery of your friends, and the abuse of power by those entrusted with the public welfare.

Give me the gift of your courage, Jesus. Walk with me in this dark time, and other dark times to come.

Lead me not simply away from the darkness, but through it. Give me the courage to confront the power of death, as you did.

Give me a heart to forgive hurts and to embrace those who wound the world.

Move me to act for life, for healing, for justice and peace and communion.

Especially in this Lenten time of renewal and repentance, Jesus, lead me to the resurrection. Help me to trust in the ultimate victory of grace and mercy and truth over greed and coldness of heart and lies. Bless those who are hurting. Use me to bring peace.

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The Annunciation prompts us to ask: is our faith a facade, or deep and spiritual?

By Fr Gerard Dickinson

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he Bible opens with four words which have resounded down the centuries; "In the beginning God . . . ."

And a simple study of history will show to the honest seeker how God has constantly guided, moulded, reformed, renewed and, sometimes, demolished and rebuilt. Why? Because He has a plan; a plan not only for the world but for each one of us personally.

The plan will work insofar as we respond to it; and our part in it is one we seek to come to know from personal contact with God. The plan can be summed up in one word Salvation.

There is no doubt that in the working out of this plan the Blessed Virgin Mary had a vital part to play.

For a moment in time God's plan hung on the response of a simple village girl in an obscure Middle Eastern country.

The fact that she did respond in a positive manner and submit herself willingly to God's plan, with all that this involved, shines out like a powerful spotlight in the history of the human race.

She was virtuous, she was obedient, she was responsive - all essential qualities of God's work is to be done effectively and they all sprang from the reality of her religion.

If you and I were to compare the life of Mary and her response to God's will, with our own life and response, we would see her life as a corrective to much that is wrong in our own religion, both personally and as the Church of God in Western Australia.

She sets before us a life which, if we copy it, will further God's plan of salvation in a man-

Nary's 'yes' before the Archangel Gabriel ner that will both stimulate and encourage us. If you have read this far I would like you now to ask yourself: How real is my religion?

Is it an outward sham, a facade? Or is it a deep, spiritual, meaningful experience?

You can walk past a house in the street where you live and it may appear to be occupied, but it won't be long before the signs of non-occupancy are noticed - the lawns will be overgrown, the weeds will have a ball, the paint will peel and the dirt will accumulate.

Our religion can so easily become the same.

True love and chastity

It may have many of the outward aspects of true religion, but, if it is not true, people willrecognise that we are an empty shell.

Because Mary was able to say to Gabriel at the Annunciation, "I am the handmaid of the Lord, let what you have said be done to me", she was able to say at the Visitation, "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour".

Why could she say this?

Because her religion was real. Because she knew that religion is not just a vague code of ethics, no matter how noble and lofty; that religion is not a mere philosophy nor a metaphysical exercise in living.

She knew that Christianity was being born in her womb. She knew what we all need to be reminded of time and time again - that Christianity is Christ.

So the vital part of true religion is evidenced in our lives by the place we give to Christ, the Saviour of the world, the summation of God's plan for our salvation.

In the words of St Patrick it is: "Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me.

Christ within me; Christ beneath me, Christ above me; Christ at my right, Christ at my left; Christ in my lying down, Christ in my sitting.

Christ in my rising up: Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me; Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to me.

Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me".

Mary's religion was real because it was her response to God's plan for her. If we are to have a vital religion we must see that Christ has the highest place in our life: and then God's plan for us will be fulfilled, as it was in Mary.

Violent drama amidst Famine's misery The Hanging Gale, ABC TV, Thursdays.

Review by Tony Evans

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he grim presence of the gallows and the use of the hangman's knot in this new BBC drama series shown on ABC on Thursdays at 8.30.pm, might lead some viewers to think that 'Gale' in the title is a misspelling for Gael.

Perhaps the assonance was intentional on the part of the producers. The Gael is indeed the victim, the symbolic Gael hanging from the gibbet with the moral dilemma unresolved. — The hanging gale, however, refers not to a method of execution but the-then Irish practice of deferring the rent - the gale - of an incoming tenant farmer until after the first harvest.

Since the land was so poor and the farms small, the farmer could scarcely pay one rent - let alone arrears.

Thus the tenant remained permanently in debt, without security and liable to eviction by absentee English landlords.

This hew drama, centred around the lives of four brothers (played by four brothers in real life), is as much about uncaring absentee landlords and the misery of that system as it is about the great potato famine which the series purports to commemorate 150 years after the event.

The story is set in 1846 in Donegal one of the poorest and hardest hit areas, where the

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irginal and married love are the two forms in which the person's call to love is fulfilled.

In order for both to develop, they require the commitment to live chastity in conformity with each person's own state of life.

As the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 2337. says, sexuality -becomes personal and truly human when it is integrated into the relationship of one person to another, in the complete and mutual lifelong gift of a man and a woman."

Insofar as it entails sincere self-giving, it is obvious that growth in love is helped by that discipline of the feelings. passions and emotions which leads us to self-mastery.

One cannot give what one does not possess. If the person is not master of self - through the virtues and, in a concrete way, through chastity - he or she lacks that self-possession which makes self-giving possible.

Chastity Is the spiritual power which frees love from selfishness and aggression. lb the degree that a person weakens chastity, his or her love becomes more and more selfish, that is, satisfying a desire for pleasure and no longer self-giving.

Chastity is the joyous affirmation of someone who knows how to live self-giving, free from any form of self-centred slavery.

This presupposes that the person has learned how to accept other people, to relate with them, while respecting their dignity in diversity.

The chaste person is not selfcentred, not involved in selfish relationships with other people.

Chastity makes the personality harmonious. It matures it and fills it with inner peace.

This purity of mind and body helps develop true self-respect and at the same time makes one capable of respecting others, because it makes one see in them persons to reverence. insofar as they are created in the image of God and through grace are children of God, recreated by Christ, who "called you out of darkness into his marvellous light" (1 Peter 2:9).

The Phelan family - suffering impoverishment at the hands of landlords With the current peace talks in Belfast in Phelan family, headed by patriarch James and two of his four sons, work their farm and our own minds, the lasting impression left on pay rent to an agent of Lord Hawkesborough. the viewer after the final episode - as many In one sense, The Hanging Gale is an excit- pointless deaths occur as occur in the last act ing fiction, a superior soapy, with all the of Hamlet - is that whatever the injustices usual ingredients - love, loyalty, physical may be, killing people for revenge does nothaction, breathtaking escapes and betrayal set ing but perpetuate the bitterness. again-st a background of well-documented A lesson for our times? facts.

It is the history, the documentary element, which sets it apart from the common soa-py, and if the fictional drama is less than convincing at times, the impact A PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE IN THE MARIAN MOVEMENT of the broader tragedy, by association.

WITH FR. BRIAN AHEARN similarly suffers.

