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Day for Life challenges Catholics on abortion The Pope's suggestion reads: "I propose that a Day for Life he celebrated each year The Australian Catholic Bishops in every country, as already established by have designated the last Sunday in some Episcopal Conferences. The celebration of this day should be planned and May each year as a "Day for Life- tak- carried out with the active participation of ing up Pope John Paul II's suggestion all sectors of the local Church," he wrote. included in his 1995 encyclical In the encyclical. Pope John Paul said the Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) primary purpose of the day would he to Perth's Auxiliary Bishop Robert Healy, foster in individual consciences, families. a member of the Bishops Committee for the Church and wider society a recognithe Family and Life, said this week the tion of the meaning and value of human life at every stage and condition.

Day for Life would be celebrated in the To help the archdiocese's parishes celeArchdiocese of Perth this year on brate the Day for Life, Bishop Healy said Sunday week 26 May, which this year he had already sent material to parishes happens to be Pentecost Sunday.

Including suggested petitions for Prayers Bishop Healy told The Record this week of the Faithful during Mass, and suggeshe had proposed the Pope's suggestion at tions for personal and parish action. the last meeting of the Committee during He said one suggestion people might like the Bishops' conference in Sydney a fort- to take up was the formation of parishnight ago. based study groups to examine He said the Day for Life was designed to Evangelium Vitae and to familiarise themencourage Catholics to reflect on the selves with its statements on the value of importance and value of human life in a human life. society that was increasingly ignoring its He said the Pope's encyclical had value. appeared at a time when values on the He said the Bishops' conference had left worth of human life existed in many parts It to each diocese to organise the local cel- of society that were the opposite of those ebration and that Archbishop Barry contained within the encyclical.

Hickey, currently visiting seminaries in the He also hoped the Day for Life would United States, had requested that each help bolster the efforts of those engaged in parish in Perth participate on Sunday 26 pro-life activities on issues such as abortion, euthanasia and IVF experimentation.

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Local Portuguese honour Our Lady of Fatima in Fremantle

By Peter Rosengren

The Portuguese community honoured Our Lady of Fatima at St Patrick's basilica on Monday evening. Here angels perch beside her in the procession through Freo' streets after Mass.

The Pallottines apologise

By Peter Rosengren The Pallottine Order this week apologised for its mistakes and the errors of the Catholic Church in Australia in helping in the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their parents over many years.

The Pallotines, in a submission to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission inquiry into the effect of separation on Aboriginal individuals, families and communities, said separation policies followed by white colonists and church missionaries was "shameful."

Fr Michael McMahon, Superior of the Pallottine region in Australia, told The Record the Pallottine order's submission argued that the basic reason behind the

acts was an overwhelming and misplaced sense of superiority of one race against another. From colonisation, many white people, giving up on Aboriginal adults, thought separating children from tribal culture would help assimilate Aborigines into white society, he said.

Pallottine priests and brothers were a pioneering missionary force in the Kimberley and throughout WA working for and with Aboriginal people.

The Pallottines said in their submission the order was not pointing the finger at anyone as we openly admit and regret our own mistakes in this whole area - our attitudes were in some ways typical of the prevailing mind-set of the general population."

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And following along behind were three children dressed up as the original seers of Our Lady at Fatima in 1917, Jacinta, Lucy and Joseph. Perth auxiliary bishop, Robert Healy, was the principal concelebrant at Mass attended by approximately one thousand people.-hoos P Rosengren

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n Sunday last, the parishes in the dioceses have Jerusalem, so the Church in Perth their appreciation in such fashChurch of Perth celebrat- organised the Catechumenate. cannot remain an enclosed ion but ultimately the strength ed a Mass of ThanksgivIn a few months, please God, group without contact with other and vitality of the local Church is ing at St Mary's Cathedral. the work will begin all over again people and other places. not expressed only in bricks and It marked the completion of the and another group of people will We must have the need to bring mortar but in people. The Catechumenate which had engage in the spiritual journey the Good News to others. We Church is for people. involved many people over many this group has just completed. read a lot, from time to time, The Church is the people of months.

That is how it has to be as the about the spiritual hunger of God today as it was in Jerusalem The Catechumenate is the reading from the Acts of the people in our society and I in the first century. We must have preparation of adults for Baptism Apostles last Sunday indicates to believe that hunger is a reality. the same sense of mission, the and Confirmation and Holy us. The early Christian Church in We need to take every opportu- same concern for others to Communion.

Jerusalem could not remain an nity to help to satisfy that hunger receive the gift of faith.

It involves much reflection, enclosed group keeping to itself in the hearts of people.

I was very touched by our Mass much study, much spiritual the precious gift of the faith. The Ultimately, of course, it is God of Thanksgiving at St Mary's preparation and, above all, it disciples felt the need to move who gives the faith but He Cathedral.I know that come May involves the Holy Spirit, the out and bring the good news to always uses us as His messen- next year there will be another Spirit of Truth whom Jesus other places. gers, His Apostles. such Mass of Thanksgiving to promised to His Church. "He is So Phillip went to Samaria, Only last week, a visitor from mark the conclusion of the with you. He is in you" He said. prompted no doubt by the Holy Ireland called at the Cathedral Catechumenate. I would hope It is to the Holy Spirit especial- Spirit. We don't know which Presbytery. She was impressed that in the meantime Catholics ly that we offered our thanks for town he went to but we do know by the strength and organisation around the diocese will be prethe gift of faith to our they received the word of God of the Church in Perth. She had pared to help the searchers and Catechumens. The task was only joyfully, and I am sure also with been to Mass in our suburbs and seekers in our society to find completed when we had said thanksgiving to God for sending admired our churches and their way to the faith. "thank you" to Almighty God. Phillip into their midst. schools.

God will reward them abunIt is not the first time that As with the Church in It is nice to hear people express dantly for their missionary zeal.

'Monstrous' gay case

Catechists deserve praise

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican newspaper has condemned as -monstrous and amoral" the case of a child being raised by a pair of homosexual couples, each of which claims parenthood.

-We're at the limit of reason, on the brink of irrationality. This is selfishness and a challenge to nature and its pro-creative laws,- LUsservatore Rontano said on 8 May. Father Gino Concetti, a moral theologian, wrote the editorial.

The case involves a child in Scotland being raised by a male homosexual couple and a lesbian couple. The child, born to one of the women. was conceived by artificial insemination using the sperm of one of the males.

The Vatican newspaper editorial said every child, in fact, had the right to be born into a -normal natural family and be conceived in a human way."

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Cardinal thanks Aussie volunteers

Cardinal Pio Laghi. the Vatican's top Catholic education official who spoke at the National Catholic Education Conference in Canberra recently, also took time out (luring his speech to thank Australian Catechists on behalf of Pope John Paul II for their often voluntary work and to encourage them further.

"Once again, on behalf of the Holy Father, I bring you all a message of gratitude and encouragement for the fine service you are offering the Church," he said, asking that his message be relayed around Australia.

"And I should like the message to reach not only to those here present at the conference, but all those catechists and adult educators who, for lack of resources, have not been able to come to Volunteer catechist Mrs Pat Meek with five of the children selected to read the prayers at last Canberra. You are not forgotten," he said.

Wednesday's normal weekly after-school liturgy at St Lawrence's, Balcatta.

Cardinal Laghi encouraged catechists and One of the many difficult things we have Catholic children who would otherwise adult educators to continue in their work despite to live out as Christians is the dilemma as to miss out. For instance nearly one hundred sometimes not being able to see obvious results whether we should advertise our good children from the four State schools come for their efforts. work or be humble and self-effacing.

"Be assured that, despite the inevitable limitatogether in the Balcatta parish for prayers Over the past decade or so there has been followed by classes in the sacraments. tions and the absence of spectacular results. the one quite large group of volunteers in the Archdiocesan Catechist Service coordina- Holy Spirit is certainly at work in the hearts of Church who have been working away with- tor, Father Nino Vinciguerra, said Balcatta the people you are serving. Your constant efforts out much fanfare and achieving a most sur- was an example of the great work more in the field of education will, in time to come, prising harvest with perhaps much less fan- than 400 volunteer Catechists have been produce good fruits, although you yourselves fare than they really deserve. quietly achieving in the Archdiocese. "We may not reap the harvest of your labour," the carThe work is that of the volunteer cate- all owe these volunteers a debt of gratitude dinal said.

Cardinal Laghi said the service catechists prochists, mainly lay people. who work in gov- for the very positive results that the ernment schools and parishes to teach the Archdiocesan Catechist Program is achiev- vided was one that had spread to every corner of the country. fundamentals of the Catholic faith to ing today".

"It is a service which embraces parish catechetical programmes, religious education in mission settlements, particularly in the Northern Return with more than just memories...

Territories, attention to the Aboriginal communities with the teaching of domestic science skills, mothercraft and nursing to women, regular pas- 25 toral work extended to the whole community, Be a part of our Australian re-union pilgrimage with adult faith education and correspondence Bishop Henry Kennedy andFr Tom O'Connell to lessons for those children who live too far from celebrate an extraordinary 15 years ofgrace.

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New LifeLink Winter Appeal to help poor

By Peter Rosengren Perth Catholics have been given a second chance to contribute to the Archdiocese's welfare work with a new LifeLink Winter Appeal.

Starting on May 1, the 6000 or so people who contributed to last December's regular LifeLink Advent appeal have received a letter from Archbishop Barry Hickey urging them to donate to the continuing work of the Archdiocese's ten LifeLink welfare agencies a second time.

The new ten-week appeal will run until the first week of July.

LifelAnk Winter Appeal coordinator Brett Mendez, said the traditional Advent appeal would remain in place but the winter appeal would channel funds to the archdiocese's ten welfare agencies at a time of the year when they traditionally need it most.

The Winter Appeal was being aimed at the 6000 donors from the Advent appeal listed on the LifeLink fundraising database, he said, and hoped to raise somewhere between $50.000-$60,000.

About $27000 had already been raised, he said.

A number of other Churchrelated organisations that had heard of the appeal had offered to assist. Mr Mendez said.

These included the Knights of the Southern Cross and john XXIII College in Mount Claremont which was forwarding Winter appeal information to parents of all students.

It's fantastic and this is the sort of broad-based church support we want to see," he said.

The ten LifeLink agencies, which collectively help more than 17,000 families and individuals each year, are: Centrecare Skills Training Centre; Catholic Care; Catholic Migrant Centre; Centrecare Marriage and Family Service; Anawim; Djooraminda; Catholic AIDS Pastoral Care; Catholic Outreach; Emmanuel

Catholic Community Care Centre; and the Natural Family Planning Centre.

Mr Mendez said the second annual appeal had been launched, in part, because of the drop that had taken place in Advent fund-raising efforts over the last three years. Last December's Advent appeal had set itself a goal of raising about $260.000 with a reserve goal of raising $225,000.

But only about $170,000 of that had eventually been raised, he said. "So we felt it was necessary and important to go back to those who support us and say its winter time and this is the time when many of the agencies will be needing funds." he told The Record last week.

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Catholic education would resist: Tannock

McAlister said the goal of the fundraising efforts was to eventually ensure that all the LifeLink agencies, which have an annual budget of approximately $1 million, were funded through the appeals rather than being heavily subsidised by the archdiocese.

"What we're trying to do is build things up to the point where the Church doesn't have to put in any funds at all," he said, adding it was still likely to take several years to achieve this.

Mr Mendez said the drop in Advent appeal funds occurred in part because priests and parishioners were busy preparing for Christmas. Also, the drop in 1995's Advent's figure had partly been caused by Right to Life Australia literature circulated at the time, he said.

During the last Advent appeal, a Right to Life Australia leaflet circulated throughout the archdiocese alleged one of the LifeLink agencies, the Centrecare Marriage and Family Service, had an abortion-referral policy and urged Catholics not to donate to the LifeLink appeal.

Archbishop Barry Hickey investigated this and other allegations and denied strongly that Centrecare Marriage and Family Service had an abortion-referral policy.

Mr Mendez said this week some people had contacted LifeLink at the time inquiring, about the leaflet's claims, indicating people were concerned.

Donations can be sent to the LifeLink Winter Appeal at 23 Victoria Square. Perth. For more information telephone: (09) 325 1377

Catholic education around Australia would resist any move by the new Federal Government to divest itself of its involvement in school funding arrangements and would regard such a move as a distinct threat to the development of Catholic schools as it has occurred over the last twenty years, incoming National Catholic Education Commission chairman Peter Tannock said last week. .

Nevertheless, he said he had seen no indication the Liberal and National parties would contemplate doing this for non-government schooling.

