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SIII) opens suburban house for mentally ill

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard The outreach of Catholics in Western Australia to people with mental illness took a big leap last week when the Society of St Vincent de Paul opened the first of three homes for people with psychiatric disabilities.

Although the society has always supported people with psychiatric disabilities, its latest venture has made it a major player in the field of caring for psychiatric disability.

The house will provide full board and lodgings for four people with a psychiatric disability.

The Presentation Sisters have joined with the Society of St Vincent de Paul in the new venture in psychiatric services.

The society plans to open another two houses in August this year and March next year.

Chairman of the society's mental health advisory committee, Keith Wilson, said at the launch the Presentation Sisters would bring a strong infrastructure and Christian values to the project.

This would be supported by the St Vincent de Paul Society's solid reputation, "equally strong infrastructure, shared Christian values, and huge membership throughout its regions."

He said the undertaking did not involve simply transferring institutionalised psychiatric care into a community setting as had happened with previous attempts at de-institutionalisation.

The Society of St Vincent de Paul's unique support services would help the project escape the traps of institutionalised care.

Although "the bureaucracy of government" would not now impede care of the psychiatrically disabled, he nevertheless hoped that increased mental health dollars would be directed to their care.

Presentation Sister Kathleen Corby will live with tenants on a 24-hour basis, (backed by volunteers when required), providing emotional and spiritual support.

The project has the financial backing

of Society of St Vincent de Paul resources, Homeswest for the house, the Lotteries Commission with $20,000 input for furnishings, and Mrs Jo Kelly who has donated towards furnishings.

Professionals in psychiatry will provide honorary services when required.

This first phase of the project, which is to provide individual houses for shared permanent accommodation, will be followed by another phase to include single, supported units for permanent accommodation for one or two people per unit. The residents will manage these themselves with 24-hour on-site support from Sr Kathleen or another Presentation Sister.

Later initiatives will include individual houses for urgent short-term accommodation, and an undertaking that will address the needs of Aboriginal people with a psychiatric disability.

But, Mr Wilson emphasised, "we are there as a Society showing Christ in the place of those with whom we work, and allowing them to contribute to their own care, and to become their own proficient selves. We are not simply a dogood organisation - we are there to enhance the human abilities and qualities of the people with whom we work."

Archbishop Barry Hickey officially opened the service by blessing the work of the service and unveiling a bronze commemorative plaque.

He said that many families within the Church and society were affected by psychiatric illness and the service, located in a parish, was an expression of the loving voice of the Church.

The location of the house within a parish would have far-reaching benefits beyond its residents, "because it will be a signal to the community that it needs to provide this service and that their pastoral care extends beyond parishioners to the care of all people within their area," Archbishop Hickey said.

He congratulated the Society of St Vincent de Paul and applauded the "marvellous witness" of the Presentation Sisters "who are showing a model of cooperation which may go far into the future."

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Last will and testament of Trappist monk murdered by Islamic guerrillas - Page 13 Priestly Brynes celebrate 90 years - Page 3 Life/ink Schools Welfare Day - Page 3 Bell ringers continue ancient service - Page 9 The Body and Blood of Christ brings us closer to God and humanity - Page 8

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One huhdred and fifty years of self- young, old, oppressed and unemless dedication and service to the ployed.

Mercedes College, the site of the people of Western Australia has been recognised by the coveted Gold Mercys' first endeavour in 1846 conSwan Award given to the Mercy tinues to give top education today.

Sisters at the 1996 WA Citizen of the Congregational leader Sr Leonie Year Awards last Monday.

O'Brien, this week gave thanks for It is the first time it has been award- the pioneering sisters and those who ed to a religious group and the followed, as well as the laity and all Sisters have been now formally feted those who linked hands with the for their outstanding contribution in Sisters to make the aims and dreams the fields of education (their first of the leader of the first Mercy sisters major thrust), hospitals, benevolent in WA and Australia, Mother Ursula institutions, orphanages, aged and Frayne, come true. community care centre to help the - Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Freed from tribal faith to be truly Catholic W

hile reading a book City, Jerusalem. Personal faith that someone with an Irish or that is, truly Catholic. Nevertherecently about the for- was strengthened because of Italian name is Catholic. It would less it was still a shared faith, a mer politician Graham identification with a group. do well for us to reflect on the personal faith that found its Richardson, a phrase used about Can the same be said of our actions of Jesus and the preach- home within a group, a people, a his family caught my attention: belief in Christ? Can the same be ing of the early Apostles and St new People of God. It would be "They were tribal Catholics, said of our Catholic Faith'?

Paul. passed down through families descended from Anglo-Irish Jesus gave early indication of a and nations, not just through Is our personal faith also workers who- came to Australia dependent on our adherence to a new People of God that the ties preaching and individual converin the last century" (The Fixer, M group, and is that group linked to with the Jewish monopoly of rev- sion.

Wilkinson p 7). elation would weaken. He a particular ethnic group?

To say that the Richardsons had Tribal Catholics! I suppose Australia offers strong evidence praised the Samaritan woman a "tribal faith" is only part of the many of us can make a similar of the Catholic Faith (and other and the Roman centurion for story. Our faith is tribal in so far claim. But is the phrase correct? beliefs as well) being brought to their faith. as it is passed on through family It seems to indicate that belief is the country and passed down He told his apostles to preach to and culture. not personal but belongs to that through ethnic groups. The Irish all nations, baptising them in the It is nevertheless intensely pergroup one is born into. planted the Catholic faith firmly name of the Trinity. sonal, nourished and strengthLet us examine this "tribal" faith in this country.

He saw that the fulfilment of the ened by the faith of others in the a bit closer.

So did the Italians in a later Law implied that God's revela- group.

There is much to be said for wave of migration. Those who tion, of which he was the fullest In these days of individualism, "group" faith, especially if one have observed the Catholic and final manifestation, should it is appealing to think of faith as claims that the belief system Vietnamese over the past twenty be offered to the whole world. simply personal. But that is a comes ultimately from God. years will also have seen how a St Peter went to Rome. St Paul dangerous way to think, because Among the Jewish tribes before strong ethnic group, tested by became known as the Apostle of it undermines common worship, Christ, it was very important to war and persecution, has the Gentiles. The Faith spread common traditions, adherence to belong to the group, to be part of brought with it a vibrant and within the scattered Jewish com- a central authority, and adherthe "chosen people', a people strong faith. munities and beyond, to national ence to a Church or a People that identified by a common ancestor, The melting pot of Australia has and ethnic groups from all over traces its history back to its Abraham, by a common history, weakened these ethnic ties with the known world. founder, Jesus Christ. shared traditions, ritualised wor- the Faith.

If the ethnic dimensions of faith The Faith had broken its ethnic ship and a link with the Holy No longer can one presume ties to become truly universal, are weaker in a plural society

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Archdlocesan funeral fund ensures one less worry

By Peter Rosengren The American humourist H L Mencken once said that nothing concentrates a man's mind so wonderfully as the prospect of being hung in the morning.

Death can, of course, concentrate the mind and is the one subject we don't usually like to talk about.

But, like taxes, it is inevitable and there is no avoiding it. Sooner or later we all have to think about it.

A funeral fund with the benefit of allowing people to pay for their own funerals by instalments has therefore been launched by the Archdiocesan Development Fund.

Known as the ADF Funeral Fund the new service is available to all members of the public after its launch in January.

With average funeral costs varying in the two to three thousand dollar range depending on what individuals want -

the fund will also help to relieve financial problems or complications which can be faced by spouses or children at the time a spouse or parent dies.

"What we're doing is introducing a funeral fund whereby people can save towards their funeral." ADF director Des Dwyer, told The Record recently.

"Its an officially drawn up funeral fund whereby [those] funds [that] go in there can only be attributed to the funeral," he said.

Mr Dwyer said a major benefit was that the fund provided the capacity to pay for a funeral by instalments.

While the most likely customers of the fund were likely to be those getting on in years who would want to ensure there was enough put aside to pay the cost of the funeral, Mr Dwyer said a number of young people had already taken the bull by the horns and opened accounts.

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He said that if someone should die before they had saved enough money to pay their funeral expenses their saved funds would then either become part of their estate or could be paid towards the cost of the funeral, thereby leaving relatives with less of a financial burden to worry about.

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Rural Mayfair mayhem

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Catholic Agricultural College Bindoon was a hive of activity recently as the college held it's annual Mayfair celebrations.

The festivities had an Irish theme this year to mark the significance of the coming beatification of Edmund Rice, founder of the Christian Brothers.

The day's attractions included Irish dancing, sheep-shearing competitions, an animal nursery (complete with cuddly alpacas!), lots of stalls full of goodies and real Irish coffees and Devonshire teas.

Members of the local community supported the Mayfair by participating with displays of local art and crafts, vintage machinery, weaving and spinning, folk-painting and pottery demonstrations.

Six members of the College Pony Club displayed a considerable amount of skill as they performed a precision ride set to traditional Irish music. This was followed by a tent-pegging display.

Members of the College CattlP Club exhibited their superbly College principal Brother Laurie Negus presented Devon and Simmental really got into the spirit of the "Irish" stud cattle and participated in the Mayfair dressed as a Leprechaun grand parade.

Schools link up with the needy Lifelink Money Box to be distributed to all primary school students, he said.

Catholic t throughou Students "I say 'almost all' because some schools will contribute to the have already set in place schools Archdiocese's welfare work event such as free dress special a with the needy and less fortu- days, sports carnivals and raffles nate when they raise money which they will conduct as their through odd jobs, carnivals and own individual way of fundraisraffles for the Schools Welfare ing," he said.

Day launched by the ArchdioHe said the students would be cesan Lifelink campaign this asked to contribute from their week. pocket money, or to do small jobs Bishop Robert Healy launched for their parents from which they the Schools Welfare Day, a pro- could earn money to donate to ject of the Archdiocesan Lifelink the appeal. office designed to get students to Secondary students had been raise funds for those less fortu- asked to participate by conductnate than themselves, at St ing special projects like the rafBenedict's Primary School in fles and carnivals, he said.

Applecross on Wednesday after"Our main goal, and I emphanoon. sise this point, is to encourage Archdiocesan fund raising our young people to think of adviser Brett Mendez said what it means to be a Catholic; to Schools Welfare Day was a spe- learn more about the very imporcial day where young people in tant work of our Lifelink agencies Catholic primary and secondary and to encourage them to care schools were asked to acknowl- for others in a practical way," he edge and accept responsibility said. for the care of those who are less Bishop Healy was invited to fortunate. the appeal officially at St launch Students are asked to particiin recognition of the Benedict's pate in a range of events which support for strong school's have a fundraising theme as their they support the and Lifelink main focus.

Day Welfare Schools given have The funds raised are then years. previous in donated to Lifelink for the welMr Mendez said the support fare work of the Archdiocese.

For this year's Welfare Day, received from principals, staff Lifelink has developed a special and students had been excellent.

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Byrne brothers give 90 years

By Colleen McCuiness-Howard The priestly Byrne Brothers, Michael and Henry, are a couple of 'lovable lads' - they're close brothers, have an obvious talent for living - and best of all - they're our priests!

Between them they've notched up 90 years of service to the Catholics of WA. They're both celebrating their respective 40 and 50 years of priesthood within a week of each other.

Father Michael is a warm, lovable, and caring individual who's undoubtedly spread a lot of his own warmth to others along the way.

He was born in 1922 in County Kilkenny, one of six children, three boys and three girls, one of whom died young. Fr Henry was born in November 1931.

Fr Michael entered St Kieran's seminary in 1940, was ordained on June 9, 1946 and arrived in Perth on Boxing Day that year. Fr Henry, after an identical education, followed him to Australia in

Brothers and Mends: Fr Henry Byrne, left, and Fr Michael Byron

They were busy days of building "from a pile of yellow sand!" because upon his arrival there was nothing at all.

After 20 years, Fr Michael moved to Mt Lawley for nine years and then in 1984 transferred to Glendalough which is his current parish.

The whole parish plus fans from far and wide are coming to 1956.

Their arrival in WA meant an celebrate his 50 years priesthood enormous amount of sacrifice on milestone which is scheduled for the part of their parents both Sunday, June 9 at the 10.30 Mass, followed by 'one big hooley' at financially and emotionally.

In those days it was mandatory the Bioethics Centre.

The underlying thought of his for parents to pay for the entire was to work for God all vocation ), secondary (including education for His people. and time the for their seminarian sons, and nt to the commitme a was "It pay worse then to make matters the seventy pounds Australian Lord to service his flock," and Fr Michael's certainly done that for their journey out.

Fr Michael disembarked in WA with relish.

Preaching was a bit difficult in with Frs Eamon McKenna and early days, he admits, the within died (who Lyng Paddy we had little back"because three months of tuberculosis), to from and then preach to ground of wall C degree be hit with a 40 - which was a shyness was there heat. . . . . I would me for problem big Curate days were frequently it!" not easy for the young men when sweat at the very thought of deep the off in thrown Being discipline was a keynote of the point also parish priest's expectation of end proved a turning a curate still when Michael Fr for them, but as Fr Michael said, all g; Quairadin for supply on and and part as this was accepted the in decision a make to forced parcel of the priesthood. made it First curate postings were absence of the PP, he up." grew instantly Palmyra, East Fremantle, St "and "From then on I had no fears Mary's Cathedral, Shenton Park, working in a parish, makabout Perth, South Nedlands, and getting people decisions ing Quairading, North Beach and always had the I've and going; posting then his first parish priest of my parishsupport up back at Norseman, followed by ioners."

