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Catholics urged to help NT pro lifers

By Peter Rosengren Perth priests and laity are being asked to give money to support Northern Territory pro-lifers challenging that state's euthanasia law in the High Court of Australia.

Archbishop Barry Hickey has pledged Church funds to support the Territory coalition, that includes Bishop Edward Collins and the Darwin Diocese, and has asked priests to encourage parishioners to contribute financially to the fight against euthanasia.

"I fully support [Bishop Collins] In the efforts to challenge the euthanasia legislation in the High Court." he told The Record this week.

"Although it is obviously an expensive exercise it's something that must be done in the interests of human life."

If the Northern Territory's legislation did eventually come into effect other States could follow in its wake causing respect for life around the nation to sink rapidly, he added.

The Northern Territory legislation undermined human life more than anything else he had

seen and "therefore it must be opposed," the Archbishop added.

Bishop Collins wrote to all Australian Catholic bishops late last week asking them to publicise the cause among Catholics and seeking financial help for the challenge to the law due to come Into effect on July 1.

The territory-based Coalition Against Euthanasia announced the challenge last week, in Collins response, Bishop believes, to prayers offered on how to fight the euthanasia law.

"We've been praying about it here very, very strongly and rotating parishes saying special prayers for it, and we thought it might be like an answer to prayer," he told The Record this week. "That's one of the reasons we've launched out into the 'deep' [despite not having the money]," he added.

Bishop Collins said his diocesan financial administrator would monitor the account set up for donations.

The challenge could cost between $120,000 and $200,000. he said.

The coalition is made up of representatives from the Uniting, Anglican, and Roman Catholic churches, the Northern Territory Branch of the Australian Medical

Association, the Right to Life organisation, and the Muslim and Hindu faiths.

In his letter to the Australian bishops Bishop Collins described the challenge as historic, saying that it would set a precedent regarding the Australian Constitution and challenge the High Court to make a declaration regarding the right to life of Australian citizens.

President of the NT branch of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Chris Wake, said details of the challenge would be announced at a press conference on Monday.

He said the case was likely to become the most important one of the decade with ramifications as great as those of the Mabo case and more wide-ranging in terms of its significance for the Australian constitution "The issues involved are, first, the sanctity of life in Australia [and] what does our constitution say about that." he said. it involves issues of non-judicial killing. At the moment of course, the only people who have the right to kill people in our country are judges. And this the question of involves [whether] any government is empowered to do that, which

brings in the question of do governments have unfettered rights to legislate for whatever they happen to think?"

He said that AMA surveys had shown the vast majority of doctors and health care professionals in the NT wanted nothing to do with the legislation.

Bishop Collins said the legal advice the Coalition had received indicated the challenge's chances of succeeding were good.

He said the Coalition was seeking an injunction against the law coming into effect until the challenge had been heard in the High Court.

However, even if the Coalition was not able to gain a hearing for a temporary injunction before July 1, there was still a good chance legislation could be declared invalid by the High Court if the challenge was launched in court before that date.

The chances of getting a hearing in the High Court prior to 1 July were also good, as the High Court was likely to regard the issue as an important matter.

Bishop Collins said that donations, cheques or money orders payable to the Coalition Against Euthanasia could be sent to: GPO Box 476, Darwin, NT 0801.

Prayer for Students to the fore for the poor rain urged Archbishop Hickey, Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbury and Bishop Justin Bianchini of Geraldton have lent their support to a call for prayer for rain in Western Australia's wheat belt.

The bishops this week urged parishioners to join in special prayers this weekend for rain for the state's farmers.

Pingrup farmer Judith Stanich initiated the call for prayers for rain. She has also asked Bishop Jamieson of the Anglican Church in Bunbury and ministers of the Baptist and Uniting Churches to garner spiritual support for farmers' weather needs.

In a letter to Archbishop Hickey Mrs Stanich said a prayer would be showing "in a wonderful way" that people do care that farmers' Income is heavily dependent on the weather.

She wrote that she believed strongly in the power of universal prayer and the benefit of the comfort gained by knowing that others understand and care.

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Students from Applecross's St Benedict's Primary School with Lifelink school's welfare day collection boxes at the archdiocesan launch of the appeal last week. The day before, Tuesday, the students exchanged their uniforms for "civvies" for a fee donated to the appeal. Bishop Robert Healy launched the appeal, which will help fund the archdiocese's welfare work, and received money the students had already collected.

After a short talk Bishop Healy was plied with questions from a curious audience who wanted to know everything from whether he travelled a lot to the origins of the mitre, the pointed bishops' hat worn on ceremonial occasions.

Bishop Healy thanked students and staff for their generous and enthusiastic response to the appeal.

Guidelines for sex education Archbishop Barry Hickey is to formulate guidelines to help parents, schools and professional directors in their complementary roles in the sex education for young people.

The archbishop announced his intention in today's Archbishop's Perspective in The Record. Last Tuesday, he arranged a public launch explaining the recently published document on sex education from the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family, entitled: The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality.

Theologians Fathers Peter Black and Kevin Long led the presentation before an audience of about 300 people. mainly married couples, invited to the meeting.

Two parents. Neville and Marion Moran, and educator Anne Duncan, responded to the theologians' presentation.

In his column, Archbishop Hickey supported the Vatican document, saying it stressed that "the primary responsibility for education in human sexuality belongs to the parents, and that while other agencies may assist them, like schools and specialist organisations, the parents cannot abdicate their own responsibility."

He said the Council for the Family did not exclude a role for the school, especially in adolescent years. it does stress, however, that the school is to work with the parents and affirm the values the parents want to pass on," the archbishop wrote. it also makes the point professional education may be better advised to offer help to the parents rather than to the children."

The Archbishop cited the four principles to be used in educating the young on sexuality: that sexuality is a sacred mystery and must be presented according to the doctrinal and moral teachings of the Church, bearing in mind the effects of original sin; that only information proportionate to each phase of a child's development individual should be presented; that no material of an erotic nature should he used; and that no child should ever be invited or pressured to act in a way that would offend against their sense of modesty and privacy.

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Parents' prime role in sex education emphasised A

, meeting of great importance took place in the chdiocese this week.

It was the public presentation of a recent Vatican Document issued by the Pontifical Council for the Family, entitled: "The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality".

So often, Vatican documents get a limited reference in our Catholic papers and are quickly out of sight and out of mind, except, it must be noted, in The Record, which has been publishing excerpts from the document (See Page 11).

This is one document whose message needs to be brought to the notice of all parents.

It stresses that the primary responsibility for education in human sexuality belongs to the parents, and that while other agencies may assist them, like schools and specialist organisations, the parents cannot abdicate their own responsibility.

They are best equipped to instruct their own children in these matters and need not fear that they are unqualified.

There was a time when the general culture supported the fundamental Christian values about sexuality.

That is not so today.

Sex is often presented in a depersonalised and recreational manner, separating it from normal human growth to adulthood and from its proper context of procreation and marital love., It is regrettable that many agencies around the world are only too anxious to present information abut human sexuality, without a proper moral context, still less, one that is in line with Catholic teaching.

In many cases the moral context they present is completely at odds with Catholic teaching.

If Catholic parents are to assume their proper role in guiding the moral formation of their children in matters of sexuality, they are to recognise what the Document calls, "the years of innocence", from birth to puberty.

During that time parents are to answer questions that arise, as

College land sale claims 'untrue'

By Peter Rosengren The Archdiocese of Perth's top money man this week rejected as "totally untrue" claims by a group of parents at Prendiville Catholic College in Ocean Reef that the archdiocese was depriving the northern suburbs' school of $2m11lion.

The parents, who have formed the Prendiville College Site Preservation Committee, claimed that the diocese was inconsistent In selling off 4 hectares of the school's land at a time when it, allegedly, has just waived a $6 million debt owed by the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle The claim was made despite the fact that the Archdiocese's financial administrator, Jim Thomas, refuted in detail in The Record two weeks ago claims of a waiver made in The Sunday Times, pointing out that there had been a debt for equity swap involving land at NDA, not a waiver.

Preservation committee spokesman Chris Head, in a statement released this week and on radio, repeated the claim of a waiver as part of the committee's attack on the proposed sale at Prendiville.

"If the Church needs this money for capital expansion of its future school programs, why take $2m111ion from development of the remainder of our college grounds and at the same time hand $6 million to Notre Dame," Mr Head told ABC radio in a joint interview on Tuesday with Mr Thomas.

But Mr Thomas said Mr Head's claims were "totally untrue."

The proceeds from the land by Prendiville College would be spent on the capital expansion of archdiocesan schools, not NDA, he said.

He told ABC radio the four hectares in question belonged to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth and not Prendiville College.

"Its not true to talk of it in terms of `College' ground . . . . When we purchased the land in 1986 we purchased fourteen hectares of land," he said.

"A secondary school requires eight hectares, and we've actually allocated ten to Prendiville which leaves a surplus of four."

He said discussions with the school on the matter had begun in April 1994 which had ended in an agreement in July 1995.

He also rejected any connection between the recent Notre Dame transaction and the selling off of the four hectares at Prendiville College.

What had happened with Notre Dame, Mr Thomas said two weeks ago, had been a debt for equity swap in which the archdiocese exchanged the debt owed to it by NDA for ownership of five of NDAS core buildings and their sites in the heart of Fremantle's central business district.

He described the transaction as a standard commercial practice and said it would be irresponsible not to develop the unused asset at Prendiville College.

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simply as possible, but not give unnecessary information that may disturb their natural growth.

During that time children learn from the family what it means to be a man or a woman, and grow in the formation of their sexual identity through interaction with males and females in the family, especially with the parents.

At puberty, facts relating to human growth and the meaning of human sexuality are to be given gradually.

The values of chastity and selfcontrol are to be offered within the context of procreation, marriage and family.

Guidance is needed in the formation of a conscience grounded in God's law and the teachings of the Church.

To be avoided is the presentation of erotic material that could lead to a "hedonistic mentality" which in turn leads to a contraceptive mentality because it separates the act on intercourse from love, procreation and marriage.

The Council for the Family does

not exclude a role for the school, especially for the adolescent years. It does stress, however, that the school is to work with the parents and affirm the values the parents want to pass on.

It also makes the point professional educators may be better advised to offer help to the parents rather than to the children.

Four principles are laid down to guide parents and professional teachers in what they refer to as "education for love": 1. Human sexuality is a sacred mystery and must be presented according to the doctrinal and moral teachings of the Church, always bearing in mind the effects of original sin (No. 122).

2. Only information proportionate to each phase of their individual development should be presented to children and young people (No. 124).

3. No material of an erotic nature should be presented to children or young people of any age, individually or in a group (No. 126).

4. No one should ever be invit-

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Perspective ed, let alone obliged, to act in any way that could objectively offend against modesty or which could subjectively offend against his or her own delicacy or sense of privacy (No. 127) In the light of this Instruction, I propose to formulate Guide-lines to assist parents, schools and professional educators.

Art brush spins money as Yangebup settles its identity and looks to future

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard The parish of Our Lady of the Lakes has altered its name to Yangebup after changing to Beeliar 18 months ago.

Covering 16 localities and subdivisions, the parish has now settled down in the midst of seven major lakes, bordered by the Southern Lake system.

The local Catholics gathered originally in what was termed South Lake Parish in 1989 under the direction of Father Peter Bianchini. The first Mass was offered under large army tents on the Verna Court site.

The presbytery in South Lake was a rented house next to which the school was built six years ago.

The parish made a fresh start at 340 Yangebup Road within Beeliar Park, and was given the name of Beeliar Park for 18 months on a trial basis,.

However, as Beeliar Park is a subdivision with no postcode, it has now been decided to rename the parish as Yangebup.

The new, relocated school, MacKillop Catholic Primary, is a double-stream school with the library doubling as the church on weekends as computers, books and library clutter are set aside for Mass. The soon-to-be-completed covered school assembly area will offer another Mass site in summertime.

The ultimate dream is to build a church on bushland set aside on the school site.

But, surrounded by young families in the South Lakes mortgage belt, the prospects of a new church currently look dim to

Fr Tim Foster on the proposed site of the Yangebup church non-existent, according to parish "Our Lady of the Lakes, the priest Father Tim Foster. friendly parish": he's even screen But while he is a realist, he's printed Confirmation stoles. also optimistic, and being an And he believes he's just the artist and also screen printer, his right artist to paint a portrait of presbytery has become the site of Archbishop Barry Hickey as soon some very interesting fund-rais- as the Archbishop has the sitting ing items indeed. time and the money!