Dr Tannock, also vice-chancellor of Fremantle's Notre Dame University, was speaking to The Record after having been appointed chairman of the NCEC for the next four years.

He said a significant issue for the future was the question of whether the Commonwealth intended to alter its relationship to Catholic schooling.

"The National Catholic Education Commission and the Catholic Bishops, to whom the commission is accountable, would be very concerned if there was any kind of move by the Federal Government to reduce or withdraw from its direct involvement In schooling and to simply parcel that responsibility over to the

states in the context of some kind of realignment of Commonwealth-State relationships," he said.

If the issue was raised the NCEC would "be making it absolutely clear (the to Government) that it would be unacceptable to the Catholic school system and they would regard that as a very serious threat to their continued development as has taken place over the last twenty years," he said.

Dr Tannock said he had no the Federal doubts new Government under John Howard would deliver on pre-election commitments funding for Catholic schools.

He denied that the NCEC should be a partisan body identified with the government of the day.

"As far as I'm concerned the National Catholic Education Commission has to be apolitical. it has to work with equal strength and cooperation with both sides of politics in this country and it cannot be partisan. and I don't think it has been partisan," he said. Both sides of politics had shown a strong degree of support for Catholic schools, exhibiting not only a philosophical support but a recognition of the contribution they had made to Australian society, he added.

Migrant chaplains meet

Perth's migrant chaplains met at St Brigid's, West Perth, last week for a regular meeting. Father Adrian Pittarello, centre, a Scalabrinian father who arrived in Perth from Sydney in January, has been appointed coordinator of the archdiocese's multicultural apostolate. Others at the meeting were, left: Fr BoeIslay Smok (Polish); Fr Dominic Domin and Fr Nic Cabaraja (Croatian); Sr Tania DeJong (Catholic Migrant Centre); Mr Gerald Searle (CMC); Sr Joan Paul (CEO); Mr Sipho Khoza (CMC) and Fr Francis Ly (Vietnamese).

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TOMORROW TODAY

Youth want the straight truth 'Don't preach at the young, witness to them'

By Bruce Downes - Director of the Catholic Youth and Young Adult Office.

Giving the truth with passion will convince anyone

The Catholic Youth and Young Adult Ministry

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth - that is what young people are searching for today in the kind of questions they are asking.

Young people are very generous in their commitment and are also at times very idealistic, it is because of these traits that they want to be presented with the Gospel with all the consequences of carrying the cross.

They want to hear it clearly and they will respond strongly to it. What they won't respond to is something that is watered down.

Their response may not be to fully embrace the Gospel but they are in their own mind at least clear where the Church stands and very importantly where they stand.

The message of the Gospel which young people reject often is a mistaken notion of what true Christianity is all about. Clarity is what is needed.

Sharing the Gospel today with young is very difficult. Seeking ways to speak with them so that they can understand and respond to Christ is always challenging.

As someone who endeavours to proclaim the message of Christ to young people it is so easy to give the acceptable answer and not the right answer.

Often we make this mistake because we do not want them to wander away.

But who ever enjoys half the story?

Those of us who have the responsibility of proclaiming the message of Christ to young people constantly seek ways to proclaim this message to them so that they will be able to hear it - where they are at, in this time in history, in this particular place.

What I mean by this is that in attempting to present the Gospel to young people in a manner which they hear it and then can make a response, we must never confuse the method which needs to change with the basic message of Christ.

Give young people the whole truth!

Give them the whole message, but give It to them from a position of witness. I don't believe they want to be preached at, they want to hear the truth and hear It strongly.

They want to hear it from someone they can talk to. share with, someone who is going through the same struggles trying to live out their faith in a world that, at times, is not terribly Christian.

The witness of Christian people is one of the most important factors in reaching out to young people today in the Church.

Integrating faith into our everyday lives is where the young can learn tremendously from those around them.

Creating a Catholic culture in the nineties for young people, is one of the greatest challenges for the Church today. Building this type of culture is not something that one person can do, it is not even something that we as the Youth and Young Adult Ministry can do.

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within our parishes, our families and homes, need to be witnessing to our children and to our young people.

What the catholic Youth and Young Adult Ministry has been trying to do is to raise an awareness of this need within the diocese by presenting things like the youth rallies, camps, retreats, mini courses and conventions.

Success in this venture also depends on being able to talk to adults and parishes, creating in them an awareness of a need for a Catholic lifestyle.

Parents and adults are the decisionmakers within the Church at this point in time - young people are not.

It is very much up to adults and parents to work towards creating more of a Catholic identity than maybe even they experienced when they were younger than we do today.

Certainly, because of things like greater mobility and regional Catholic schools, the sense of parish among young people just isn't there today.

Therefore, the sense of Catholic lifestyle as we understood it in years gone by is not there: In some ways we have to work towards creating something new, taking into account the problems that presently exist, like the fact that young people today are so mobile, and that they go to regional schools as opposed to the parish school.

We have to create new centres or new focuses for Catholic cultural and social life for young people - and rallies and conventions are an attempt to do exactly that.

Last weekend, from Friday night through to Sunday, a team of nine young adults hosted the of second the "Escape Weekends." This was a great opportunity for those who attended to take time out and join others at Eagles' Nest for this unique experience.

The weekend was based around the idea that "we matter to God". 'Through a series of events and personal sharing, the opportunity was presented for young people to share their faith and learn from others.

Inquiries regarding the next weekend can made through the Youth Office on 328 9622.

Obey the 'thirst for learning' as you meet people WASHINGTON (CNS) - Archbishop John Foley, in a commencement address at The Catholic University of America on May 11, borrowed a line from Cardinal John Henry Newman's "Idea of a University" about the two most important places in the university being the library and the dining hall.

"We should have a thirst for learning and a hunger for knowing - knowing other people, their thoughts and aspirations, their values and their dreams," said the archbishop, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

"That's what Cardinal Newman meant when he made reference to the dining hall - the place where our minds are nourished by the interchange and challenge of ideas in the relaxing environment of a meal.

"I ild encourage you to make the dinhit, .00ms of your homes now and in • 's

the future not merely pit-stops for hungry stomachs but places of nourishment for the mind and spirit for yourselves, for your children and for your guests," he said.

The archbishop opened his address by telling the graduates that he was glad Catholic University had invited him to campus and not held against him a decision he made 43 years ago.

When he was a high school senior, he recalled, he had turned down a scholarship to attend Catholic University.

"I opted for the seminary," he explained. "I could have graduated from this university 39 years ago;I think Iprefer graduating with you today.

"Thank you for having me as a member of the class of 1996," he said, referring to the university presenting him with an honourary doctorate of humane letters.

"You make me feel young again, and

that is no small achievement. You also make me feel proud and grateful."

The archbishop also lauded the religious liberty found in the United States and US ethnic diversity as it is expressed in the Catholic Church.

He extolled how America has embraced both, using as a basis for his remarks two American mottos: "E pluribus unum" ("out of many, one") and "One nation under God." pluribus unum' reflects the fact that our nation is both a melting pot and a mosaic - a commingling and a co-existence of many cultures, many ethnic groups, many races and many religions: a political unity binding together a multiform diversity," Archbishop Foley said.

"The fundamental social harmony in the midst of such mind- boggling diversity," he added, brings to mind the "One. nation under God" motto.

Papal award for acolyte stalwart of Applecross

Les Smith: twenty years outstanding service as an acolyte

By Peter Rosengren Les Smith of Applecross. retired paratrooper. policeman and acolyte, wondered what so many people were doing at his house one Wednesday afternoon recently.

Instead, he was surprised to find that one of the callers was Archbishop Barry Hickey. together with St Joseph Pignatelli parish priest Father Geoff Beyer and acolytes from the parish team.

What they were doing, as it turned out, was presenting Les with a rare honour on behalf of Pope John Paul II - the papal cross "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" (for the Church and the Pontiff) - honouring him for twenty years outstanding example and service as an acolyte to the parish. Les had been recommended by Fr Jim Foster and Archbishop Hickey nominated him.

Les, who has retired from his full-time acolyte duties at the age of 74 because of illness, has been helping the life of the parish and the Church throughout his whole life with a faith he is certain comes from his mother, a convert.

The stories he can tell of remarkable things in his work as an acolyte seem to have a tinge of the supernatural and are heartwarming to hear.

Once he was visiting a friend who was seriously sick in hospital and in danger of dying.

The friend was anti-religious and. whenever Les visited. would ask him to talk about anything - except religion.

"When I got there he was being cradled by his wife (who was religious) and his skin was purple." Les said, saying that on the quiet he had given the wife a green scapular to place near her husband.

"So I went to St Pat's in Fremantle to light a candle and say a Rosary." Les said.

Three days later the phone rang. "She said 'come down to the house' - I thought he'd died," I,es said. "She pulled me into the front of the house and pushed the green scapular into my hand, and there he was out the back and reading The Sunday Times."

"I said to him I suppose you'll be like the nine lepers (in the Gospel, who forgot to thank Christ for curing them). and he said `no Les. I know there's a God now and I'll thank him in my own way," Les said.

This is just one of the many such stories Les can tell and it demonstrates that, although hidden from the world, his service has brought Christ into the lives of thousands of people.

His duties have covered just about everything, including

saying the fami4 Rosary with dying people, helping to console them in their last moments, and leading family Rosaries in cases where the family has not been too religious.

"You've got to see someone die and you can feel the presence of Christ there and the Blessed Virgin - and then (the person is) gone." he said.

Shortly after retiring in 1976 he spent 12 months working as a lay volunteer for the Church at Wewak in New Guinea.

A foundation member of St Joseph Pignatelli parish as well as an Associate of the Sisters of Mercy. Les says his faith comes from his mother who was herself a convert and who had a close affinity to Mary and St Joseph.

"We were in Fremantle and poor during the depression and I'd often go with Mum to get handouts," Les said. "That's where I was first influenced because we would go into the Church and say a prayer - that's where I became attached to Our Lady." he said happily.

Les is one of those people that every parish should have at least one of, the type of man we generally describe by referring to a piece of architecture, of all things.

You see, Les is what we call a 'Pillar' of the Church.

FR. TOM MICHEL SJ IN PERTH Fr Tom Michel is currently the Secretary of Inter-religious Dialogue. Society of Jesus. Rome. From 1991 to 1994 he was head of the Office for Islam. Pontifical Council Interreligious Dialogue, Vatican.

An American Jesuit Priest With a PhD in Islamic Theology, Fr. Michel has taught and lectured extensively in various institutions world wide. His many appointments have included: Shahid Bcheshti University, Tehran. Iran.

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Pallottine Order apologises for separation of Aborigines Continued from Page 1 Fr McMahon told The Record the issue touched the Pallottines and their work in WA as Aboriginal children had been taken and relocated to missions and settlements like Beagle Bay and Lombadina in the north of the State and Wandering in the south.

-A lot of churches were involved in it." he said.

Despite this, the submission points out that while the Pallottine's had been guilty because of a misplaced concern for Aboriginal people. several Pallottines were, neveroutstanding in their theless, approach.

"Their work in areas such as language, custom, social welfare and education . has had positive effects in changing community attitudes and helping reverse discriminatory legislation." the submission said.

With the benefits of hindsight, the Pallottines believe that earlier governments' educational, housing, employment and health programs for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders were at best inadequate, at worst non-existent, often leading to crisis situations and institutionalisation."

The Pallotines admitted that due to the inadequate and flawed programs of earlier times "the dedica-

T his woman has difficulty preparing food a s she has lost most of her fingers.

tion of many of our members was expended in ways which subsequent history had proven, did deep damage."

They apologised to any people who had been hurt by well-meaning but inappropriate Pallottine actions.

"We deeply regret every hurt visited on Aboriginal and Islander people who have been taken from their heritage of family," they said.

"We apologise for any role which any of our group, however well meaning, might have played in such activities."

The Pallottines did not want to denigrate in any way the memory of earlier Pallottines. -a dedicated group of men." whose commitment to Aboriginal people was well appreciated by many Aboriginal people and the wider Australian community.

"Without their efforts we are convinced the plight of Aboriginal people would have been considerably worse." the submission said.

The Pallottines respected the richness of law, culture, custom and social structure in Aboriginal society and were committed to opposing measures by any government or agency which would prolong practices that had previously shattered the integrity of Aboriginal communities, it said.

At Jarangdih the Samaritan Sisters have treated over 7,800 leprosy patients.

e ERING F Rill SEVE improve health care and living standards Priests and sisters working in areas of extreme poverty have appealed for f inance to help relieve the frightful suffering of the hungry, the sick and the destitute. There is an appalling amount of sickness caused by lack of food, poor diet, polluted water, primitive conditions and ignorance. Most people don't know how to avoid sickness or what to do when it occurs.