Esperance and a return to the Fr Henry readily admits his first city in 1964 at Karrinyup.

days in WA were difficult. After six days with his brother, he was then shipped off to Kalgoorlie.

It was a terrible shock, culturally and climatically, and sharing the parish with Frs Hesse and McSweeney under PP Fr Bob (later Bishop) Healy.

After a while, it all became a bit too much for Fr Henry with chronic homesickness, the isolation, and all consuming, unaccustomed heat.

The turning point came when he was given Dale Carnegie's How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. Reading that book in combination with strength from the Holy Spirit, Fr Henry turned the corner and has never looked back.

He also gives thanks to Fr Anton Hesse in evaluating the situation and stepping in with his friends to improve Fr Henry's life and put him back on track That experience Fr Henry now counts as invaluable "because I learned so much through that illness that I can now assist other people who suffer - especially from worry."

Kalgoorlie was followed by postings at Shenton Park, South Perth and Claremont before being made parish priest of Beverley, Lynwood and now Scarborough.

Meanwhile, to show their appreciation, Fr Henry's parishioners and friends celebrated his 40th Jubilee Mass last weekend followed by a memorable function in the parish centre.

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Armadale, Willetton take lead in youth work

By Penny Ashcroft from the Catholic Youth and Young Adult Office.

It is with a mixture of excitement and thanksgiving that the staff of the Youth and Young Adult Office are seeing the fruit of seeds sown three years ago in the initial stages of the Comprehensive Youth Ministry Program.

Three parishes - Willetton. Bateman and Morley - were approached at that time and asked to pilot a program in our diocese which cannot be entered into lightly.

The original period of training and planning, involving teams of 10-15 young people and adults, lasted 12 months.

The program demands a change in mindset, a paradigm shift, which involves thinking laterally and building up a new tradition in youth and young adult ministry in our parishes.

Currently six parishes, Willetton, Bateman Riverton, Armadale, Kwinana and joondanna are implementing this innovative way of ministering to youth and young adults.

It will give great encouragement to the 'newcomers on the block' to hear that Willetton, three years down the track, is offering a multiplicity of programs which range from Taize Prayer evenings to parish dinners, from soccer and basketball to a public speaking course, from Christian youth rallies to disco nights.

It takes time to see the results of the training, planning and implementation of programs which endeavour to fulfil the Individual needs of each young person in the parish by utilising the gifts and talents of the total parish family and the community at large.

The various parish teams can feel uplifted and encouraged by the results achieved in Willetton and Armadale.

It is heartening to see these two parishes interacting and working towards the goals set in the training workshops.

A fine example of using the wider community to fulfil the needs of the individual within the parish, occurred over the long weekend.

Nine people from various parishes attended a Public Speaking Workshop which was offered by the Youth and Young Adult Office and presented by Mr John Sargeant of Envision Business Builders.

This is the second time Mr Sargeant has facilitated this course for us and it is a testimony to his expertise to see the confidence instilled those who attended.

This is Comprehensive Youth Ministry.

Ascertaining the needs of young people and utilising the giftedness of adults such as Mr Sargeant to meet them - whether the adults come from within the parish or from the wider community.

The possibilities are endless, the concept incredibly exciting.

New Norcia kids' programs

Back to the future for St Joseph's Pinjarra opening

St Joseph students remember the spirit of the Josephite Sisters who founded the school

A re-enactment of the Sisters of St Joseph arriving in Pinjarra in 1934 to establish the school.

The small picturesque Catholic school of St Joseph's Pinjarra turned the clock back more than 60 years last Sunday and revis-

ited their founding, in celebration of a four-year building project which has seen

a remarkable change to the school from Its previous run-down state to a revitalised place to learn.

After more than half a million dollars in extensions, renovations and refurbishments, the new St Joseph's would undoubtedly make Mr and Mrs Perret,

who donated the school land back in 1934. extremely proud.

Bishop of Bunbury, Peter Quinn, blessed the school in a ceremony which saw students re-enact its founding by the Sisters

of St Joseph.

The driving force behind the school's amazing transformation can be largely attributed to the work of Principal, Sister Maree Riddler, and her School Board, who were instrumental in getting the project off the ground.

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Dom Bernard Rooney OSB and a member of Moore Aboriginal Community give lessons in traditional Aboriginal culture

The Benedictine Community at New Norcia is expanding the services it can offer to schools.

Mrs Robyn Watson has been appointed Education Officer in the historic town.

Together with the monks and volunteer guides, Robyn has developed a range of programs for school children.

The programs will provide them with a hands-on opportunity to learn from the The Record, June 6 1996 Page 4

rich, treasure trove of history and culture housed at New Norcia.

About 200 Year Nine students from Lumen Christ College, Gosnells were the first students to undertake the one-day program last week Their visit crossed paths with a class from St Thomas' School, Claremont who had travelled North from Perth and were staying at New Norcia for four days.

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Faith, talking the key to 60 years of marriage

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Paddy and Connie Kane at the Little Sister of the Poor last month

A new joint effort by the Catholic Migrants Centre and the Womens' Economic Development Organisation to fill the gaps in migrants' knowledge of what is necessary to set up a small business began at the WEDO offices in Stirling Street. Perth. last week.

About 30 migrants. men and women. turned up for the introductory session of the program. called Be Your Own Boss. being run by the two organisations.

WEDO is a government-funded organisation that runs courses and seminars designed to help women enter and succeed in the field of private enterprise.

"It was developed because we find small business is the economic future of Australia. . . . most [of those attending] owned their own businesses in their home countries and are anxious to be a success here,- employment coordinator for the migrant centres. Nena Newman. said.

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That's whyI planned ahead."

Be Your Own Boss consists of six sessions, each running for two-and-a-half

hours and begins formally on 10 June.

It will look at important studies of the pitfalls and successes involved in setting up your own business.

The importance of developing a business plan: understanding insurance. marketing and book-keeping as well as familiarity with taxation matters, will all be covered by the course.

WEDO executive director Nerina Coopes said she was excited with the development of the program. which would also be a pilot project. and hoped it would help migrants with a flair for business to succeed.

The course costs S120 to attend or S60 for a concession fee.

Further information can be gained by contacting the Catholic Migrant Centre on (09) 221 172Z - Peter Rosengren

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Catholics and Anglicans celebrated the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity when the Reverend Dr John Shepherd. Dean of St George's Anglican Cathedral in Perth. and his wife. Joy. joined the congregation of St Thomas More College in Crawley over the recent Pentecost weekend.

Doan Shepherd spoke of the often hidden but always fruitful presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church and individual Christians. and the much-appreciated visit of Archbishop Hickey to St George's Cathedral earlier this year.

The Archdiocesan Ecumenical Affairs Committee arranged the visit.

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their past week - and enjoy being together.

Paddy's been an active man all his life and on one occasion, he braved the Irish icy waters one Christmas Day, when snow was falling all around, to successfully win a coveted swimming prize!

Quite a golfer. Paddy would also boost the Kane goodies supply by frequently winning a number of tangible prizes.

This beautiful, lovely couple obviously enjoy each other's company and there is an aura of peace. tranquillity. and happiness they share.

They've had their share of problems. too, with being short on cash throughout their marriage - particularly because of the strains of seven children on the budget - plus the normal difficulties one encounters in family and marriage.

But having got their priorities right in putting God, family. and their marriage first it's paid off a hundredfold.

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It's 60 years of wedded bliss for Connie Kane, 82, and husband Paddy, 89, both of whom reside at the Little Poor. the of Sisters Glendalough.

Dublin-based, they married in 1936 and reared seven children before migrating to Australia in 1966.

The month long voyage with a foreign cook didn't help Connie's stomach - "the food was dreadful!" - neither did the seasickness, nor the fact that the captain had cancer. "and the doctor was a drunkard!" left having However, Ireland believing their children would have left home to seek work, they found full employment for their children on arriving in Australia. and never looked back.

One married daughter remains in Ireland. and a son has since died. But shifting to the West, which they ultimately did for climate rea-

sons, Connie went to live at the Little Sisters, to ensure health care, taking with her Paddy, her life-long friend and husband.

Paddy, a handsome and active man, was a shoe salesman for most of his working time in Ireland, which meant that Connie, still pretty and feminine, was at home alone mid-week raising their children.

Faith training and Catholic practice was big on Connie's motherhood list with night prayers. the family Rosary while Paddy was away, and then the Sunday family Mass.

And perhaps this explains why their marriage has proven such a success, because this couple are faithfilled and big on communication.

When Paddy would return each weekend from travelling around Ireland, they'd go out to the local pub on the Friday or Saturday night, have a drink, catch up with

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Holy Family knew refugee life

By Peter Rosengren Father Adrian Pittarello is a Scalabrinian priest, a member of a congregation devoted exclusively to working with migrants and assistingjhe Church to respond to the needs of people who move from one country to live in another.

As a Scalabrinian he is therefore something of a specialist, a qualification which should stand him in good stead as the new coordinator of the Perth archdiocese's multicultural apostolate.

Here in Perth since January, he told The Record recently his work would remain essentially the same as in Sydney where he also acted as a private adviser to the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Edward Clancy, on migration issues.

"Here the archdiocese has given me the task to think and to suggest and, perhaps, try and implement initiatives which will favour the diocese as far as the presence of migrants is concerned," he said.

Fr Pitarello will also be working on refugee issues too.

Before coming to Perth, he was the director of the Migrant Research Centre for the Archdiocese of Sydney where he advised on migrant issues and recommended Fr Adrian Pittarello: helping parishes use the gifts of migrants approaches for the Church to help In the pastoral care of migrants are gener- many levels," he said. And, as this hapmigrants take their place within its life. al to any country where migrants are pens, parish life also changes because the In addition he edited the centre's regular found. people who enter into the parish change it magazine, Migration Monitor.

"The key tasks are to make people linguistically and culturally.

He said that while individual circum- realise that the presence of migrants "I see my role in the archdiocese as helpstances can change, the important issues changes society in many ways and at ing parishes to understand at least some

Supporting Aboriginal art There have been some wonderful things happening in the Kimberley though the Catholic education system that are bringing tangible benefits to the indigenous communities.

These endeavours have led in turn to new opportunities that are enabling the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to gain their own place of esteem.

Some milestones have been the Aboriginal sporting stars and entertainers who have provided role models for their people. All communities need their heroes and models that young people can emulate.

Raymond Edney is an Aboriginal artist who has been working for the Catholic Education Office in Broome for about two years.

Along with the linguists and language specialists working in Catholic schools, Raymond's work is important because it is bringing both the indigenous people and others to a deeper appreciation of the beauty and subtleness communicated in Aboriginal language and culture.

Raymond has been selected to represent Australia as an Artist-in-Residence at the Cleveland Heritage Centre in the United Kingdom in June.

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The Cards can be purchased at Pellegrini, Gatto, New Norcia Art Gallery or by phonRaymond Edney with some of his work at the ing Brian Coyne or Bob Michel at the CEO in Leederville last week.

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Common good 'overrides personal gun ownership' The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, Archbishop Leonard Faulkner, has spoken out on the vocal protests against the Government's moves to restrict possession of firearms, warning that protesters are running the risk of deeply dividing Australian society.

"Taking the debate about new gun laws to the streets has the potential to tear our society apart," he said in a statement on the matter issued in Adelaide earlier this week "Individual interests and the political agendas of particular groups are threatening to erase the universal sense of shock and grief which united all Australians immediately after the events of Port Arthur."

Archbishop Faulkner's comments came against a background of demonstrations In major Australian cities over the last fortnight organised by pro-gun ownership lobby groups.

Approximately 70,000 people opposing the Government's proposed legislation marched in Melbourne last weekend, while Federal independent Kalgoorlie MP, Graeme Campbell, announced during the week the formation of his Australia First Party which he said would fight the issue at the next election.

However, Archbishop Faulkner said Australia could not risk losing social unity on the issue.

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of the changes occurring within the parish and how to cope with them, how to program for the spiritual welfare of migrants and for the 'growing together' of the parish as such," he said.

However, people can react sometimes defensively to the increasing presence of a different group in their midst.

Although the 'them and us' attitude may be understandable because it is the way people react to the presence of recognisably different groups, it needs to be broken down so that migrants are accepted as equal brothers and sisters in faith.

Part of his role, he said, will be to assist parishes to come to a mature understanding of the role of migrants and the contributions they can make.

Fr Pitmen() hopes to help people to see not negative but positive aspects of migration. "The variety [of immigrants] is surely a festival of richness, not a poverty," he pointed out.

He said the Church's work with migrants when they first arrived was essential.

"If migrants are helped when they first arrive into this country by the Church, they are likely to continue their faith without interruption for the rest of their life," he said Fr Pitarello will have plenty to do as migrants make up a substantial portion of the Church's own population and identity In Perth.

However, it is hardly anything which should be alien to the Church.

After all, Jesus, Mary and Joseph were migrants and refugees too.

that the common good of living together without violence overrides all individual interests," he said.