He goes to a drawer and pulls And then it's zippo into the out the tiniest of baby singlets church-loan coffers along with with an appropriate baptismal the baby singlets, stoles, and message screen-printed thereon windcheater money. for purchase by proud parents or While Fr Tim and the young relatives! and hanging on his parish family might be short on undercover line is a row of white money...they're most definitely windcheaters emblazoned with not short on ideas!

A Pingrup farmer's prayer for rain Judith Stanich's Prayer for Rain: God, we see You in so many places - when we are seeding in the middle of the night and look up at the vastness of the universe and see a falling star, when we are watching a beautiful sunset, a calf being born, or the ripples made on a dam from flicking flies.

We feel You in so many ways when we are running the dirt through our fingers, feeling it, smelling it and knowing that it is

this earth from which we came and to which we will return.

When we are driving our trucks along our roads, when we are sitting in front of a warm wood fire, when we watch our children feed the pet lamb or when we share happy times with friends and family.

God, We see and feel You in so many different ways but we know that You are there.

We thank you for all the good things in our lives, the stability of our governments, our political and religious freedom and the

easy way of life that is part of being an Australian and which we so often take for granted.

Today, Lord, we ask You to look upon us and give us the rains we so badly need, in order to grow our crops and pastures so that we can provide for our families and fulfil our obligations., We ask you that You grant us the support and comfort of Your presence so that we can get through this season, no matter what the outcome.

Amen

DA law school gears up

By Colleen MoGuiness-Howard While an international search goes on for a Dean to head the University of Notre Dame Australia's new College of Law to be established next year, a considerable refurbishment has begun on the three buildings central to the college's operation.

NDA was recently successful in leasing the 1884 old Courthouse in Marine Terrace, Fremantle. It will be furnished from the old Beaufort Street Law Court premises to serve as a moot court for students. The other two buildings will accommodate academics and house the law library.

The university's fifth college will complement the other established four: Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, and Theology, according to Vice Chancellor Peter Tannock.

While the core units of the Bachelor of Laws course would provide a "firm foundation in legal principles", he said, they Dr Peter Tannock, left, with Professor David would be unique because of the universiLink this week in front of the Fremantle Wesley ty's strong focus on ethics and human Mission building that will be used by the new rights.

He said the University of Notre Dame in law school. Notre Dame has established a scholarship in gratitude to the previous Uniting Indiana in the United States, reknowned Church residents. Valued at $6,000 it will be for academic excellence and with whom available to any Fremantle resident who other- the university has strong collegial links. wise would not be able to afford NDA fees. had a similar emphasis that had led them

to become well known, highly respected, and its students sought after because of this focus on ethics and human rights.

He then drew attention to the considerable debate in legal, business, and intellectual circles about the need for more emphasis on ethics and nowhere is this more important than in the legal profession."

Professor David Link, first Vice Chancellor of NDA when it began until December 1992 has been actively involved with the planning of the new school and who is currently visiting in an advisory capacity.

He agreed with Dr Tannock that, from his experience, the specialisation in human rights fits logically with the emphasis on ethics and with NDAs commitment to community service and Christian values.

Dr Tannock said the university saw the training of people in law as very much part of the mission of service to the Australian community and beyond.

And he believes the broader-based student selection criteria (not merely based on an excellent TEE score), would assist that objective as its graduates, who may be mature age or have other Degrees, will contribute a wealth of life experience.

The College of Law has the firm backing of "a distinguished range of people led by

the two Supreme Court Judges Franklin and Owen and also the strong endorsement of Chief Justice David Malcolm", Dr Tannock said, as well as leading figures in respected areas of the legal profession, "all of whom will be of great benefit to us."

Mediation, advocacy, specialisation in property and international law and treaties, intellectual property, trade, mining, and native title, are some of the specialty areas the Bachelor of Laws will embrace, Dr Tannock elaborated, and ultimately our law graduates will work in many sectors of business and the community" As with any other graduates, certainty of work was never assured.

Nevertheless, he said. "Law has become very much a general purpose degree with its graduates branching into many sectors of business life, without ever setting foot in a court."

But for the WA Law firms, Dr Tannock considers the NDA College of Law an excellent initiative for WA law firms "because they actually have trouble finding enough good young lawyers with a few years experience.

"Which is why our plan is so well supported by them and the judiciary in WA."

Pioneer spirit lives long in Lockridge 'Be honest' on Gospel's teaching on the Jews

an:clears at aii scnoois aunng the past week celebrated Heritage week and paw mute to our pioneers. Children at Good Shepherd Catholic School, Lockridge, dressed up for the part and saluted their pioneers around a campfire in the school grounds where their teachers showed them how damper was cooked.

The New Testament's sometime troubling references to Jews and Judaism had to be addressed honestly, the Reverend David Wood told the first public function held by the newly-established Council for Christians and Jews, Western Australia late last month.

The function was the first of a series of public events aimed at raising mutual awareness and understanding of matters affecting Christians and Jews.

Mr Wood. the Anglican Rector of Christ Church, Claremont, cited several stark examples of New Testament Scripture that, unless dealt with sensitively, could give rise to anti-Semitic interpretations.

He referred to the blood label -

the Passover festival crowd's acceptance of the crucifixion of Jesus (Matt. 27:25).

This text "has led directly to a whole catalogue of anti-semitic beliefs and activities," Mr wood said.

The next public CCjVVA function will offer a lecture by Rabbi D.Y. Freilich of the Perth Hebrew Congregation entitled "The Torah - Burden or Boon." A discussion on the impact of the commandments in the Hebrew Scriptures on the lives of modern orthodox Jews will follow.

This will be at the Synagogue on the corner of Plantation Street and Freedman Road, Menora. from 8pm to 9.30pm, Wednesday 31 July, 1996.

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TOMORROW TODAY

Get an attitude of senvice: Pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II told university students that whatever their professions, they should develop an attitude of service, not selfishness.

This basic lesson of Christian wisdom is as valid today as it was in Christ's time, he said on June 8.

The Pope was speaking during a visit to the Church-run Villa Nazareth in Rome, which offers scholastic and social help to underprivileged young people.

"Whatever place you take in society, whatever profession you carry out, you are called to do as a service - not because of selfish interests or, worse, by taking advantage of others," he said.

He said this inevitably means going against the social cur-

Slovenian children surround Pope John Paul ll on his 76th birthday on May 18.

rent, since "the wisdom of the world is oriented in a very different direction."

-The Christian, whether labourer judge, doctor or or farmer, business person or professor, is recognised by the way he or she practices the commandment of love for God and neighbour," he said.

He said Christians should ultimately judge their success on the basis of how well they have made the concerns and needs of others their own rather than just dismissing them.

Greeting students and families at the villa, the Pope momentarily lost his white skullcap when a baby girl, receiving a papal peck on the cheek, reached up and grabbed it off his head.

She was convinced by her parents to give it back.

Now summer will be hot, but not too dry

By Penny Ashcroft Youth and Young Adult Office

It all started in a pub with an all-night discussion between Dominic and the barman.

They argued about life's purpose, the goodness of the world, freedom and responsibility, the saving death of Jesus Christ.

The outcome was Dominic's vision of a community of prayerful, scholarly and passionate communicators of the Gospel.

Men at ease in the world but with their hearts set on Christ.

The conversation goes on...

If you re interested in taking part, please contact FATHER JOHN NEILL OP St Dominic's Priory 816 Riversdale Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124 Telephone: 03 9830 5144 Fax: 03 9888 5943

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The continual changes that occur at the centre ensure that the facilities always remain at a very high standard.

Recently, the capacity of the dam, which is situated in the valley on a natural spring, has been increased to three times its original size.

After some years of continual uncertainty as to the supply of water, the reconstruction of the dam is already proving to be a huge asset.

In the past, during particularly dry summers, there has been a need to cart water in to 'Eagles Nest'.

With the increased capacity of the dam and a combination of the water from the natural spring and our annual rainfall, we can now be assured of our own water supply.

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Vatican seeks Perth doctor's advice

By Peter Rosengren Perth surgeon, Dr Michael Shanahan, who has just been appointed by Pope John Paul II as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Assistance of Health Care Workers, comes to the appointment as doctors face multiple challenges in the bioethics' area from euthanasia to the induced births of babies without brains.

Dr Shanahan, based at St Anne's hospital in Mt Lawley, is a founding member of the Catholic Doctors' Association of Western Australia.

He has also been a driving force in the current efforts to establish an Australian federation of Catholic medical associations.

He told The Record last week the appointment was a confirmation of Rome's blessing on the formation of the Catholic Doctors Associations in WA and at a national level.

They would like to see Catholic doctor associations functioning and functioning well," he said at the L J Goody Bioethics Centre in Glendalough last week.

Dr Shanahan's appointment to the council, the Vatican body which researches medical and health care issues as they pertain to the Church. will he a first for Western Australia.

The last Australian to serve on the council was Dr Brian Curtin from Sydney, who Dr Shanahan has worked with towards setting up a national organisation representing Catholic doctors.

As a consultor, Dr Shanahan will be available to advise the council on specific matters, if requested, and may well have to travel to Rome to attend or address meetings and symposiums on different issues of importance to the Church's work

in the field of medical and health-related policy.

Although it was still too early to say what specific issues he or the council may be addressing in the future, Dr Shanahan said the area of handicap was one possibility: also Pope John Paul H's encyclical on the Gospel of Life.

"That's going to be an issue that I think doctors will be addressing more specifically as time goes by - Evangelium Vitae," he said.

"I think that will be something that will be the basis on which Catholic doctor organisations will address the issues that they are having to [currently) cope with."

However, at the same time, the kinds of bioethical issues raised in the encyclical were not matters that ordinary doctors were forced to confront very often, he said.

"In the working day life of a doctor they are probably not issues that he would meet more than once a year," he pointed out.

"So its not a burning issue in the heart of the practical doctor out there. It might be in the heart of the bioethicist or the people involved in that particular area."

And sometimes, he said, such issues were sometimes highlighted to a point where they seemed to dominate or become divisive.

"Because a lot of the issues are in grey areas where it is very, very difficult to get [doctors) to agree that such-and-such an attitude is right."

This could lead to disharmony, he said, citing the disbanding of the Catholic doctors' organisation in Victoria over divisive argument on the contraceptive pill as an example.

"It's happened I suppose ever since the Pill was around.

"A prime example of that is that in Victoria it blew the Catholic Doctors Association, as it then was, right apart in the matter of a

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strongly Catholic doctors will be increasingly confronted with is euthanasia, currently about to become law in the Northern Territory but also the subject of a High Court constitutional challenge by anti-euthanasia organisations, including the Church.

"What has not been said about the issue is the personal role of the doctor actually killing one of their own patients [that) is not even looked at," he said.

"You have no idea what it might he to just stand there and kill another person in cold blood."

He said that in the debate which has so far occurred in Australia no-one has focussed on the person who would actually do the killing or on the effects carrying out such actions will have on medical practitioners.

"Is it anyone who just simply wants to come out of the pages of the GP's or are they going to be a special hospice doctor. . . . are there going to be a few 'specialist killers' around?" he asked.

"You've moved a person from being a very, as it were normal type person. who's got a fatal illness - and you've just killed them," he said.

"What could be more coldblooded? And what could be in the mind of the doctor, or what could be his feelings. of killing someone?"

Fr Walter Black. director of the L J Goody Bioethics Centre, said he was delighted when he heard of Dr Shanahan's appointment.

"The fact that we have here the strongest Catholic doctors' group in the whole for Australia is due virtually solely to him." he said.

• Correction: Last week The Record reported incorrectly that Dr Shanahan had been reappointed to the council when he had been appointed for the first time. The error was in Vatican documents supplied to The Record.

Dr Shanahan: asking which doctors will kill by facilitating euthanasia

night. It came from people standing up and pontificating and saying well unless you did it this way you could hardly call yourself a practising Catholic to genuine heartfelt Catholics - that's the last thing they wanted to hear."

There are still plenty of such issues around which can divide, such as when and whether to induce the birth of anencephalic babies - babies found in their mother's womb to have no brain.

Dr Elizabeth Hepburn, a Queensland bioethicist and a Loreto Sister who has just published a book. Of Life and Death: An Australian Handbook on Catholic Bioethics, was recently reported in the Australian Magazine as saying it did not seem to matter whether such babies were induced before 23 weeks into the pregnancy rather than allowing the baby to be born naturally and then die.