Leprosy is one of the poor's most feared afflictions. The stigma of leprosy still remains. It is a heart breaking disease. Leprosy people live in a world where the true meaning of total poverty is manifested: a physical debility and a complete lack of possessions that spell unutterable dependence on others.

Theirs is the despair of the outcast. In our mission region an estimated 140,000 men, women and children are afflicted with leprosy. Only a small percentage receive regular treatment. Many suffer from starvation which leads to all types of illness with the problems of healing. How they manage to survive is beyond understanding.

But a much bigger problem is tuberculosis and their numbers could well e xceed 300,000. Unable to work, unable to obtain nourishing food and medical care their future seems hopeless. The depth of suffering in our region is impossible for outsiders to comprehend. Vast areas have no medical centres. So the sick have to walk 5, 10, 20km to the nearest clinic or hospital.

Many leave it too late for medical treatment to save them.

But the worst tragedy concerns the children. Children want to live but they suffer and die in great numbers. Ignorance of basic health care and lack of medical centres contribute to a tragic toll of children. The children suffer and die in the final coma of dehydration . . . in the extremities of respiratory infection . . . in the grip of tetanus spasms . . . in the distress of measles . in the long drawn out process of frequent 'ordinary' illnesses which steadily weaken and malnourish the body until it has nothing left to fight the next cold or the next fever or the next bout of diarrhoea. Most deaths were medically avoidable.

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Boulder kids Notre Dame set for government loans stride into new future The University of Notre Dame, Australia has welcomed the introduction of legislation to make it eligible for low-interest loans from the WA Government.

The move brings the Fremantle-based Catholic university into line with non-government schools which are able to apply for such loans.

Vice Chancellor of Notre Dame, Dr Peter Tannocic, welcomed the WA legislation.

"This legislation is recognition that Notre Dame is an important part of the State's educational infrastructure."

"It also acknowledges the importance of diversity in the university sector." he said.

He said that the Fremantle port-side university's success in enrolments had come

from community support. "Our success in building enrolments to the present level is proof that there is not only community support for our courses but also for our ethos which places an emphasis on community service and Christian values."

The University of Notre Dame began teaching in 1992 and has about 1000 students.

Most of them are based at Fremantle, with about 150 students at a smaller campus in Broome.

The university offers a range of degree, diploma and certificate courses including business, teaching, environmental studies, communications, Aboriginal studies and theology.

Notre Dame's chief source of capital funding has been the Catholic Church.

It has not received capital funding or land grants from State of Federal Governments.

As a privately funded university, Notre Dame does not receive the Commonwealth funding granted to most other universities.

For example, Curtin University received $142 million in Commonwealth grants for operating purposes in 1994 while the University of Western Australia received $146 million.

However, NDAs Broome campus does receive some Federal funding through Aboriginal education programs.

Five more say yes New library for St Pius X is sung into place by students

Striding out (from left): Michael Curtis, Sally Savage, Justin Coleman, Fallon Grant and Michael Hull.

Students at St Joseph's School. Boulder, have commenced the new term in a brand new school on a 4-hectare, Burt Street site.

The school has been forced to move because of the continuing expansion of population in the area.

The original 0.75 hectare site in Wittenoom Street has been used since 1898 and the school traces Its history back a year before that, when the Josephite Sisters arrived from Northampton to bring Catholic Education to the Goldfields.

The new school will be Blessed and offidally opened on 30 August.

This is not the first time that St Joseph's has had to rebuild. In 1903 and 1927 the buildings were destroyed by cyclones.

Between 1927 and 1949 the school continued in what were described as "temporary" premises.

Five members of the Australian-founded Confraternity of Christ the Priest - one brother and four students for the priesthood - made their final profession at a concelebrated Mass at Christ the Priest Seminary in Scoresby, Victoria, on Saturday, May 4.

The Mass, which was attended by relatives and friends from interstate and Victoria, was concelebrated by priests of the Confraternity, along with Fathers Cormac Nagle, OFM, John Murphy, Gerard Loughnan and Peter Waters.

Father Laurie Gallagher from Ballarat Diocese and Fr Robert Coughlan, Parish Priest of Healesville, were also present.

Those who made their final profession were Br Anthony (Eugene Ashkar) from Birkdale, Brisbane; Br Darren Howie from Healesville, Victoria; Br Ronald Donoghue from Merrylands, Sydney; Br Erick Quinteros from Moonah, Hobart; and Br Paul Crotty from Strathmore, Melbourne.

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The role of the Board is to set objectives for Catholic Marriage Preparation and Education Services, formulate and determine policy, and generally oversee the Board priorities and direction of the agency. The Board is accountable to the Roman Catholic Archbishop who authorises all appointments.

It you are supportive of the ethos of The Catholic Marriage Preparation and Education Services and have expertise in the areas of finance and /or accountancy we would like to hear from you.

Also people with business acumen, skills in marketing and fund raising or experience with human service organisation management would be welcome to apply. Selected applicants will be invited to attend an initial briefing session.

Expression of Interest forms and Selection Criteria may be obtained from the office of the Director on 325 1859. Completed forms should be forwarded to: The Director Catholic Marriage Preparation and Education Services GPO Box P1217 Perth WA 6001

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Two of the highlights at the recent opening of a new library and Year 7 classroom at St Pius X School, Manning were performances by the school choir of Latin hymns.

The school choir sang a moving rendition of Ave Maria in Latin and the Blessing and Opening Ceremony concluded with the traditional hymn, Gloria Deo, again in Latin.

These two highlights of the musical program were interspersed with more contemporary hymns providing these young performers with an introduction to the diverse musical tradition of the Church.

The new facilities were blessed by Bishop Healy and officially opened by the Director of Catholic Education, Mrs Therese Temby.

St Pius X School has over 220 students from pre-primary to Year 7.

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Church 'should put families first' VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The family should be placed at the centre of Church pastoral plans because of its central importance, Pope John Paul II said.

"It has become clear that a narrow pastoral outreach is not enough: the family must be placed at the centre of diocesan or national plans, because the future of humanity passes through the family," the Pope said.

"Today more than ever families must he encouraged to discover the resources and energies which they have and must take responsibility for their futures," he said.

The Pope's comments came in a May 9 speech marking the 15th anniversary of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

L'ellers lo Michael Davies praised Pope, urged loyalty r Paul Sheridan's attack on Michael Davies and the Ecclesia Dei Society in last week's Record was both intemperate and inaccurate.

1, too, was at Mr Davies' lecture and I did not hear him say the things that Mr Sheridan thinks he heard.

Mr Davies' talk was not, as Mr Sheridan says, an attack on Papal authority, Vatican II and the Novus Ordo Mass. He spoke throughout of his admiration for our present Pope and urged loyalty to the Magisterium.

Mr Davies' main arguments were direct-

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ed at what happened after Vatican II, the interpretations and additions that followed. Only towards the end of the talk did Mr Davies speak in favour of the old Latin Mass.

He did not argue that the old Mass prevented heresy but suggested that one of the reasons for the alarming falling away from the Faith is the confusion and rejection by many people resulting from abuses in the new liturgies.

This is worth arguing about charitably and intelligently. It's a valid point of view and there are good arguments to be put on both sides.

should raise such antagonism The Ecclesia Dei Society fared no better Latin Mass Mr Sheridan. It is one of like people n i than the Pope in Mr Sheridan's reportage many Rites in the Church and most of the of the talk us who attend just want to be left alone to I am a member of the society precisely say our prayers as best we can. because it is very moderate in its aims We do not deny the validity of the new and always works under the authority of and will attend those Masses when Mass the Pope and the bishops. Mr Sheridan Mass is unavailable. old the accuses us of disobedience. Disobedient Davies is a deeply committed Michael to whom? member of the Church concerned and Not to the Pope surely who, in his "unwitting tool of the an him call to and Apostolic Letter Ecclesia Del of 2 July does, is not only Sheridan Mr as devil", 1988, urged all bishops to make available false. but grossly silly, the old Latin Mass when and where it Tony Evans was requested by the faithfuL It is inexplicable that the traditional East Fremantle

Pregnancy aid service query

rals given as part of the operations of its Pregnancy Counselling Service.

The decision of the Centrecare Board to Pregnancy its "discontinue now Counselling Service" suggests that some of those allegations were correct.

In deciding not to provide this service. the agency again can be perceived as having lost sight of the parameters within which it must operate as an agency of the Catholic Church.

Surely, the answer to this perception is to make it clear to Centrecare and its Board that it must continue to undertake this pregnancy counselling work and that in all of its activities, Centrecare must provide its advice and assistance within the confines of the teachings of the Catholic Church.

And, if this presents difficulties, a fresh start should be possible within Centrecare perhaps even using the suitably trained counsellors and supervisors who have already been identified for the proposed new agency. The answer should not lie in the establishment of a further agency because of an identified deficiency found in another.

If so, in the face of the current debate, will we soon see the establishment of another independent Catholic body to provide family services? Let's hope not.

D. J. Barry Karrinyup

I have a sneaking suspicion that if a certain Middle Eastern refugee Family travelling from Bethlehem to Egypt was listed as one of the respondents to that survey, some people may well have been upset because, after all, these three people weren't even Catholics!

Sister Glenys Yeoman SIG Bunbury

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he response of the Centrecare Director (The Record, 25 April), ably supported by the Director, Bunbury (2 May), to the criticism by Anne Pike (11 April) of Centrecare's research report, Families Speaking for Themselves. shows clearly that Centrecare has lost sight of the parameters within which it must operate. as an agency of the Catholic Church, albeit within the Archdiocese of Perth.

As Catholics we should question the commissioning of such research and what were its terms of reference. We should also question the definition of the term "family" to make sure it is defined in accordance with Catholic teachings and does not simply reflect the latest popular, secular or humanist ideas.

The commissioning of the research and the publishing of the results must surely have been made in the face of likely criticism and the divisions it would create on what should be the Christian approach to family.

No-one is questioning the integrity or professionalism of those involved with either the report or at Centrecare. The fundamental question that has been raised is whether the report and the work of Centrecare accurately reflect the message of Christ towards the people of Christ who live in families. I would suggest that the answer, too, is fundamental.

But, this debate pales into insignificance when compared with the recent announcement by the Archbishop of a proposal to establish a new agency whose sole objective will be to provide a pregnancy counselling service (The Record. 18 April) having the status of "either a diocesan or an independent Catholic body".

Such a service was, until recently, an integral part of Centrecare's work and it will he recalled that late in 1995 allegations were made about some deficiencies and irregularities perceived in some refer-

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omehow letters to newspaper columns seem to spark debate in the most surprising way.

Elizabeth's letter (The Record, 9 May) was such as response. Her perception of my picture of Jesus as "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild" could not be further from reality.

I imagine Jesus probably had a good laugh too. After all, it is recorded that he disturbed the peace (of the Establishment) by cleaning out (with vigour and passion) the various commercial enterprises that flourished in the Temple precincts.

"Gentle Jesus, meek and mild indeed"!

Anyway back to the real point of my initial letter.

the Catholic Church will never retain or gain respect (or indeed converts) from the broader community.

Contrary to Sr Glenys' opinion, I believe that it is important that the broader community perceives that there is a real difference between members of the Catholic community and members of the broader community.

This difference was that which inspired the conversions of many of the early Christians.

If there is no real difference between valI read with interest Sister Glenys and beliefs of the Catholic community ues (2 Record The in Yeoman's comments the rest of society, we are all wasting and May). time. This difference, however, has our say dare It is of little concern to me, and I whatsoever to do with elitism, or nothing to many other Catholics, that Anne Pike's as Sr Glenys suggests. indifference comments were seen to be in any way to attracting members of the secret The al'. "judgement to the Church (the community broader What is of greater concern is whether no secret at all. is particular) in young valid. were Anne Pike's criticisms heroically proand faithfully in lies It It may have escaped the notice of some . uncompmunmitigated the claiming Record, The of readers of the letters page as Pope John truth ted uncomplica mised, but there are some Catholics who are outdone. unceasingly has II Paul used raged that their donations are being Centrecare's failure to adopt an orthodox by the Church to fund such organisations dare I say Catholic) definition of a fam(or as Centrecare when they clearly misuse above mentioned study. is typical in these funds in studies such as that recent- ily the apologist mentality, which Catholic the of ly conducted and commented upon by betrayal of our heroic traa is add might I Tony April).