Gallant efforts are made at being AND TONY AND LORRAINE GRACE authentic, but they do not convince us Departing 28 April for 19 days of what, for example, Nicholas AT $5,395 (ex Syd/Melb) Cummins the Cork Magistrate saw and • Mexico (Guadalupe) • Miami • Rome attempted to describe in The Times of • Betania (Venezuela) • Fatima (Anniversary) 24th December 1876: "....six famished • Optional Medjugorje Extension and ghastly skeletons, to all appearOUR LADY OF THE AMERICAS ances dead, were huddled in a corner with Fr. Brian Ahearn with Fr. Philip Harding on some filthy straw, their sole coverand Tony & Lorraine Grace and Tony & Lorraine Grace ing a ragged horse cloth, their Departing 9 May for 15 days Departing 28 April wretched legs naked above the knees.

AT $3,895 for 14 days and found, horror, "I approached with Fatima Anniversary Rome • • Special Price on Application by a lone moaning that they were alive.

• Santiago De Compostela woman, • Mexico (Guadalupe) "There were four children, a • Garabandal • Lourdes and what had once been a man.

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The Oscars 1996

Go for it Babe, go Will Aussie family film Babe shock Tinseltown and win? ing to give the nod to movies created outside the Hollywood stuNEW YORK (CNS) - Even as dio system.

The best picture category is a Oscar night looms, the race for the Academy Awards remains far prime example.

Only the high-flying "Apollo 13" too close to call with any confiwas shot in the United States. dence, even though the Golden A suspenseful and superbly Globe, Directors Guild and Screen Actors Guild award win- crafted film, it would be an obvious front-runner in another year. ners have all been announced.

Perhaps the academy snub of Unlike the last two years, when "Forrest Gump" and "Schindler's Howard as best director will List" dominated the nominations bring in extra best picture votes.

Emma Thompson's delicate and scored big wins, no one title and witty screenplay adaptation towers over the others.

This year's winners named by of "Sense and Sensibility" is sure the major critics' associations are to appeal to voters who want the not reliable indicators: "Leaving Academy to honour class - a Las Vegas" was chosen as best highbrow production with an picture by both the New York English literary pedigree.

Being heavily promoted by and Los Angeles film critics' Miramax is "11 Postino" ("The associations, but failed to get an Academy Award nomination in Postman"), the gentle Italian film about love and poetry. that category.

But no completely subtitled forThe Directors Guild of America eign film has won the top award, chose Ron Howard as their finest, while the National Board so it's an uphill battle.

Already a winner for its of Review and the New York Film astounding originality is the Critics selected Ang Lee as best underdog/sheepdog/pig picture director.

Neither, however, was Oscar- "Babe." a worldwide sleeper shot nominated as director, although in Australia.

Yet it must overcome longstandHoward's "Apollo 13" and Lee's "Sense and Sensibility" are each ing prejudice against talking-animal movies to win, which would up for best picture.

What stands out this year is the make it only the second time a Gpreponderance of first-time nom- rated movie has won.

Good luck, "Babe" - it would inees. send a thunderous message to In fact, all of the best supporting Tinseltown if a family film won actors, actresses and directors as best picture. are new to the race, as are the Holding a slight edge is the contenders in the art direction, 13th-century epic visual effects, and documentary rousing "Braveheart," the only best picfeature categories.

Perhaps signaling a new wave ture nominee featuring considerin the creative community, acad- able violence.

With the most nominations - 10 emy members seem more will- and the immense popularity of its star and director, Mel Gibson.

"Braveheart" will probably emerge from the fray victorious.

In the best actor category, "11 Postino's" Massimo rfroisi will win some sympathy since he tragically died just hours after shooting was completed.

But being largely unknown to academy voters before this film, he is unlikely to be awarded the Oscar posthumously.

Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Richard Nixon may be uncanny and compelling, but his previous nominations and win can work against him, making him less likely to triumph again.

For the same reason, Richard Sean Penn, a real contender for Dreyfuss' performance in the Best Actor after a searing perfortremendously appealing "Mr mance in Dead Man Walking

By Gem Pare

James Cromwell, nominated Best Supporting Actor, tickled pink over his performance as an Aussie sheep farmer

Holland's Opus" may not be enough to make him win once more.

The searing performance by Sean Penn as the death-row inmate in "Dead Man Walking" makes him an Oscar-worthy contender, but a steady string of edgy performances by Nicolas Cage in "Leaving Las Vegas" points to him as the probable winner.

It would be laudable if Susan Sarandon won as best actress on this, her fifth try, for sensitively portraying Sister Helen Prejean in "Dead Man Walking," and she appears to have the inside track.

One would hope that Sharon Stone's showy turn as the shrill, manipulative Vegas hustler in "Casino" won't outshine Ms Sarandon's performance in the minds of voters.

Multiple-winner Meryl Streep is at a disadvantage since 'The Bridges of Madison County" opened last spring, and Elizabeth Shue remains the dark horse for her hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold in "Leaving Las Vegas."

Double-Oscar nominee Emma Thompson may lose out here if voters decide to go with her in the category of best adapted screenplay.

Of the best supporting actor nominees, James Cromwell's endearing performance as the Australian sheep farmer in "Babe" is nonetheless a long shot, as is Tim Roth's as the brutal bully in "Rob Roy." Red-hot Brad Pitt's spiky performance in -12 Monkeys" is much talked about and Kevin Spacey's

Mr Holland's Opus star, Richard Dreyfuss - not thought to be a main contender

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quicksilver portrayal of a devious crook in 'The Usual Suspects" is truly memorable.

It's anyone's guess, but the statue seems headed toward the "failure-is-not-an-option" man, Ed Harris from "Apollo 13."

Another skin-tight race is for best supporting actress between Mira Sorvino as the bouncy prostitute in "Mighty Aphrodite" and Joan Allen as the first lady in "Nixon."

Kate Winslet as the charming younger sister in "Sense and Sensibility" also has many fans, leaving Kathleen Quinlan's astronaut wife in "Apollo 13" and the excellent but largely unseen work by Mare Winningham in the title role of "Georgia" coming up short.

Finally, for best director, Tim Robbins' finely balanced presentation of the capital punishment issue in "Dead Man Walking" deserves to put him in the lead, but he isn't considered a frontrunner.

Nor is Chris Noonan for "Babe," and the bleakness of Mike Figgis' vision in "Leaving Las Vegas" may turn off many voters.

If it's between Michael Radford for "11 Postino" and Mel Gibson for "Braveheart," more likely Gibson's the guy with the gold at night's end.

At least this year there will be the element of suspense in the always bloated and often boring Academy Award extravaganza.

Just don't bet the farm on who will go home with Oscar.

Ms Pare is on the staff of the US Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting.

Oscar film ratings Following are the US Catholic Conference classifications for the Oscar-nominated films.

Movies are listed in alphabetical order: Apollo 13, All. Babe, Al. Bravehetui, MV. The Bridges of Madison County, ATV. Casino. 0.