McAuley, Anglicare condemn cuts The Catherine McAuley Family Centre and Anglicare have attacked the Federal Government's decision to cut funds by one-third to the Skillshare training scheme for the longterm unemployed for three months until the August Budget.

McAuley Centre executive director Michael Reutens said the cuts would affect thousands of long-term unemployed people across WA and Australia and leave them with no plans for the future.

The McAuley Centre and Anglicare are calling on the government to reconsider their decision in light of WAs increased unemployment figures which SkillShare programs have attempted to address with help for 25 per cent of the long term unemployed during the year.

Mr Reutens said Skillshare programs have a 55-60 per cent success rate in placing people in employment and further training and questioned the justification of such cuts given SkillShare's outstanding success in terms of cost and successful re-employment.

The cuts would affect "real people with families who live in our communities," Mr Reutens said, and added that it was time that the "voice and needs of the long term unemployed who are marginalised and disadvantaged, are heard and acknowledged."

Anglicare's chief executive officer Ian Carter said the McAuley Centre and Anglicare believed they were being "systematically squeezed," with unreasonable expectations placed upon them to continue to support for the unemployed and disadvantaged, "while the Government decides what is going to happen in three months time."

He said it wasn't good enough to expect agencies such as theirs to try and pick up the pieces from actions "which are a direct result of a government's lack of sufficient thought at the wider social and economic impact."

It is situations like what to do regarding anencephalic babies.

Dr Shanahan said, where a doctor working at the clinical coal face can find a much more different environment to argue one's moral ethics than the ivory tower of academics.

'You've got a woman in front of you whose just learned that she's got an anencephalic foetus," he said.

"Now, she has a husband, she has another family, she has her mother, she has her extended family around her - all of who will be absolutely horrified, distraught, whatever you like to say.

That's the environment you're going to give advice to," he said.

"That's what I insist does not have a yes or no answer, and to publish it from the rooftops that you must do all of this, and that sort of thing; that's a rare event. It is a huge event for the patient."

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One chance to hear of God

By Peter Rosengren

Paul Bonner chats with Year 9 student Claire Glendinning.

on Commission Churches The Education, a body representing 15 Christian denominations providing chaplains in schools, this year celebrates 25 years of work.

The commission aims to keep a Christian voice and presence in the State school system. In its silver jubilee year it can proudly claim oversight of the work of 62 chaplains employed in the State's schools.

One such chaplain is Paul Bonner, a Catholic and a graduate in Youth Work from Edith Cowan University who is based at City Beach Senior High School three days a week.

There he helps students by simply extending the hand of support or counsel when they need it.

Schools Commission for Education chaplains (L to R): Kathy Young from Walliston Primary School, left, commission's executive officer Brian Thornber, Margaret Box from Maddington Senior High School, Paul Bonner, and Nancy Edwards from Rossmoyne Senior High School at a gathering of chaplains held at the Scripture Union in Mt Hawthorn recently.

But most importantly of all he sees his example as offering a Christian presence to students as his key role.

Visited in his tiny office, and with the noise of school-day shouts and yells reverberating outside the window, he said he had become a chaplain partly to avoid the 'reactive' role - working with young people after they were on drugs, homeless or pregnant.

Being a chaplain, he said, gave him a chance to be pro-active rather than reactive with young people and the problems and challenges that touch their lives.

And as a chaplain he finds himself dealing with all kinds of situations, often as a counsellor.

"I do counselling [for] a wide variety of things - anything from kids having troubles at home, to being bullied at school, drugs and alcohol, or homelessness."

He said up to fifty per cent of his working day can be taken up counselling or advising students with serious problems.

Other times they just want someone to listen to them.

As a chaplain he comes in touch with the problems of wider society manifesting themselves through students lives.

After all, a standard 90's family life means both parents forced to work, with mothers usually absent from the home during the day and fathers only able to spend six per cent of their time with their children.

It is little wonder that Schools Commission chaplains like Paul find themselves dealing with all kinds of situations.

But why is it important to have a C hristian chaplain in a school?

"I think its important because everyone needs the opportunity to know God, and lots of these kids never get that - their parents never ever take them along to Church or talk about God and Christianity," he said.

Like all the other chaplains in schools around Perth he has found a clear need for the presence of something spiritual in students lives.

"Although I'm not allowed to apostelise, you'd be amazed how many kids - and 'hard core' kids, kids who are troubled kids - come into the office and get counselling," he said.

The chaplains are also helped by the faithfulness of the Special Religious Education teachers who voluntarily teach a weekly half-hour class in the State's primary schools.

For many children, the SRE classes are the only opportunity they have to hear the Christian message taught and explained to them.

After all, if the Gospel is life, then for many - if not most - students in the Government education system, their life is one of spiritual starvation.

Through offering a Christian perspective to their lives and their problems, helping students see there is a point to life, Paul. the SRE teachers and the 61 other chaplains currently working in schools are providing spiritual resources which students can draw on later in their life.

It is the sort of work that might just make the difference.

Father Capra visit hopes to inspire Little Sisters of the Poor

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard It's been described as "a journey of growth and conversion" and two very excited people are Sue Larsen of WillettonBrentwood, and Jeff 'Frew of Doubleview who are both members of the Archdiocesan Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults committee. Mr Trew is also the WA representative on the

Australian Catechumenate network Their enthusiasm is for the visit in early July of Salesian Father Elio Capra who lectures in liturgical studies and in Sacraments at the Catholic Theological College, Melbourne. and at the Australian Catholic University.

Fr Capra has been involved in the RCIA for many years in Australia and overseas and has the by been sponsored

Jeff Trew and Sue Larsen: looking forward to Fr Capra's visit

Archdiocesan RCIA Committee to present a seminar in Perth exploring the word of God and various ministries, as well as exploring rituals and symbols to lead seminar participants into a deeper understanding and experience of growth and conversion.

The seminar is on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July, while on Thursday. 4 July, Fr Capra will give a workshop on Children's Liturgy of the Word. Both events will be in the Doubleview parish hall, Angelico Street, Woodlands with cost and details available from the Archdiocesan Liturgy Office by phoning (09) 221-1548.

Sue and Jeff believe Fr Capra has a message for people Involved in RCIA, as well as others involved in parish ministries, and are keen for as many to attend as possible, "because everyone will gain something from a personal and parish level .... It's powerful for the ministers and ministries because Fr Elio will inject new life, and this may well radiate into liturgy."

leader world-wide dies The Superior General of the Little Sisters of the Poor worldwide for 32 years died unexpectedly at the Mother House near Rennes, in Brittany, France late last month at the age of 76.

Florence Monier, known in religion as Sr Marie Antoinette de la 'llinite, had planned to follow in her father's footsteps in the medical profession, but the Lord called her to a life, completely given to him through the service of the elderly, in the Congregation founded.

For those who knew her, her lucidity was exceptional, her gift of discernment acute, her courage undaunting, and above all, the great love of her sisters and of the Church stood out.

As Cardinal Paul Poupard.

President of the Pontifical Council for Culture remarked on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee last year: With great courage and profound faith she

Mother Made Antoinette de la Trinite

maintained the Congregation. . . . and turned it towards the future with a prudent continuity: that of great devotedness to the poor and the elderly, of profound attachment to the Church, in prayerful affection for the Vicar of Christ."

Perth schools explore technology both ancient and modern

Oaevid Anderson old Stuart Roughan of John College display tour of the clay tiles completed using ancient techniques

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Meanwhile, students at John The children of St Benedict's School, Applecross, gave their XXIII College, Mount Claremont parents a few lessons one night have been exploring some very last week. All classes at the old technology and wisdom. school, from pre-primary to Year Working under the direction of 7, put on a Technology Expo and Senior Art Teacher, Arlene Invited their parents for the Nedeljkovic, they have been evening. exploring "ancient civilisation".

There was great excitement and Using clay tiles, they have reenthusiasm as the young created some of the stories in the "boffins" explained to their par- clay and learned something of ents that technology was much the techniques used by men and more than an understanding of women for centuries to express computers and how to set a themselves creatively. video recorder to record. (Maybe Ms Nedeljkovic has recently that is why all the parents came: a set of Stations of the ompleted c wanting an answer!) the college Chapel. for Cross Technology is a mainstream a similar technique. As the using subject in schools today wherein students are nrought to an appre- technique might be of interest to ciation and understanding of all art teachers in other schools the "processes" - from cooking to and students can achieve quite engineering - whereby our work superb results in this medium Is made easier, more efficient or Ms Nedeljkovic can provide more satisfying through the details of where to obtain the application of scientific under- "green" tiles used as the foundation for this unit. standing.

Cooking up a technological "brew' at St Benedict's Technology Expo were Reece Penistan of Year 4, left, Isabelle smith, Pia Harris and Melissa Geldenhuys of Year 7

&tiers lo IA& CC/110r Humanae Vitae had to be discovered after school I recently read the Encyclical Letter of author, but also for its profound foresight.

The position of the Church in relation to Pope Paul VI on the transmitting of human life, Humanae Vitae, first pub- abortion and contraception are left inconlished in 1968, and was surprised to find trovertible, so much so that any well the document beautifully written, read- informed conscience surely could not reasonably claim that he/she was able and easy to understand.

The letter itself is surely one of the most unaware of the position of the Church in important statements by the Church this relation to such matters, and yet so many century and yet many have never heard are.

I cannot quite reconcile myself to the of it yet alone read or studied its contents.

Many questions which we commonly knowledge that given the immensely rich ask concerning the meaning and dignity faith, understanding and wisdom within of the divine institution of marriage, the the Church I, who attended a Catholic regulation of births and so forth are dealt boys school in this country for some 6 with logically and with surprising clarity. years, was not exposed to such a docuThe document itself is truly inspired ment, nor even aware of its existence or because of the depth of understanding of its contents until some time after I had the human condition displayed by the left school.

All the time I spent in RE classes seems to have been frittered away in discussing superficial issues which, in reality, diverted my attention from a truly deeper appreciation and understanding of our Faith.

Similarly, before my wife and I were married, we both attended marriage preparation classes.

The methods of family planning sanctioned by the Church were given nothing more than a passing mention and the most important issues concerning our faith and marriage so eloquently dealt with in Humanae Vitae, were not addressed at all.

This despite the fact that there were several non-Catholic members of the group

who had obviously consented to marry their Catholic partners in the Catholic Church and who almost certainly would have had little or no understanding of the Church's teaching regarding the regulation of births.

Is it any wonder that many stray from the faith to be drawn in by the nihilistic void of popular culture when the teaching of the Church is not fully disseminated.. Why is it that the responsibility for passing on the faith to the next generation falls to a few courageous individuals who end up shouldering more of the burden than they should, because we refuse to shoulder ours?

Rory O'Hagan Attadale

any means support her contention that "If anything positive is to come from the horrific carriages .. .. it will not come by focusing on evil, man's fallen nature, sin, hell and the Devil.

On the contrary, I fully agree with the accuracy and truth of Patricia Halligan's interpretation that the Port Arthur massacre must be the "most vivid and visible manifestation yet of evil in our society."

To prove that the Devil does in fact exist and that he is even now working overtime with his fallen angels to "wander through the world to the ruin of souls" - he well knows that his number Is up and he hasn't much time left - I would like to quote one of Our Lady's messages which she has given to the world at Medjugorje: "Excuse me for this but you must know that Satan exists.

"One day he presented himself before the throne of God and requested permission to put the Church on trial during a period of one century.

"God permitted him to try the Church for a century. This century is under the powers of the Devil, but when these secrets are realised (Our Lady has ten secrets that she is entrusting to the visionaries), which are being confided to you, his power will be destroyed.

"He has already begun to lose his power, and he has become aggressive.

"He destroys marriages, creates division between priests, and causes obses-

sions and murder. You should protect yourself from these by fasting and prayer.

"Especially by community prayer.

"Carry blessed objects with you. and keep them in your houses.

"Come back to the custom of using holy water."

William Thomas Medina

Catholic community in Albany. Holy Family Parish really celebrated the Trinity of the Three Divine Persons in style.

The coming together of Anglicans, Uniting Church members and Catholics to celebrate was a definite stepping out in faith, a true 'dancing together' in God's love.