11 Anne Pike (The Record. in point. case a is It dition.

Pietropiccolo (25 April) and others. l couple" cannot "homosexua so-called A are "we that Sr Glenys goes on to say family. a are they that claim concerned that our churches are emptyAside from the fact that homosexuality ing." and goes on to cite "judgemental attiis against natural order, a "homosexitself tudes", "eliteness", "indifference" and so simply cannot produce a famcouple" ual forth as possible reasons. assistance of means which the without ily I would put it to Sr Glenys that perhaps has condemned as disoritself Church the a cause of the problem is that members of evil. or dered less becoming are the broader community Plain common sense tells us that a "same and less sure what it is that the Catholic family" is not a family. sex Church stands for. have chosen to ignore the Centrecare I would further suggest that the solution of the Catholic Church teaching x orthodo to this problem is the very opposite to that and implicitly promote the idea of samewhich Sr Glenys proposes. sex families as families.

A large part of the problem is that certain On what basis does Mr Pietropiccolo (the community members of the catholic that in only including "church marclaim clergy included) will not stand firm on riages" and "first marriages" the study the of issues of basic orthodox teaching would had an "artificial basis".

Church.

Perhaps Mr Pietropiccolo has allowed If such apologists believe that by making his own value judgements and prejudices the Church "more relevant", it will win the to dictate the outcome of the research. respect and approval of the broader comRory O'Hagan munity. they are sadly mistaken.

Watering down the orthodox teaching of Attadale

Only heroic truth

Morris West still floats above surface of human experience

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orris West. Australian Catholic novelist and author of the best-selling The Devil's Advocate, has been called a master story-teller, and a Catholic writer with a deep instinct for truth.

Within the Catholic church he's long been seen as a major voice on religion and the world a passionate, independent critic of everything that's wrong in organised Christianity in the late 20th century.

In a recent 80th birthday profile in The Australian Magazine, we were reminded of West's past criticisms of Church teachings on birth control, divorce, the celibate priesthood and women's ordination.

We were also given new criticisms of the Church. We learn first that West rejects the notion of the Devil, which he calls "a

relic of a very ancient cos- Scotland show, it is very much a mogony". West rejects the very part of modern reality.

Second, West is like many othCatholic idea that evil is inextricably woven into the fabric of ers in seeming obsessed with our existence because, he says, the Catholic church's attitude to "to me litl is a notion utterly con- sex. These days, it seems a widetradictory to the restoration of all ly accepted assumption that if the Church's rulings on sex are things in Christ."

But his ideas are very old hat. too difficult for many people to Of course, the idea that evil is live with, then the rulings , obvihere to stay is not a pleasant ously, should change.

But this is not logical. Surely one. But as the recent tragic massacres of Port Arthur in the point about all moral teachTasmania and Dunblane in ings - whether they relate to sex,

money or driving on the roads is that they tell us how we should act, not how we do. You don't need to be a Catholic to see this.

Here we should be frank Yes, some clergymen in the modern world do have problems with the Church's celibacy rule, just as some priests have had problems through the centuries.

But the real point is, most do not. Anyone who has known a few priests in their time, as every church-going Catholic must have, realises that celibacy for them is not half the issue it is made out to be in sensationalist movies like Priest.

From talking to ordinary priests, my impression is that if there is a problem it is not a priest's own decision to abstain from sex. What they suffer from more is the morale-sapping

effects of their profession being continually and publicly questioned and attacked.

One striking fact about such criticisms is that they are often made by intellectuals - people far removed from the nitty-gritty dirty work that ordinary priests carry out at the grass-roots, parish level of the Catholic Church every day.

At this level, priests know that ordinary people still hunger for the traditional fare they offer spiritual and moral advice, the sacraments, absolution.

For all his 27 novels and 80 years on earth Morris West gives me the feeling he is still floating somewhere above the surface of human experience.

I hope before he dies he meets someone a bit more rooted in the day-to-day realities of life.

Someone like a parish priest.

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Remember, Mary Help of Christians, your Australian children in their struggles me for there is hardly any power in the mechanical world greater than that of a wedge.

Once you can get the thin edge in, it is only a question of time and force how far the remainder shall be driven. The hardest stone, the toughest wood, are not able to resist its power.

Down through the ages, generations of Christian communities have found in Mary, the Mother of God, the wedge to drive through many a difficult situation. he earliest memories of childThe first group of apostles and dishood linger with us; the pass- ciples grapples with the mandate of ing years both enrich and the recently ascended Jesus to endear them. preach to the whole world. Mary was Somewhere back in the dawning of In their midst in the role of a Mother, my conscious experience is a picture an encouraging presence and life of a church in the evening with lights supporting sweetness. streaming out through the windows In succeeding ages, when the and people singing inside. My folk Church was racked by great theologdelighted in telling me that for days I ical controversies about the nature of went around saying "Snail our life Christ, about power and authority in and sweetness". the Church, the ordinary people Later on, of course, I came to the short-circuited it all by turning to the realisation that it was Benediction Mother of a Gifted Son. and the words were actually "Hail They beseeched and implored her our life and sweetness" from the help and never were they left wantigreat prayer "Hail Holy Queen". ng or abandoned. In the harshness of I suppose most young children's the medieval social system, the powvery first contact with the spiritual is erful ones, the kings, aristocrats of through their mother, through Mary, high birth and learning, and powerJesus's Mother, and the family ful bishops lorded it over the uneduwarmth of Christmas time. This is a cated, impoverished peasantry. Again very natural experience since at that they turn to the Help of Christians for time of life, children live so close to a life-supporting presence and sweettheir mothers. ness.

They experience a reassuring, It was often the down-trodden, the understanding presence and sweet- despised, the unimportant who perness which will, with the passage of severed in the Church, despite the years, be the last to leave a drifting. occasional protest of the greater hardening heart. minds, what G. K. Chesterton proAn old priest, wise with the wisdom claims to be "... the most popular, the of a life-time of priestly care, once most poetical and the most practicaltold me that as a Catholic leaves the ly inspiring of all the distinctively church, the last thing he or she leaves Catholic traditions of Christianity". is the memory of Mary, and the first In her role as Mother of the Church, thing they meet on their return, is she has indeed been the Help of rekindled thoughts and prayers in Christians. In the dry deserts of theoher honour. logical disputations and rational jusLittle wonder, he added, for remem- tifications, she has indeed been the brance of motherhood is a strong ever-present, warm, human element, force like a wedge which can drive lending the sweetness of things to through the hardest of hearts. The our daily life. words made a deep impression on When the early European settlers The editor of the Australian Salesian Bulletin, Salesian Father Frank Freeman, writes for The Record on the significance of the Solemnity of Mary. Help of Christians, the patroness of Australia, celebrated next Friday, 24 May, adding to Australians awareness of May as the month given over to honour Mary, the Mother of God.

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Mary, Help of Christians, Patroness of Australia: Remember, 0 Most Loving Virgin Mary that never was it known, that in any age, anyone who fled to your protection was left unaided . . .

arrived on these southern shores, those transported ones, the rejected ones, the priestless ones, they clung, despite all their trials and tribulations, "Weeping in this vale of tears", to her, the Mother, the help of Christians in order to sweeten the drudgery of their lives.

In 1884, the first Provincial Synod of the Church in Australasia was held in Sydney and decreed that Mary be the Patroness of Australasia under the title of 'the Help of Christians".

The Australian Church today is experiencing a wave of problems steadily emptying pews. increasing priestless altars.

We grieve for the loss of so many young people; we reel from scandals within our communities as we are exposed to the often gloating spotlight of media attention. We need the encouraging life-giving presence and sweetness of a mother.

Surely we, who dwell in the land dedicated to her, have the right and perhaps the special privilege of turning to her, "The Help of Christians" to guide us, with the divine assistance of her son, out of the present confusion, the loss and the disappointments which beset us into more peaceful times.

Let us, with all the childlikeness requested by Jesus, approach her during this month of May, a month traditionally dedicated to her honour.

Well may we do so with the words of those great time-honoured prayers. the Hail Mary and the Hail Holy Queen.

Yet perhaps, as a sign of our desperation, we might add a little blackmail by using St Bernard's great prayer, the Memorare, reminding her of her impressive past record: Remember, 0 Most Loving Virgin Mary that never was it known, that in any age, anyone who fled to your protection was left unaided . . . ."

The thin edge of the wedge of Motherhood, and all its life-giving sweetness, will certainly bear its fruits if we but turn to her.

Hail Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now.

No football coach has Ascension hope up his sleeve This week Record contributor Peter Dwan begins a regular series of meditations on the readings at Sunday Mass, starting with the Solemnity of the Ascension this Sunday.

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few years ago, the Australian Bishops transferred the celebration of the Ascension 2rom Ascension Thursday to the following Sunday to coach wants his players to attend his enable more Catholics to attend Mass on half-time address, namely to review what has gone before and to resolve to make this great feast.

Christian piety hasn't highlighted the the future better than the past.

In her liturgy, the Church reviews the Ascension, even though it is one of the five Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. Yet past, giving us two accounts of the the message of the Ascension is razor- Ascension. The first reading comes from sharp, especially during this Decade of the Acts of the Apostles, (Acts Chapter 1: verses 1-11,) while the Gospel passage Evangelisation. comes from St Matthew's gospel, The Feast of the Ascension is celebrated (Matthew .28:16-20.) during the Australian football season We must realise that before Pentecost, from which certain analogies can be the Apostles were worldly-minded. The drawn to help convey the message of the Acts of the Apostles says that just Feast. before the Ascension, the Apostles asked The Church wants us to attend Mass on Jesus: "Lord, has the time now come? Are the Solemnity of the Ascension for similar you going to restore the kingdom to reasons to those which makes a football Israel?" Our Lord replied: "It is not for you The Record, May 16 1996 Page 8

to know times or dates which the Father has decided by his own authority."

Just as a football coach would say that a player asking such a question didn't understand the nature of the game, Our Lord was trying to tell his Apostles, and us, that the name of the "game," wasn't power grabbing, nor even pastoral care, but rather evangelisation.

It is a tragic mistake for the Church to be so concerned with maintenance that she has little time, thought, finance or personnel to devote to mission.

Christ told his Apostles that they were to be witnesses to Him, "not only in Jerusalem.

Today's short gospel passage repays careful study. Our Lord's final words before his Ascension were: "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations; baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teach them to observe all the commands I gave you. And know that I am with you always, yes, to the end of time."

If we despair of leading others to Christ, ills because we forget that evangelisation is primarily God's work rather than ours, although He demands our co-operation.

We need to ponder Christ's words: "Know that I am with you always; yes, to

the end of time." If we are really convinced that God is with us, we shall be prepared to make great leaps in faith and leave the results to God. The second reading, (Ephesians 1:1723) is St Paul's prayer for the Ephesians.

"May he [God] enlighten the eyes of your Mind to see what hope his call holds for you."

We need to be people of hope. Football teams have won matches against better teams largely because they believed that they could succeed.

However, there seems to be too much despair and defeatism among Catholics today. St Paul also says: "This you can tell from the strength of his power at work in Christ when he used it to raise him from the dead and make him sit at his right hand in heaven." Surely we can trust in a God who can emerge victorious from such an apparently hopeless situation as Calvary.

While football barrackers can be hopeful even to the point of wishful thinking, our tendency is too often in the other direction - pessimism where God has given us sure grounds for hope.

May the Solemnity of the Ascension 1996 be a time when we ask Our Lord to increase in us the virtue of hope.

Features

The cavalry still rides to the aid of Christians in Israel Land, from Cyprus in the west to Jordan in the east.

Established in Jerusalem in 1099 housands wait with baited breath around the to protect the Christians and the Commonwealth each year Holy Shrine of the Tomb of the for the Queen's Birthday list of hon- Holy Sepulchre, the order today ours to be announced as a mark of comprises 40 national lieutenanrecognition in business or some cies in many countries around the other enterprise. world.

But as the CBE's and OBE's are In Australia, because of the vast sprinkled around to magnates, rock land mass of the continent, the stars and occasional heroes, an emphasis is on state lieutenancies ancient Catholic order of knights rather than one national lieutenanand dames dating back to the qr.

Crusades, and devoted to the more The Lieutenancy of Australiasupernatural goal of protecting Eastern in Sydney and the Christians and the Holy Sites in Lieutenancy of Australia-Southern Israel, keeps alive a cause and a in Melbourne were both inaugurattradition dating back nearly a thou- ed in October 1995. sand years.

The Lieutenancy of AustraliaIt is the little known but world- Western was established in Perth wide Equestrian Order of the Holy In 1988.