Dead Man Walking, AIII. Georgia, Al!!.

IIPostino (The Postman). All. Leaving Las Vegas, 0.

Mighty Aphrodite, AIR Mr. Holland's Opus, All. Nixon, All. Rob Roy, All. Sense and Sensibility, All. 12 Monkeys, MV. The Usual Suspects, A111.

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

Sense and Sensibility, with a screenplay by star Emma Thompson, up for Best Picture

St Patrick's Day 1996

St Pat's Day 1996 a blur of green-tinged action is understood and respected by Catholic and non-Catholic Irish alike. t's been said that the 70 milCelebrations took place all over lion Irish diaspora abroad the weekend with the Fremantle celebrate St Pat's Day with scene (run by the Tara Club) more gusto and obvious relish drawing a crowd of around than their compatriots 'back 12,000. home'.

The crowd overflowed from St Well all I can say is that if the Pat's Basilica in a Mass celebratdispersed Irish multitudes cele- ed by Bishop Robert Healy, Fr brate elsewhere like they do in Ned Donovan and the Oblate Perth and its environs, then Fathers (including Fr John Ryan there's been one huge swag of who is celebrating 70 years of songs sung, jigs danced, Irish priesthood and turns 95 on dancing displayed by the magnif- March 20).

It was followed by a parade to icently and traditionally costumed talented girls (and some- the oval.

This boasted 80 items including times boys), tales told, and Irish Setters and Wolf Hounds.

Guinness drunk!

St Pat's Day is the time when all floats, marching girls, Irish dancIrish, Catholic or non-Catholic, ing schools, sporting and cultural claim their patron saint and fre- bodies. quently attend Mass in his honEntertainment on the oval conour, united in their common her- tinued until 4.30 pm with one itage. group, the Assumpta English For me that means the enor- Band, so keen that they travelled mous capacity of the Irish to from their home base in enjoy life with such passion.

Singapore to play and join in.

Their readiness to have a 'hooIn Perth the Irish Club had their ley' (party) at the drop of a cap: well attended St Pat's breakfast the warmth of their hospitality: on the Saturday with Grace said their sincerity and lack of affecta- by Fr Sean Bredin, and Irish tion: the quick humour and Piper Matthew Corrnack's musirepartee: and most importantly cal opening followed by a marof all - their Catholic faith which vellous display of Irish dancing Story and photos by Colleen McGuinness-Howard

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Irish dancers bearing gifts with Irish Club members at St Patrick's Mass, Subiaco.

by the McDonnell School of Irish Dancing. The St Pat's Day Mass at Subiaco organised by the Irish Club and featuring their splendid Irish choir, was celebrated by Bishop Healy.

Lena Costello. immediate past president of the Irish Club. and husband Paddy, celebrated 40 years of wedded bliss and were among the gift bearers during the

Mass, who brought up a beautiful miniature harp, shamrocks, a Tara brooch, a crest shield featuring the four provinces of Ireland, St Brigid's cross, statue of St Patrick. and a crucifix.

Sunday at the Irish Club saw a downstairs crowd of around 200 at the excellent lunch hosted by president Pat Ducey, some of whom stayed to merge with the big crowds there during the afternoon and night.

Meanwhile Blarney Castle had its own shenanigans with their great entertainment troupe singing and playing songs from the Green Isle, joined in with much enthusiasm after a great meal by the patrons.

That left proprietors Paddy and Vera Larkin just enough time to clear up and start all over again for the evening dinner, which once again attracted a capacity crowd.

The Celtic Club patrons settled in for an evening's conviviality (Irish style which is hard to beat) when arriving for the club's own special St Pat's celebration, having been given the traditional Gaelic greeting of Cead Mile Faille (a hundred thousand welcomes). by president John

Irish piper Matthew Cormack blowing his own bags at the Irish Club.

Devine. Patrons were also given a superb display by the girls of the WA Academy of Irish Dancing.

Some enthusiasts were so keen, charged up by the music trio (and other things), that they readily did solo items in jigs and singing - without any urging or dragging onto the floor whatsoever - while the shyer ones contented themselves with Guinness quaffing!

St Pat's Day may have gone for another year. but the real-life presence and flavour of the Irish delightfully remain.

So if you ever get bored or think ifs time you experienced more of the fun side of life - then hang onto an Irishman's coat tails and he'll fly you to a whole new world of enjoyment which you never knew existed!

Pat O'Shea (left) with Andrew and Lois Mochrie 'having a few jars' of Guinness at the Celtic Club.

Alan O'Meara (left) with wife Barbara at the Irish Club, helping to make president Pat Ducey's day even happier (if that were possible).

Blarney Castle proprietor Paddy Larkin beating out a rythm on the bodhran (Irish drum) to another of singer Mary Kinsley's lovely Irish airs.

The Consul General for Ireland, Michael Nolan, with wife Eleanor, checking out Brian Kelly's pot of shamrocks at the Irish Club breakfast.

Having the 'fun of Cork!' were Celtic Club Vice President Bob Johnston (left) with wife Robyn, telling a few wild (but believable) tales to President John Devine and wife Frances.

St Pat's Day isn't just for the adults as these tiny tots at Blarney Castle prove.

Forty years in a wheelchair hasn't diminished Irish visitor Kay Hayes' zest for living and dancing as she *dances' at Blarney Castle with brother-in-law Peter and sister Agnus Brennan.

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International News

(To Jesus through Mary: see Annunciation feature, Page 9)

A spiritual shelter carved out of rock by Andre by the religious order that was to become home and family until his death at age 91.

"When I- joined this community, the MONTREAL (CNS) - The Oratory of St. Joseph, the world's largest pilgrimage site superiors showed me the door," Blessed devoted to St Joseph, overlooks the city of Andre once quipped from his post as Montreal like a tender father watching his doorman at Montreal's College of Notre Dame after his eventual admission to the child at play.

The sanctuary, which hosts some 2 mil- order.

Compassion took Blessed Andre beyond lion visitors a year, rises more than 400 college doors to the sick of Montreal, the feet out of the side of Mont-Royal. It is a majestic counterpoint to the humble life of whose suffering he understood.

Bringing oil from a lamp burning before Holy Cross Brother Andre Bessette, the improbable founder of the shrine who a statue of St Joseph in the college chapel, came to be known simply as Brother Andre anointed the ill and prayed with them.

Andre.

News of his healing touch spread as peoIn May 1982, he was beatified by Pope began to recover. ple John Paul II and his cause for canonisation Notre Dame's administrators were is ongoing.

Blessed Andre's devotion to St Joseph uncomfortable with this unsought fame grew out of his own physical limitations. and dismayed at the crowds that flocked Born in 1845, the eighth of 12 children, he to the college seeking "Good Brother suffered from a chronic stomach ailment Andre."

Eventually, a small house of prayer - an that kept him Out of school and often withoratory in honour of St Joseph - was built out work.