When we all believe so steadfastly in the one Christ why is it then that we are all so closed in our own communities.

I believe that Trinity Sunday in Albany was a small beginning, a definite step in breaking some of those boundaries and. with the grace and blessing of God, we will continue to move forward.

For the over 500 people who sang, prayed and rejoiced together in true peace and harmony, it was a glimpse into what is the deepest mystery of our faith. the Trinity, our model on which to build our lives, reaching out to each other.

As the sounds of the opening hymn resounded through the church there was not one voice that wasn't raised to its fullest.

For me. a Catholic, who began her faith journey in a Methodist-Presbyterian community it was like 'coming home'. something I would never have believed could have happened.

One gentleman was overheard to say "I have waited 70 years for this to happen." I would venture to say, "God has waited a great deal longer!"

Margaret Mender Albany

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ay I point out to Glenys Simons' (The Record. 6 June) that the statement about "The Devil" comes from the 1st letter of St Peter, addressed to Christians in Asia Minor.

St Peter warned them: "Be alert, be on watch! Your enemy, the devil, roams around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Be firm in your faith and resist him.

St Peter was, of course, teaching the early Christians what he had learnt from Christ by word of mouth.

When it comes to matters of religious teaching about evil vs good in this world. I'd rather quote St Peter than Shakespeare.

M j Gonzalez Willetton

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hile I fully appreciate and with Glenys sympathise Simons' emphatic concern for the Port Arthur and Dunblane mass murderers (The Record. 6 June), which she subscribes to as being due to the terrible price to their human emotions of loneliness and rejection, I do not by

Neighbourly love

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hile I agree with most of Fr Dickinson's comments on Jehovah's Witnesses (The Record. 30 May). I take issue with him asserting "Catholics would do well to emulate the Jehovah Witnesses missionary activity." All I can say to that is "Heaven forbid".

When, as a young woman with a husband and five children, I found it strained my Christian charity to get rid of these people. Catholics would do well to emulate the zeal but not their method of evangelism.

Good old "Love thy neighbour" will do me. Translated it means, don't make a pest of yourself.

Ellen Morris Bayswater

Trinitarian unity

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hey talk about a great day for the Irish. Well, Sunday June 2nd, Trinity Sunday, was a great day for the

Timothy Leary's trip to the next life to meet the big 'G'

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magine there's no heaven, wrote John Lennon in one of his most famous pop songs.

"No hell below us, above us, only sky".

"Imagine" was a classic song of the post-60s era - idealistic and moral in its own way. And profoundly anti-Christian.

The rejection of traditional religious beliefs abut heaven and hell is one of the hallmarks of For one thing, he thinks the Leary's favourite drug was the big change in attitudes that is magically transformed in body LSD. diethylamide acid ysergic l we associate today with the a moment at death. "When the from fired was he 1963, n I 1960s. `k Others signs included changed Harvard University for using stu- body is gone and you've got 120 attitudes to sex and drugs. sleep dents in psychological tests of billion neurons whirring, it's like LSD," he said cryptically before with whoever you want, when- the mind-altering drug. death. his well-known a became then He urgent the was want, ever you For another, Leary seems message promoted by some of hippie leader, before being the wacky popular gurus of the jailed on drugs charges in the strangely reluctant to have his 1970s. In later years, he became physical self laid in the humble '60s counterculture.

And experiment with drugs, a celebrity on the Hollywood earth, as ordinary mortals have urged others. Dope, LSD, opium social scene, before dying of always done. Why else go to the or pills - whatever helped bend cancer at his Beverley Hills ludicrous effort of having himself removed from the planet your mind and change your home two weeks ago.

In an amazing post-script to a altogether? understanding of reality.

What does it all mean? Some The most famous of the '60s bizarre life, Leary instructed in pop gurus was the Californian his will that his cremated might say that all it shows is psychologist, Timothy Leary. He remains be launched into outer Timothy Leary was mad. After "dropping acid" for so many coined a famous slogan, "Turn space. it certainly seems plausinon-reliyears, the modern Leary, on, tune in, drop out", that became a catch-cry to many gious radical par excellence, ble his mind might have been who thought sex, drugs and seems to have made rejection of permanently altered by the rock-n-roll held all the answers Christian beliefs into a private experience.

But I think Leary's madness is religion of his own. to life's problems.

of a different kind. It's the madness of people who have become so immersed in themselves, they have come to see themselves as gods.

This is a peculiarly "post-religious" phenomenon. According to the old-fashioned secularist argument, the human race evolved through various stages of religious belief, to a point where we no longer "need" religion at all.

First came the primitive superstitions where men believed every hill and tree-stump was a deity of some kind. After that came the great mono-theistic religions, like Judaism and Christianity, in which there was only one God. The third and final stage of religious evolution, say the secularists, is advanced, progressive atheism. Man is now so complete and self-reliant that he does not need God or a religious world view any longer at all.

In fact, the likes of Timothy Leary suggest there is actually a fourth stage in the process. And the fourth is not a whole lot different from the first.

It's a return to a universe in which not one but many gods inhabit the heavens. Like the 30

like-minded individuals whose ashes will be shot into space with Timothy Leary's satellite.

Of course, common sense tells us that the whole idea of mankind "progressing" from one stage of religious consciousness to another has some pretty big holes in it.

For example, if modern society is so self-reliant and not in need of God, why are so many people today so uncomfortable at the thought of dying, and being buried in the ground?

The truth is, fear of death is probably greater today than it was in "primitive" Christian societies, where people had a clearer, confident vision of who they were and where they were headed, before and after death.

Of course, to accept the Catholic view of life, death. heaven and hell requires faith.

But when we think of some of the weird things non-religious people believe and do today and having their bodies fired into space is only one - the Catholic case begins to look increasingly reasonable.

Catholic souls may be aimed at heaven. But at least their feet and their bodies - are still on the ground.

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Parents' agony as kids stray

By Mary Miller Pedersen

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0 love a child without condition, even when a child is turning away, is to be Godlike or holy.

Anyone who has given birth to, fed, bathed, clothed, sheltered, taught, forgiven and taken back a child knows that parents are moved toward their eternal reward by this life of sacrifice and service.

Parents raising children have lots of opportunities for everyday holiness!

But it's easier to relate to parenting as something holy when you're holding a sleeping baby or proudly watching your child on his or her best behaviour.

When children misbehave or young adult children reject our values, it's much more difficult to see parenting in a positive light.

One particularly difficult issue for parents has been the trend toward young adults living together before marriage.

Parents often feel embarrassed about their child's cohabitation.

Some parents admit to feelings of failure concerning their child's moral training: "We sent them to a Catholic school, took them to church and gave them our best example of married life, and now they act as if there is nothing wrong with living together outside of marriage."

At the heart of most parental responses is anger and disappointment.

If parents react differently to cohabitation, most agree that they feel powerless to do anything about it. Though they cannot give their approval, they fear that too much advice on their part will alienate their child completely.

What are parents to do without compromising their own beliefs and values? Here are some suggestions from experienced parents.

CI Speak your mind. Honestly and gently tell your children you cannot support their decision to live together. Tell them why you disagree.

Let them know there is the rich teaching in the Catholic tradition about chastity, based on our understanding of marriage and the meaning of the act of intercourse as a pledge of joining together in covenant love.

Secondly, point out the growing amount of recent research on cohabiting couples that provides an intelligent rationale for not living together before marriage.

These studies show that living together before marriage increases the likelihood of divorce - up to an 80 per cent higher divorce rate. Studies show that cohabitation before marriage is not related to marital happiness but is related to lower levels of marital interaction and higher levels of marital instability.

Speaking your mind does not mean nagging or lecturing, but offering reasons for your concern and disagreement.

▪ When appropriate, offer options for alternate accommo(Iation.

▪ 1)0 not feel obliged to allow them marital privileges in your own home. Let your children know when they return home that you expect them to stay in separate bedrooms and that you are not comfortable with the choice they have made. Separate your continuing love for them from the actions they have chosen. i L Next, deal with your feelings.

Suppressed feelings of anger tend to erupt at inappropriate times. Often parents blame each other or begin to treat children with contempt instead of facing the issues and feelings straight on.

Even talking to a third party or professional may help parents deal more constructively with their feelings.

Li Experienced parents who encounter this issue with their own children suggest that parents of younger children take advantage of teachable moments to share the Church's rich teaching concerning marriage and family life, even at the onset of puberty.

Because the entertainment media encourage recreational sex, it is important to take any opportunity to re-teach what you believe about sexuality.

CI Continue to pray for your children. Since God gave this child to you, God is your co-parent. Remember that God loves this child more than you do and wants what is best for him or her.

Parenting, like all vocations, has its seasons. In the beginning, there is lots of "watching over."

As children develop, "letting go" becomes part of the. art of parenting. When children enter their 20s and 30s, the posture of "walking with" becomes necessary.

When young adult children choose paths other than our own, abandonment is not an option; Walking with them, loving them without condition, is.

Parenting in the 90s: do not compromise on your values while keeping the lines of communication open

King David, chosen by God, was not spared from the perils of parenthood

By Father John Castelot

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hen the prophet Samuel set out to find a replacement for King Saul, he was directed to the home of Jesse, a Bethlehem resident.

God directed Samuel to David, the youngest, who was tending the sheep. Here was a thoroughly good man: humble, obedient, content to do the lowliest tasks (1 Samuel 16:12).

When David's brothers went off to fight in Saul's army, his father gave him the unglamorous task of carrying provisions to them (1 Samuel 17:15). But that obedience put David in a position to volunteer to accept the challenge of the formidable Philistine warrior, Goliath. David defeated him, saving the day.

Now David became a trusted servant of the king, who was, however, an emotionally unstable master. All the while David

was growing in stature as a person of tested virtue. In the course of time David succeeded Saul on the throne.

What might one have expected of a person of such sterling character? That he would be blessed with equally virtuous children?

Actually, they brought him no end of trouble. One of his sons, Amnon, developed an unhealthy crush on his half-sister, Taman He raped her. To add insult to injury, he hatefully rejected her, instructing his servant: "Put her outside, away from me, and bar the door after her" (1 Samuel 13:17).

Absalom, her blood brother, tried to comfort her, but by no means did he quiet his heart, seething with resentment. David himself "became very angry," but that seems to have been the extent of his reaction.

Actually, David now was in a bind. His affair with Bathsheba, another man's wife, was public

knowledge. He could not speak to Amnon from a position of moral integrity.

What had happened to David. a man above reproach? Power had turned his head.

Oh, he had the native decency to repent. But to the extent that children need strong role models, David had not provided that support.

Absalom eventually arranged to have Amnon murdered. And Absalom himself rebelled against his father.

My point is not to condemn anyone or even to say that David caused his children's problems.

Rather, these biblical images from David's life illustrate that for thousands of years parents have anguished over questions similar to those parents struggle with today, such as why can't we guarantee our children's virtue or ensure their happiness? What should parents themselves strive for?

No matter how many saintly laity, holy priests are essential Peter Dwan continues meditations on the readings for Sunday Mass.

This week, the readings for the 11th Sunday of Year A

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hroughout history, God has chosen different people to fulfil various roles. Today's readings show us that God uses people as His instruments for reaching others.

The first reading, (Exodus: 19:2-6,) shows us that through Moses, God gave his people a mission to the rest of mankind: to witness to his holiness which one day would shine on all mankind.

God said to Moses: "Say this to the House of Jacob, declare this to the House of Israel: 'If you obey my voice and hold fast to my covenant, you of all the nations shall be my very own, because all the earth is mine.'"

We may deduce from this text that if we are to be people whom God uses to reach

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Meditation . . . with Peter Dwan others, we need to obey his voice. Pope John Paul II expressed the same idea in slightly different words, when in his encyclical, Redemptoris Missio (The Mission of the Redeemer), he made the point that missionaries need to be holy and remember that we are all missionaries by virtue of our baptism. Unless we try to overcome our selfishness, we shall not be pliable instruments in God's hands.

The Gospel, (Matthew: 9:36-10:8) records Our Lord's words: "The harvest

Seventeen parishes implemented the is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers idea. While a neighbouring diocese didn't have any ordinations last year, the into his harvest."

While there is much that lay apostles Diocese of Cloyne had eight. The neighcan and should be doing, there will bouring diocese has 9 seminarians, always be a need for holy priests and reli- whereas Cloyne, of similar size, has 48.