Sepulchre, and new members are Two more Australian lieutenanadmitted each year wearing the cies are being formed in Brisbane colourful regalia symbolic of their and Adelaide to enhance the benecause that would easily have been fits to the Church in the Holy Land.. recognised by the knights of the Pope John Paul II has stressed that Archbishop Barry Hickey, second from left, with new members of the Equestrian Order late last month first Crusade. the Holy Land must always be and the means to maintain its And while the origins of the order home to living Christians and must work. date back centuries its aims and not he allowed to degenerate into Following the Crusades and the objects remain constant. only a museum of holy places for return of the knights to their homes They are: the practice of the tourists. in Europe, the spirit of the knights The origins of the Order of the crusaders survived as knights-reliChristian life in filial love towards the Papacy and the Church; the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem are gious in many parts of the Western conservation and propagation of somewhat uncertain.

World. the Faith in the .Holy Land; the proBut it is certain that a Christian In the Holy Land, although times tection and upholding in the Holy community lived and devoted itself were difficult and the order might Places of the sacred, indefeasible to the care of pilgrims from the almost be said to have ceased to rights of the Catholic Church. early fourth century to the end of exist, there were always faithful Archbishop Barry Hickey install- the eleventh century when the and loyal members who during ed four new knights and three new Crusaders arrived in the Holy Land these dark days maintained the dames as members of the Equest- to drive out the Saracens and afford spiritual and corporal works, and rian Order of the Holy Sepulchre it some protection. continued to give material assisWhen Godfrey de Bouillon tance in defence of the Church. during an investiture Mass in St The new dames during the ceremony in St Mary's Mary's Cathedral, Perth on Satur- entered Jerusalem in the summer The order itself, however, never of 1099 with his Crusaders he died. It received energetic resusciday, 27 April.

Kalamunda Holy Family parish- found the successors of this devot- tation from Pope Alexander VI in ioner, Gerry Garbellini, Michael ed band of Christians.

1496. Popes Julius II, Leo X and Sicilian°, Jeffry and Joan 'Frew from He concluded that not only they Clement XII also gave the order Our Lady of the Rosary parish in but the Holy Places themselves their vigorous support and in 1796 Doubleview; Philip Zeid of Holy needed a constant guard. From this Benedict XIV gave the order a new Rosary, Nedlands; Mary Haydock need stems the aims and objects of Constitution. of Holy Family Church in Como; the order.

In 184Z Pius IX on the 23 July and Peggy Nice-Lynch of St The military section of the order restored the jurisdiction of the Joseph's Church, Subiaco; were all bound itself by vows of chastity, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, in so installed in the Church's most poverty and obedience. It adopted doing bestowing on the Patriarch ancient knightly order of Christian a white uniform with the the responsibility of ruling and chivalry.

Crusader's Cross, surrounded by administering the Order.

The fundamental purpose of the four small Greek crosses, which Finally Pius XI decided that the Equestrian Order is to provide sup- remains the basis of the uniform of main task of the knights was to proport and protection through the the order today. vide for the support of the work of Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem for the The other sections of the order the Patriarch by offerings and other struggling Church of the Holy provided the welfare personnel, services.

Archbishop Hickey knights a prospective member

By Peter Rosengren

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Bethlehem Christians fight to maintain a secure foothold The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, above, seeks to help Christians in the Holy Land continue to live there as a Christian witness.

CNS correspondent Judith Sudilovsky reports on the difficulties Christians experience in maintaining a presence in Bethlehem in the Holy Land.

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group of Bethlehem Christians has appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court to stop confiscation of land for construction of a "security road."

The land in question, south of Jerusalem and north of Bethlehem, is owned by Christian families and also includes some church land.

"If they take that part of land il ls like they are smashing the Christians," said Hani Handal, 35, who with his three siblings is in danger of losing seven hectares.

"We will have no place for our children, no place to build.

"Buying land in this country is very expensive compared to the income we receive. If our children can't buy land, they will have to leave the country because

there will be no opportunity for The committee has met with internation- from Jerusalem into Bethlehem and passthem here," Handal, who has four young al non-governmental agencies, including es in front of Rachel's Tomb, which is children, said. church groups, to ask for their help in rais- under Israeli control. Lawyer Jawad At the end of March, the Israeli Civil ing international awareness of the issue. Boulos, who is representing the commitAdministration announced that about ten The NGOs divided themselves into vari- tee's case in court, said this would allow hectares of land along Bethlehem's north- ous committees to tackle the problem on Israel to close traffic down at will in ern boundaries were slated for expropria- different fronts. that area under the guise of security. tion to build a "security road." "It is com"This has a very human effect. It affects "They say they will give free access, but mon practice even in Israel to expropriate the land of grandparents, but it also affects we don't believe them. Whenever and for land for public projects," Civil their children and their children's chil- whatever reason they want, they will be Administration spokesman Peter Lerner dren," Brother Ronald Gallagher, able to close the street and put their hands was quoted as saying.

Bethlehem University rector who attended around Bethlehem's throat," he said.

The Committee for the Defence of Land the meeting, said.

Some 250 Palestinians, including memfrom Confiscation in Bethlehem contends A spokesman for Israel's Ambassador to bers of various political groups from that some 141ha of land will be used for the Holy See said Israeli and Vatican offi- Bethlehem and surrounding areas, the project. Committee members say the cials have discussed the issue. Latin- protested the land confiscations and curplanned road will be approximately seven rite Patriarch Michel Sabbah has issued rent road construction in front of kilometres long, will extend the boundary statements against the confiscation.

Rachel's Tomb last week of greater Jerusalem and will create a new About 40 families will be directly affectThe Supreme Court case, postponed border between Jerusalem and the West ed by the latest plans, but some 300 more repeatedly, was due to be heard yesterday.

Bank Two other roads also are planned. families who own land on either side Wednesday.

"When they finish building And con- of the planned road can possibly be affectMeanwhile, the Israeli Parliament voted structing all the roads, we will be com- ed in the future, Bethlehem Deputy Mayor unanimously to spend $A93 million to pletely isolated from the rest of the West liana Nasser said. 'This is the last open improve facilities for an expected influx of Bank and Jerusalem," said Jamal Salaman, space available in Bethlehem. We tourists to Jesus' birthplace in the year secretary of the Bethlehem Municipality were hoping to build our future there."

2000. The city of Bethlehem in the West and a member of the defence committee Part of the planned road will include a Bank has planned a similar project in who faces losing family land. section of the main road that now leads anticipation of the millennium.

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Reviews

A tale of thespians suitable for a midwinter's evening A Midwinter's Tale - Cinema Paradiso, Northbridge.

Reviewed by Peter Rosengren

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e all tend to douse something we are enthusiastic about in superlatives, especially when emerging from the cinema or the theatre, but it is the actual inhabitants of the thespian world - the actors, directors, hangerson and critics - who most notoriously take the cake in this regard.

"Fabulous!, wonderful! brilliant!" are the words that spring most easily to mind as we enthusiastically try to communicate the effect a particular film or drama has had on us.

But even our best efforts are swamped by any glimpse behind stage when the same gushy words mean either just plain approval, something much less, or even their bitchiest opposite.

It is their curious and characteristic capacity to gush which seems to flow from a fundamental insecurity that is in-part caricatured so cutely in Kenneth Brannagh's latest film, a comedy called A Midwinter's Tale.

The petty jealousies, insecurities and hatreds between and among the prima donnas of the footlights, not to mention their often outright pseudo-intellectualism, provide an often hilarious and sometimes clever, entertaining film which is suitable for all to see with one proviso: in one or two scenes there is some brief but strong language.

A Midwinter's Tale is therefore a success on almost any level you care to take it.

Written and directed by Brannagh, himself a widely-acclaimed actor and director whose training in the classics has helped

drive him to stardom in the last ten years, A Midwinter's Tale has clearly been penned with an insider's eye accustomed to the highly insecure, intense and neurotic types of the stage and film industry.

But it is also an eye which fondly beholds the ultimate goal of the stage and acting, to produce drama which moves people at their deepest level or impart a profound truth, and this provides the counter-balance which prevents the film from sliding into a mere exercise in sarcasm.

Joe Harper is an out of work actor (aren't they always?) who, in order to save his sister's village school, decides to put on a production of Hamlet in the local Church.

He assembles a dramatic company which features a production designer named, of all things, Fadge' ("my really special friends call me Fl") who finally decides the set will be identical to the interior of the Church, and a shortsighted Ophelia who refuses to wear glasses.

Gertrude is to be played by a drag queen while Richard Briers (remember The Good Life?) is the ageing Claudius who can't stand homosexuals ("The English theatre is dominated by the class system and a bunch of Oxbridge Homo's" he exclaims when discovering he will share digs with Gertrude.)

Joan Collins plays Joe's agent and it is just too hard to resist the temptation to say that she plays a money hungry superficial 'b' to perfection. As far as I can make out it was chiefly by adding the word "darling" to the end of every second sentence.

And auditioning for the role of Laertes, Nicholas Farrell sends up all actors who have ever described an Ace of Spades as an amazing black thing with fabulous curves evocative of the shimmering

Arabian desert sands beneath a passionate moon when he assures Joe: "Hamlet is Bosnia. Hamlet is me. Hamlet is this desk.

Hamlet is the air. Hamlet is my grandmother!"

The actors particularly enjoyed having a poke at the intensity of their profession and the importance with which it so often regards itself, and it is reassuring to see that Brannagh was happy to thumb his nose at the sacred cow of the dramatic arts. My only question is: why it has been shot completely in black and white?

Not that it matters. At rock bottom, it is the underlying story of how a motley crew of actors, despite all their neuroses, are to overcome circumstances and succeed in making the mighty challenge of a play as complex as Hamlet come alive for their audience that is the real core of this film.

So if you are looking for a film distinguishable from many of its cinema arthouse peers by its unpretentiousness, intelligence and clever comedy which will certainly make you laugh, this is the one for you.

Carnage, horror of the Somme never ceases to amaze Somewhere in France: The collected letters of Lewis Windermere Nott, 1916.

December January HarperPerennial, 334pp.

Reviewed by Peter Rosengren.

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everal years after his mother's death in 1970, David Nott uncovered among her personal belongings a box containing hundreds of tightly written pages of thin, nearly transparent paper.

The pages were the 130 or so letters written from January to December 1916 from his father, Lewis, who was serving in the trenches in France, back to his young wife, Doris, living in Scotland with their two infant children.

Doubly interesting to the reader is the fact that the letters, now published for the first time, convey not only one man's unique impressions of the Great War over a twelve month period but are also the record of a great love affair between a young husband and wife who are separated by war and distance and long to be with each other.

Reading them, it is impossible not to be affected either by Lewis Nott's account of the daily carnage he saw or the touching and loving tenderness he communicated to his wife as he described the day-to-day life in and behind the trenches.

Nott, an Australian of Scottish descent from Bundaberg in Queensland, had travelled to Scotland to study medicine after graduating as a mining engineer from the School of Mines at Ballarat in Victoria.

At the outbreak of the war, like so many, he had joined up to `do his bit' despite being only six months away from graduating as a doctor. Nott spent most of 1915 training in England as an adjutant in the 15th Battalion of one of England's most famous units, the Royal Scots. When they were posted to France, off he went too.

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sides of the line could hear each other talking between the shelling.

Even more miraculous in a sense is the fact that Nott was present for, and survived, the first Battle of the Somme which began on 1 July and which resulted in the worst casualties the War had yet seen.

At the end of it he wrote back to Doris: "The fighting was so savage, so absolutea ly all consuming, nothing else in the universe but to kill or be killed. We wiped 41} -4 them out, the men were up and over with 14 bayonets, superb. For three days, 72 fearful hours it went on. We could not move lanuo ry Occrinbtr I 416 S O MM t TH our dead or wounded, who just lay around, in full view, calling for water, there was none. The Hun is a devil, waiting to see the men move, trying to escape, then shoot them. When cornered they cry out for mercy like babies. My sweet, there is no mercy here."

And later: "The Boche is living in perfect hell down there and no one knows it better than we do . . . . We have taken about 40,000 prisoners and his dead lay about just like flies.

I saw hundreds and thousands, some shell holes and dug outs had as many as thirThrough the letters, Nott communicates teen to seventeen dead and the open not only the horror of the conflict but the ground over which he has counter attacked was in places littered with dead. . grinding tedium, the filth and squalor.

He also recounts the occasional rays of But the small gains in ground had come sunlight that entered the soldiers lives, such as the one time he heard a nightin- at an abysmal cost. The 15th and 16th gale sing in No Mans Land between the Battalions of the Scots, the only two of its units serving on the front, lost fearful casulines; a sad and poignant moment.

That he survived at all is as close to alties.