The archbishop also said the firearms issue was a symptom of deep-seated conflicts within Australian society which need to be addressed urgently.

"Many people have lost a sense of belonging; they no longer feel part of a community; they are afraid of a society which they think has let them down.

"In their legitimate despair they develop a 'bunker mentality' and look to force as a way to protect themselves," he said.

Borrowing a phrase from American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, he said 'guns were poor chisels' for fashioning a society at peace with itself.

"Human problems need human solutions.

"I urge all people to redevelop communities of support in, their neighbourhoods, to approach people who are isolated, and to become active in overcoming the root cause of crime," he said.

The archbishop said the risk of accidental death or injury from the use of easily accessibly firearms was too high.

"It can't really be said that guns make society safer," he claimed, adding that "possession of firearms is a privilege, not a right."

Legal restrictions therefore do not have to be justified, he argued.

Shanahan reappointed Pope John Paul II has reappointed Perth doctor, Dr Michael Shanahan, who is president of the local Catholic Doctors' Association, as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers for a further period of five years.

In a letter from the Vatican, Cardinal Fiorenzo AngeIini, president of the Council, said "I sincerely thank you for your valuable collaboration, which we count on for the future as well."

Aussie on laity council An Australian, Brian Smith, coordinator of the Emmanuel Covenant Community in Brisbane since 1975, has been appointed to the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Laity.

Mr Smith was in Malaysia this week and could not be contacted when news of the appointment came through yesterday.

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And I find myself wondering: would these terrible massacres have happened or even could they have happened, if, throughout the troubled years in the leadup to them, enough kind people had only stopped, and looked, and asked: What are you going through, Martin? What are you going through, Thomas? Perhaps it needed only one person to reach out and ask the question for a healing to have taken place.

There is a lovely line by Runai, the 12th century Sufi poet: "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Let us all meet there with Jesus and, before it is too late again, let us bring to that field the unhappy, the confused. the "different", the lost and the lonely - the Martins and the Thomases of this world - free of criticism free of judgment, and let us give them the love and acceptance they need so that they, in turn, can learn to love and laugh and live in happiness.

And maybe then we'll have created a world which need never again find itself weeping in anguish over a Port Arthur or a Dunblane.

It was Jesus' way. It should be our way too.

Mrs Glenys Simons Attadale

must confess to being one of those friend is reported as saying she dropped -modern" people Patricia Halligan him after learning from his mother of his ( The Record, 23 May) refers to who do schizophrenia.

His father suicided in 1993, and not believe in the reality of a Devil "wandering through the world for the destruc- rumours that Martin had killed his father circulated wildly around Port Arthur. It tion of souls". seems that Martin - like Thomas the from is come to positive If anything horrific carnages of Port Arthur and Hamilton before him who had been the Dunblane it will not come by focusing on subject of rumour and suspicion in evil, man's fallen nature, sin, Hell and the Dunblane - quite understandably brooded over this. A profile emerges of two devil.

I see it as a real cop-out to project evil troubled and afflicted men, lonely, alienonto Satan or anything else out there ated, and in pain.

Human beings have the same nature as when the fault, as Shakespeare reminds animals. If a hen is hurt, the others rush us, lies in ourselves.

The alleged Port Arthur gunman, upon it, and attack it with their beaks.

Martin Bryant. and Dunblane killer Like Christ, "being made a curse for us", Thomas Hamilton, both allegedly suf- the afflicted feels accursed.

A solution exists, but is rarely found. fered much rejection from the communiMrs Halligan writes that evil exists in the ties in which they lived.

Bryant, It has been reported, had been world because the influence of subjected to taunts and jeers because he Christianity has been removed from all was "different". Apparently a shy, gentle positions of authority.

But if the answer was as simple as that, boy, he was bullied at school and had there could have been no alleged abuses been the butt of cruel jokes.

It is alleged that when he lived with of little children at Bindoon and elseHelen Harvey, Helen told a neighbour where, no bloody Crusades in the name that people were throwing stones on their of Christ, no one tortured and put to an roof at night and calling Bryant names, agonising death by Inquisitors, no Hammer of Witches with its consequent and that that was agitating Him. It has been alleged in initial news Insane slaughtering of innocent women.

All these evils happened in the name of reports that he is schizophrenic. A girl-

Christianity, but were in fact distortions of Christianity.

We need to be very clear as to what Christianity is, or should be .... We need to look to Jesus.

And if we look, we'll find Him lovingly gathering up the lost sheep in His arms and carrying it back to the fold; we'll hear Him calling another pariah, Zacharias, down from the tree, restoring the man's self-respect by publicly announcing that He would dine with him that very evening; we'll see Him warmly welcoming those other social rejects, Magdalen, the despised prostitute, and Matthew, the bitterly hated tax collector into the circle of His dearest and closest friends.

Such a love is truly wonderful and yet is rarely found. And such a love is healing.

Often the root of the pain of the world is not evil so much as apathy, indifference, self-righteousness, and which of us can say in truth that he or she has never contributed to that pain?

I do not know whether Martin Bryant or Thomas Hamilton were evil, or the extent to which they might have been sick - that's for the forthcoming investigations to try to uncover - I only know that they were sad, possibly in torment. For people need relationships; rejection and alienation can be so destructive.

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world was not always as it is today; that God created a perfect world as the Book of Genesis teaches us. God created man in his image - the perfect human being.

God gave us a free-will, so God cannot be held responsible for man's misuse of freedom to do evil.

Since that original act of disobedience, we have all been stained with the Sin of Adam. and consequently, none of us can really claim to be completely innocent.

However, guilty as we are, we still belong to God because he is the Author of life.

How then can we possibly justify the taking of human life - whether in capital punishment or in war?

There can be no "just war" when so many lives are lost; and capital punishment is the old "eye for an eye" mentality.

We have a moral obligation to find alternative ways to dealing with the evil in our world; the taking of more human life only perpetuates this problem.

Joseph Said Noranda

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he Four Corners program of 27 May raised many issues of concern in relation to the abuse of children under the care of, and in contact with, our Catholic priests and religious within Australia.

The abuse is horrendous enough but the complicity over such a long period of time Indicates to me that many people, including. bishops, clergy, religious and laity must have been aware of the situation.

Sweeping it under the carpet and not facing the issue must have been a considered expedient to save the face of the Church as a respected body in Australia.

What a regrettable action. How did it happen?

What credibility does the Church have now - very little in many quarters,I would suggest.

I only hope and pray that our children and grandchildren can find reason to give my wife and myself credibility in our advice, and possible example towards our

faith, In the face of such justifiable critical assessment of our Church by the program.

W B O'Meara Toodyay

The Author of life

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can appreciate the comments made by Hugh Clift (The Record, 9 May) in response to my previous letter regarding capital punishment, especially as his view-point reflects the traditional teaching of the Catholic Church.

The notion of the absolute inviolability of life may appear to be an idealistic philosophy - perhaps one which we would expect to see operating in a utopian society.

However, we don't live in a perfect world - wars and crime being our lot. This of course has lead to the creation of the armed forces to deal with hostility, and the police force to maintain law and order.

So one could be excused to think that under such circumstances, the taking of human life, although regrettable, is sometimes unavoidable and therefore justified.

Hence, the Church recognises the validity of the "just war" and the State sanctioned capital punishment.

But we need also to remember that the

Father the Pope. The Ecclesia Del Society has helped to provide Catholics with the lawful celebration of the llidentine Rite of the Latin Mass after Pope John Paul II granted the indult for this Mass in 1984.

Michael Davies in his well meaning attempt to speak in favour of the Latin Mass could unfortunately, due to the manner in which his talk was presented, be Interpreted as casting doubt on the authority of the Pope. Such doubt can lead to the denial of the power of the Holy Spirit to guide and protect the Church.

Mr Sheridan's suggestion (23 May) to read the book, The Pope, The Council ann The Mass to clear confusion. is sound.

However, consideration should be given to the fact that this book was written prior to Pope John Paul II's granting of the indult for the Latin Mass.

Pope John Paul has stated that ills the rightful aspiration of Catholics to worship God in this manner and for the Latin Mass to be made available wherever it is requested by the faithful.

Catholics should be thankful to God that the Holy Mass is available to all in the old rite. support Mr Morton's statement (The new and the Record. 23 May) that the Ecclesia Dei Mary Fancote Society is in obedience to our Holy kelmscott

Tridentine Mass lawful

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Mum, why can'tIput my finger in the electricity socket?' " . . . . and the silicon chip Inside her head was switched to overload . . . " so go the lyrics of the songIHate Mondays.

I'm sure many parents have often felt that their minds are on 'overload', and I'm equally as sure that many adolescents and teenagvrs have felt that their parent4 have something like a silicon chip inside their head whatever reason. One of our first that is specifically programmed conscious experiences as a child is that of the word 'NO! Perhaps to ruin their lives!

Not so, of course, but at times accompanying a smack on the our children probably have hand for trying to touch a hot good cause to believe that as stove or for trying to stick an soon as our feet touch the floor object into an electrical outlet.

In the morning the first thought Unfortunately, we parents to enter our mind is "how can I don't always take the time to explain why we are saying no make them suffer today?"

Inside this parent's head is a and as a result, children can jumble of "kid-related" things - begin to think that we are just from the desire to be a good par- being difficult and trying to keep ent, to a worry wart . . . . and them from enjoying life.

There are times when it is sadly as our girls were growing up, probably an almost automat- impossible to explain - how do you explain to a two-year-old ic NO reflex!

Recently,I wondered about the that if she sticks that thing into number of timesIperhaps could the electrical outlet, little elechave said yes and didn't for trons will run up her arm, make

climb to the top of a tree in our duce myself'; "yes, you can borbackyard and jump out - she did row the car, please be home - and I found her a few minutes around 11pm".

Maybe in order to allow our later, flat on her back, stunned, but alive and without any major children to be free enough to damage. Hence, when the ques- grow in self-esteem and respontion came "can I play in the tree- sibility, we need to step out in house Mummy?", I didn't think faith, dull our protective mechatwice, and just said "NO WAY !". nism a little and carefully conAs parents, our role naturally sider our answer before replying her hair stand on end and cause lends itself to being critical of to a request that might normally particular behaviour and actions bring forth an automatic no. her toes to smoke?

We can, as authority figures in There are times, however, and we may have to pay the families, either grant or our children our raising we of why price know when we don't say no, it could be purely out of with love by being disliked for withhold.

What a gift it would be to have habit, it could be a protective showing that love.

Parents who don't love don't the wisdom to offer the freedom mechanism.

We spend so much of our have family rules, don't set to our children, when appropriate, to move towards growing in child's life in protective mode - guidelines and never say no.

But perhaps we could also con- dignity and self-esteem by from the time they are born when we listen for their breath- sider the advice of author Dr allowing them to be fully ing and check on them every James Dobson - he recommend- responsible for their actions.

If we do make decisions that go few minutes - to watching them ed that we think twice before cross the road for the first time saying no as there may be a very against the desires of our teenagers and we do say NO, it by themselves. good case for saying yes. be a sure sign that we care, tell may fun, like sounds that "Yes, wakevery seems Sometimes it ing moment is spent trying to me all about the arrangements but perhaps we can also take the keep them from killing them- for transport"; "yes, you can stay time to explain the reason for selves. When one of our daugh- overnight at John's home, I'll our decision and be sure that ters was four, she was dared to 'phone his parents and intro- our spirit of intent is positive. . . . .

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Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ

Our best friend is waiting for us 24 hours a day

Confronting the truth •

By Father W Thomas Faucher

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he Bradiords were not anti-Catholic Christians, they were anti-religion agnostics with a special dislike of Catholics.

I had become friends with their son, Jerry. Things finally came out into the open one day when Jerry asked his mother to explain to me what she disliked about Catholics. Her response surprised me.

"You people are disgusting and vile," she said for openers. "I find executions offensive, and you people put crosses and pictures of a bloody body even on the walls of your homes . ... You also talk about eating flesh and drinking blood. That's barbarian!"

I did my best to explain to her why we did those things, but she wasn't convinced. Though that conversation took place more than 30 years ago, I've never forgotten it.

I think most Catholics are comfortable with the idea and realities of crucifixes. But most Catholics are less comfortable with the language of eating "flesh" and drinking "blood." We make a great effort to emphasise that the Eucharist is truly and actually the body and blood of Christ, not just a representation.

But we usually don't say "flesh" and "blood." We talk about "receiving Eucharist." "going to Communion," "taking the host," "drinking from the cup."

Though the idea was offensive even in his day, Jesus chose eating his flesh and drinking his blood to be our supreme act of worship because it means sacrifice to the Father, union with the Son, sanctification by the Spirit.

Drinking Christ's blood is a multi-layered symbolic gesture that is sacramental, which means It actually is what it signifies.

Those layers include the reality that: Jesus is the sacrificial lamb of God, slain for our redemption: instead of God consuming the sacrifice, things are switched around and we are invited to do so: we become what we have sacrificed, what we have consumed.

Eating flesh and drinking blood are among the most primal, complicated and symbolic actions of the human race. That we do so under the species of bread and wine must not be allowed to rob us of the truth that in eating Christ's flesh and drinking Christ's blood we become him.