Priests and Religious are in an ideal gious, especially with the decline in vocations in many parts of the Western position to bring people to a clearer realisation of God's love for them. world today.

The second reading, (Romans 3:6-11,) Our Lord has told us to pray for vocations, and it has been shown that prayers stresses this love. It says: "We were still helpless when at the appointed moment for vocations are answered.

When the former private secretary to God died for sinful men. It is not easy to Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I and Pope die even for a good man . . . . but what John Paul II, Bishop John McGhee, was proves that God loves us is that Christ appointed Bishop of Cloyne, in County died for us while we were still sinners."

Let us pray that people will become Cork, Ireland, he was concerned about the shortage of vocations in his diocese. more deeply conscious of God's love for solution was to introduce them. Let us also pray that more men and His Perpetual Exposition and Adoration of women will show their love for Him in Jesus in the Blessed Eucharist into his return by accepting His call to be priests Cathedral. He also exhorted parishes in and Religious, so that God may be able to his diocese to introduce perpetual expo- use them as His instruments for spreading knowledge of His love to others. sition for the same intention.

Features

Dachau ordination highlights human dignity amidst evil The WA Schoenstatt fovement will mark the beatification in Berlin next Sunday of a Schoenstatt priest, Father Karl Leisner. by Pope John Paul II with prayers and celebration the same day at the Schoenstatt Shrine, Talus Drive, Arrnadale. beginning at 3pm.

Local Schoenstatt members report here on the life of Fr Leisner, the only priest ordained in a Nazi concentration camp, and the first member of the Schoenstatt Movement to be beatified.

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ope John Paul II will beatify a member of the Movement, Schoenstatt Father Karl Leisner on Sunday, 23 June, in Berlin during a visit to Germany.

Fr Leisner has the distinction of being the only priest ordained in a Nazi concentration camp. He is also the first member of the Schoenstatt Movement to be beatified.

The Schoenstatt Movement began in October 1914 when Father Joseph Kentenich and a group of high school boys entered into a "covenant of love" with Our Lady.

They would offer everything to her and in return she would make the small disused cemetery chapel where they met for spiritual discussion a "place of grace."

In the years after World War I, the Schoenstatt Movement became a leading Catholic movement in Germany, with the Schoenstatt Shrine as its focal point and with an emphasis on spiritual formation of the laity.

Fr Leisner's parents had a deep devotion to Our Lady and gave him the middle name Maria in honour of her.

At school, Karl became a boys' leader in the Catholic Youth. His diary often mentioned his love for Christ. His life was expressed In the statement "A life for the youth!"

At the age of 13, Karl started a boys' group which involved physical activities such as swim-

ming, cycling, and hiking. All events commenced and finished with prayer. Each year at vacation time the group would cycle to a new destination in Germany.

Karl was drawn each time to the various shrines of Our Lady such as Kevelaer, Telgte. and Einsiedeln. One entry in his diary states: "Germany, what would you be without your Marian places of grace!"

In 1933 he visited the Shrine of our Mother Thrice Admirable at Schoenstatt for the first time and he was introduced to the Schoenstatt Movement by a classmate.

They attended an Easter workshop followed by a retreat of the movement's Apostolic Federation of High School Students.

His wrote in his diary: "All the priestly and knightly ideals which had faded and were slumbering were profoundly and powerfully awakened and enkindled."

The Nazis tried to eliminate the Catholic Youth associations and Karl, who resisted this attack, was classified by the Gestapo as a 'reactionary'.

In 1934, he entered the seminary of the diocese of Munster.

His third year in the seminary required him to move to Freiburg in the south of Germany for a year of external study in theoloKYIn 1936 he fell in love. He was tutoring some children from a large Catholic family. Seeing how that family functioned led him to ask how he could give up having a family of his own.

The woman he fell in love with had the qualities he saw as noble, pure and prayerful.

He brought this problem of marriage versus the priesthood to Our Lady at Schoenstatt. Our Lady heard his prayer and gradually revealed to him the "much more glorious garden of a bridal communion of love with her Son".

On 1 April, 1937 he was called up to serve six months in the Work Corps of the Reich - a time spent in a spiritual and moral

desert. On returning from the Work Corps he was visited by the Gestapo. He had to explain himself and they took his diary. This opened him to see the task which consumed him in leading the German youth: to be ready to offer up his life.

He made the resolution: "I take my soul, my life, my future in my hands and want to master them: bravely, loyally. modestly . . . . I freely promise you. Lord, Almighty God, to he your instrument . . . . If you will it, I want to be your priest, Lord. Give me the graces I need . . . . It remains this way: I will be a priest and God will help me."

On 25 March, 1939, Karl Leisner was ordained a deacon in the cathedral in Munster.

In June 1939 he was admitted to a sanatorium with tuberculosis.

His spiritual daily order meant he had placed all his striving, completion of duties, and prayer at the disposal of the Blessed Mother in the Schoenstatt shrine, so that she might send out a stream of graces from there for his own sanctification and that of his beloved German youth.

He followed the Schoenstatt ideal of making a "blank cheque" of his life for Our Lady.

He prayed: "Heavenly Mother, I place everything into your hands!" and "If you know that I will be a good priest, then help me regain my health and reach the goal. If you see that I will be a bad priest, then let me die before I reach the goal."

He started to recover and his ordination to the priesthood was scheduled for December 1939.

But on 9 November, 1939 he was arrested by the Gestapo and on 13 December 1940 was sent to Dachau concentration camp. He was 25 years old. His fellow prisoners regarded him as a radiant source of joy.

He suffered a relapse of tuberculosis and spent most of his time in Dachau in the infirmary separated from the other Schoenstatt prisoners, including Father Joseph Kentenich, who arrived in Dachau in March 1942.

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The Schoenstatt prisoners developed a diverse activity secretly in hidden corners of the barracks, on the camp's 'main street', and in the plantation.

In the infirmary, he guarded fragments of a host in a little metal medicine box hidden under his pillow and was able to give holy Communion to those near death.

In the summer of 1944 a French bishop, Gabriel Piquet was brought to Dachau.

Karl used the underground mail to write to Cardinal Von Galen in Munster asking for permission to be ordained in Dachau. On 17 December, 1944 he was smuggled out of the camp infirmary and calmly walked to the block where the camp chapel was and put on his vestments, secretly made in the camp.

All those participating risked death.

An eye-witness recalled: "The deacon lay prostrate in front of the altar wearing his white alb.

The bishop and all the priests sang the Litany of the Saints over him."

"Not a few recalled how they had been forced to crawl at gunpoint without the use of their hands from the camp entrance to the assembly grounds as a lesson that they were no longer human.

"But the one lying here was chosen to be more than a man;

an indescribable dignity would now be given to him, which would raise him above both men and angels."

On the feast of St Stephen, 26 December, 1944 he celebrated his first and last Mass.

Dachau was liberated by the Americans on April 29 1945.

With the end now near, Fr Leisner prayed the song of his life's sacrifice using the words from the Schoenstatt Office (written in Dachau by Fr Kentenich): "In Spirit Ikneel before your picture.

Thrice Admirable, strong and gentle Mother, united with all who have consecrated themselves to you and are ready to die for your realm "Through my life of sacrifice let me complete in keeping with eternally valid laws and the spirit of the nscriptio I whatever fullness is still lacking in the cross and suffering of Christ . . . ."

On 12 August, 1945 he passed into eternity.

Cardinal Von Galen wrote to Karl's family: "I believe with confidence that you have presented a saint to heaven".

True family love sets the stage for God's vocational call More Rxcerpts from the Vatican PonEfical Council For the Family's guidelines for education within the family on human sexuality.

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he family carries out a decisive role in cultivating and developing all vocations, as the Second Vatican Council taught: "From the marriage of Christians there comes the family in which new citizens of human society are born and, by the grace of the Holy Spirit in baptism, those are made children of God so that the people of God may be perpetuated throughout the centuries.

"In what might be regarded as

the domestic church, the parents by word and example are the first heralds of the faith with regard to their children.

"They must foster the vocation which is proper to each child, and this with special care if it be to religion."(Lumen Gentium, 11) Yet the very fact that vocations flourish is the sign of adequate pastoral care of the family: "Where there is an effective and enlightened family apostolate, just as it becomes normal to accept life as a gift from God, so it is easier for God's voice to resound and to find a more generous hearing."

Here we are dealing with vocations to marriage or to virginity or celibacy, but these are always vocations to holiness.

Indeed, the document Lumen Gentium (No. 11) presents the Second Vatican Council's teaching on the universal call to holiness: "Strengthened by so many and such great means of salvation, all the faithful, whatever their condition or state - though each in his own way - are called by the Lord to that perfection of sanctity by which the Father himself is perfect."

Vocation to Marriage Formation for true love is always the best preparation for the vocation to marriage.

In the family, children and young people can learn to live human sexuality within the solid context of Christian life.

They can gradually discover

heaven and on earth is named' (Eph 3:15).

"Marriage is not, then, the effect of chance or the product of evolution of unconscious natural forces; it is the wise institution of the Creator to realise in mankind his design of love.

"By means of the reciprocal personal gift of self, proper and Called to Married Love exclusive to them, husband and Committed to the task of edu- wife tend toward the commucating their children for nion of their beings in view of love, Christian parents first of all mutual personal perfection, can take awareness of their mar- to collaborate with God in the generation and education of ried love as a reference point.

As the encyclical Humanae new lives.

"For baptised persons, moreVitae (No. 8) states, such love "reveals its true nature and over, marriage invests the digninobility when it is considered in ty of a sacramental sign of grace, its supreme origin, God, who is inasmuch as it represents the love (cf. 1 In 4:8), 'the Father union of Christ and of the from whom every family in Church." that a stable Christian marriage cannot be regarded as a matter of convenience or mere sexual attraction. By the fact that it is a vocation, marriage must involve a carefully considered choice, a mutual commitment before God and the constant seeking of his help in prayer.

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Movie reviews

How liberals feel free to murder The Last Supper Reviewed by Frances Brown

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he Last Supper, a low-budget black comedy satire on US politics, has a cast of young actors playing five graduate students who want to make a difference in the world.

They are clever and witty and they wish that everybody could be just like them so the world would be a really terrific place to live. But when they are put to the test, the action they undertake shows that the road to hell really is paved with good intentions.

One night, the students have an unexpected meeting with Zack, a Gulf War veteran. Despite his initial act of kindness. Zack turns out to be thoroughly odious anti-Semitic, a white supremacist and dangerously nationalistic.

Zack's tough talk shows the ultra-hip, self-righteous liberals to be totally ineffectual in their attempts to change the world.

Unfortunately. Zack starts a fight which ends in his death.

As he slumps over the dinner table with a knife in his back the group of five is thrown into turmoil. But the only reaction from the wry Peter is: "I say we just bury him and eat dessert."

The encounter with Zack launches the group into a lively series of dinner parties.

Each week they invite a carefully chosen politically controversial guest with whom they

Jonathan Penner and Bill Paxton discover life and death in The Last Supper

exchange views on current affairs such as abortion, homosexuality, censorship and gender issues. Regardless of the conversation, the dinner wine always turns out to be deadly for their "unsavoury " guests.

The Last Supper poses intriguing moral dilemmas for the five students. The Jewish Marc poses a hypothetical question to one of their guests who is a right-wing politician.

"You are a time traveller. It is 1909 in Austria. You are in a pub having a schnapps with a stranger. A young art student with one testicle. Let us say his name is Adolf.

"Now Adolf at this point in his life has clone nothing wrong. He is not bitter, he is not angry, he has committed no crime. He has not killed anybody and he certainly has not started a world war.

"Do you kill him? Do you poison his schnapps to save all those millions of innocent people?"

Well, there is only one answer to that question and all I can say without giving away the ending is that the film-makers building a gripping climax that kept me guessing right until the end.

It leaves the audience pondering the question - Is the human soul ever beyond redemption and who could ever be the judge of that?

I give this film nine out of ten.

It is rated M for mature audiences - 15 years plus.

Godless humanity monkeys Legendary US Catholic film reviewer around in hopelessness honoured with communications' award 12 Monkeys Reviewed by Tony Hicks 12 Monkeys is the start of many films to come that will address, in an apocalyptic way, the turn of the century.

As the next one thousand years of Christianity hurtles towards us. the Pope, in his apostolic letter, The Third Millennium, has called for a celebration of the Blessed Trinity.