Excerpts from the unit records and newsmiraculous as one could get. Wounded on several occasions, by the time he was able paper reports at the time show that on the to stand down at the end of twelve 1st of July, 1916, the 15th lost 494 men and months' service to resume his studies in 19 officers while another unit, the 10th medicine, most of the men he had known West Yorks, lost a total of 710 officers and men. On that one fearful day alone more and served with had already been killed.

At times the German trenches were just than 32 different battalions had lost more eighteen yards away and troops on both than 500 men each.

By the end of the 12 months, Nott is clearly worn down mentally and in spirit by the carnage and it is with relief that we find his request to retire from the lines and resume studies as a doctor finally approved.

However, it is also clear that the one thing which sustained him throughout his ordeal was his and Doris' marriage, the thought of his wife and two young children at home waiting to see him.

Only one letter from Doris to her husband has survived, giving a clue as to how the war had affected him and all the others who had seen action.

Writing to her mother-in-law in Australia shortly after Lewis got his only leave for the 12 months, she said: "He looked very well, only his eyes were tired and somehow different like all the other soldiers who have been through such an awful time. . . ."

It is clear such an experience could not be forgotten either. In his foreword to the book David Nott writes that his father only ever once told his children what it had been like to see so much killing, and that not until more than twenty years later.

"He talked of the mud, the noise and the stench of the rotting friends and foes. We felt we were there too. He talked of his friends Lodge and Harrison, of Colonel Urmston, and of his great friend, Colonel Rose. We heard the whizz-bangs, the deafening crack of the German 5.9s, and the mortars. He took us to the trenches, one hour before zero hour, on that dreadful July 1st. His memories overcame him then. . . ."

At a time when there appears to be a resurgence of interest in ANZAC among the young and as our last old soldiers from that awful conflict fade away, Somewhere In France is a family's gift to the nation which we should all treasure.

International features

Old rads don't die, they party

By Tracy Early

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75th birthday celebration on May 4 for Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan confirmed that the resistance movement he led in the 1960s remains alive and just as committed three decades later.

About 700 friends, admirers and family members came to New York from as far as California and Canada for a Saturday night event, on May 4.

Although Fr Berrigan's birthday is not on that date the night was chosen anticipating for the sake of convenience his actual birthday, May 9.

Held in the basement of a Jesuit church in Manhattan, St Francis Xavier, the gathering took on the tone of a family reunion.

It also became something of a rally for the causes that had led Father Berrigan and so many others to accept so many trips to jail.

When the announcement went out, reservations came in such numbers that organisers scrapped plans to set up tables. So many people indicated that they would come for the event that they decided instead to let people juggle plates on their laps.

The celebration was an intergenerational affair, with many gray heads from Father Berrigan's own generation.

But there were also many younger adults who came along, some not yet born when he joined the group that destroyed draft board records in 1968 and began a career of getting arrested and going to prison.

Some of them also brought

Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan, shown in this 1992 photo, marked his 75th birthday on May 4 in New York among friends and family.

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young children. Posted on the wall was the philosophy that had attracted them to this controversial figure: "For my part, I believe that the

vainglorious and the violent will not inherit the earth.... In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us

travel to the Pentagon and others among the 700 to appear in live in the Bowery and serve suit and tie, sang new verses he there, and others speak unpopu- had composed for "Amazing larly of the fate of the unborn and Grace" in tribute to his fellow of convicted criminals. It is all poet. one."

A black musical group from The master of ceremonies was Emmaus House, a Harlem Elizabeth McAlister, the for- agency directed by Melkite mer nun who married Father Father David Kirk, appeared in Berrigan's younger brother, tribute to Father Berrigan's work Philip, a former Josephite priest. with them.

Philip Bemigan, showing that he Jim Wallis, leader of the has not softened with the years, Protestant Sojourner community, called on his brother to "keep said he lost his childhood faith at exposing the false shepherds of age 15 as he became familiar church and state." with the issues of racism and Pete Seeger, just past his own war, and found few Christians 77th birthday, entertained for who shared his concerns. what could have been about his But he said the witness of the millionth appearance at peace Berrigans helped restore his and justice events, and led every- faith. one in singing "Happy Birthday."

"The name Berrigan helped The evening brought together lead me back home," Wallis said. people connected to several 'Thank you, Dan, and thank dimensions of Father Berrigan's you, Phil." life, including some who praised Among others present were his gifts as chef and as comedian. Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked It was organised by the Kairos the Pentagon Papers, and Eileen Conrmiunity, a New York peace Egan, a pioneer leader of Pax group in which he participates.

Christi and associate of Mother The group meets for prayer, Teresa and the late Dorothy Day. reflection and action, and forms In a brief response at the end. part of an Atlantic Life Father Berrigan called the names Community that includes Jonah of several people in jail for House in Baltimore, where Philip protest actions, and asked Berrigan is based. for prayers on their behalf.

Jesuit Father Donald Moore, Father Berrigan concluded by Father Berrigan's superior at the reading a poem he had West Side Jesuit Community in written called "Less Than" for Manhattan, acknowledged that publication with a book of essays Father Berrigan's influence had honouring him on his 75th birthnever led him to get arrested day. or spend a night in jail.

Titled "Apostle of Peace: Essays But he said members of the in Honour of Daniel Berrigan," community were "better Jesuits" and edited by Jesuit Father John because of Father Berrigan's Dear, the book was published in presence.

February by Orbis, arm of the Allen Ginsberg, one of very few Maryknoll Fathers.

Micro-chips unravel the secrets of the scrolls S

cholars at the University of techniques to document ancient Southern California in Los writings on parchment, stone Angeles are using and clay tablets, and other media advanced photographic and com- from antiquity. puter imaging to help solve the Ms Lundberg, an authority on jigsaw puzzles of the Dead Sea the Hebrew Bible, has worked Scrolls. with Zuckerman for many years Bruce Zuckerman and Marilyn and last autumn was a visiting Lundberg, Semitic language spe- instructor at the university. cialists, have electronically The biblical fragments they rejoined and restored pieces joined electronically are part of the Dead Sea Scrolls separated of an Aramaic manuscript of the for nearly half a century. Old Testament, or Hebrew, Book They believe it is a first for elec- of Daniel. tronic restoration.

In the passage, three friends of "The implications are enor- the prophet Daniel defy the mous," Zuckerman said in Babylonian king's order to woran announcement from the uni- ship idols. The king has them versity about the technology. cast into a fiery furnace where "Now you don't have to touch the God saves them. real fragments. All you have to do Zuckerman said the fragment is move their electronic images. itself is of minor significance, but "The technology gives us the "the implications for the ability to ability to join, and clearly read, use and wed advanced photofragments of documents - such graphic and electronic techas the Dead Sea Scrolls - that are niques are profound." physically scattered in libraries The researchers presented their Scroll fragments: Advanced computer imaging techniques are aiding scholars, as above.

Photo CN&West Semitic Research and research institutes around initial findings at the annual the world." meeting of the American where in the scroll the frag- together." The researchers work on the Book of Daniel is The scrolls consist of about 812 Academy of Religion/Society for ments belonged. scanned both photos, resizing the first work completed by the complete or fragmentary biblical Biblical Literature last November.

The scholars pored over hun- them to the same scale.

Ancient Manuscripts Digitalismanuscripts and texts of the Then, with electronic scissors, ation and Distribution Project of Their results will be published dreds of early photographs of Essene sect, most in Hebrew, later this year in the Compreh- documents found in Cave One, they cut out the small fragment the West Semitic Research some in Aramaic and Greek, that ensive Aramaic Lexicon News- which was the earliest find. image and floated it next to the Project based at the university's They noticed that the letters on 1949 image of the larger, more Leavey Library. date from about 200 B.C. to 70 letter.

A.D. The researchers admit that The project began in March one of their fragments matched readable document and conThey were found in desert 1995 when Zuckerman was the style of a document classified firmed a match. electronic restoration raises ethicaves at Qumran, west of the asked to photograph "scraps" as "1QDaniel b."

They "rebuilt the document in cal questions, for now it is possiDead Sea in the West Bank, from from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Based on a visual comparison the scribe's own handwriting," ble to alter an image to make it 1947 to 1956. say anything.

Using an infrared technique of a 1949 photo of the Zuckerman said.

Zuckerman, an associate pro- that enables a camera to see writ- document with their 1995 photo By electronically cloning But they believe that careful fessor at the university's ing invisible to the naked eye, the of the fragment, they suspected a Aramaic characters from the documentation of restoration School of Religion, heads its researchers found inscriptions match. "We had the jigsaw puz- larger document, they could work will answer such concerns.

West Semitic Research Project. on two fragments, one of them zle pieces in place," said replicate the character outlines "Anyone else can take the same He specialises in photograph- containing letters in a distinctive Zuckerman, "but without the and fill in missing pieces of let- Information and see for theming archaic script, using scribal hand. computer imaging capability we ters on the fragment. selves whether it looks valid or advanced infrared and other This pioneering restoration not," said Zuckerman.

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International News

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Separating teaching from an opinion

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Sometimes a statement published by a Vatican office isn't a Vatican statement.

And sometimes, Vatican offices examining the same question put out documents containing different conclusions.

The differences obviously do not involve basic truths of the Catholic faith.

However, the topics can be very serious, and conflicting opinions can cause confusion, especially when they diverge from the statements of national bishops' conference.

Two recent examples revolve around sex education and welfare.

Last December the Pontifical Council for the Family published guidelines for sex education, emphasising complete parental control and a very gradual approach to providing information about sexuality.

When the document was published, opponents of sex education in Catholic schools took its emphasis on parental responsibility as a clear call to withdraw children from school-based programs

While Vatican documents may have dif- uments of the Holy See,- the spokesman they found objectionable. But in the United States, some of those programs ferent emphases, they should not been said.

In fact, on social questions, the experts have been mandated by a local bishop seen as conflicting, said Vatican may even disagree with Church teaching and follow guidelines published by the US spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls.

"It has been my experience that the doc- or cite practical problems that arise bishops.

Now the Congregation for Catholic uments of various Vatican offices do not so from following the church's position.

This was the case with the experts gathEducation is putting the finishing touches much contradict, as complement or

by Pontifical Council for the Family ered said. spokesman the other," each explain of docuown version its on an updated With the sex education documents, read- in March to discuss the family and the ment outlining principles to be followed in sex education programs in Catholic ers must keep in mind the competence of economy.

Government welfare programs came the office issuing the document. schools.

The Council for the Family's document under heavy attack, but no mention was Cardinal Pio Laghi, prefect of the education congregation, said his congregation's obviously focuses on the family's role made of Catholic social teaching, which assigns governments a moral responsibilidocument also would affirm parents' pri- and responsibilities.

The education congregation's document ty to provide a safety net for the weakest mary responsibility for educating their and most disadvantaged members of socichildren, but at the same time it would will look at what schools should do.

Conflicting conclusions are even more ety. acknowledge "that that's not happening" Navarro-Valls said that in reading the common when they result from the when it comes to sex. conclusions Catholics must keep experts' Vatican consultations" "expert of dozens they where ask people you "If young in mind that official Catholic teaching learned about the mysteries of human life, offices hold throughout the year.

The fact that the sponsoring Curia office is explained in the "Catechism of the 80 percent would not say in their famipublishes the experts' conclusions does Catholic Church," in papal documents and lies," the cardinal said.

Cardinal Laghi said he favours a "multi- not mean that the statements are In documents issued by Vatican offices with the Pope's approval. disciplinary approach" that would involve Catholic teaching, Navarro-Valls said.

The Vatican always is careful to label the "These statements have the value of health, science, religion and even literature teachers offering "not just biological telling people what the Vatican has been level of authority of its various documents, discussing, and that's all. They are not doc- Navarro-Valls said. facts, but values."

Prisoner's confession taped by jailers EUGENE. Oregon. (CNS) Officials of the Archdiocese of Portland were investigating the secret tape-recording of a priest hearing confession for an inmate suspected of murder.

When Father Tim Mockaitis. pastor of St Paul Parish in Eugene, administered the sacrament of reconciliation to inmate Conan Wayne Hale in the Lane County Jail, the conversation was being recorded by Lane County jailers, but the priest was unaware of the taping.

Prosecutors said they obtained the tape, and a court order allowed investigators to listen to it, but its admissibility in court was still in question.

Hale, 20, was being held on $180,000 bail on charges of burglary and theft in connection with the murders of three teenagers. He had not been charged with the murders but was a suspect. His trial was set for June.

The archdiocese said that while an investigation of the taping was

still under way. -the bonds of sacramental confession are held by the Church to be inviolable."

"The strict confidentiality of the only has not sacrament long standing ... in the Church. but is a privileged relationship recognized in Oregon law. This incident appears to have been a violation of this private, confidential. privileged relationship.'