We need to listen to the words as we approach this gift - "the body of Christ . . . . the blood of Christ" - and take them seriously and literally.

This Sunday's Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ and next Friday's feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus turn our attention to the reality, in the first instance, of Jesus's great love for us in giving us His Body and Blood for us to eat and drink and, in the latter, devotion to His Sacred Heart in thanks for the mercy God has shown to us.

Salesian Brother Kenneth Seqeira, courtesy of the April 1995 edition of the Ave Maria magazine of the WA Garabandal Centre, remembers the great devotion St John Bosco had for the Eucharist.

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he Christ who dominated St.John Bosco's whole existence was Jesus alive and present in the Eucharist.

In the year 1854, Don Bosco wrote: "The Sacrifice of the altar is the glory, the life and - the heart of Christianity." And on another occasion: "One cannot imagine anything more holy and precious than the Body, Blood.

Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, and so when you go to Mass. I want you to be convinced that you are doing something which gives the greatest glory to God and is most useful to your own soul.

"Jesus Christ Himself comes in Person to apply to each one individually the merits of His adorable Blood which He shed for us on the Cross."

In the Companion of Youth which he published in 1847 he wrote: "Understand well, my children, that when you assist at Holy Mass it is just as if you were seeing our Divine Saviour coming out of Jerusalem and carrying His cross to Calvary where He is crucified and where He shed His blood to the last drop. When the priest celebrates Holy Mass, the same sacrifice is renewed but in a bloodless manner".

It was Don Bosco's great concern to help his boys grasp the sacramental reality of the Mass.

At the feasts celebrated by the boys, the place of honour was always given to the Holy Mass.

It was always solemnised with music, singing and a number of altar boys. People came to the Oratory from other parts of the city, to take part in the festive Eucharistic celebrations because they found them a means to feel closer to God. The reception of Holy Communion also claimed the solicitude of Don Bosco. He once stated: "The body eats every day to be strong, why should the soul remain without its daily bread?

Christ Himself commands us to partake of His Body."

In 1870 Don Bosco, citing St. Thomas Aquinas, wrote: "When one knows from experience that daily Communion makes the heart grow in love of God, one should receive Holy Communion every day."

To stir up the faith which allows Holy Communion to produce its fruits, it is essential we prepare ourselves. In Chapter 14 of his biography of the boy-saint St Dominic Savio, Don Bosco wrote: "Dominic's preparation for receiving the Holy Eucharist was devout and edifying. The evening preceding Communion, he would say a prayer for this purpose . . . . Then on the following morning he would put in sufficient time for preparation. His thanksgiving, however never ceased. On one occasion, he even forgot about breakfast, recreation and even morning school, so caught up was he with God." It was Don Bosco's belief that the visit to the Blessed Sacrament was a real meeting with the living and present Christ, our greatest friend.

A concrete way of sustaining the great conviction of faith that the risen Christ is with us sacramentally, is the daily visit.

We should avail ourselves of this opportunity to live in His familiar presence.

Once Don Bosco exhorted his children: "We should go and pay our respects to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament where he waits for us night and day. He

could have remained in the Host during Mass or even only while we receive Him in Eloly Communion.

But no, he wished to be continuously in our churches so that as we would do with our mothers, we could run and throw ourselves into His arms at any moment, and bring His most outstanding graces upon us.

Therefore let us go and visit Him often!"

On another occasion Don Bosco explained to his boys: "Friends in the world find so much happiness in being together, that sometimes they will spend a whole day in loving companionship."

"So why are we not able to find some time during the (lay to spend with the best of friends?

Oh, how pleasant is the company of Jesus!

Who could describe the fullness of joy felt by St John the Apostle at the last supper when being closest to Jesus, he could rest his head on the Lord's breast.

How very much like it is the joy one feels in the tender company of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament."

And again: "There are two things the devil is afraid of: fervent Communions and frequent, ardent visits to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

"Do you want Our Lord to grant you many graces? Visit Him often. Do you want Him to grant you only a few? Visit Him but seldom. Visiting the Blessed Sacrament, is essential if you want to overcome the devil. Therefore make frequent visits to Jesus, if you do that, the devil will not prevail against you."

To the Tabernacle we must all make our way, to know, love and pour all our problems to Jesus our dearest friend, and to obtain from Him spiritual enrichment and vigour that will enable us to produce abundant fruits of salvation.

Sanctity may seem beyond our reach, but the Holy Eucharist is a powerful means which Our Saviour has provided us to scale the seemingly unattainable heights of holiness.

An opportunity to resolve to receive the Eucharist often Record contributor Peter Dwan continues meditations on the readings at Sunday Mass.

This week the readings for the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ.

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oday's beautiful Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ gives us the chance to consider the Eucharist as the food of our souls.

Today's first reading (Deuteronomy 8:23, 14-16) records Moses' words to the people: "Do not forget the Lord your God who . . . . in the wilderness fed you with manna which your fathers had not known."

The Jews always regarded the feeding of the people with manna as God's most wonderful intervention on their behalf.

The feeding of the Jews with manna in the desert prefigured Our Lord's feeding

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wants the Eucharist to be the food of our souls. Scripture scholars say that the petition in the "Our Father," "Give us this day our daily bread," refers to the Eucharist.

We need the strength which comes from the Eucharist if we are to perform our daily duties well. Mother Teresa of Calcutta says that it is through daily Mass . . . with 'Peter Dwan and Communion that she gains the strength to continue her work for the poorest of the poor. us with Himself in the Eucharist.

If we want strength, let us seek it in the The manna was considered bread from Eucharist. St John Bosco said: "Do you heaven, but this was only so in a figura- want few graces? Then go seldom to Jesus tive sense. Today's gospel passage (John in the Blessed Sacrament. Do you want 6:51-58), records Our Lord's words: "I am many graces? Then go often to Him." the living bread which has come down Pope St Pius X described frequent from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread Communion as "the shortest and surest will live for ever, and the bread that I way to paradise." As today's gospel passhall give is my flesh for the life of the sage records Our Lord's words: "I tell you world." most solemnly, if you do not eat the flesh These words show us that Our Lord of the Son of Man and drink his blood,

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you shall not have life in you. Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise him up on the last day."

The second reading from St Paul's first letter to the Corinthian (1 Corinthians 10: 16-17), points out how receiving Communion unites us with one another as well as with Our Lord: "The fact that there is only one loaf means that, though there are many of us, we form a single body because we all have a share in this one loaf." The reading also provides us with apostolic witness to belief in the real presence when it says: "The blessing cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ and the bread that we break is a communion with the body of Christ."

May the feast be a time when we resolve to receive Holy Communion as often as we can.

Music, Music, Music

Brady's bells carry on ancient tradition of ringing God's praise

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

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evin Brady of Como, H Knight Commander of the oly Sepulchre, Catenian, and Acolyte also gives outstanding service in another area of his Catholic involvement, and it's that of campanologist for the last 19 years at St Mary's Cathedral, Perth.

What's a Campanologist? Good question!

On further delving, it's a position that finds Kevin in isolation at the bottom of the bell tower in St Mary's Cathedral using his musical expertise to play a carillon of 13 bells which peal out Marian hymns at the weekly Wednesday novena, and on other occasions with suitable music to reflect the occasion or liturgical season.

Kevin's carillon is a device whereby he pulls stick/levers (each lever denoting a particular musical note) for each of the 13 bells which are attached by wires to clappers (tongues) which strike the motionless bells about 53 metres up the bell tower.

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On these bells, Kevin can play 80 per cent of church music in a one-and-a-half octave range.

Kevin said there's a carillon tower of at least 40 bells played by the feet and hands in Canberra. He also pointed to Carillon Arcade in Perth which has a number of bells, but they aren't pealed because of the noise factor!

He's also been told by campanologists from other states that they "play the carillon in their local town and will peal the bells. usually civic-housed, for weddings across the town at various times in different churches: Kevin Brady collected music for the six bells Monsignor Sean O'Shea had installed on Rottnest Island in the Catholic chapel.

Special music was needed because fewer bells means a more limited musical range.

St Mary's 13 bells, large and majestic, hang in a tiered cluster overlooking Perth and its surrounds and have hung there, unseen by many, since their installation and blessing by Archbishop Redmond Prendiville on 9 June, 1951. The eleven initial bells were named after Saints Peter, Paul, Patrick. Francis Xavier.

Brendan, Colman, Ma Flannan, John Vianney, Maria Goretti, Teresa and Columba.

They replaced the original bell brought out by the Benedictine Monks which had been presented to the Benedictine Abbey of St Martin of Compostela in Spain in 1676 by Maestro Bustanente.

Bishop Salvado, who made his profession as a member of the Benedictines in the Abbey of St Martin, brought the bell to Australia in 1853 and had it erected at the Benedictine House at Subiaco.

In 1867 it was transferred to the belfry of St Mary's. The second Bishop of Perth, the Benedictine Martin Griver, built the cathedral

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with the help of Benedictine ations of men as they come quietly in to pay homage to God, His monks. It was opened in 1865.

Additions to the eastern end of mother and the saints. the Cathedral. the sanctuary and Any rewards for Kevin Brady's transepts, were opened on May committment to the ringing of 4. 1930: the bells haveremained the bells and his service to the in their now 130-year-old home. cathedral and its community?

As for the original Spanish bell, Well yes! according to Kevin, that marvellous piece of artistry says (especially with Our who and antiquity, ills now 320 years weekly novena in mind) Lady's and age, of without old blemish resides resplendently in the back Ihave received my blessings in of the cathedral, watching the numerous ways. And Our Lady comings and goings of the gener- repays like nolIndy else can!"

US contest finds five new Marian hymns DAYIUN, Ohio (CNS) - Five society's annual meeting in Gasslein stressed Mary's unique role in history: new Marian hymns have result- Philadelphia.

They were: Benedictine Sister ed from an international compe0 woman, bearer of our God, tition to update Mary's image in Delores Dufner of St. Joseph, Now midwife at the birth song for new generations of Minnesota; Poor Clare Sister Of God's own justice, God's Marie Colette of Los Altos Hills, Catholics. great day "There's more to Mary than California; School Sister of Notre The hope of all the earth. 'gentle mother, peaceful dove," Dame Marie LeClerc Laux of Sister Dufner used the Bible said Marianist Father Thomas Milwaukee; Michael Hodgetts of the Second Vatican Council and Thompson, director of the Sutton Coldfield in West Gentium Lumen document and England; University of Dayton's Marian Midlands, (Dogmatic Constitution on the Library who sugge:ited the hymn Bernadette Gasslein of Ottawa.

Fr Thompson said three themes Church in the Modern World) for contest to present Mary in a dominated: a traditional view of her text, fuller context.

One verse of her hymn, We According to Fr Thompson, Mary as intercessor and protecof a Woman, reads: Sing Marian hymns for generations tor, Mary's giftedness and priviWith Mary, disciples were gathhave depicted a meek and mild leges, and Mary as a role model, ered in prayer handmaid of the Lord, but other an example to be emulated.

'Rvo of the nuns particularly awaiting the Spirit, the Christqualities may be more comprehensible and appealing to noted Mary's steadfastness. In life to share.

Mary, Our Mother, based on the New-born and empowered, the Catholics today.

He also is executive secretary of new catechism, Sister Marie church found its voice, the Mariological Society of Colette wrote: and Mary, its mother. could not America based at the university. but rejoice.

Model of the church at prayer, Contestants were asked to sub' with you we seek always Gods Hodgetts' Hymn for Our Lady mit texts suitable for a hymn and will. borrows the metre of a 12th-cenwritten in regular metre so the May we remain steadfast in tury Christmas sequence and is hymn could be sung to an existfaith as you did on Calv'ry's hill. intended for use during the ing hymn tune.

The same theme was stated in Advent and Christmas seasons: They were encouraged to use Faithful Mary by Sr Laux: Glory of Jerusalem, images from Scripture, the the child at Bethlehem is Since us keep Mary, showing Faithful Catechism of the Catholic Lord, the Christ be, can each we graced how Church and Masses of the Show us how the Trinity, accepting whatever is asked of Blessed Virgin Mary.

Now and for eternity, should be Winners of the contest, which us, trusting God totally. attracted more than 900 entries, In verse three of 0 First-born adored.

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pick one winner and two runners-up, Fr Thompson said, but judges found the quality of entries superb and decided to select the best five.

The ultimate goal, he said, was a repertoire of Marian hymns suitable for liturgy and congregasinging.

"If they get into a hymnal, that shows that the hymns have appeal and popularity and that they have gained acceptance," he said.

"We'll have some quality Marian hymns that can be used in the celebration of the Eucharist."

The University of Dayton is sponsored by the Society of Mary, a teaching order of priests and brothers.

Its Marian Library houses the world's largest collection of printed materials about Mary, and the Mariological Society was founded in 1949 to encourage theological studies of Mary.

Readers may get copies of the winning hymns by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope with $US2 to: Marian Library. University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 454691390.

Tower Captain of St George's Cathedral, Perth, David Knewstub, who is also president of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Bell Ringers, is most knowledgeable about the history of bell ringing and provides a most interesting background on this ancient art. The association's Ringing Festival will be held in Perth in October.

The Chinese first perfected bells as musical instruments thousands of years ago and since then almost every race on earth has used bells to warn, incite or celebrate good tidings or convey bad news.