But as Hollywood drowns in the violence of Los Angeles, they seem to think the rest of us live in outer suburbs of their own sorry world.

This secular world is pessimistic about our survival, just ask any 12-year-old fed the politically correct diet of TV and newage politics.

No less 12 Monkeys; which portrays the next century as a wasteland, after the destruction of civilisation by a powerful virus.

The remnant of our culture being ruled by capricious power

and secrecy, wielded by seven elite pseudo-scientists.

12 Monkeys involves a bundle of time travel as John Cole (Bruce Willis) is shot back to our time on the excuse of looking for the start of the virus that wiped out most of the world's people.

Somehow the elite of seven have survived to rule an underground kingdom - a kingdom depressingly similar to many SciFi films trying to portray our future; a dark world, without justice and peace.

The culture of death rules supreme.

The best part of this film for me was the coffee and discussion afterwards as we slowly realised the sub-plots in this film.

Discovering the significance of Initials of certain characters, the number of people in different groups and the real reason for the time travel, no more can be said without ruining that first realisation of the depth of the plot - a must see.

enry Herx, director of States' the United Catholic Conference and Office for Film Broadcasting, has been named the 1996 recipient of the Daniel J. Kane Religious Communications Award by the University of Dayton.

Herx, who, with Gerri Pare, writes many of the movie reviews published on this page, has a 34-year history of involvement with the screen industry,.

He will receive the award at a reception on 20 June on the campus of the Marianist-run university.

The award, named for the former communications director of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, is given to people who have made a lifetime contribution to religious communication.

Herx's involvement began in 1962, when he served as the founding director of the Chicago Archdiocese's Center for Film Study. The center was

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divisions of the US bishop& Catholic United States' Conference's Department of Communications.

His reviews of movies, television shows and videos are offered weekly by the Catholic News Service.

Herx is also the author of The Family Guide to Movies and Videos, the third edition of which was published in 1995. with capsule reviews of the moral and entertainment values of 7,500 films now on video.

Herx has also developed media education programs. including The Media Mirror A Study Guide on Christian Values and Television, pubHenry Herx lished in 1985 by the National Catholic Educational Associatlater affiliated with the National ion.

Legion of Decency.

He has taught film courses at He joined the New York staff and of the National Catholic De Paul University Office for Motion Pictures in Fordham University, and has 1968, which eventually changed served as a past president of its name and became one of the New York Film Council.

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, Al Antonia's Line, MV The Arrival, AIII Barb Wire, 0 The Birdcage, AIV Black Sheep, Al!!

A Boy Called Hate, AIV Boys, AIII Broken Arrow, 0 Celtic Pride, Mil Cold Comfort Farm, AIII The Craft, AIII Dead Man Walking, Al!!

Down Periscope, AIII Dragonheart, Al! Eddie, AIII

Executive Decision, Al!!

Fargo, AIV Fear, 0 Flipper, Al Flirting with Disaster, AIV The Flower of My Secret, AIII The Great White Hype, AIV Happy Gilmore, AIII Heaven's Prisoners, 0 Hellraiser: Bloodline, 0 Homage, AN Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, Al The Horseman on the Roof, AIII I Shot Andy Warhol, 0 lames and the Giant Peach, AII

The Quest, AIII Jane Eyre, All Rumble in the Bronx, AIII Last Dance, MIT Sense and Sensibility, Al! Leaving Las Vegas, 0 Madame Butterfly, AIII Sgt Bilko, AII Someone Else's America, MI! Mission: Impossible, Al!!

Spy Hard, Al!!

The Monster, Al!!

The Substitute, 0 Mr Holland's Opus, AII Sunset Park, AN Mrs Winterbourne, AIII A Thin Line Between Love & Mulholland Falls, AIV Hate, 0 Oliver & Company, Al Once Upon a Time . . . . When The Truth About Cats & Dogs, MV We Were Colored, All i'vvister, MI! Original Gangstas, 0 Under the Domin Tree, All The Pallbearer, Al!!

Up Close & Personal, MIT The Postman (II Postino), Al! Welcome to the Dollhouse, All Primal Fear, 0

Movie Ratings Here is a list of recent films the US Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting has rated on the basis of moral suitability.

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

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Features

Assisi - home of Saint Francis Karl G Schmude recently visited Italy and, in the last of his three-part series, focuses on Assisi, the town of St Francis.

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n certain ways, the town of Assisi is a striking - and instructive contrast to the city of Rome. The grandeur of the Popes gives way to the simplicity of St Francis.

The triumph of Christ's entry into Jerusalem, exemplified in the papal throne, is replaced by the severity of the Crucifixion, expressed in the stigmata of St Francis.

In The Resurrection of Rome (1930), GK Chesterton pondered the mystery of the Church being both austere and ornamental.

In seeking to convey the reality of God, - the Church is charged with expressing something "that can never be expressed, but which can only be faintly indicated by something startlingly plain or startlingly beautiful.... It must be very high. like the spire of The great Basilica of San Francesco dominates St Francis' birthplace of Assisi.

Photo* Leonard von M.,' Cologne Cathedral or the tower of Salisbury, or else it must be including not a few Australians - over the centuries, suffering dam- nature, and life in Assisi is intivery low, like the Catacombs or come annually to the place age from earthquakes as well as mately related to the sounds of the Cave of Bethlehem." where St Francis was born and dampness, and much effort has birds.

The glory of God should indeed died. Yet despite the crowds, and been applied to restoration. In At Eremo delle Carceri (Carceri be proclaimed in glory, and the ever-present supply of sou- the history of art, they are of spe- Friary), a peaceful monastery set Chesterton had no puritanical venirs (it is possible to buy a St cial significance for they 'mark a scenically up Mount Subasio resistance to the Church's Francis egg-timer or a statuette of shift from the Byzantine world of which overlooks the town, the attempting to capture this reality St Clare that lights up), Assisi has Iconic saints and remote birds used to gather to listen to St in what he called "the last a way of turning tourists into pil- Madonnas to more delicate and Francis preach. extremes of splendour". expressive forms' of depiction grims.

In the intervening centuries, But the Church had also to The town is dominated by the that prefigure the humanist style some have made their nests in manifest the simplicity of Christ great Basilica of San Francesco. of the 15th century Renaissance. the cells - and dare not be disIn simplicity, and to this end, said built in the aftermath of St Below the upper and lower turbed.

Chesterton, "St Francis is the Francis's canonisation in 1228. churches of the Basilica is a' Everywhere in Assisi, as Neville Mirror of Christ. . . . ragged and crypt containing the tomb of St Braybrooke once noted, life Gothic two comprising Actually hands barefoot with bleeding churches, one superimposed Francis. revolves around birds and bells: and feet." in 1818 "At the church by the railway staonly discovered was It is Basilica the other, the upon While the phenomenon of consists appropriately of a tion, doves fly in and out of the tourism has swamped many of renowned for its frescoes painted and stone coffin set cloisters, coming to rest on the rough-hewn artists, medieval various by the Christian shrines of Europe, it altar. main the above scenes depicting Giotto, notably arms of a statue of their favourite has not destroyed the simplicity life. saint's from the saint. Swifts dip over the garden rememespecially is saint The and beauty of Assisi.

The frescoes have deteriorated bered for his deep affinity with of San Damian°. ."

More than four million people -

Braybrooke gave the birds precedence over the bells because, in the town of St Francis, it is the birds that wake the city: "Long before the bells of the churches ring out the morning Angelus, comes the sound of wings whirring and the noise of many beaks pecking at the shutters and window-sills - like a fall of light hail."

Like so many towns in central Italy, Assisi crouches on a tall hill, commanding a superb view of the Umbrian countryside.

On the plain below the town, five kilometres away, stands the chapel called the Porziuncola ("Little Portion"), which St Francis rescued from ruin, and where he preached his first sermon and, finally. died.

It sits somewhat incongruously within the huge basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli (St Mary of the Angels), built three centuries after St Francis's death in 1226.

Yet the Porziuncola. like other features of this Franciscan town, somehow retains its extraordinary character, rising above attempts to overwhelm it with ostentation.

It is a prayerful place: on the day we visited, a group of people, both young and old, were reciting the Psalms and the Rosary.

As Italy's - and perhaps the world's - favourite saint, he is a poignant reminder of the spiritual poverty which Christ taught is a precondition for entering the Kingdom of Heaven.

In the words of the French novelist. Georges Bernanos: "Like the most lowly, the most destitute of her sons. the Church struggles haltingly from this world into the next: she sins and expiates and whosoever shall turn their eyes from her splendour will hear her praying and sobbing with the rest of us, in the darkness."

Getting back to the true meaning of our popular prayers

By Cindy Wooden

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one John Paul II thinks the Hail Mary should really begin, -Rejoice, Mary, filled with grace."

The Italian bishops think the Our Father should begin, "Our Father, who are in heaven, blessed be your holy name."

And they definitely want to get rid of the line. "Lead us not into temptation."

"Is nothing sacred?" asked the most secular of Italian newspapers. The response of Italian theologians was "of course," but it is Scripture which is sacred, not a given translation.

From the pew point of view, hew translations may seem revolutionary. but the Vatican deals with them a't1 the time.

For example, while the US and other English-speaking bishops' conferences are reviewing and voting on a translation of the second edition of the Roman Missal, containing all of the Mass prayers, the Congregation for

Worship and Sacraments is putting the final touches on the

third post-Vatican II Latin edition.

The new Italian version of the Lord's Prayer is a highly publicised but very small part of a completely new Italian translation of the New Testament.

The prayer. expected to become an official part of Italian Masses around the year 2000. will match exactly the new translation of Matthew 6:9h-13.

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lions made by whim, but rather with the intention of being more faithful to the words of Christ himself," said Avvenire. Italy's Catholic daily newspaper.

"An optimal translation must have at least the two following characteristics It must be as faithful as possible to the original and, at the same time, as understandable as possible for the people who use it," according to an article in La Civilta Caffolica, a Jesuit-run magazine that often reflects Vatican thinking.

In addition, "because of its liturgical use, an eventual new translation of the Lord's Prayer should reach a certain aesthetic level."

In other words, it should sound it was not in the context of suglike a prayer when recited, said gesting the text be changed, but of explaining what the prayer the article, published in May. Obvious pastoral problems are was really saying.

At the Annunciation, the first involved when changing translations of widely used and familiar word the Angel Gabriel addresses to Mary "is an invitation to joy: prayers, the magazine said.

"Nevertheless, the obligation of schaire.. that is, rejoice. The the Church is to present a text as Greek term has been translated close as possible to the original in Latin with 'Ave,' a simple meaning ... one which can be expression of greeting which used easily in the liturgy and does not seem to correspond which can be understood, even at fully to the divine messenger's a primary level, by those far from intentions and the context in the Church and by non-believ- which the meeting takes place," ers" as well as by practicing the Pope said at his May 1 weekly general audience.

Catholics. it said.

"Ave" - "Hail" in English - is too When Pope John Paul spoke of better ways of translating the common a greeting for such a opening words of the Hail Mary. historic event, the Pope said.

Rejoice- is closer to the biblical Greek and better echoes Old Testament passages that promise a Messiah for God's chosen people.

At his audience the following week. the Pope said the next phrase, "full of grace" isn't quite right either.

"The expression 'full of grace' is a translation of the Greek word 'kecharitomene,' which is a passive participle," the pope said.

The point of his grammar lesson, he said, is that the biblical Greek - literally translated "made full of grace" or "filled with grace" - makes it clear that the fullness of grace found in Mary was the result of God's action in her life and not of her own merit.

Fidelity to the Bible is especially important with the Our Father, a prayer taught to the disciples

by Jesus himself.

In addition to updating a few expressions, the Italian bishops want to correct a theological point in their translation: God does not lead people into temptation The bishops' proposed wording says. "do not let us fall into temptation.- The Spanish and Portuquese bishops have already agreed to the change.

Whatever the final translation, the Civilta article said, understanding the depths and tasting the riches of the Our Father, as with and perhaps more than any other biblical passage, is possible only with the study and reflection which flow from daily recitation."

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To Jesus through Mary. . . .

By John Thavis

Honouring Mary - a May crowning.

Mexican bishops defend

By Lynn Wehnes

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II said the Church's teaching that Mary was conceived without sin demonstrates the power of grace contained in Christ's sacrifice.

-The exceptional privilege conceded to Mary shows that the redemptive action of Christ not only liberates but also preserves from sin." he said at a general audience at the Vatican on June 5.