Auxiliary Bishop Kenneth Steiner, archdiocesan administrator, said that "absolute confidentiality is intrinsic to the sacrament."

"It cannot be compromised," he wrote in a letter to be read at all Portland the in Masses Archdiocese on the weekend of May 11-12. "In response to the civil authorities' shocking disregard of our religious practice, I have asked the Lane County district attorney to destroy the tape and to guarantee the future integrity of the sacrament for the incarcerated," Bishop Steiner said.

Toussaint the Haitian slave, possibly to become America's first black saint

By Tracy Early NEW YORK (CNS) - Cardinal John O'Connor of New York announced on May 5 that as early as next year, Pope John Paul II could declare Pierre Toussaint "venerable." the step before beittification and canonisation.

Born a slave in Haiti in 1766.

Toussaint was brought to New York by his master in 178Z later received his freedom and became renowned for his works of charity to his master's widow and others.

Delivering the homily at the annual Pierre Toussaint Mass at St Patrick's Cathedral, the cardinal said a historical commission set up to examine Toussaint's life finished its work last year, and a theological commission would take up the question in June.

In the homily. Cardinal O'Connor told of Toussaint's faithfulness in attending St. Peter's Church, New York's oldest Catholic church, despite the discrimination he faced, and of his charity in using his earnings

in iti53. wa,; Intriod in the cemetery ot )1(I St Patrick's Cathedral. now a parish in Little Italy.

But in 1990 his remains were dug up and transferred to the crypt of the present St Patrick's Cathedral. where New York archbishops are buried.

Cardinal O'Connor noted that Toussaint was the only layperson buried there, and said that came about "because of his holy works."

But addressing a packed cathedral, with a large majority of the congregation white. Cardinal O'Connor emphasised that Toussaint was being proposed as Toussaint: first US black saint? a model for people of all ethnic as a society hairdresser to aid groups, not just blacks. groups. ethnic the poor of all He said that upon his appointIf canonised, Toussaint would as archbishop of New ment black first the become York. he revived the cause of American saint. because of his works.

He said that Toussaint was Toussaint of his race. because not called an Uncle Tom but believed It was initiated by the late he was following the way of "Jesus who became a slave for Cardinal Terence Cooke in 1968. us."

The motive was not to "throw a This, the cardinal said, makes bone to black people," but him an example "for people of to honour "the saintliness of this all colours." Toussaint, who died man," Cardinal O'Connor said.

Pope beatifies six priests, religious being filled with his Spirit and, in this way, showed the power of resurrection, which is VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope the over sin and death," the victory John Paul II beatified three men and three women on May 12, Pope said at the end of the Mass.

An estimated 50,000 people calling them examples of how love of Christ naturally leads to filled St Peter's Square for the beatification of the four serving others.

Italians and two Spaniards, all of Shepherding a diocese, work- whom were priests or religious.

At least 10,000 people came ing with the hearing impaired, teaching or nursing, the newly from Milan to honour the beatified "conformed themselves Benedictine monk who was their to Christ, opened themselves to archbishop from 1929 to 1954 By Cindy Wooden

Cardinal Alfredo Schuster. Also beatified on May 12 were: Italian Father Filippo Smaldone. who lived from 1848-1923; Italian Redemptorist Father Gennaro Maria Sarnelli, who lived from 1702-1744; Italian Sister Maria Raffaella Cimatti born in 1861 and died in 1945; Spanish Sister Candida Maria de Jesus Cipitria Barriola who lived from 18451945; and Spanish Sister Maria Antonia Bandres Elosegui, 19891919.

Song book's publication heralds recognition for indigenous culture PONTIANAK, Indonesia (CNS) - After years of work, the four dioceses in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province have published a liturgical song book incorporating traditional music of the indigenous Dayak peoples.

"Hati Bernyanyi" ("Singing Heart") contains 113 songs for regular and special liturgies, church festivals, sacramental celebrations and other occasions, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

The songs were composed by Catholic musicians from the indigenous groups col, -Iii‘e'Reicord,'May 16' 1996 Page 12

the called Dayaks in lectively Pontianak Archdiocese, and the Ketapang, Dioceses Sintang and Sanggau in Indonesian Borneo.

The musicians met in four workshops between 1989 and 1994, sponsored by the Yogyakarta-based Centre for Liturgical Music, an agency of the Commission for Liturgy of the Bishops' Conference of Indonesia.

Capuchin Father Lucius Ginting Suka, a Pontianak of head and Dayak Archdiocese's liturgical commission, told UCA News that Dayak songs generally

have agrarian themes and are based on a pentatonic scale.

The music flows smoothly but rather monotonously, Father Suka said.

"But the monotony could arouse a magic power that leads a person to ecstasy," he said, adding that "the dominant magic element and spiritual nuance make the music suitable for church use."

According to Father Suka, "Hati Bernyanyi" aims to show that the universal church is being united with the local church.

"The majority of Kalimantan's popula-

tion are Dayaks, and most Dayaks are Catholics," he said.

"I do believe that if the Church inculturation process runs well, the Dayaks would not regard Christianity as an alien thing, and more Dayaks will adhere to Catholicism," Father Suka said.

The publication of "Hati Bernyanyi" was sponsored by Missio. the German bishops' aid agency for pastoral development.

The book was distributed not only to the West Kalimantan dioceses. hut was sent to a number of other dioceses throughout Indonesia.

International News

Pilgrims flock to see purported robe of Christ's trial

By Lynne Well

Visitors to the cathedral in Trier, Germany, view a robe on May 9 believed Photo CNS Reuters to be the one Christ wore on his way to be crucified.

TRIER, Germany (CNS) Nearly half a million pilgrims from around the world have taken advantage of a rare opportunity and visited this small southern German town to see a robe supposedly worn by Christ at the time of his trial.

The authenticity of the garment cannot be established because of successive attempts to repair and restore it.

"My mother saw the robe in 1933, and she talked about it forever after," said Rosina Lorenzi, 67, who travelled half a day from her hometown in Forbach, France.

Diocese loses $1.1 million in pension fraud

By Tracy Early BROOKLYN. New York (CNS) The Diocese of Brooklyn announced on May 6 that "a trusted employee for more than 32 years" had diverted $1.1 million of diocesan funds into her personal accounts since becoming manager of the pension office for lay employees in 1990.

Employee Vincenza Bologna had been terminated, and the diocese was notifying the county district attorney of the diocesan findings later the same day, said diocesan communications officer Frank DeRosa in a statement at a press conference in Bmoklyn.

His statement also said that the diocese was "seeking restitution" from Mrs Bologna and filing a claim with its insurance compaUnion Fire ny. National Insurance of Pittsburgh, for the amount of the loss, less a $5,000 deductible.

Bishop Thomas Daily read a the assuring statement 3,600 retired diocesan employees that "the benefits to which they are entitled in gratitude for their years of faithful and dedicated service will continue to accrue in them."

Diocesan officials said the $1.1 million came from the office operating account, not from the pension reserve fund of some $400 million.

"While we believed the existing control system was adequate, the

disclosures today indicate that out the cheques with the double this was not so," Bishop endorsements before passing along the statements to Father Daily said.

"We have instituted changes in Doyle, he said.

Discovery of her actions the control system which we came when he examined a statehope will prevent a recurrence."

The bishop also expressed his ment before she had made the pastoral concern "for the well- exchange.

He said most of the diverted being of the individual involved, knowing that this has caused her funds were from cheques made great emotional pain and suffer- out to the computer consultant. who denied endorsing them. ing."

Father Doyle said he was not a "The loss of trust in one longtime employee weighs heavily suspect and the diocese had no reason to stop using his services. on us. and on me," he said.

Mrs Bologna's lawyer, Stephen Father Thomas Doyle. administrator of the pension office since Zeitlin of Brooklyn, later told 1993 and Mrs Bologna's supervi- Catholic News Service that his sor, said she had a salary client had no comment.

At a symposium sponsored last of $65,000 and was a member of and Founders by a Brooklyn parish, Mary Queen year Donors Interested in Catholic of Heaven.

He reported first discovering Activities, or FADICA. finance the diversion on April 3, when director Kenneth Koroticy of the he found a $15,500 cheque made US Catholic Conference reported to a computer consultant but that the bishops had seen "a endorsed by the consultant and growing problem of fraud," and had named a committee to draw Mrs Bologna.

Investigation revealed similar up guidelines that would "mincheques in amounts ranging imise the risk."

In a telephone interview after from a few hundred dollars to $35,000 going back to the time the Brooklyn press confershe was promoted to office man- ence. he said a manual containing the guidelines was sent to all ager.

Father Doyle indicated the bishops in January by the USCC diversion apparently began treasurer, Ai chbishop Thomas when the bank once sent a notice Murphy of Seattle.

Bishop Daily said in a later telesaying it had inadvertently destroyed one of the cheques phone interview that he thought the guidelines would be helpful, that had been paid.

Mrs Bologna made copies of and that the loss to his diocese the notice, put them in subse- would have been diminished had quent bank statements and took they been in place.

"I was very young, so all I remember was the emotion. Now I am inspired all over again."

Ms Lorenzi was one of 4,000 the into packed people Trier Cathedral - which normally seats 1,800 - for a recent morning Mass.

The half-sleeve, knee-length garment is made of satin, silk, gossamer and felt, and decorated with strips of green taffeta.

Christ is said to have worn it before trial his during Pontius Pilate, and Roman soldiers are said to have gambled for its ownership.

Public appreciation of the robe has been limited by its scarce exposure.

It reputedly came from Jerusalem to Trier during the latter part of the Roman empire the Trier region constituted the empire's northern edge.

Emperor Constantine lived in Trier at the time; his mother Helen, a tireless collector of relics, is said to have purchased the robe for him as a gift.

During the first millennium it was never on public display.

The garment was sealed inside the cathedral altar 800 years ago.

Emperor Maximilian sent special orders from Berlin in 1512 to have the altar opened and the robe shown to the public.

Since then, it has been displayed every 30 to 40 years.

Men of God walk the rocky road of peace

Bosnian religious leaders walk through the old part of Sarajevo on May 7. Left: Croatian Cardinal Vinko Puljic, Bosnian Serb Father Avakum Rosic, Austrian Bishop Johann Weber and Metropolitan Michael Staikos.

By Cindy Wooden

"We did not come to teach you. nor did we come out of curiosity, we came to seek hope together." Bishop Weber told the people gathered for the walk.

"If you here in Sarajevo are able to walk together on the way of peace. then you have done much for all of Europe in its cultural, national and religious diversity." he said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) Walking a "Way of Peace" through the streets of Sarajevo, religious representatives from and Bosnia-Herzegovina Austria wanted to witness to the possibilities for peace among Europe's diverse religious and cultural groups.

Led by Cardinal Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo, along with repreIn addition to Bishop Weber. sentatives of the city's Orthodox the Austrian religious leadand Jewish communities. ers participating in tilt: Sarajevo the May 7 procession stopped walk included: at the Islamic cultural centre, Orthodox Metropolitan Michsynagogues and churches.

"Despite the different lan- ael Staikos, president of the guages and religious confes- Austrian council of churches; sions, it was a walk in common Rabbi Walter Rothschild; Anas during which we felt the mys- Schakfeh, president of the t.eiy and beauty of life," Bishop Islamic community in Vienna; Johann Weber of Graz-Seckau, and representatives of a variety president of the Austrian bish- of Christian charitable organiops' conference, told Vatican sations active in BosniaHerzegovina.

Radio's Croatian program.

US feminist nun calls for a 'quiet death' for the bride of Christ NEW YORK - A leading feminist nun, Sr Carolyn Osiek, has begun a campaign that, if successful, would change both the Church's understanding of the Incarnation and the nature of the Church.

Naturally, she will fail as the Church's teaching on the Incarnation and its own nature is a truth revealed by God which cannot be changed.

But Sr Osiek, the immediate past president of the Catholic Biblical Association said in a New York lecture that she would like to see a "quiet death" for the metaphorical references to the Church as "she" and as the "bride" of Christ.

The New Testament passage that compares the relationship of husbands and wives to that of Christ and the Church, Ephesians 5:21-33, is damaging because it sounds so positive but "presupposes male control," said Sacred Heart Sister Carolyn Osiek, who teaches at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

Such references to the Church as bride, she said, emphasise the masculinity of Christ and lead to a connection of masculinity with the sacramental role.

"This text has done more damage to male-female relationships than all the household codes," she said.

"Household codes," which she also discussed in the lecture, are New Testament passages such as 1 Peter 2:11-3:12 that outline behaviour for different members of the household, including submission by slaves and wives.