Evidence of bells and ringing has been found in Himalayan monasteries, Hindu temples.

Greek and Roman civilisations. and Peruvian temples well before Europeans visited; there is an Assyrian bell over three thousand years old on display in a Berlin museum.

The first use of large bells is credited to Bishop Paulinus of Nola near Naples. His province of Campania gave the name campanile to bell towers and subsequently the English word campanology.

It is believed a tower with three bells was erected at Old St Peter's in Rome in about 752 AD. By the year 960. Croyland Abbey claimed their peal of seven bells was unmatched in England.

Campanology is the name given to the English folk art of change ringing - ringing a bell by using a wheel, either part of the wheel or the full wheel. By the year 1400, many parish churches had three or more bells in the tower swinging to and fro haphazardly as still happens today in most European countries. By 1600 bells were being run fullcircle, that is, using a full wheel to control the ringing.

Method ringing, where bells change places in mathematical patterns, spread quickly throughout the English-speaking world.

The first peal, of Plain Bob Triples, was rung in 1715.

There are well over 5,000 towers throughout the world (mainly in England) with bells hung for change ringing. .

In WA, bells ring 'full circle' at Perth's Anglican Cathedral, as well as the Anglican parishes of Claremont and York churches, while at St Mary's Cathedral there are 13 bells chimed by the carillon method. The Church of the Good Shepherd, Leederville, a popular wedding venue, also has a chime of four bells that are rung the same way.

There are the six relatively new bells for chiming on Rottnest. and four chiming bells at the Abbey Church of New Norcia Monastery.

St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Adelaide has just received 12 bells which will ring out for the first time on 29 June; these are also hung for full circle ringing.

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A city cloaked in eternity 'Rome a remarkable mixture of the spiritual and worldly, devotion and apostasy' Karl G Schmude recently visited Italy and, in the second of his three-part series, focuses on Rome, the "Eternal City"

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ast January an Italian engiAlessandro neer, Dr Bignozzi, visited Australia to compare urban planning and preparation for the Sydney Olympics with his own project for the year 2000.

The jubilee will attract vast crowds to Rome to celebrate the end of the second millennium since Christ.

Up to 200,000 tourists a day are expected to visit the Vatican between Christmas 1999 and Easter 2001.

Yet Dr Bignozzi's vision is not confined to the next few years but to 2247 - Rome's 3000th birthday.

Only an ancient city, one might observe, could look so far into the future.

The Australian Catholic painter, Justin O'Brien. who lived there for several decades and only recently died, once remarked: "Rome makes you feel that you are walking where people have walked for a very long time. It's my heritage and ours as well as the Romans." it does, indeed, possess that universal quality - as the cradle of Catholic faith and culture.

The title of "Eternal City" is not applied lightly to Rome.

Its great antiquity, stretching back to the time of the Roman Emperors and beyond, and covering so many intervening eras (medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and modern), gives an unforgettable impression of eternity.

Rome offers abundant hints of the workings of divine grace - the mystery of God's life in time, embedded in history yet also transcending it.

A striking example of this spiritual antiquity, often missed by visitors, is the church of Santa

Maria in "Irastevere. Located in an old quarter of Rome, on the same side of the Tiber as the Vatican, it is best reached from the Janiculuum, a wooded ridge which affords a sweeping view of the city and the baroque domes of its churches.

Santa Maria is the first church in Rome to have been dedicated to the Mother of God, and understandably so, since it stands on the spot where, at the birth of Christ, oil suddenly gushed forth - an apparent miracle that is thought to represent the significance of the Incarnation and the flow of God's grace into the world.

Santa Maria is one of the oldest of the churches of Rome, having originated in the 4th century and then rebuilt in the 12th.

The later reconstruction used materials from ancient Roman sites, thereby reflecting not only the energy of the Church, but its characteristic approach to attracting people to God. "The peculiarly Catholic task" Jacques Maritain noted, "is to foster and stimulate the truth everywhere."

It is not to eliminate unredeemed culture, but to enrich it to lift it to a new level of higher meaning and inspiration.

Rome is filled with examples of this kind of creativity. It is the Church active in clothing the Word of God - a cultural expression of the old axiom, that grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.

In St Peter's Basilica is a huge baptismal font which, on close inspection, I found to comprise the top of the coffin of a Roman Emperor turned upside down to form the base of the font.

As at Santa Maria in nastevere, the Church took an element of the old culture and redirected it to a new purpose.

In St Peter's, the darkness of the coffin gave way to the light of baptism: a symbol of death was

transformed into a symbol of life.

Present-day Rome teems with life, much of it not notably connected with the sacred.

The Eternal City is also trapped in time - and in the midst of ancient and religious monuments are the signs and sounds of a city dedicated to Caesar as well as to God. In reality, Rome is a trinity of cities.

It has not only experienced an ancient phase, which finds expression in such places as the Forum and the Colosseum.

It is also a papal city, stretching from Constantine in the 4th century through the Middle Ages to the late 19th century.

St Peter's Basilica and the other great churches of Rome testify to this long - and still vibrant - period.

The third stage of Rome's history is the modern one, beginning In 1870 when Italy was unified as Rome, with The buildings housing the Vatican Museums in the foreground a nation-state.

Close to the ancient centre of ty in other Catholic countries They were assembled in the Rome is the Piazza Venezia, a (like Ireland, Poland and even course of three centuries by huge square where Mussolini Australia), continues to affect the those who served in this 17th delivered his speeches, and Church's capacity to influence century church (which stands. incorporating, at one end, a mas- secular life in modern Italy. ironically, on Via Veneto, in the sive memorial to King Victor The co-existence of these cul- midst of the stylish hotels and Emmanuel II, the founder of tures - ancient, papal and mod- cafes of Rome's most glamourous modern Italy and a professed ern underlies the singular quality street). atheist. of contemporary Rome.

It is a grim presentation of This white-marbled building It is a remarkable mixture of human mortality, heightened by (nicknamed the "wedding cake" the spiritual and the worldly, of the inscription in Latin at the exit on account of its design) has devotion and apostasy.

"What you are, we used to be. been described as a secular St Even the official "holy places" What we are, you will be."

Peter's - proclaiming, in its vain- tend at times to an ostentation Central to the enduring appeal glorious architecture, the pride that both enthrals and repels: at Rome is that it provides such of and power of the Italian State, in their worst, a sort of "Jesusland", unexpected experiences. contrast with St Peter's itself in Malcolm Muggeridge's biting Just as the preparations whose grandeur testifies to the judgment, along the lines of throughout the city for the year Disneyland. glory of God. Yet lurking beneath the surface 2000 are bringing to light hidden The building is also a reminder that, in Italy, the spirit of modern are jewels of simple and intense treasures - as Dr Bignozzi reportnationalism did not find a natur- faith, which leave a lingering ed during his Sydney visit, the al ally in the Church, since the impression by their vivid tunnelling for a new rapid transit rail system is unearthing villas. drive for national independence reminder of salvation.

At Santa Maria della Con- temples and other artefacts - so it was at odds with the control of cezione (Church of the Imma- is appropriate that the Eternal the Papal States.

Such antagonism, so different culate Conception) is an under- City provides unending occafrom the harmony between ground crypt exhibiting the sions for spiritual surprises and nationalism and religious identi- bones of 4,000 Capuchin friars. even shocks.

The prisoner bishop who couldn't stop making friends

By Peter Finney

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uring nine years of solitary confinement in a Vietnamese prison, former Saigon Archbishop Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan secretly celebrated Mass in his cell and gradually captivated his captors.

His guards would ask, "Do you love us?" he told the Clarion Herald, newspaper of the New Orleans Archdiocese.

And he would answer, "I love you because Christ taught me to love you, and if I don't love you, I am not worthy to be called a Christian.

"They told me, 'This is too difficult to understand.' But they became my friends."

Nguyen Van Archbishop Thuan, now 68 and vice president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Rome, also shared his story with Notre Dame Seminary students during a May visit to New Orleans.

Many of the seminarians had fled Vietnam as children before the 1975 fall of Saigon.

Appointed coadjutor archbishop of Saigon only a week before the fall, he said the communists believed his appointment was a conspiracy between "the Vatican and imperialist Americans."

The government ordered him to return to his former Diocese of Nha Trang or face arrest.

He stayed and was arrested on August 15, 1975, the feast of the Assumption.

He was imprisoned for 13-anda-half years, the last nine in isolation.

When he was released in 1988, he was kept 1,000 miles from Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City. Then, in 1991, he was exiled.

Since 1993, the government has refused to accept the Vatican appointment of Bishop Nicolas Huynh Van Nghi as apostolic administrator of Ho Chi Minh City.

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Archbishop Nguyen Van Thuan asked himself in prison. Isolation and hunger made him question his own sanity.

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His diet was rice and vegeta- camps for young people, the bles twice a day, and he got monasteries."

"But one night God gave me a meat three times a year. "I am small," he said, "but I lost 22 light," he recalled. "He said I kilos (48 pounds)." The arch- must discern between the works bishop said at first he was tor- of God and God.... Choose only

God and his will. This helped me very much, and I had peace and serenity in my heart."

Archbishop Nguyen knew that St Paul had written letters as a prisoner.

Since visitors were limited, the archbishop secretly asked a 7year-old boy to bring him a calendar.

At night, he wrote short reflections in each block that became the basis for his book, "The Road of Hope," now published in five languages.

"That boy who brought me the calendar is now in the Nether,lands," he said, "and maybe next year he will be a deacon."

He would love to visit Vietnam someday, but he feels he is spreading the message of the Vietnamese church in exile.

"I see the will of God in this," he said.

"I would like to work to rebuild my country But I can do that more efficaciously outside the country. I can share my experiences and speak to many people. I am speaking to you, so I have more freedom."

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God, the secret of success advertised position in 1930 that lured him with the offer of a ernie Prindiville AO, CMG, company car with an accountanKCSG, KCLJ, JP, is a man of cy firm - CP Bird and Company.

The interview went well and many significant accomplishments, major achievements, Bernie was fairly confident of successful endeavours, and is getting the position, when the indeed a figure who receives jus- interviewer asked him if he played any sport? tifiable honour and respect.

With alacrity Bernie responded: His list of connections to professional associations, and the array "Yes! With the Catholic Tennis of Australian, Imperial and Papal Club!"

At that, the interviewer's book honours and awards, is awesnapped shut with: "There's no some.

The most striking things about job for you: Admitting he started out very him are his distinctly proud Australian identity, and his enor- young, "finding out the truth in mous pride and love in his wife the world," this blatant religious Mary, and his five children and intolerance brought out Bernie's Catholic-Irish ire and he deterextended family.

His birth as the tenth of 11 chil- mined that from thereon in, he'd dren, on June 4, 1911 was into a do his best to help any young family of Irish-Catholic back- Catholics get ahead in the world.

Mr Prindiville has done that ground, with adequate means and an abundance of love and with great gusto and commitment to his Catholic peers and joy in the closely knit family,.

This is perhaps why Mr there are many well established Prindiville puts such great store Catholic (and non-Catholic) busion a happy and secure family nessmen who can trace their suclife, and today, from the distance cessful beginnings to his initial of his fulsome 85 years, urges the help.

Mr Prindiville has a sense of young to nurture and appreciate commitment to Catholicism that the value of happy family life.

Having come from a secure insists on integrity in business family himself, he was able to and doing what you can to help take tentative, then firmer and your fellow man that has made confident career steps until they him rather outstanding.

He admits that pride in his became giant strides into the Western Australian business Catholicism, and sticking to the principles of integrity that that field.

TWo things possibly acted as a demanded, has held him back Bernie Prindiville: looking out across a busy, satisfying life catalyst in his early days for his from advancing at different ing it was a grind to make money archdiocesan finance commitultimate great achievements and stages of business, "because in . . . . use the individuals up - and tees under four archbishops for business, people without religion then toss them out!" direction. over half a century, resigning just The first was, when working or scruples will do things which Despite the negative impact of recently. with an accountancy firm in his are not quite acceptable to any- being blatantly and proudly He was the national president tender years, the head of the one of my thinking: Catholic, Mr Prindiville is an of the Knights of the Southern He's been offered directorships unqualified success because he Cross - a Catholic layman's audit department vanished with with big companies but knew became rich and famous through organisation. everything they had!

Asked by the company head if they turned their young execu- cultivating, rather than neglecting This was "a very wise act, he felt confident enough to take tives into company men, which his religious principles. because our work was to fight over, the young Bernie assented excluded them from being family He spread his talent, widened any anti-Catholic activities withmen, and so wasn't prepared to his areas of acquisition and busi- out the Church getting involved." with enthusiasm.

But then he had to back up accept that "because I was too ness application, and his holdKeen to be part of Catholic areas he wasn't yet familiar with much in love with my wife, and ings grew and grew. endeavour, he joined the Knights ("Boy! did I have to work!") by nothing was better than to get This not only consolidated his at the age of 21.. long hours spent sometimes until home after a tough day and night, family's future and that of many "So impressed was I," remarked two or three in the morning to and be with my family." individuals, but also the Catholic Mr Prindiville, "with the His family was his heaven, he Church with his honorary work Catholicity of the leaders that I learn new areas of expertise thought - this is for me!" essential to the job he'd just maintains, "and sometimes in my and fiscal help.