This protective dimension is offered to all people, who are redeemed from original sin and given the grace and strength to overcome the influence of sin throughout their lives, he said.

He said this was important in understanding that the Church's teaching of the Immaculate Conception of Mary "does not obscure the effects of redemptive grace but in fact contributes marvellously in highlighting them."

The Pope has dedicated several audience talks to Mary and the Immaculate Conception, which was defined as dogma in the mid-1800s after centuries of theological debate.

In his most recent talk. the Pope recalled that St Augustine, who defended Mary's perfect holiness, could not accept the idea that Mary was born without original sin.

His argument, shared by many later theologians, was that

. . . a column of Marian devotion redemption would not be universal if it were not shared by all human beings and that Mary, if born without sin, would not participate in redemption.

The Pope noted that the 13thcentury Scottish theologian, Blessed John Duns Scotus, offered the eventual key for overcoming these objections.

He maintained that Christ, as the perfect mediator, intervened to preserve Mary from original sin.

This concept of protective redemption paved the way for the Church's eventual declaration of the Immaculate Conception, the Pope said.

One week earlier, the Pope said Scripture supports the Church's

teaching that Mary was conceived without sin, to better cooperate in the saving work of Christ.

The Immaculate Conception of Mary, defined as dogma in 1854, in one sense highlights woman's role in redemption, he said.

He said Mary's unique holiness is seen in the Angel Gabriel'E greeting: -Hail, full of grace."

It also appears to be reflected in the Book of Revelation's description of the "woman clothed with the sun" who gives birth to the Messiah, he said.

The role of the woman, important in the drama of sin, is likewise important in the redemption of humanity," the Pope said.

Governments lie over 'safe sex' campaigns

MEXICO CITY (CNS) Mexican bishops have spoken and said the press should take the map?" "We have to strength- tell people that doctors themBy Lynn Wehnes en the family, and help it, and selves say this is so?" out to defend the authenticity note. of the Virgin of Guadalupe it to have children." he said. help waste don't Catholics, "Please, Speaking at the same gathering MEXICO CITY (CNS) - The who is Cardinal John O'Connor of New Trujillo, Lopez amid controversy over an Cardinal comin being not in time most important issue in the the Latin York said abortion must become abbot's alleged remarks. world today is not ideology but plete unity with the message of also a past president of said an issue of higher priority among The Mexican bishops' concouncil, bishops' American love, to relation in Church the the defence of human life, in Catholics and government offiference issued a statement Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo the dignity of the family, life. the main reason women directed to "all the Catholic afraid to are World Third teaching, the episcopal and papal said. cials. faithful of Mexico" in which have children is the heavy buralso said governments are and contraception," he said.

He Because "millions upon milthe bishops reaffirmed their Regarding arguments that den of work they must bear to lying when they promote the of Catholics either don't lions belief in the Virgin of idea that using condoms results world population needs to be survive. don't practice, or don't know, Guadalupe. governments' blasted also Lopez He Cardinal controlled, in "safe sex." fully agree with the Church's The statement said that the they saying campaigns, Nations anti-AIDS United the said Trujillo Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, presiVirgin of Guadalupe. "with teachings on abortion." the cause of the Pontifical Council for manipulates its demographic fig- are lying by promoting the idea dent her kind and serene look has human life should be the of sex." "safe of ures. the Family, spoke at a press conbeen present throughout our priority for bishops at an top peotell to wrong ls il been said has He there that said also He ference on June 8, the last day of history. especially that of a large drop in population ple that using condoms will pre- upcoming Pan-American synod, meeting. council-sponsored the Mexico and of Latin America.

-The Dignity of the Family and of because of sterilisation and con- vent transmission of AIDS, he said. generation after generation Meanwhile a bishop and a Life in the Politics and Legislation traception campaigns promoted acquired immune deficiency synfrom Tepeyac, the place by governments and internation- drome. newspaper have critiCatholic America." of which is sacred for all of us." al organisations.

Among those who use con- cised a Jesuit priest who formerdivision the of wall "Today great Tepeyac, now the site of the "The problem of sterilisation is doms, he said, -30 percent are ly served in Congres.s for his supis not liberation theology or Basilica of the Virgin of a tragic thing, feminine and mas- going to contract the virus, port of President Clinton's veto of nature," secondary a of problems northern in Guadalupe because the condom does not the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban culine sterilisation." he said.

Cardinal Lopez Trujillo said.

Mexico. is where the Virgin "The most tragic case in work Because latex cannot cre- Act. is world the in wall great "The appeared to Juan Diego. a not Marxism or capitalism. No. Latin America is that of Brazil." ate a strong enough net to peasant who had converted.

In an article published on June great wall of division is those where, he said. about 40 percent impede a type of virus that is 500 The "In these critical moments

by The New York Times, Jesuit 4 spermatoa than smaller times sterilised. who want life, who love it, of women have been that we are living in Mexico Robert Drinan said that Father said. he zoid," gives that tragedy "This true a is the family, who defend it, the we must not permit falseshould sustain the "Congress "Why don't the health mingreat values, and those who do way to what is called contracephoods or doubts to divide us that would legislation the of veto" added. he this?" say istries said. he imperialism," tive not. I would say this is the great or weaken our faith," the ban the late-term abortion proceAre serious? this is you ask "I like countries in that noted He of and Pope the of convocation bishops' statement said.

Italy, "a couple has one child. Do the health ministers of Latin dure known as partial-birth aborthe Latin American church."

The statement expressed the the calculations. In how many America speaking seriously tion, unless the mother's life is in a made Lopez Trujillo Cardinal bishops' belief in Blessed will Italy disappear from when they themselves do not danger. years Catholics among unity for call Juan Diego, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1990.

"Beside her (the Virgin of Guadalupe), we venerate the Blessed Juan Diego, the confidant of the sweet lady of clean-up and creating hostels to proposals of a more austere sions and four committees. The

By John Thavis Tepeyac. His kind figure is help accommodate an estimated lifestyle to contrast with con- Vatican recently informed bishthe from inseparable for VATICAN CITY (CNS) - As 40 million pilgrims and visitors to sumerism; an emphasis on ecu- ops' conferences of themes Guadalupan fact: he appears for messages Lenten Pope's the invite to need the and menism; Rome.

Vatican and international Church beside her, as much in the are: They period. same the particito religions non-Christian grateful was Pope he The said officials met to refine preparaiconographic and literary • 1997: "Come Blessed ... For I tions for the Jubilee Year 2000, for the spending allocations for pate in some way. monuments as in the secular were told the Homeless and You Gave that Was Participants but infrastructure, jubilee the Pope John Paul II said there was devotion that the people of said the media were mista- jubilee's theological-historical Me a Home." with special logison focus media much too Mexico have shown toward kenly making these exterior fac- commission has prepared the emphasis on Christ, the virtue of tics. this Indian from Cuautitlan, first of four volumes on 2000 faith and its relevance to housing tors the main story. of unaware -No one should be favourite of Mary," it said. of Christianity, expected to issues in the wake of the U.N. years why exemplified this said He the eminently spiritual goals The bishops issued their in five languages by Conference on Human Settlepublished be jubilee the of celebration the of the jubilee," he said at a meetstatement amid controversy ment. year must be preceded by a deep the end of the year. on at 4 planners June with ing following an article in an • 1998: "Come Blessed ... For I an make also will volumes The campaign re-evangelisation the Vatican.

Italian magazine claiming "examination of conscience" on Was Poor, Marginalised and You throughout the world. community Christian "The Abbot Guillermo Schulenthe Welcomed Me," with emphasis episodes in The Pope made his remarks to darker should make every effort so that berg, who heads the basilica, history. on the Holy Spirit and hope, parChurch's Central the of participants this pastoral and spiritual objecdenied the Virgin's appearThe central committee's state- ticularly on how Christians can Committee of the Great Jubilee of uncerwithout is tive understood ance to Blessed Juan Diego. tainty by the faithful and by the Year 2000, which met for the ment also said a catalogue of give back hope to the outcast Although Abbot Schulenthrough love and concrete works. martyrs would be prepared. second time June 3-4. world opinion," he said. berg issued a statement May • 1999: "Come Blessed ... To the The Pope has made a point of statement released press a n I TV Italian n I months, recent 27 in which he characterised I Have Prepared those that who have Banquet suggesting on that said committee the later, and newspapers have reported as "absolute falseness" the their lives for the faith in for You," on God the Father and given coninternational an of basis the the on almost planexclusively interview attributed to him by ning - and bickering - by Rome sultation at the Vatican last recent decades deserve special the charity that should permeate the magazine 30 Giorni, all Christians. and Italian officials in charge of February, it had traced major recognition.

Mexico City newspapers • 2000: "Fear Not ... I Will Be a major plan of outlined three has He the for interest of themes the for expensive projects and magazines feature frontYou Till the End of Time," the in period renewal With spiritual preparation of spiritual years jubilee year. page stories on the subject.

1997-2000, and the practical on the assurance that faith gives 2000. year the to up leading proto projects, expected The The debate continues over The themes included the new preparations have been entrust- to Christians in facing the chalvide a boost to the local econowhether the abbot made the concrete gestures ed to the central committee, lenges of our age, especially in evangelisation; redirection, include traffic my, comments. subway construction. urban of sharing and reconciliation; which oversees eight commis- witnessing to the most needy.

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International News

Religion on television expands strongly in US include the Dalai Lama, author Rabbi Harold Kushner, and Charles Colson, a WASHINGTON (CNS) - Although the convicted Watergate felon turned prison commercial broadcast networks are a lit- minister.

"Adventures From the Book of Virtues," tle slow to recognise it, television is getting animated series based on William an a dose of religion these days - and in the best seller, will start in Bennett's days to come.

Cable franchises across the United States September on PBS. Each hall-hour show illustrates a single are making the most popular religious theme such as loyalty, courage or honesty, cable channels even more popular.

And the US's Public Broadcasting System describe the acts of virtuous -and someis launching several ambitious programs times not-so-virtuous - characters.

The six episodes ordered thus far will air that explore religion.

A four-part series, "Searching for God in in one-hour blocks three consecutive days America," is scheduled for PBS stations beginning Labour Day, September 2.

"Genesis: A Living Conversation" feanationwide on consecutive Fridays, July 5, veteran TV journalist Bill Moyers tures 12, 19 and 26.

In the series, host Hugh Hewitt inter- discussing the relevance of the Book views eight religious leaders - two in each of Genesis for contemporary society The 10-part series, each of which focuses program. One Catholic is featured: Trappist Father Thomas Keating, who on a different story in Genesis, debuts in leads a contemplative prayer move- October.

Actors Mandy Patinkin and Alfred ment from St Benedict Monastery in Woodard will supply dramatic narratives Snowmass, Colorado.

Other religious figures in the series to the Genesis stories preceding interBy Mark Pattison

Taoism.

Confucianism, views on such topics as racism, the role of Buddhism, women, dysfunctional families, environ- Christianity, Judaism and Islam. mental responsibility the nature of faith.

PBS's New York affiliate, WNET, the struggle between good and evil, and announced on June 6 it had received a the path to redemption.

S2.55 million grant from the Lilly "With God on Our Side," a series of six Endowment, given over three years, to one-hour programs airing in the northern produce a weekly half-hour report on reliAutumn on PBS, traces the history of an gion and ethics. energetic, conservative Christian thrust More funding would be needed, though, into mainstream culture and politics in as the program is projecting an annual recent decades. budget of S5.6 million.

From the Reverend Billy Graham to the "Religion and Ethics News Weekly."

Reverend Jerry Falwell to Ralph Reed. to cover news of all faiths and designed dozens of leaders and grass-roots activists would be hosted by movements, spiritual tell the inside story of the cultural forces correspondent Bob AberNBC one-time and sociopolitical aims that motivate what nethy. is loosely called the "religious right."

On the cable side of the equation, the PBS has also committed to rebroadcasting -The Wisdom of Faith with Huston number of homes receiving religion-based Smith," which received favourable cable channels is up.

Mother Angelica's Eternal Word reviews when it first aired this spring.

It will be rerun either later in 1996 or Television Network, a Catholic cable channel, went up 3.5 million subscribers. to 41 in early 1997. according to Broadcasting & million, takes Smith Interviewed by Moyers. viewers to the core of Hinduism. Cable, an industry magazine.

rate' to avoid Right to housing, 'ecCoope ological disaster right to work are essential: Pope

avoid "catastrophes capable of destroying the environment and indeed threatening all VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope forms of life."