His delicate health was the reason the across the street from the college to short. slight Andre was first turned down receive the sick. By 1908, an enlarged,

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Andre and pray to his friend, St Joseph.

The great basilica that grew out of the little oratory was decades more in the making, but Blessed Andre's faith in his patron was as solid as the mountain itself.

"It's not my work, but St. Joseph's," he said when construction slowed and doubters complained.

He travelled throughout Canada and the United States seeking funds to construct the oratory.

Completed in 1967, it was still a work in progress when Blessed Andre died in 1937.

The original chapel still stands.

Confident of St Joseph's kindly intercession for the labourer, the sick, for weary travellers and families struggling to survive, Blessed Andre carved a spiritual shelter out of mountain rock that staggers the eye and lifts the heart.

The oratory, whose main church sits at the top of nearly 300 steps, includes The Oratory of St Joseph in Montreal chapels and a 56-bell carillon, designed heated chapel sheltered the hundreds and originally for the Eiffel Tower. Crutches then thousands of pilgrims who made and canes have been left behind by visitheir way to Mont-Royal to meet Blessed tors who attributed cures to St. Joseph.

Internet can be ew means of preaching Christ WS ANGELES (CNS) Computers may be the newest way to spread the Gospel, according to Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles.

But it is not enough to use the media simply to spread the Christian message and the Church's authentic teaching," Cardinal Mahony said.

"It is also necessary to integrate that message into the 'new culture' created by modern communications."

While there are problems with some of the information being made available and with people not having the means to access the various systems, the cardinal Cardinal Roger Mahoney said, "cyberspace has the capacicardinal noted the exislithe n I ty to be the modern shore of the Catholic-oriented of tence several Sea of Galilee along which the sites, Lord walks calling disciples to computer information site on Holy See's the ncluding i himself."

Cardinal Mahony made his the World Wide Web. "I have utilised it myself several remarks in a paper presented and the enormous positive times, during the March 4-8 plenary to that effort gives response sessions of the Pontifical Council to all of us encouragement on Social Communications at the Cardinal world," the around Vatican. said.

Mahony The text of the paper, titled Not all the sites have official "Religious Information and sponsorship, he said, Catholic North Evangelization in on American Data Networks," was which is noted in disclaimers networks. different computer the released in Los Angeles.

Cardinal Mahony said that while the founder of one service, Catholic Online, says he allows only those organisations and services in agreement with the magisterium to appear, "a crucial question remains: Who is to decide what views are in agreement with the magisterium?"

"In those parts of the world where society has become extensively depersonalised. where people look on one another as problems and even as threats," Cardinal Mahony said, "the new technologies provide an opportunity for people to come into contact once again."

Conversely, "in those places which are remote from centres of culture and information," he added, "these new technologies can create formerly unimagined opportunities to be put into contact with those who can inspire In them the quest for the Lord."

CompuServe, America Online and other online services that allow access to the global computer network called the Internet "can indeed provide an opportunity to give personal witness to Jesus Christ, to preach the Gospel, even to the ends of the earth," Cardinal Mahony said.

Pope makes his first public appearance after illness

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) Sidelined for nearly a week by what the Vatican called a digestive problem. Pope John Paul ll led a brief beatification ceremony before withdrawing for several more days of rest.

The Pope appeared tired and he as drawn somewhat read beatification decrees for two 19th-century missionaries on March 17, and he had a slight cough.

But he walked without difficulty and smiled as he greeted many in the overflow crowd in St. Peter's Basilica.

Later the Pope gave a blessing from his apartment window and thanked the faithful for their "spiritual closeness" in the preceding days. He did not refer explicitly to his illness.

For the 75-year-old pontiff, it public first the was appearance in a week.

The Vatican said the Pope was recovering from a mild fever that began March 12 and which subsided two days later, caused by an unspecified problem involving the digestive tract.

The Pope decided to make the abbreviated beatification appearance despite his doctor's recommendation of several days of rest.

He had originally been scheduled to preside over the entire three-hour-long ceremony.

After proceeding down the main aisle of the church without a cane, he greeted missionaries near the altar and conversed with a group of sick people.

He left the ceremony at the start of the Mass, which was celebrated by Cardinal Angelo Sodano,

Pope Jelin Paul on March 17 Vatican secretary of state. "Dear Romans and pilgrims, I thank you for your spiritual closeness these last few days," the Pope told some 30,000 people gathered in St Peter's Square later.

He received warm applause from the crowd.

After day-to-day uncertainty over the Pope's schedule, the Vatican on March 16 announced a cutback in the Pope's activities over the coming week.

A one-day visit to the Italian city of Siena was postponed from March 19 to March 30, and the weekly general audience on March 20 was cancelled for the second week in a row.

Instead, the Pope was to bless pilgrims from his apartment window.

Vatican sources said church officials and doctors were concerned that the Pope be well-rested for his heavy schedule of public events in early April for Holy Week and Easter.

Sister with fear of dogs follows in footsteps of St Francis dog. A first-grade teacher at St Joseph School in LaPorte, she has been walking and caring for neighbourhood dogs ever since.

However, she has to get to know the dogs before she likes or walks them.

"There has to be a mutual compassionate feeling," the nun said, such as the one she had with 13year-old Sean, the pet of former St Joseph pastor, Father Richard Emerson, Father Emerson, now pastor of St Thomas More in Munster, said the Franciscan sister even became sort of a "home nurse" for Sean, helping the dog recover

By Angela Moore LAPOR TE, Ind. (CNS) Franciscan Sister Robertann Lathrop is following the true spirit of her founder as the patron saint of animals by caring for dogs in her neighbourhood.

"I used to be deathly afraid of dogs - especially big ones," she said, but her fear has turned to fondness.

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after surgery. "She was very con- the morning, after school and at sistent. She would come in and night. And Maddie is her security walk him a few times a day," the at night, when she checks to priest recalled. "I think she got make sure the school doors are locked, she added.

I her exercise that way."

"Sometimes I bring (Maddie) Exercise benefits both parties, said the nun. "I'm too old to take into school," she said. "The kids really like her." aerobics so I walk the dogs."

Members of Sister Lathrop's The Franciscan sister entered the convent in Detroit nearly 50 community are not allowed to years ago. She has taught for 48 have their own pets, but she finds years, mostly in the Gary that the dogs she helps care for Diocese, with 11 years at St are good companions.

"To me it is a diversion - being Casimir School in Hammond with the dogs. No matter what and 10 at St Joseph's.

The nun's latest canine com- kind of day you have, the dogs panion is Maddie, another are there to greet you with their friend's dog, whom she walks in wagging tails," she said.

Sister takes Nokia for a walk

International News

Welfare can hurt families: experts

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) Government welfare programs may accelerate the breakdown of families, said a group of everts on economic and social questions invited to a Vatican conference.

Many of the economic problems facing modern families "are aggravated by misguided governmental policies and by ideological assaults on marriage and the family from special-interest groups such as gender feminists," said the final statement.