Declaring that he's always been "I always felt that anything I taken on. darkest moments, I was always "But I succeeded and that gave able to come home to a happy gained, I should put something available for "anything Catholic," me the confidence to carry on. family - the consolation of that back and got on charitable bod- Mr Prindiville was the founder of ies because I felt it was my duty the Southern Cross Homes for Having been successful in win- was beyond belief."

Some of the organisations too, to do that." With that, his Catholic the Aged an example for all the ning out there, I went chasing new fields." he noted, "had no appreciation of involvement was considerable, other states who followed.

Mr Prindiville is currently a The second challenge was an human beings; generally speak- and Mr Prindiville has been on

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governor of the University of Notre Dame University Australia.

As a further indication of his love for his wife Mary, he and his family honoured her two years ago on the occasion of their 56th wedding anniversary by donating the Mary Prindiville Chair of Theology to NDA. "All my life I got the accolades, while she was battling away raising our family! So we wanted to do something for her."

Deeply spiritual and committed to his faith, Mr Prindiville is a daily communicant - "I wouldn't miss Mass for the world," and says he's never doubted or wavered and has always believed, "regardless of understanding."

Testifying to his real belief in the power of prayer, Mr Prindiville states it has done "marvellous things for me with any difficulties I was having.

"And I would storm heaven and pray and pray at times to get there."

But Mr Prindiville deflects any thanks back to God, saying he's been gifted by God with "tons of energy, which came from Him. There's no doubt about that.

Always praising God for the richness in his life. Mr Prindiville used to tell the young men he was supervising that if they didn't have God - they had nothing..

The corruption in WA in recent years, he asserts, was caused through the lack of God in the lives of politicians and businessmen, "which allows them to pursue contrary paths."

As for tips on longevity from a man who's still actively involved in many areas, including his family's multi-million dollar empire managed by his two sons, Mr Prindiville, who's spritely, and very active of mind and sharp of eye, advises that one should never forget to laugh.

It's essential, he believes, and it aids a healthy lifestyle, along with a good conscience.

Mr Prindiville is a man who started small but built an empire.

On the road to great success, he never forgot the true and essential values necessary for life . . . . deep, truly committed love of God, family and country. This is surely the secret of his distinctive and honourable success.

Pope Gregory gave us an extra day to celebrate the year 2000 the Pope said the "precise days into the Roman year had tory. After working several years, chronology" of Christ's birth gradually pushed the calendar the astronomers brought Pope be left aside. three months off the mark. He Gregory up to the Tower of the VATICAN CITY (CNS) - As the should More important, he said, is that devised a calendar used in the Winds, which still stands not Vatican cranks up enthusiasm the Christian calendar is West until Pope Gregory's far from the papal apartments. and plans for the third millenniThere, the sun's ray entered um, it would take a party pooper almost universally accepted in reform. systhrough the Julian a hole in the wall and with civil society today, another sign trouble The to point out that the real year of Christ's great effect on tem was that it created its progress was measured on 2000 is probably already over. three leap years too many every elaborate floor markings. In this A sixth-century Greek monk, humanity.

It also reflects the Church's his- 385 years, a fact noted in the dramatic fashion, the pontiff Dionysius Exiguus (Denis the Little), who classified papal toric role in marking time for the year 730 by St Bede the could see with his own eyes that Venerable, an English monk and the current calendar was 10 archives in Rome, was the first rest of the world.

The Gregorian calendar that scholar. He announced that the days off the meridian line. to date the Christian era by the When promulgated, the today hangs on walls from Hong Julian year was 11 minutes and birth of Christ.

The trouble was, he was off a Kong to Hoboken, New Jersey, 14 seconds too long, resulting in Gregorian calendar had to leap from Thursday, October 4, 1582, bit - from four to six years, for example, is named after a an extra day every 128 years.

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What to do? Apparently it was- to Friday, October 15, 1582. This according to modern experts.

It was devised in 1582 by a n't a burning issue in the provoked strong opposition in Dionysius' starting point was I AD (for anno Domini: the year of group of astronomers called Middle Ages, since St Bede's Protestant countries like the Lord); most historians together by Pope Gregory XIII. observation was more or less England, which did not adopt now say Christ was really born Calendars have never been Ignored for the next 800 years. the calendar until the mid-1700s. around 4 BC ("before Christ.") perfect, and ours is off a Then came Pope Gregory and Russia didn't accept the reform All of which means we're little, too. Experts calculate that his band of scientists, who saw until 1918, when the revolutioneither well into the year 2000, we'll gain a day by the year that the calendar was becoming ary government introduced it. or past it. But that doesn't bother 4500.

But the Russian Orthodox more and more out of step with Pope John Paul II for one minute.

That's nothing compared to the the seasons. Their painstaking Church, along with other In his apostolic letter Tertio problems in the time of Julius project was the nucleus of what Eastern churches, has kept the Millennio Advenfente (As the Caesar who discovered that the would eventually become the Julian calendar.

Third Millennium Draws Near), irregular practice of Inserting Vatican's astronomical observaThat's why the Orthodox _

By John Mavis

Christmas and other feast days are celebrated on different dates.

Jews and Muslims also have their own religious calendars.

Muslims mark time from the day and year Mohammed fled from Mecca (July 16, 622, on the Gregorian calendar.)

Today's Hebrew calendar starts with the Creation, considered to have occurred 3,760 years before Christ.

But the increasing need for an accepted internationally civil calendar has led almost all societies to accept the calendar of a 14th-century Pope and its unique formula of leap years.

The leap year, a one-day addition in February, occurs in every year divisible by four.

But century years - those ending in 00 - are not leap years unless they are divisible by 400.

Yes, that means we'll have an extra day to celebrate in the year 2000.

We can thank Pope Gregory

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Revered paintings of history do not lie

By John Travis

he 17th-century painting by Michelangelo 'aravaggio showing the serpent's end.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul ll's recent meditations on Mary have rekindled debate on an ancient question: Whose foot is on the serpent's head?

The snake, of course. is Satan. And the crushing of its head represents the definitive liberation from sin through salvation.

But should the foot belong to Mary, as depicted in hundreds of paintings and statues around the world? Or should it be that of Christ. the Saviour of humanity?

The Pope. at a general audience on May 29. tried to find a middle ground - much like the 17th-century artist. Michelangelo Caravaggio, who painted Mary and Jesus stepping on the snake at the same time.

The image of the snake being crushed underfoot is given in the Book of Genesis. and the Latin vulgate version in use for centuries said: "She will crush his head."

The "she" was interpreted as Mary, and the phrase inspired numerous works of art.

But as the Pope pointed out, the vulgate

was a delicate subject, so he tried to respect an earlier Pope's decree that the snake was crushed by Mary with the help of her son.

But the completed painting, in which Mary appears to be lifting the child Jesus onto her own foot to give him a role in the triumph, was not pleasing to the newly installed Pope Paul V. It was ordered out.

In an ironic twist, the pope's favourite nephew. Cardinal Scipione Borghese. bought the painting and hung it with special honours in his own collection. It remains there today, considered one of Caravaggio's masterpieces.

After the latest papal remarks. Italian Jesuit Father Giacomo Martina told reporters the Pope was correct in his interpretation.

The pontiff also sensibly avoided criticising images of Mary that may not be technically correct, but to which "millions of faithful have given devotion for centuries," Father Martina said.

"In any case, artists should always be left free to create," he added.

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translation did not correspond to the Hebrew version.

The biblical text, revised in 1979, now has God telling the serpent: "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers: he will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel."

Therefore the text attributes the victory over Satan "not to Mary, but to her Son." which is only appropriate. the Pope said.

Does that mean all those statues and paintings of Mary belong in the parish attic? Not quite.

The Pope added that in his view it was "in keeping with the original sense of the passage to show the Madonna crushing the snake - not through her own virtue but by the grace of her son."

All of which might have been welcome words to Caravaggio in 1605, whose oil painting, "Madonna of the Serpent." was turned away from St Peter's Basilica.

The groomsmen of the basilica had commissioned the painting to hang in their chapel. Caravaggio was aware that this

By Christopher Gaul BALTIMORE (CNS) - Mother Teresa of Calcutta. the 85-yearthe of foundress old Missionaries of Charity, came to Baltimore on May 29 to accept the renewal of vows of 35 of her sisters in a Mass celebrated by Cardinal William Keeler.

The Baltimore cardinal told the Yugoslavian-born nun that her visit to the nation's most historic church "will help write a new page in its history, a page of holiness and hope."

Earlier in the day Mother Thresa stopped to visit Gift of Hope. a hospice for AIDS patients operated by her sisters in a drug-infested area of Baltimore.

After the Mass she met briefly with officials and their families from Catholic Relief Services.

At CRS headquarters, she visited the agency's St Steven's Chapel and wrote in the chapel registry, "I thank you for all the love you have always given to me to give our poorest of the poor. Please pray for us as we do daily for you in Catholic Relief Services."

More than a thousand people packed the 175-year-old Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. where Pope John Paul II had prayed last October.

Many brought their children,

Lady of the Chesapeake Parish In Pasadena, said she had taken the day off "because it's probably the only opportunity in my lifetime to see a living saint."

There wasn't room in the basilica for all who stood in line, but just before the Mass began. Mother Teresa walked outside onto the portico to thank some 50 people who couldn't enter for helping her sisters to "do God's work so beautifully."

She urged them to pray and also pleaded for vocations. telling parents. "I will he very happy if your families would give us some of your daughters to consecrate them to Jesus."

At the Mass, the 35 MissionaMother Teresa at the May 29 Mass ries of Charity made their annuwhile some escorted friends or al renewal of their vows of family members in wheelchairs. chastity, poverty, obedience and "wholehearted and free service One of the visitors, Ruth Walls. to the poorest of the poor." from Episcopalian an One by one, kneeling at the Laurel and a nurse who treats basilica's altar rail, they prayed drug addicts and alcoholics, that they may be "led to the perheld the hand of her 9-year-old fect love of God and neighbour daughter, Wren. and make the church fully pre"I very, very much admire sent in the world today."

Mother Teresa and I get a lot After Communion, Mother of spiritual strength from her," Teresa, looking pale and fragile. she told The Catholic Review. thanked her sisters for their Baltimore's archdiocesan news- work among the poor, and said. paper.

"When we die and we go home Wren said she wanted to see to God, he will say to us. 'Come the Nobel Peace Prize-winning because I was hungry and you nun "because she's so kind to gave me food to eat.I was naked and you clothed me. I was people and she helps people."

Evelyn Frederick, from Our homeless and you took me in.-

raised the authority question.

"This divides Catholics as almost NEW YORK (CNS) - The way no other issue," he said.

He said the "religious submisthe Catholic Church's magisteriim is using authority in an sion of will and mind" called for attempt to settle particular issues in the Second Vatican Council's of medical ethics has become an document "Lumen Gentium" obstacle to the development of ("Dogmatic Constitution on the moral theology, according to a Church") was "often used as driest who is one of the most a kind of club." prominent figures in the field.

For Catholics, it requires a show Jesuit Father Richard McCorm- of respect to the person and ,ck. professor of Christian ethics office of the "teacher" and that an at the University of Notre Dame. "attempt to assimilate the teachsaid in a New York lecture on ing" be made, he said.

May 22 that increasingly difficult But it does not mean "blind problems could be expected uncritical acceptance." he said. fields such as genetics. and "If significant numbers of loyal. that they needed to be addressed competent Catholics find it diffifrom a Christian perspective. cult to assimilate a teaching, that But he said the process of critisays something to the teacher," a by damaged was cal reflection he said.

-Catholic fundamentalism" that McCormick said conFather tended to turn every issue into a crete ethical problems should question of authority.

Then a "quite disturbing" be addressed by "reason shaped vocabulary begins to be heard by faith."

The critical use of reason is that includes words such as "dis"If we want a fruitful meeting, Soviet-bloc countries where the he said, because the required, he said. and "disloyal," sident"

By Cindy Wooden we must prepare it," the cardinal end of communism meant Father McCormick spoke at the question of whether a medical could Catholic Hospital Administra- procedure such as tubal ligation VATICAN crry (CNS) - At the said. An Orthodox delegation, Catholic communities tive Personnel Program, where is permissible can be determined request of the Orthodox church- representing the Ecumenical operate openly and freely after he has been one of the regular only after an examination of all es, the annual meeting of the Patriarch of Constantinople, will decades of repression. lecturers through the years. the circumstances of a particular international Catholic-Orthodox make its customary visit to the By discussing the ecclesiologiThe program is offered for a case. dialogue commission has been Vatican for the June 29 feast of the of implications cal Paul. and Peter Sts. week each spring at St John's He said that although Pope postponed until 1997 the of vision its document is to expected The delegation University with co-sponsorship John Paul II criticised this "teleoCardinal Edward Cassidy, pres- meet with Cardinal Cassidy and church and what type of attitudes by the Catholic Medical Centre logical" form of moral reasoning ident of the Pontifical Council for his staff to begin preparations for should mark the relationship of of Brooklyn and Queens.

In the encyclical, "Veritatis Promoting Christian Unity and two communities, which recoga 1997 meeting.