Sister Osiek, who was president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 1995, delivered the annual lecture on "Women in the Ministering Church" on May 10 at St. John's University, a Vincentian institution.

She said the material for a contemporary concept of equality could not be found in the New Testament.

The often-quoted passage of Galatians

3:28 that says in Christ there is neither

male nor female meant only equal access to salvation, she said.

But today recognition of the "equal dignity" that official Church documents have said women possess demands that women be granted equal participation in the life of the Church and in its leadership, she said.

She said that at the time of the first women's ordination conference in 1975 she optimistically expected that approval would come within five years, but now thought it was "a long way off."

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International News

In Brief Teacher resigns SOUTH BEND, Indiana.

(CNS) - Bishop John D'Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend said he asked an ex-Catholic to resign his post at St Joseph High School because the man's departure from the Catholic faith was "a counterwitness against the mission of our church."

The bishop made the comments to reporters on April 29 about Jody Martinez. a basketball coach at the high school who married outside left and church the Catholicism in 1991 to become a Baptist like his wife.

Bishop 'critical'

Refugees 'easy targets'

By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) - More than 15.3 million people worldwide remain displaced from their homes, but refugees who flee war and persecution at home often find more of the same in the countries to which they run.

Camps and "safe areas" for refugees in more than half a dozen countries have been attacked in recent months, according to the annual World Refugee Survey by the US Committee for Refugees, released on May 9.

"Camps have been bombed, attacked and burned; refugees have been maimed, murdered and massacred," said Roger

Not all the news in the annual Winter, director of the agency camp housing 16,000 Rwandan was grim. One essay noted report supported by dozens of US and refugees. seemingly hopeless situaseveral he examples the said Winter international relief and refugee programs, including the US cited were not isolated incidents, tions that created refugees of prebut seemingly part of a trend vious decades have been Catholic Conference.

Among the most widely report- toward diminishing efforts at pro- resolved.

Nicaragua, El Salvador and ed of recent incidents involv- tecting refugees. all are rebuilding after Haiti "Uprooted people are vulneraing refugees was the April generating thousands of of years are .they . . ". adding said, he in ble," compound shelling of a UN easy targets for those seeking ret- refugees.

Lebanon by Israel.

And Palestinians hope their Israel claimed the deaths of ribution or political gain by vioations of homelessness gener means." lent not were 100 civilians than more The greatest number of might end soon, as political deliberate, but an unintended effect of its response to mortar refugees in 1995 was in the accords shifted parts of the West Middle East, according to the Bank back to theircontrol. fire from Hezbollah guerrillas.

In Africa, Namibia, Uganda, Last July more than 8,000 report, where there are 5.5 milAfrica, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Jordan.

Bosnian Muslims were killed in lion in Iran and The various nations of Africa Zimbabwe and Mozambique all UN "safe areas" in Srebrenica.

Other incidents in the last year accounted for 5.2 million seem to have turned the corner, included a January attack by refugees, including 1.5 million with former refugees returning to help rebuild their homelands.

Burundi soldiers on a refugee Rwandans still displaced.

Five die as Liberian church shelled Mass does

not 'reflect' Council

HONG KONG (CNS) - A Chinese bishop recognised by the government but once clandestinely ordained in the "underground" church remains critically ill after a recent operation to treat cancer.

As of May 8, Bishop Song Weill, who administers the church in the Langfang area. just southeast of Beijing, r emained in critical condition.

By Tracy Early

Gaillot declines PARIS, France (CNS) Jacques Bishop French Gaillot, removed from his diocese in January 1995, has declined three job offers from the head of the French bishops' conference.

Bishop Gaillot was offered a choice of three chaplaincies: at a psychiatric hospital, a conventional hospital, or at a prison in Fresnes.

A spokesman for the French bishops' conference said Bishop Gaillot was entitled to refuse the offers.

Burundi plea VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II has urged dialogue to avoid a new wave of bloodshed in the tiny African nation of Burundi.

He pledged that the Church in Burundi would keep working to favour reconciliation and forgiveness between the two rival ethnic groups, the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis.

100,000 people are estimated to have been killed in Burundi since 1993.

Mexico violence MEXICO CITY (CNS) About 25 members of an armed group, "Los Chinchulines," shot through the window of a Jesuits' home in the town of Bachajon, in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, set fire to a convent door and verbally attacked Bishop Raul Vera Lopez of San Cristobal de Las Casas on May 7

A girt looks over the remains of a church on May 7 in Monrovia. An artillery shell hit the day before, killing five civilians and wounding 43 people who had taken refuge there. Violence in Liberia has continued following a failed cease-fire, causing thousands of refugees to flee by boat.

Contraceptive 'discrimination' ARLIN(' ION, Virginia. (CNS) A nurse practitioner at an Army hospital who had her clinical privileges revoked after she refused to prescribe contraceptives has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Judith Schiminsky, a Catholic and a professed member of the lay order of Dominicans, filed the complaint because she says discriminated the hospital against her on the basis of her religious beliefs.

A hearing on her credentials set up by the hospital was scheduled for May 14.

But her supervisor at Dewitt Army Hospital at Fort Belvoir

Arlington Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Arlington Diocese, Ms Schiminsky said she noted on processing forms that she promoted Natural Family Planning and would not prescribe contraceptives.

But beginning with a February staff meeting, she said, she was singled out as the only nurse practitioner on the staff who would not prescribe the contraceptive Depo-Provera.

Depo-Provera, given in injections every few months, primarily prevents ovulation, but sometimes works as an abortifadent, causing a fertilised egg to be eliminated before it can implant in the womb.

Polish bishops to mark pogrom anniversary

Help request MEXICO CITY (CNS) - The Jesuit provincial in Mexico.

Father Mario Lopez Barrios. has asked Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo to intervene so order will be restored in Chiapas, site of renewed violence.

Father Lopez said the dispute is not a political clash but is about land ownership.

told Catholic News Service May 1 that it was not unusual for staff members to have moral or religious objections to handing out contraceptives and is not a problem for the hospital.

He said the hearing was scheduled over unrelated issues that surfaced during a routine review of Ms Schiminsky's work.

Ms Schiminsky, a nurse practitioner with 15 years experience, began working at Fort Belvoir in December 1995.

Unlike registered nurses, nurse practitioners are allowed to prescribe medications, conduct physicals and monitor illnesses such as diabetes.

In an interview with the

By Tracy Early NEW YORK (CNS) - The Polish for bishops' Commission Dialogue with Judaism is preparing a special event to mark the 50th anniversary of the Kielce pogrom in July, said a commission member in a New York interview.

Dozens of Jews were killed in early July 1946 when a rumor spread that they were kidnapping Catholic children and

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came to the United States on April 19 as part of a program arranged with the American Jewish Committee for exchange of scholars.

He was interviewed on May 3 at the committee's headquarters in New York.

Rabbi James Rudin, the committee's interreligious director, said two-thirds of American Jews, himself among them, had Father Rubinkiewicz, director of family roots in Poland and so felt at special interest in the dialogue Institute Biblical the the Catholic University in Lublin, with Polish Catholics.

using their blood to make matzos, Father Rubinkiewicz said.

Generally identified as a pogrom in the tradition of earlier massacres in Eastern Europe, the incident was one of the key events that convinced many Jews they were not safe in Europe even after defeat of the Nazis, and could find security only by establishing their own state.

NEW YORK (CNS) - One of the Second Vatican Council experts who advised on the drafting of the Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy has said that the Mass which was introduced after the Council concluded did not reflect the wishes of the Council fathers.

The comments came in an retired with interview Cardinal Alfons Stickler shortly after celebrating a Tridentine Mass in Latin for several thousand people in St Patrick's Cathedral, New York. on May 12 A specialist in the history of canon law who once was rector of the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome. Cardinal Stickler said he felt certain that subsequent developments did not reflect what was intended. know exactly what the fathers wanted," he said, adding that Latin was to be preserved even as use of the vernacular was extended and that Gregorian chant "should be given pride of place" in liturgical music.

St packed Thousands Patrick's Cathedral for the evening Tridentine Mass celebrated in Latin by the Cardinal.

It was the first time the Tridentine Mass had been celebrated in the cathedral since the new order of the Mass was introduced following the Second Vatican Council.

People came from throughout the New York region and some even from distant states to attend the Mass, which was celebrated at the cathedral's high altar.

Cardinal John O'Connor of New York welcomed the congregation to what he called an "historic occasion," but had to leave for a prior engagement.

Cardinal Stickler said that he considered the new form of the Mass valid and often celebrated it in situations where it was preferred.

But he said that he considered the new form a less adequate expression of "the mystery we have in the centre of our worship."

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of the Church, which is his Body.

Taken up to heaven and glorified after he had thus fully accomplished his mission, Christ dwells on earth in his Church. The redemption is the source of the authority that Christ, by virtue of the Holy Spirit, exercises over the Church. "The kingdom of Christ Ds) already present in mystery," "on earth, the seed and the beginning of the kingdom."

ertheless yet to be fulfilled "with and great glory" by the power fulfilits into entered has plan ment. We are already at "the last king's return to earth. This reign hour." "Already the final age of is still under attack by the evil the world is with us, and the powers, even though they have renewal of the world is irrevoca- been defeated definitively by bly under way; it is even now Christ's Passover. anticipated in a certain real way, Until everything is subject to him. for the Church on earth is "until there be realised new endowed already with a sanctity heavens and a new earth in that is real but imperfect." which justice dwells, the pilgrim Christ's kingdom already mani- Church, in her sacraments and fests its presence through the Institutions, which: belong to this miraculous signs that attend its present age, carries the mark of this world which will pass, and proclamation by the Church. she herself takes her place the creatures which among subare things all . . . until groan and travail yet and await jected to him the revelation of the sons of 671 Though already present in God." his Church, Christ's reign is nev- That is why Christians pray, 670 Since the Ascension God's

above all in the Eucharist, to hasten Christ's return by saying to him: Marana tha! "Our Lord, come!"

672 Before his Ascension Christ

affirmed that the hour had not yet come for the glorious establishment of the messianic kingdom awaited by Israel which, according to the prophets, was to bring all men the definitive order of justice, love, and peace.

According to the Lord, the present time is the time of the Spirit and of witness, but also a time still marked by "distress" and the trial of evil which does not spare the Church and ushers in the struggles of the last days. It is a time of waiting and watching.

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ANNUAL MARIAN PILGRIMAGE The Annual Marian Pilgrimage will be held at the Schoenstatt Shrine, 9 Tallus Drive, Armadale, Sunday 19 May commencing at 3 pm.

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OUR LADY OF MONTSERRAT CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS The Centennial Celebrations of Our Lady of Montserrat parish. Southern Cross, will be taking place on Sunday 8 September. The Archbishop of Perth, the Most Reverend Barry James Hickey will make his pastoral visitation to our community for this special occasion. We extend an invitation to all past Religious, students, and community persons to join us in our celebration. A Celebration Mass will commence at 10 am followed by lunch.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE The monthly Pilgrimage at the Shrine of the Virgin of The Revelation, 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook will take place on Sunday 26 May at 2 pm. There will be Rosary, homily and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

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KARRINYUP PARISH On Tuesday 28 May after Benediction at 7 pm, Alan Ames will speak in Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, 27 Thomas Way, Karrinyup about his Conversion experiences.

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EYES TO SEE, EARS TO HEAR Celebrating the 5th anniversary of Irene McCormack's death in prayer, silence, sharing, song and light refreshment. Please join the Sisters of St Joseph, family and friends on Tuesday 21 May at 7.30 pm, South Perth Chapel, 16 York St, South Perth.

COMMUNION SERVICES This evening workshop is for Special Ministers of the Eucharist, Acolytes and Pastoral Workers involved in preparing and celebrating the Word with Communion in the absence of a priest. Presented by Fr Vincent Glynn and Sr Kerry Willison. Wednesday 29 May, 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm, St Thomas More Church, 100 Dean Rd, Bateman. Cost S5.

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GROUP 50 CELEBRATES Group 50 will celebrate 25 years of Catholic Charismatic Renewal in WA. Monday 27 May: A Night of Remembering.

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Tuesday 28 May: That They May Be One. Guest Speakers: Fr Kevin Long (sharing based on "Ut unum sint" the encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II), Canon Frank Watts. Wednesday 29 May: Experiencing the Gifts, Guest Speaker Fr Bob Carden OFM & short sharings by others. Mon, Tues, Wed, Praise & Worship 7.30 pm in Redemptorist Retreat House, 190 Vincent St, North Perth.

Thursday 30 May, Concelebrated Mass of Thanksgiving.

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