The meeting, sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Family in early March. focused on the relationship between families and economics.

The Vatican press office released the meeting's final statement March 13, attributing its content to the participants, not the Vatican.

It did not release a complete list of participants, but among the speakers were Gary Becker, professor of economics at the University of Chicago and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in economics, and Michael Novak of the American Enterprise Institute.

The statement's discussion of "the welfare state and its social welfare systems" echoed some of the concerns expressed by Pope John Paul II and the US bishops about welfare programs.

But, unlike them, it did not mention the state's obligation to provide a "social safety net" for the poorest and most vulnerable members of society.

The statement said the programs, "which began with the best intentions, accelerate this family breakdown by weakening parental responsibilities and choices." "The absence of

parental responsibility is a crucial factor in abortion, illegitimacy. prostitution, drug addiction, escalating delinquency and crime," it said.

"All these problems place a heavy economic burden on families and society," the participants said.

Social policies that undermine strong family life have a direct. negative impact on the economic growth of nations and peoples. the statement said.

The participants discussed a variety of economic, social and political policies - including taxation and mortgage programs which they said make it financially difficult for people to establish a family and have the number of children they want.

"Every person represents the creative potential which is the real wealth of nations," the statement said. "Modern economists call this creative potential 'human capital' and recognise that it is the greatest resource for a healthy economy."

But human resources need a strong family environment in which to develop and grow in skills and in moral integrity, they said.

The participants said. 'The time has come to make decisions in government and industry that really help build an economy that serves the family through developing its members and freeing it from dependence on the state."

They also called upon government and business leaders "to reject population control mythology."

"It is absurd when the economy and wealth are said to grow if a thousand more head of livestock are born and yet considered to be hampered if a thousand more humans are born," they said.

Despite the Dayton peace deal, Balkan Church relations frosty

By Agostino Bono ROME (CNS) - Several months after the Dayton peace accords, tensions continue between the Balkan Catholic bishops and their Serbian Orthodox counterparts.

At the same time, Croatia's bishops have urged Orthodox clergy who fled before advancing Croat forces to return to their churches.

The tensions reflect the reliethnic giously linked divisions that have marked the fighting.

Both Catholic and Orthodox leaders have criticised the accords as de facto solidifying of ethnic cleansing.

As of mid-March: • A Serbian Orthodox delegation refused to attend a meeting with Croatian and

Bosnian Catholic bishops in bourhoods coming under control of the Bosnian MuslimSwitzerland.

• A Catholic bishop in Bosnia- Croatian federation, as stipulathis ed in the Dayton accords.

Herzegovina said The hope is that the meeting church's existence in a Serbcontrolled region is threatened will take place at a later unless ethnically Croatian date, said one of the meeting's Catholics who fled from the organisers, Cardinal Miloslav region are allowed to vote in Vlk of Prague, Czech Republic.

The relationship between the upcoming elections.

• The Croatian Catholic bish- Catholic and Orthodox bishops ops met to discuss ways of get- is "open and serious," he told ting Serbian Orthodox priests Vatican Radio after the meeting's postponement. who fled Croatia to return.

"We want to reinforce them."

The Orthodox-Catholic meetCardinal Vlk is president of the ing was to have taken place from European of March 16-19 in St Gallen, Council Catholic Bishops' Conferences, Switzerland.

But the Serbian Orthodox dele- one of the meeting's co-sponnot to sors. decided gation The other co-sponsor was the attend because of the Serbian of European Churches.

Council exodus from the Bosnian capital a group of more than 100 of Sarajevo. and Anglican The Orthodox were referring Orthodox. to the flight of Serbs from neigh- Protestant churches.

Women from the fallen UN safe haven of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina grieve during a protest march in Tuzla on Mothers Day, March 8. More than 6,000 women are seeking missing husbands and sons who never made if out of the Bosnian enclave when it was overrun by Bosnian Serbs in August last year.

'Give up TV for Lent, meet your family' VATICAN CITY (CNS) During Lent, people should try turning off their TV sets and talking with family members, Pope John Paul II said.

"In how many families television seems to replace dialogue between people rather than

favour it!- the Pope said during a Sunday blessing on March 10.

He suggested that the traditional Church practice of fasting during Lent should extend to the mass media, which "have an undeniable usefulness but should not take over our lives."

A certain 'fasting' in this area can be helpful, in order to give more time to reflection and prayer and to cultivate human relationships," he said. Fasting and penitence had become more difficult in affluent societies, he added.

Media coverage of paedophile priests exaggerates size of problem: book to be that prosecutors wouldn't touch it; the press wouldn't touch HUNTINGTON, Indiana (CNS) it."

He said the National Catholic - The scandal of paedophile a Catholic weekly in Reporter, Catholic priests is not as wideMissouri, opened City, Kansas spread as media coverage of to positive and floodgates the recent years has made it appear, outcomes when its covnegative says Philip Jenkins, author of a the case of Father erage of new book, Paedophiles and Anatomy Priests: of a Gilbert Gauthe, a Louisiana priest who was sentenced to 20 Contemporary Crisis, While he criticised secular years in prison for child sexual widespread media coverage. Jenkins also abuse, gained national attention argued that some of the most Before that, he said, "even the anti-Catholic and anti-clerical most spectacular sexual abuse messages came from different cases in the '80s, many secular Catholic factions.

"The whole thing emerged from papers wouldn't touch."

Jenkins, a professor of religious disputes within the Church studies, history and criminal jusitself," he said in an interview with Our Sunday Visitor, a tice at Pennsylvania State national Catholic newspaper University, has written extensivepublished in Huntington. "It used ly on "moral panics," which he

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said is a sociological term for per headlines and television ment, that the Church's celibacy "when society goes crazy about news stories, rumours and jokes. requirements were driving sexu"Collectively, these symbolic ally repressed priests to abuse an issue." A former Catholic who has joined the Episcopal Church, actions draw upon and define children, became the conventional wisdom in much of the media he said he approached the issue social reality.

-Whether a news program as well as in some Church cirof clergy paedophilia as a social researcher, not from a liberal or introduces a story with visuals of cles.

But he said there is also a rightconservative religious perspec- a church or a Mass, or a cartoon depicts a bishop, or a comedian wing, anti-homosexual camp in tive.

In the book, published by begins a story about a priest, the Church that sought to exploit Oxford University Press, Jenkins there is the same expectation that the scandal to prove its claims described the cumulative effect the likely and predictable out- that "modernist" bishops were on public consciousness of come will involve scandal, subverting the Church with an steady media attention to the Improper sexuality and exploita- influx of homosexual clergy.

He said figures for paedophilia tion, or at least misogyny." issue.