It draws administrators- of Splendor," the Pope used it himThe Catholic and Orthodox nise each other's sacraments - it Catholic health care facilities self in "Evangelium Vitae" when co-chairman of the dialogue, said the delay is not a sign of new bishops and theologians who was hoped the dialogue could from throughout the United he said capital punishment could Catholic-Orthodox problems or serve on the dialogue commis- return to theological topics.

States and Canada, and some he used as a last resort in certain of an abandonment of the dia- sion were scheduled to discuss other countries as well. This year circumstances. logue.

Dialogue members suspended the theological implications of included the group of about 50 formal theological discussions that Pope indicated the There, He said the Orthodox asked their 1993 Balamand document. representatives from Australia, the death penalty could be that the meeting, scheduled The document outlined princi- in 1990 in order to focus on Taiwan and Ireland.

Father McCormick spoke on accepted "when it would not be for mid-June in Rome, be delayed ples and practical suggestions resolving practical problems "Medical Moral Dilemmas: possible otherwise to defend so they could have more time for dealing with Catholic- between Catholic and Orthodox Orthodox disputes in former In Eastern Europe. to prepare.

How Catholics Decide," • and society."

By Tracy Early

Catholic-Orthodox meeting postponed

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Storm over Guadalupe denial report On May 27, Abbot Shulenberg released a brief statement.

"I am permitting myself to enerMEXICO CITY (CNS) - A getically protest because of its firestorm of controversy has broken out over reports that absolute falseness the interview the abbot who heads the Basilica attributed to me in the magazine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 30 Giorni, which is published in Mexico has denied the Virgin's Italy," he said.

"It is lamentable that there are 1531 appearance to Blessed Juan malevolent minds that provide Diego, an Indian peasant. this type of confused campaign, According to the reports, Abbot which provoke misleading interGuillermo Schulenberg Prado pretations," he said. said in an interview with a The Virgin of Guadalupe is Catholic magazine that Blessed Mexico's patroness and a powerJuan Diego, beatified in 1990, was ful figure among the Mexican a symbol and not a historical people. reality.

Images of the Virgin can be The Mexico City daily Reforma found in most homes and busisaid the Italian magazine 30 nesses, and pilgrimages to the Giorni carried an article in a basilica are a regular part of wor1995 issue based on the inter- ship.

A spokesman for the Archdioview.

By Lynn Wehnes

An illustration of Blessed Juan Diego showing the image of Mary known as Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Photo CNS

Indonesian bishops urged to pursue unity

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Popc John Paul II encouraged Indonesian bishops on their ad lirnina visit to Rome to promote Catholic-Muslim dialogue, while making sure that the uniqueness of the Gospel is respected.

He urged the prelates to build on Indonesia's strong tradition of religious tolerance in forging closer ties with the Muslim majority.

"The situation of Indonesia calls you to special efforts to ensure that the dialogue between Christianity and Islam will lead to closer ties among believers in the one and merciful God," he said June 3.

He said the deepest motive for interreligious harmony comes from the meaning of religion: the search for God. "The Church teaches that any form of religious intolerance and proselytism compromises the fundamental right to freedom

Pope John Paul II of religion. In your dioceses, therefore, interreligious dialogue should be part of the church's evangelising mission," he said.

But as teachers of the faith, the bishops also have the task of overseeing the theological dimension in such dialogue, he added.

"In particular, they must not lose sight of the universality and uniqueness of redemption in Christ," he said. Indonesia's

Catholics represent about 2.6 percent of the population. while Muslims represent nearly 90 percent.

The Pope urged the bishops to protect the doctrinal integrity of Catholic education, especially by promoting Church-run schools.

It is not enough for education to offer scientific and technical skills, he said.

In an apparent reference to the financial difficulties faced by the Catholic school system, he encouraged programs of educational resource-sharing that have been instituted by some dioceses.

He reminded the bishops that part of their job was to extend Church teachings to the situations of daily life in their country, through "courageous, forthright and persuasive teaching."

He said the continent of Asia was receptive to the "contemplative outlook- nourished by prayer and the sacraments, which should be the main focus of the Church's pastoral life.

Martyr strangled on cross declared a saint

By John Mavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II declared three new saints, including a 19th-century miAsionary executed in China during a wave of antiChristian persecution.

The Pope said St Jean-Gabriel Perboyre, a French-born Vincentian priest. honoured all those who have suffered martyrdom in evangelising the Chinese continent.

He was executed by authorities there in 1840.

Also canonised during the June 2 ceremony were St Juan Grande Roman, a 16th-century Spaniard who worked with the sick, and St Egidio Maria di San Giuseppe, an Italian Franciscan and alms-beggar in 19th-century Naples.

The pontiff, during a three-hour Mass in St Peter's Square, said

the new saints demonstrated the fullness of faith in very different ways.

He said the Church's honouring of St Jean-Gabriel reflected in a special way on the many martyrs of China, and he suggested they also should be declared saints one day.

"Their common canonisation, desired by many faithful, could one day be a sign of hope for the church among those people, to whom I am very close in heart and prayer," he said.

Church officials estimate that there are about 4 million Catholics in China today, many of members them of a clandestine Church that remains restricted by the government.

St Jean-Gabriel reached his missionary post in central China in 1835 after a 1,000-mile trip by boat and foot across three provinces.

He was arrested in 1839 under a 1794 edict that banned Christianity and was tortured and interrogated many times over the next several months.

He refused to renounce his religion and was executed by strangling while hanging on a cross.

St. Juan Grande, a member of the Hospitaller Order of St John of God, gained a reputation as a pioneer in health care reform after he denounced widespread abuses in a report to the archbishop of Seville in 1589.

Known also for his deep spirituality, he died of bubonic plague while caring for plague victims in 1600.

St Egidio Maria lived a poor life from birth to death. He worked as a cook for his Franciscan community in Naples, but became best-known as an alms-collector and a servant of the poor and the sick until his death in 1812.

cese of Mexico City, however, Aztec shrines. In December 1531. emphasised in an interview on Blessed Juan Diego, an Indian May 29 that nothing surrounding who had converted to Catholicism, was on Tepeyac hill travelthe miracle is in doubt.

"The investigations have alrea- ling to his religious instruction dy been conducted." said Hector when the Virgin called his name.

Fernandez, an archdiocesan As proof of her appearance. she spokesman. told him to pick some roses, "The existence of Juan Diego which appeared among cactus, has already been proved histori- and take them in his cloak to cally, and the appearance of the the bishop.

When Blessed Juan Diego went Virgin of Guadalupe has already been proven historically and sci- to see the bishop. his cloak bore, entifically through the analysis of in place of the roses, an image of the cloak of Juan Diego. It is an the Virgin. analysis that has been done by Her appearance is particularly NASA and many other scien- significant because she not tists." only appeared to an Indian. at a The Virgin of Guadalupe is said moment following the Spanish to have visited Blessed Juan Conquest when the Church was Diego after Mexican Archbishop engaged in the work of convertJuan de Zumarraga ordered ing Indians to Catholicism. but the destruction of all important that she appeared as an Indian

Last will and testament of a Trappist saint. . .

For me. Islam and Algeria is PARIS (CNS) - Trappist Father Christian-Marie de Cherge, one something different. it is bod.t of seven monks slain by Islamic and soul.

Ihave pmclaimed it loud and terrorists in Algeria, left a letter that anticipated he would be clear.Ibelieve, to everyone that knows me that I have found assassinated.

Father de Cherge, prior of the here the guiding line of the Monastery of Notre Dame de Gospel that I learned at on l'Atlas, wrote the letter some- mother's knee, my first church. time between December 1 here in Algeria. and in the 1993 and January 1. 1994. It was respect of Muslim believers.

My death would seem to jusmarked to be opened at tify those who dismiss me sumhis death.

The monk's family sent the marily as naive. . . .

But they ought to know that at letter to France's daily Catholic newspaper, La Croix which last my pounding curiosi4 published the text in full May will be satisfied.

For then Ishall be able, if it 28.

Here is the text of the letter. pleases God, to steep my gaze The last word was written in that which the Father has. to contemplate with him his in Arabic: If it were ever to happen - Islamic children as he sees and it could happen any day - them. illuminated by the glorl that Ishould be the victim of of Christ. by the fruits of his the terrorism which seems to passion, endowed with the gift be engulfing all the foreigners of the Spirit, whose secret jox now living in Algeria. I would will be forever to establish like my community. my communion and to restore likeChurch, my family to remem- ness. . . .

This life lost, totally mine, and ber that my life was given to totally theirs. I give thanks to God and to this country.

That they accept that the God, who seems to have wantunique Master of all life will be ed it to be utterly so. . . .

Within this thank-you where no stranger to such a brutal once and for all, all is said departure.

That they pray for me: for about my life.Iinclude you. my how shouldIprove worthy of friends of yesterday and of today. and you. my friends from such an offering?

That they understand that here, along with my mother such a death should be linked and my father, my sisters and to so many others, equally vio- my brothers and all who lent, but which remain masked belong to them. (life) yielded a by the anonymity of indiffer- hundredfold as was promised!

And you. too, my last-minute ence.

My life has no greater worth friend, you who know not what you do. than that of another.

Yes, for you. too. I wish this Nor is it worth any less.

I n all events, it no longer has thank-you, and this "adieu" which is of your planning. the innocence of childhood. .

May we be granted to meet At such a moment I would like to have enough lucidity left each other again, happy to beg God's pardon and that of thieves, in paradise, should it all my fellow human beings. please God. the Father of both while pardoning with all my of us.

Amen! Inshallah! heart anyone who might have hurt me. . . .

In fact, I do not see how I could rejoice that this people that Ilove should be globally blamed for my murder.

It is far more costly to pay the price of what might be called "the grace of martyrdom- than to owe one's life to an Algerian, whoever he may be, especially if he professes to be acting in accord with what he believed in Islam. . . .

It is all too easy to appease one's conscience by simply Identifying this religious tradition with the all-or-nothingFrench crowds mourn the deaths ness of the extremists.

Photo CS Reuters

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Shelter to be the issue Women

In Brief

By John Mavis

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Vatican attention to housing and human settlements goes much deeper than charity - although Catholic agencies and dioceses throughout the world do assist millions of homeless people.

"The life of the human person is profoundly influenced by his or her habitat," Pope John Paul II said on May 26.

"Creativity, solidarity and a sense of responsibility are needed to design authentic 'environments for life."

The Pope was offering his prayers for the June 3-14 UNsponsored Conference on Human Settlements and telling pilgrims in St Peter's Square why the international meeting in Istanbul, 'flukey, merited a highlevel Vatican delegation.

"Environments for life" obviously include walls and a roof, but for a life worthy of the human person, they must also be safe and sanitary and include access to water, work and places

of worship. For the Vatican, the materials and sanitation. Rich issues are not primarily the and poor nations in partnership responsibility of town planners with religious and charitable and architects. organisations must find ways "to Decades of experience - help- organise 'habitats' open to spiriing organise residents of tual values, respect for nature Brazilian "favelas," offering emer- and the requirements of solidarigency shelter in Seattle, building ty."

As with earlier UN conferences homes for people with Hansen's disease in Thailand, caring for on the environment, population, refugees in camps across the social development and women, globe - have taught the the main battle lines for the Church that human dignity is Istanbul conference were drawn under siege whenever people do at a series of preparatory meetings. not have a decent home.

Headlines from Istanbul are In the conference agenda, and In the Pope's concerns, the ques- likely to focus on "the right tion is not simply how to provide to housing," with developing housing for the 500 million peo- nations and the Vatican saying ple the United Nations says are such a right exists and must be homeless or inadequately hous- respected in order to promote human dignity. ed.

Other nations say enshrining The concerns extend to ensuring that neighbourhoods and housing as a right would imply cities promote a healthy, safe and they have an obligation to proproductive life for individuals vide housing for all of their citizens, something most could not and their families.

The conference delegates, the afford.

"Housing must be the focal pope said, have an even bigger challenge than agreeing on prin- point for debate at the conferciples for land use, building ence and must be the primary

concern of all participants," said Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls.

But in the Istanbul debates, the Vatican is likely to let other delegations lead the lobbying for a right to housing. Its energy probably will be saved for issues related to the family.

"A house is a necessary condition for the birth, growth and development of a person; for a person to work, educate and be educated; for people to be able to constitute that deeper and more fundamental union which we call a family," Pope John Paul said in 1979.

Some discussion is expected in Istanbul on what constitutes a family - resurrecting past UN conference debates in which the United States, Canada and the Europeans tried to expand the definition to include any collection of people living together.

The Vatican will oppose such attempts.

But apart from definitions, the Vatican delegation has a long list of family concerns to promote.

US Catholic women discover a true Bishop condemns feminism in radical pro-life agenda kidnaps

By Christie Chicoine

By Lynn Wehnes Mexico CUERNAVACA. (CNS) - Speaking to a packed Luis cathedral, Bishop Reynoso Cervantes of Cuernavaca read a decree excommunicating anyone in the state of Morelos who is or has been involved in the kidnappings that terrorise the state.

"As a bishop I could not let this moment pass, and so I found myself obliged to Impose the maximum penalty of the Church that is not imposed just like that, but only in extremely difficult situations," Bishop Reynoso said on May 26 before reading the decree.

"In the past two years kidnappings have been growing In an uncontrollable manner. not just in the state of Morelos, but in the whole country," he said.

"In order to understand what excommunication means, it is necessary to remember that an excommunicated person is separated from the communion of the church and, because of that, cannot come forward to receive sacraments and cannot be a sponsor in any of the sacraments of the Church," he said.

"Excommunication is a penalty that has a medicinal character in order to correct the person who has committed the offense and, as far as possible, to prevent this crime from being committed. Therefore it is a penalty that binds 'in conscience,' that is to say, it is binding on the inside of the person who has committed the crime, although it may be that nobody knows about it or has seen it."

When the bishop finished reading the decree, there was a moment of silence. The congregation then stood and broke into applause.

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) Women who participated in a recent national conference are dedicated to building a new feminism and are -more radically pro-life than they ever thought they would be," according to the US bishops' pro-life spokeswoman.

Helen Alvare, director of planning and information for the US bishops' Secretariat for ProLife Activities, addressed Catholic journalists on May 22 at the opening dinner of the Catholic Press Association's annual convention in Philadelphia.

She reported on "Women and the Culture of Life," a twoday conference in Washington in early May that was sponsored by Women Affirming Life and the bishops' pro-life secretariat.

Ms Alvare said some 250 participants came from 26 states and four countries.

They included single and married women who are doctors, lawyers, educators, politicians, parish activists and full-time mothers.

They agreed on several points, she said. The current pro-abortion regime in the United States, coupled with the old feminism, "has not only made these women more dedicated to building another kind of feminism, but has also pushed them into being

more radically pro-life than they ever thought they would be," she said.

Ms Alvare, a native of the Philadelphia area, quoted Pope John Paul H's encyclical, "Evangelium Vitae" (The Gospel of Life").

"In transforming culture so that it supports life," the Pope wrote, "women occupy a place, in thought and action, which is unique and decisive."

The Pope also wrote, "It depends on them to promote a 'new feminism' which rejects the temptation of imitating models of 'male domination,' in order to acknowledge and affirm the true genius of women in every aspect of the life of society, and overcome all discrimination, violence and exploitation."

"When this woman saw the words 'new feminism' and 'male domination' in the same paragraph," Ms Alvare told journalists, "I had to have a conference."

She was spurred to act by the Pope's "very bold invitation for women to create a new feminism" in an encyclical on abortion and euthanasia and by her work over nine years for the US bishops.

"As the years have gone by," she noted, "the pro-life directors have become overwhelmingly female."

It was time to investigate what

Helen Alvare addresses the Catholic Press Association on May 22.

was happening in the Church, Ms Alvare said.

And participants discovered that "the new feminism was already brewing in the Catholic Church."

"What was not a topic for any rancour whatsoever were the subjects of contraception or women priests," she said.

"These hot-button issues aren't all there is to who we are" as women, she added, as the secular press sometimes depicts.

The question of "the balance between work and family" that women face today was discussed, she said, as well as how the Church and Catholic women are going to address it, and what role the new feminism will play.

Suffering before a resurrection: Pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope October 20. The Pope said John Paul II reminded Catholics Christ's life showed that persecuaround the world that some local tion comes before the resurrecchurches are still struggling tion, a principle experienced all under persecution and hostility. over the globe by Christians who In an annual message, the Pope try to live their faith fully.

"It is a 'cross,' in fact, to imitate said that in other places, resistance to the Gospel takes more Christ in daily witness and in subtle forms of misunderstand- patient and persistent daily work. ing and silent rejection.

It is a 'cross' to go against the curThat, too, is part of the mission- rent, making one's choices ary "cross" borne by every according to God's commandChristian, he said. ments despite misunderstanding, The text, released at the Vatican unpopularity and discriminaon June 1, will be used as a basis tion," he said. for reflection on World Mission Another difficult part of a Day, to be celebrated on Christian's missionary task was

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to denounce injustice and the violation of basic rights, he said, especially in places where the Church is limited or persecuted.

He offered special thoughts for the Catholics in "so many parts of the world" where the Church faces hostility from the dominant culture. He did not single out countries in his message.

"Every year one sees heroic examples of new 'martyrs' who spill their blood in order to remain faithful to the Lord.

The Church honours their sacrifice," he said.

'ordained' BONN, Germany (CNS) Two married women were ordained as priests in Germany's Old Catholic Church on May 26.

The group that came to be known as the Old Catholic Church split with the Vatican over several issues, including the infallibility of the Pope as declared by the First Vatican Council in 1869-1870.

Bishop Vobbe of the Old Catholic Church appointed Mrs Angela Berlis and Ms Regina Pickel-Bossau to the priesthood in a special Pentecost service.

Pioneer dies

VATICAN CITY (CNS) Cardinal Leon-Etienne Duval, who pioneered dialogue with Muslims in Algeria for more than 40 years, died on May 30 In Algiers at age 93.

Once dubbed "Archbishop Mohammed" for his outspoken attempts to create good relations with the Muslim majority, he eventually adopted Algerian citizenship.

He was named bishop of Constantine in Algeria in 1946 and Archbishop of Algiers in 1954.

Disappeared call SAN SALVADOR (CNS) Relatives of 8,000 Salvadorans allegedly "disappeared" by security forces during the bloody civil war have called for the reopening of investigations into their cases.

The call came from the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Persons of El Salvador.

The committee wants a new, independent commission to look into the 6,000 cases the organisation has documented, as well as another 2,000 revealed by a UN group.

Nun sues

Sr MEINRAD, Indiana.

(CNS) - Mercy Sister Cannel McEnroy has filed a federal lawsuit accusing St Meinrad School of Theology of sexual discrimination in firing her from her teaching post there in 1995.

Sister McEnroy, an associate professor of theology who taught at St Meinrad for 14 years, was removed in April 1995 for having signed a public statement challenging Pope John Paul II's declaration that women cannot be priests.

New law better LONDON (CNS) - Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster said a controversial divorce law, initially welcomed by the British bishops, was strengthened as it went through Parliament.

The cardinal noted that the waiting period before a couple could be divorced was extended to two years from the first proposal of one year.

He also praised the "greater emphasis on reconciliation, offering a better prospect of saving saveable marriages" and the statutory provision of marriage support services.

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Eastern rite Catholics to restore old practice

By Jerry Filteau WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Vatican has urged Eastern Catholic churches to restore ancient practices of their own traditions that they may have abandoned over time because of Latinrite influence.

-This is almost a revolutionary document." said Maronite Chorbishop John Faris, vicar general of the Diocese of St Maron in Brooklyn, New York. -because it is a very clear statement on the part of the Apostolic See that Latinisation (of the Eastern rites) has been completely abandoned."

One of the more evident reforms envisioned is a return to giving infants first Communion immediately after baptism and chrismation (confirmation) - and then having young children continue to receive Communion regularly in their preschool years.

A number of Eastern-rite churches in the West. under influence of the Latin-rite majority, had adopted the Western practice of delaying first Communion, and in some cases chrismation as well, until after a child has reached the age of reason.

The Vatican instruction urges a norm that in the Christian initiation of infants in the Eastern rites, -the Eucharist is to be administered immediately after baptism and chrismation."

"From then on children ought to be nourished constantly by it to grow spiritually," it adds.

"The way they participate will correspond to their capacity." growing as their awareness and education develop.

The document, titled "Instruction for the Application of the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches," comes from the Congregation for Eastern-Rite

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It is the first instruction on liturgical renewal of the Eastern Catholic churches since the Second Vatican Council, said Monsignor Alan Detscher, executive director of the US bishops' Secretariat for the Liturgy.

It was issued to clarify and expand on the liturgical implementation of the 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, a body of general law governing all Eastern-rite Catholic churches.

The instruction testifies to "the inalienable value of the Eastern churches' own, diversified traditions" and the "richness of (their) liturgical heritage."

It urges the Eastern Catholic churches to be faithful to their ancient traditions in part because of their special mission to promote Catholic-Orthodox church unity.

"In every effort of liturgical renewal, therefore, the practice of our Orthodox brothers will have to be taken into account." it says.

It says the Eastern Catholic churches should know Orthodox practice. -esteem it and depart from it as little as possible so as not to increase the existing separation."

Msgr Detscher - a priest of the Latin rite but authorised to preside at Maronite liturgies as well said each Eastern-rite church will approach the liturgical instruction out of its own traditions, its own pastoral needs and its own decision-making structures.

"Not everything that's being proposed here will the churches necessarily decide to do.... Each church has to decide what is pastorally appropriate for itself." he said.

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church The Holy Spirit and the Church 737 The mission of Christ and the Holy Spirit is brought to completion in the Church, which is the Body of Christ and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. This joint mission henceforth brings Christ's faithful to share in his communion with the Father in the Holy Spirit. The Spirit prepares men and goes out to them with his grace, in order to draw them to Christ. The Spirit manifests the risen Lord to them, recalls his word to them and opens their minds to the understanding of his Death and Resurrection. He makes present the mystery of Christ, supremely in the Eucharist,

in order to reconcile them, to bring them into communion with God, that they may "bear much fruit."

738 Thus the Church's mission is not an addition to that of Christ and the Holy Spirit, but is its sacrament: in her whole being and in all her members, the Church is sent to announce, bear, witness, make present, and spread the mystery of the communion of the Holy Trinity (the topic of the next article): All of us who have received one and the same Spirit, that is, the Holy Spirit, are in a sense blended together with one another and with God. For if Christ, together with the Father's and his own Spirit, comes to dwell in each of us, though we are many, still the Spirit is

one and undivided . He binds together the spirits of each and every one of us, . . . and makes all appear as one in him. For just as the power of Christ's sacred flesh unites those in whom it dwells into one body, I think that in the same way the one and undivided Spirit of God, who dwells in all, leads all into spiritual unity.

739 Because the Holy Spirit is the anointing of Christ, it is Christ who, as the head of the Body, pours out the Spirit among his members to nourish, heal, and organise them in their mutual functions, to give them life, send them to bear witness, and associate them to his self-offering to the Father and to his intercession for the whole world. Through the Church's sacra-

ments, Christ communicates his Holy and sanctifying Spirit to the members of his Body. (This will be the topic of Part Two of the Catechism.)

740 These "mighty works of God," offered to believers in the sacraments of the Church, bear their fruit in the new life in Christ, according to the Spirit. (This will be the topic of Part Three.)

741 "The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with sighs too deep for words." The Holy Spirit, the artisan of God's works, is the master of prayer. (This will be the topic of Part Four.)

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Medjugorje Message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace, from Medjugorje, given to Marija on May 25, 1996 "Dear Children, Today I wish to thank you for all your prayers and sacrifices that you, during this month which is dedicated to me, have offered to me.

Little childhren, I also wish that you all become active during this time that is through me connected to heaven in a special way.

Pray in order to understand that you all, through your life and example, ought to collaborate in the work of salvation. Little children,I wish that all people convert and see me and my Son, Jesus, in you. I will intercede for you and help you to become the light. In helping others, your soul will also find salvation.

Thank you for having responded to my call" (It is accepted the final authority regarding apparitions of Our Lady at Medjugorle rests with the Holy See of Rome)

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NEWMAN SOCIETY Ut Unum Sint study group, chapter 3, Tuesday 11 June at 11 am at Our Lady of the Missions Convent, 40 Mary St, Highate. Enter from Harold St. Open to all interested.

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ST AUGUSTINE'S PARISH RIVERVALE would like to invite all former parishioners to the Golden Jubilee Celebration of Fr Eammon McKenna's 50 years as a priest on Sunday 23 June. Mass will be at 9.30 am followed by morning tea at St Augustine's school.

COUNTRY DAY OF REFLECTION The next Country Day of Reflection is to be held at St Joseph's Church, Northam, on Monday 22 July commencing at 9.30 am with Rosary Cenacle, concluding with Holy Mass at 2 pm. Theme for the day is Mary In Modern Times. Guest speaker - Fr Oliver Martin (0.Praem). The day is placed under the care of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the prayer "Our Lady of Guadalupe, Protectress of the Unborn, pray for us." All invited. BYO lunch. Tea/coffee provided. Please wear name tag. Enquiries Vanda 096-221528, Kathy 096-22-2766, or metro. Margaret 446-1935.

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FEAST OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS There will be Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in honour of the Sacred Heart on Friday 14 June at 11 am at the Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation, 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook, with Holy Mass followed by the act of Consecration, Litany of Sacred Heart and the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, finishing at 6 pm.

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JUNE 7 Visitation, Brentwood/Willetton A rchbishop Hickey V isitation, Mosman Park Bishop Healy 9 Golden Jubilee of Fr Michael Byrne - Archbishop Hickey C onfirmation, Ocean ReefMonsignor Keating 11 Presentation of -The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality- A rchbishop Hickey 12 Confirmation, Cloverdale Monsignor Keating 13 Council of Priests Meeting 14 Solemnity of Sacred Heart of Jesus - Mass, St Mary's Cathedral - Archbishop Hickey Visitation and Confirmation, Joondanna - Bishop Healy 16 Procession in honour of St Anthony, Wan neroo Archbishop Hickey Confirmation, Queens Park Monsignor Keating Confirmation, East Fremantle Monsignor Nestor Confirmation, York Rev Fr G Carroll 20 70th Jubilee Fr J Ryan, Fremantle Bishop Healy

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