Jenkins also told Our Sunday and sexual abuse of minors are "In the past decade," he wrote, "a sinister and unsavoury vision Visitor that he probably goes similar for clergy in other of the Catholic Church has come after "the people coming from denominations who make no close to being a routine part of the liberal side more than the promise of celibacy, but underlyperceived reality in this culture, conservatives because they were ing anti-Catholic stereotypes and with the required institutional more successful in getting their prejudices have led to portrayal of the issue "as a vast social crisis quality provided by recurrent position in the media."

He said the main liberal argu- and a vastly Catholic crisis." reinforcement through newspaThe Record, March 21 1996 Page 13

International News

Mother Teresa clarifies marriage remark In Brief WASHINGTON (CNS) - Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, issued a clarification of her views on divorce after quotes attributed to her on the marital woes of Prince Charles and Princess Diana appeared in Ladies Home Journal.

Advocating divorce "is clearly against Catholic teachings and my own convictions," she said in a March 12 statement.

"I have never advised or encouraged a husband and wife to seek divorce. I always tell couples having trouble to pray alone and together as a family."

The topic of the royal relationship came up in an Interview with writer Daphne Barak.

In an article in the April issue of Ladies Home Journal, Ms Barak wrote that she landed an interview with Mother Teresa because she had agreed to spend some time working with her nuns.

When Mother Teresa finally talked with Ms Barak one-onone, she told the journalist: "You see? You are here for a reason to help me. That's why Jesus sent you here. And I don't just see everybody. Princess Diana had to wait a few days to see me

Auschwitz 'mall' protests

By Jonathan Luxmoore WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Jewish groups. Catholic leaders and the Polish government have criticised plans to build a shopping centre near the former Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.

But organisers and local officials defended the project and said they plan to continue building the mall, scheduled to open in June, despite protests.

Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger of Paris, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, called the shopping centre project "scandalous."

Auxiliary Bishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Gniezno, head of Polish bishops' the Commission for Dialogue with Judaism, said the mall could disrupt the site's "serious character" and cause conflict.

In a Catholic News Service interview, Bishop Gadecki said organisers of the shopping centre thought in "economic and commercial terms," calculating that substantial profits from would be made Auschwitz's many foreign visitors.

The mall features a supermarket and a parking lot for 200 cars.

"If a supermarket was really opened close to camp's gate, it would certainly cause chaos and impugn the gravity of the location. Nothing should be constructed which in any way destroys the special character and integrity of this place," the bishop said.

The mall project was approved by the city council of Oswiecim, where Auschwitz is located.

Polish President But Aleksander Kwasniewski said on March 12 that he had been asked by Szewach Weiss, the chairman of the Israeli parliament, to block the project.

Mother Theresa when she was here." Ms Barak asked Mother Teresa about her relationship with the princess.

"Oh, she is like a daughter to me," replied Mother Teresa, who then remarked: 'They told me you interviewed her husband.

What is really going on there? Is It (the marriage) over?"

After being told that "It certainly appears to be," Mother Teresa Is quoted as saying: "I think it is a sad story. She (Diana) is such a sad soul. She gives so much love, but she needs to get it back. You know what? It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach for

family love and unity, but in their case...." she said, her voice trailing off.

The interview took place before, but was published after, the royal family announced the impending divorce.

The magazine article sparked a controversy.

Sister Sylvia, the Missionaries of Charity's regional superior in the Bronx, sent a letter to all US bishops asking for their help in supporting the woman her fellow nuns simply call "Mother."

"The quote undermines the Catholic Church's teaching on marriage and completely misrepresents Mother's own convictions," Sister Sylvia said in her March 12 letter.

"And it is having a significant Impact on the public. Many people have already contacted us to to or verify the quote complain against Mother. Worse still are the millions who will read the quote, believe that Mother really said it and use it to support divorce!"

She asked the bishops to reprint Mother Teresa's clarification in parish bulletins and diocesan newspapers and to tell the Missionaries of Charity when the clarification appeared.

"We beg you to do everything

you can to correct the damage done by the quotations," Sister Sylvia said.

Mother Teresa, in the clarification, said, 'The Bible is very clear.

Jesus says, 'God made them male and female; for this reason a man shall leave his father and his two the and mother shall become one. They are no longer two but one flesh.

Therefore let no man separate what God has joined."

She added, 'The family that prays together stays together; and if you stay together, you will love one another with the same love with which God loves each one of us. Love begins in the family. Peace begins in the family.

Where there is love, there is unity, peace and joy.

"Let us pray for all married couples, especially for those experiencing problems in their marriage, that they may become one heart full of love in the heart of God." The Church teaches the indissolubility of marriage. It does not exclude a person from the sacraments for obtaining a civil divorce, but does not consider that person free to remarry unless there are grounds for declaring the first marriage Invalid from the start.

Mercy Sisters apologise for orphan trauma

By Clan Molloy DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - The Sisters of Mercy have apologised for the alleged mistreatment of orphans in their care during the1950s and 1980s.

The apology came after allegations about physical mistreatment of children at the Mercyrun Goldenbridge Orphanage near Dublin were aired in a television drama documentary.

"As a congregation we fully acknowledge our failures and ask for forgiveness," said Sister Helena O'Donoghue, head of the Sisters of Mercy in Ireland.

The nuns established a help line to provide support for former orphans who still may be traumatised by their experience.

By mid-March, the help line had received calls from more than 600pe0p1e.

The order also provided news media with the names of people willing to give a positive account of their care by the members of the order.

Three formal complaints have

been made with the police against one nun, identified as Sister Xaveria, 76.

Decades ago, she is said to have beaten children so severely that they needed medical attention.

She allegedly threw boiling water over another child.

Police officials said, however, that she is unlikely to be charged because of the length of time that has elapsed since the alleged abuses occurred.

The Sisters of Mercy have complained about the way Sister Xaveria has been singled out for attention, claiming that it is akin to trial by media.

In some tabloid newspapers she has been branded as "Sister Severia," the nickname used by some of the orphans in her care.

The alleged abuses took place at a time when Irish children in orphanages faced tough upbringing in general.

The situation was partially fomented by Irish courts, which sent children to harsh industrial schools run by religious orders.

In many cases, children were taken from their homes because

courts ruled that their parents were unfit.

Under a 1908 law, children could be "punished" or "sentenced" for being "found wandering," being "illegitimate" or showing "lack of proper guardianship."

A 1970s investigation by District Justice Eileen Kennedy said and industrial orphanages schools had untrained staffs and took a depersonalised attitude to children by having them sleep in dormitories and wear institutional clothing and by not providing psychological or educational assessment.

"Life in the Ireland of the '40s and '50s was generally harsh," said Sister O'Donoghue in her apology.

"This was reflected in orphanages which were underfunded, and underunderstaffed Notwithstanding resourced. these facts, clearly mistakes were made," she said.

"Despite our evident failures, we are totally and earnestly committed to continuing that work in the years ahead," she said.

Picketting bishops and Religious arrested DETROIT (CNS) - A Catholic bishop and two Episcopal bishops were arrested while protesting the use of strikebreakers at Detroit's two major daily newspapers.

Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit, who was arrested, said the March 6 protest was modelled after the 1980s demonstrations staged outside

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the South African Embassy in Washington.

Among the 24 religious and community leaders arrested for disorderly conduct in front of the Detroit News building were Episcopal Bishop Stewart Wood of Michigan; his predecessor, retired Episcopal Bishop Coleman McGehee, and Detroit City Council president Maryann

Mahaffey. They blocked doorways and driveways at the newspaper.

Also arrested were Father Norm Thomas, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Detroit and Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Barbara Beasley, a staffer at Groundwork for a Just World, a Catholicfounded peace and justice organisation.

Pope off to Tunisia VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II will make a oneday visit to Tunisia on 14 April, the Vatican announced.

It will be the Pope's first trip to Tunisia.

Vatican sources said the Pope would celebrate a Mass attended by many of the country's 14,000 Catholics and is expected to highlight papal concern for the minority Christian community.

Condolences VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II offered his condolences and prayers to all those suffering from the "senseless violence" of a gunman who killed 16 children and their teacher in Scotland.

'The Holy Father offers fervent prayers for the families and friends of the victims and for all mourning their loss," said a March 14 Vatican telegram to. Bishop Vincent Logan of Dunkeld. Scotland.

Movie wins prize NEW YORK (CNS) - "Dead Man Walking," the movie based on the book of the same title by Sister of St. Joseph Helen Prejean, became the first winner of a new prize established by financier John Templeton.

Templeton, who also funds other prizes, including the Progress in Religion award now worth over $1 million, this year established two new $25.000 prizes for "inspiring movies and TV."

Missionaries first UNITED NATIONS (CNS) Two of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity served on the Vatican delegation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women held from March 13-14.

Archbishop Renato Martino.

Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, said Mother Teresa once represented the Vatican at a UN conference, but it was a first for nuns of her order.

Gaza help appeal BIR ZEIT, West Bank (CNS) A Catholic priest has appealed for emergency financial assistance to help Christian families on the West Bank because of an Israeli blockade after recent bombings.

Father Emil Salayta, the Latin-rite Patriarchate's director of education for Gaza and the West Bank, said about 50 Christian families in the village and 150 more in three neighbouring villages have asked for assistance and jobs since they are not able to reach their regular employment.

PC Catechism WASHINGION (CNS) - The "Catechism of the Catholic Church," a top seller in print versions, will be available in computer versions in April.

The "Catechism of the Catholic Church for Personal Computers" will be sold in for compatible versions Windows (including Windows 95), Macintosh and DOS.

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POSMON AVAILABLE Augusta C ARETAKER, Lumen Christi Church and Applications Homes. sought for position of caretakers. Two-bedroom flat available in return for light duties. Skills in pastoral an advantage. work Applications to be made in writing to Parish Priest PO Box 78 Margaret River. For further details contact Fr Pat Rooney on (097) 572 264.

'THANKS GLORIOUS Apostle St Jude Thaddeus, I praise God for all the graces he has bestowed upon you, granting you the privilege of bringing help to those in despair. Intercede for me in my great need (Here make petition). special your Through your merits and prayer may I receive the consolation of divine help in my necessity so that I may praise the mercy of God on earth and bless him eternally with you and all the elect in heaven. Ever mindful of your favour I will honour you as my heavenly patron and encourage devotion to you in what way I can.

Therefore with confidence I invoke your aid; helper when hope is fading, help me in my distress. Amen.

One Our Father. Hail Mary.

Glory be. Lord Jesus. merciful Saviour, humbly I beseech you that having honoured the eternal glory of St Jude your kinsman and apostle. I may through his merits and prayers obtain the grace of your healing peace: who live and reign world without end Amen. J.G.C. ASK for three favours. Say nine Hail Mary's for nine days with a lighted candle.

Pray, whether you believe it or not. Publish on the ninth day. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised. adored, glorified, loved today and every day for ever Thanks and and ever. praise to St Antony, Holy 'Spirit and Blessed Virgin.

G.M.S. ASK for three favours. Say nine Hail Mary's each day for nine days with a lighted candle. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised. adored and glorified today and every day. Grateful thanks to Our Lady and St Clare. Thank you A.J.P. ST JUDE glorious apostle, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of a traitor has caused you to be forgotten by many but the true Church invokes you universally as the patron of things despaired of. Pray for me who am so miserable.

Pray for me so that I may finally receive the consolation of the succour of heaven in all my necessities. tribulations and sufferings. particularly here (place your request) and that I may bless God with the elect throughout eternity. Amen. St Jude apostle. martyr and relative of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Mary and Joseph, intercede for us. V.B.

MARCH 22 Blessing, Seton College - Bishop Healy Farewell Dinner for Mr Chris O'Malley of Catholic Church Insurances Bishop Healy 23 Christian Blind Mission International Supporters' Meeting - Barbara Harris (Emmanuel Centre) 24 Launch of "Cork to Capricorn" (Presentation Sisters) A rchbishop Hickey Opening and Blessing of school exten sions, City Beach - Archbishop Hickey Legion of Mary Acies Ceremony, St Mary's Cathedral - Bishop Healy Mass for Feast of St Joseph, Villa Terenza - Monsignor Keating Mass, Procession and Benediction for Festival of St Joseph - Rev Fr A Pittarello CS 25 Graduation Ceremony, University of Notre Dame Australia A rchbishop Hickey. Bishop Healy 26 Principals' Regional Mass (Central/North Eastern) - Bishop Healy 27 Principals' Regional Mass (Eastern/ South Eastern) - Archbishop Hickey 28 Mass and Devotions (Medjugorje), St Mary' s Cathedral - Archbishop Hickey 29 Businessmen's Mass, All Saint's Chapel - Archbishop Hickey St Charles Seminary A rchbishop Hickey 30 Candelight AIDS March - Bishop Healy 31 Solemn Mass for Palm Sunday, St Mary's Cathedral - Archbishop Hickey A PRIL Easter Song Mercedes College. St 1 Mary's Cathedral - Archbishop Hickey Chrism Mass. St Mary's Cathedral 2 A rchbishop Hickey, Bishop Healy Reconciliation, Willetton Parish 3 Bishop Healy Professional and Business Leaders Holy Week Breakfast, Wesley Centre Monsignor P McCrann Mass of the Lord's Supper. St Mary's 4 Cathedral - Archbishop Hickey Mass of the Lord's Supper, Manning Bishop Healy Celebration of the Lord' s Passion, St 5 Mary' s Cathedral - Archbishop Hickey

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MEN OF THE PARISH Efforts are being made in Our Lady of the R osary Parish (Woodlands/Doubleview) to bring men together for occasional social gatherings. The theme which has been adopted to achieve that objective is "extending the hand of friendship-. The committee whose work is supported by Parish Priest (Fr Tarrant) consists of Bob Boylen, Don Byrne, Pat Kirwan. Peter McEvoy, Eric Pearce, Kevin Whitely and Derrick Flynn. Their objective is to provide a means of getting to know each other on as first name basis in an atmosphere of friendliness and goodwill - something which has, to a large extent, disappeared from the parish scene since the days of money-raising, fetes and the need for school, and Church-building committees and associated busy-bees. A drive for membership now underway for "Men of the Parish" will culminate on Friday 19 April with an official launch with a special Mass to be followed by a social gathering in the parish hall.

NEW LIFE IN GOD'S SPIRIT SEMINAR Will be held on 22 April (for 8 consecutive weeks) at 7.30pm at St Bernadette's School Library, Grand Ocean Boulevard, Port Kennedy. Registration forms are available at the Church Hall or the Primary School office.

Ample parking space and a cuppa after each session. All welcome.

HELP CENTRECARE 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 and mattresses and wardrobes; tables and chairs. refrigerators; couches and easy chairs. If you can help us with a donation of some furniture you no longer need, please phone Laurie Turner during office hours on 472 3938.

ARANMORE PRIMARY FETE is on Sunday 31 March. The children and parents of the school hope to raise money for much-needed equipment. The fete will be held from 11-4pm in the grounds of the school in Brentham St, Leederville.

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ST FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL St Francis Xavier School, Armadale is a co-educational primary school with an enrolment of 282 students from pre primary to year 7.

The school and parish are supportive of each other.

Additional information will be provided with requests for application forms.

The successful applicant will be expected to take up the position at the beginning of Term 3, 1996.

Applicants will be actively involved in the Catholic Church and be experienced educators committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education.

They will have the requisite theological, pastoral and managerial competencies together with an appropriate four year minimum tertiary qualification and will have, or be prepared to complete Accreditation requirements.

Further information and official application forms are available from Sr Clare Rafferty, Consultant, School Personal Team Ph: (09) 388 4268.

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BUSINESS PERSONS' MASS Will be celebrated at All Saints Chapel, Allendale Square, Perth, on Friday 29 March at 7am.

Followed by a breakfast meeting at the Venice Cafe, Trinity Arcade, Perth. Cost of breakfast His Grace, Archbishop $8.

Hickey, will be the speaker.

Inquiries 384 0809 INTERCESSORY PRAYER SEMINAR Catholic evangelist Guy SuttonMattocks FMI of Flame Ministries International will be conducting an "Intercessors School" at Aranmore College Hall, cnr Franklin & Oxford Streets, Leederville.

Commences Tuesday 2 April at 7.30pm and continues to 28 May. Weekly study notes $3 a week plus a Love Offering. The seminar is presented for anyone interested in the ministry of intercessory prayer and spiritual warfare.

Inquiries: Guy on (09) 382 36687.

COUNTRY DAY OF PRAYER The next country day of prayer will be held at St Mary's Church, Westral St, Bruce Rock on Monday 25 March, commencing 9.30am. Guest speaker Fr Joe Theme: The Parkinson.

Annunciation, Mary, Joseph and Us. Bring own basket lunch please. Tea/coffee provided. The day will conclude with Holy Mass All most welcome. at 2pm.

Contact: Cec Aurisch (090) 611269, Marg Foss (090) 651034.

BUSSELTON MARIAN PILGRIMAGE Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbury will be celebrating the 14th yearly pilgrimage at Bove's farm, Roy Bussel Highway) Rd (off BusseIton. Mass will be said at the grotto at 1pm followed by a and Rosary procession Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Afternoon tea is also provided.

All welcome. information Paul Galea 244 2626.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE The monthly pilgrimage at the Shrine of the Virgin of the Rd, Chittering Revelation, Bullsbrook, will take place on Sunday 31 March at 2pm. There will be Rosary, homily and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. All are welcome.

Please phone 444 7565 or 458 6302 for bus bookings from Marangaroo, Tuart Hill, Perth, Highgate and Midland. For the Fremantle bus phone 339 4015.

For further information please contact the SACRI Association, PO Box 311, Tuart Hill WA 6060 or telephone 447 3292.

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CATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE League Women's Catholic Annual Day of Retreat and Reflection, Friday 22 March at the Monastery Retreat House, Vincent St, North Perth, from 92.30pm. Our chaplain Fr Michael Brown, Franciscan Order, will officiate. Registration and light luncheon, $9. If you wish to have lunch, please ring Fran Duffy on 444 7361 by Friday 15 March. All are most welcome to join us.

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CEOL CHIARRAI Ireland's Premier Traditional Concert Group presents

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3rd Annual Concert Tour of Australia A Feast of the best Irish traditional Music, Song, Dance and Storytelling In Concert Fri. 19 April '96 - Octagon Theatre UWA Crawley 8pm Admission $25.00, Conc. $20.00. A show not to be missed

SONG AND DANCE

Featuring: Donacha Howard - Dancer: Conor Homes - Dancer; Susan Cleary- Dancer; Anna Connolly - Dancer; Maura Walsh - Musician - Concertina, Fiddle: Pa Foley - Musician - Accordian: Brian Fitzgerald Musician - Banjo; Claire Fitzpatrick - Musician - Fiddle; Ronan Ryan - Musician - Flute: Emer McMahon - Musician - Harp Player; John O'Sullivan - Storyteller - Bodhran Player; Deidre Scanlon - Singer, Piano Player; Michael Carr MC, Singer, Stage manager; Dillon Boyer - Front of House Manager.

Bookings to Sean Doherty 455 1303 Tom Kearns 337 6581

Workshops Music, Singing and Dancing, Ursula Frayne College, Shepperton Road, Victoria Park Wednesday, 17 April, 7.30pm. Workshop Admission $10.00

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This is a Catholic organisation established to provide hostel and independent living accommodation for Senior Citizens.

The group is keen to obtain the services of a suitably qualified professional with 3-5 years experience in aged care. Ideally candidates will possess some management skills, formal qualificiations in nursing or a similar discipline and be supportive of a Catholic environment and ethos in aged care. Reporting to the Board you will be responsible for managing the hostel facility and providing all care and support services. Some experience in dealing with geriatric and dementia patient would be an advantage.

A salary package commensurate with the responsibilities and duties of the position will be negotiated with the successful applicant.

Please send a neatly typed resume to the address below quoting Ref No 6593. For further information telephone John Orzanski on (09) 322 3277.

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TEENAGE DEPRESSION What is it and what can we do about it? Speaker: Lin Young (from Good Samaritans). MultiPurpose room, John XXIII College, 7.30-9.30pm. $5 donation (unwaged and pensioners), Wednesday 27 March.

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Today I invite you to conversion. This is the most important message that I have given you here.

Little children, I wish that each one of you become a carrier of my messages. I invite you, little children, to live the messages that I have given you over these years.

This is a time of Especially grace. now, when the Church also is inviting you to prayer and conversion.

I also, little children, invite you to live my messages that I have given you during the time since I appear here.

Thank you for having responded to my call."

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