John Paul II said the world The Pope said it was more needs better cooperation to and more evident that every make sure accelerated develop- use of natural resources has ment does not bring environ- repercussions on the global mental catastrophe. community.

"Among all creatures, the "More than ever. people human being is the only both individually and collecone responsible for the conse- tively - are responsible for the quences of his actions, not just future of the planet." he said. for himself but for future generTherefore, education in interations," the Pope said on June 7 national cooperation and resp"No person or group can ect for the environment is an make demands on the environ- urgent necessity he said. ment without considering the The Pope said he hoped the rest of humanity." he told par- current UN Conference on ticipants in a meeting spon- Human Settlement in Istanbul, sored by the European Bureau Turkey would emphasise the of the Environment. need for environmental sensi"No one can appropriate the tivity in proposing solutions for goods of the earth." he said. global housing problems.

He said there were several Sounding a theme he has statkey questions facing ecology ed many times in recent years, experts today, such as how to he said environmental sensitivbetter regulate development ity was a spiritual and ethical and repair existing environ- issue, involving respect for mental damage. what God has created and But he said the world also made available for the common needs to find ways to good.

By John ThaviS

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) Speaking on behalf of the world's poor. Pope John Paul H warned that global economic imbalance and conflict are pushing entire populations into largely unlivable cities.

He urged participants at the UN Conference on Human Settlements to put "the poor, children, women, elderly and the marginalised" at the centre of their policy decisions.

"One cannot accept the spectacle of the huge suburban areas, where swarms of poor people crowd together, seeking makeshift refuge and barely collecting the vital minimum from the crumbs of an often wasteful and indifferent consumerism," he said at a Sunday blessing on June 9.

"The right to a house and the right to honest work are part of a plan of social harmony that should provide a dignified life for everyone, without discrimination," he said.

The Pope, who has visited urban slums in Africa and Latin America. sent a high-level Vatican delegation to the June 314 Habitat conference in Istanbul.

He said that in appealing directly to participants, he wanted to "speak for those who have no voice."

In urban and rural areas, he said, improved social organisation must go hand-in-hand with eradication of poverty.

But cities are increasingly feeling the pressure of impoverished migratory populations, he said.

"Entire populations are streaming into richer cities from regions of poverty and lands of suffering: emigrants and refugees who hope to escape fear and need," he said.

As a result, many modern metropolitan areas are places of indifference, solitude and new forms of misery. he said. "This is

There is no electricity or running water in these boys' home town.

a challenge that must be faced with timeliness, an open heart and a united sense of responsibility," he said.

He reminded the international community that the Church's positions on the homeless and the poor stem from the Gospel message.

One of the first homeless couples was Mary and Joseph, who could find no decent accommodation when Christ was born, he said.

Meanwhile, nations participating in the UN Conference on Human Settlements agreed people have a right to adequate housing.

For the Vatican delegation to the June 3-14 conference as well as for a number of UN agencies, it was never a question.

"The right to housing is a human right," said Vatican spokesman Joaquin NavarroValls.

"It is something required by human dignity" But the United States and India, fearing lawsuits by homeless citizens, and developing countries that could not afford to guarantee a home for all of their citizens, objected.

The disputed language on the right to housing - like all passages in the draft document not unanimously accepted during conference preparatory meetings - was ultimately referred to a working group focused solely on that one question.

After five days of discussion, the working group. with US approval, agreed on June 7 the document should say: "We reaffirm our commitment to the full and progressive realisation of the right to adequate housing as provided for in international human rights documents. In this context, we recognise the fundamental obligation of governments to enable people to obtain shelter and to protect and improve dwellings and neighbourhoods."

US delegation head Michael - call to men who weren't there."

(CNS) WASHINGTON Stegman, an assistant secretary at the Department of Equipping men to be more effec- he said.

St Joseph's Covenant Keepers Housing and Urban Develop- tive within their families is the new relatively a of focus primary agreefrom this, said Wood. the evolved reporters ment, told ment makes it clear that govern- Catholic men's movement, and now "the men's ministry has ments do not have a legal obliga- according to its founder. eclipsed the others."

Stephen Wood - husband and tion to be "the provider of housAs stated in the group's ing as a last resort" and that gov- father of eight - launched St brochure. "the eight commiternment housing is not "an enti- Joseph's Covenant Keepers on ments for successful fathering in tlement for those who are ill- the Feast of the Holy Family at the `90s" are: "following St the end of 1994. housed." loving leader and The group is an informal net- Joseph, the would delegation The Vatican Family; loving Holy the of head and Catholic of accept the compromise lan- work affirming lives: our all wives our guage, Navarro-Valls said June 8. other Christian men trying to Christ's lordship over our famiby maktheir families strengthen The new language, he said, ing certain commitments. lies; turning our hearts toward gives the US government the A former evangelical minister our children; educating our chillegal protection it wanted. who was "very active in the pro- dren in the discipline and "We can tolerate the phrasing life movement," Wood spoke by instruction of the Lord: protecting as long as the right is recog- telephone with Catholic News our families; providing for our nised." Navarro-Valls said.

Service on June 4. families; and building our marAs negotiators put the finishing Wood began the Family Life riages and families on the touches to conference docu- Centre in 1992 with $507 'Rock." ments, speakers told delegates dropped in a shoebox that was The brochure describes the the degradation of the world's passed around after his first talk. as papal teachings "Rock" cities will continue unless people Located in Port Charlotte, and "the historically rooted rediscover the virtue of being Florida, the centre initially church teachings on marriage. neighbours. focused on Catholic faith-formafamily and human sexuality."

Speaking at the forum in tion and family renewal.

Wood hopes to attract some of But as he gave marriage and Istanbul, each of the 16 speakers thousands of men drawn the country, the around talks said city dwellers must focus on family the values they have in common Wood noticed that "two-thirds of to Promise Keepers and other and work to create a community his audiences were wives with- men's ministries that have out husbands." "I was giving a sprung up during this decade. spirit among all residents.

Mens' group for Catholics

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Churches welcome new Indian PM NEW DELHI, India (CNS) Christian leaders in India hope the socialist government that replaced the country's first Hindu nationalist government on June 1 will help marginalised Indians.

India got its second government in two weeks when Haradanahalli Dodde Gowda Deve Gowda took over as the country's 11th prime minister as leader of the United Front government.

Church leaders in New Delhi welcomed the new government, saying it is closely linked to the poor and the low castes in India's caste-based society, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

Gowda succeeds Atal Behari Vajpayee of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who resigned on May 29 after failing to prove his government has a majority support in Parliament.

Jesuit Father Jose Kunnunkal, director of New Delhi's Indian Social Institute, said the church has "great hope" in Gowda and wants the government to become "a better voice amid people."

Father Kunnunkal said he wants Gowda to launch propoor programs and cleanse government departments of corruption. Both problems are endemic in India.

A trained civil engineer, Gowda left the construction industry to enter politics in 1962.

Since then he has won six elections by cultivating a farmer-

By Bob Giles HOUSTON (CNS) - Auxiliary Bishop Curtis Guillory of Galveston-Houston may be the only Catholic prelate to carry the Olympic torch as it makes its way to Atlanta.

His date in Olympic history was May 23.

"It was a humbling experience," he said.

In New Orleans the next day, Sister Anthony Barczykowski, a Daughter of Charity and CEO of Associated Catholic Chart-ties also carried the torch.

The flame began its journey on April 27 in Los Angeles and will reach Atlanta July 19 for the opening ceremony of the centennial Olympic Games.

More than 10,000 athletes from 197 countries are scheduled to participate in Olympic competition from July 19 to August 4.

Once the torch relay is completed, the flame will have travelled for 84 days and covered more than 15,000 miles through 42 states and the District of Columbia.

In Houston, Bishop Guillory was surprised to find he had his own cheering section.

Houston Catholic students lined the five blocks of his route and chanted, "Go, bishop, go."

Bishop Guillory stopped several times to address his fans because he was deeply appreciative of their actions, he said later.

friendly image. His fellow politicians call him a "son of the soil."

Many, though, foresee political uncertainty in the country as the 63-year-old leader from the southern state of Karnataka heads a coalition of 14 political parties with divergent ideologies.

Some political analysts warn that Gowda's inexperience in national politics will lead to turmoil.

Father George Pereira, deputy secretary-general of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, urged the United Front coalition to rise above individual interests to work for the nation's progress.

Coalition members have agreed on a socio-economic program that includes more funds for health and education and job quotas for low castes in private firms.

Jose Chiramel, secretary-generCINCINNAI'l (CNS) al of the All India Catholic Union, Involvement in political causes wants the government to launch must arise from Gospel values an economic program with and not from a strictly political "a human touch" and start new agenda, the head of the Society anti-poverty programs. of Jesus told a Catholic newspaFather Lourduswamy, secretary per in Cincinnati. of the Indian bishops' commis"For a Jesuit. (political involvesion for low-caste members and ment) can never mean being an indigenous people, said the activist in a political organisation Gowda government will rally Christians because it supports or 'propagandiser' of a political party's program," said Father many Christian demands.

He told UCA News the Church Peter-Hans Kolvenbach in an need not press the low-caste interview with the Catholic Christian issue now, since the Telegraph, Cincinnati archdioceUnited Front coalition has san newspaper.

"However, the simple living out promised appropriate action.

"Some leaders have personally of Christ's preferential love for the poor or the struggle against assured us," he added.

Bishop killed in art theft ROME (CNS) - A retired Yugoslavian bishop was killed, apparently by thieves in search of art works kept at his residence.

Bishop Ivo Gugic, 76, was strangled on June 3 in Kotor, an Adriatic port city where he had been bishop until his retirement earlier this year, the Croatiabased Catholic Press Agency reported.

An initial investigation indicated that the bishop resisted the intruders, who strangled him with a piece of wire. His residence was reportedly filled with works of art.

Murders condemned VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Vatican and Muslim representatives, meeting for the second time in a joint liaison committee, condemned the recent slayings of seven Trappist monks by Islamic extremists in Algeria.

In a final statement issued at the end of a one-day meeting in Egypt, participants deplored "this act of violence and every type of violence, especially that perpetrated in the name of religion," Bishop Michael Fitzgerald told Vatican Radio on •

Bishop carries Olympic flame

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Daughter of Charity Sister Anthony Barczykowski carries the Olympic flame Photo CNS/Frank Mettle/Clarion Herald through the streets of New Orleans on May 24.

He also smilingly noted that the the will of the Lord. "At the torch "became heavy and I Olympics," Bishop Guillory continued, "people of different racial, changed (hands) once or twice."

He and other Houston-area ethnic and cultural backgrounds torch bearers had to assemble at will gather in Atlanta, united by a designated location at 6 am and the Olympic flame. As they comwere instructed how to carry pete, interact and converse, a deeper appreciation and underthe torch.

Following instructions, the car- standing will take place.

"The flame of the Spirit will be riers were transported by shuttle operative, renewing the face of to their routes.

"As I carried the Olympic flame the earth. The world longs for a through the streets of Houston," new Pentecost in light of the conhe explained, "I thought of the flicts in Bosnia, Rwanda and flame of the Holy Spirit. The Liberia."

Bishop Guillory added, "The Holy Spirit was sent by God to bring reconciliation, peace, Olympic flame reminds us that understanding and unity among the flame of the Holy Spirit all nations. At Pentecost the enlivens and directs us to experiApostles were of one mind, to do ence a new Pentecost."

Jesuits 'not political activists'

In Brief June 4. "It was gratifying and a consolation to us to see that our Muslim dialogue partners were the first to mention the terrible event in Algeria," he said.

Bishop Fitzgerald and Cardinal Francis Arinze, respectively secretary and president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, joined representatives of several international Muslim organisations for the meeting in Cairo.

The meeting advanced a new forum for dialogue which the Vatican hopes will open up areas of cooperation, particularly on social issues such as poverty and justice.

The Muslim-Catholic Liaison Committee was formed in June 1995, when it met for the first time in Rome.

Muslim participants include representatives of the Muslim World League, the World Muslim Conference and the World Council for Islamic Da'wah.

Prisoner to Archbishop WARSAW, Poland (CNS) - Another veteran of communist prisons and labour camps was brought to the church's top ranks when Pope John Paul II named Jesuit Bishop Sigitas Tamkevicius the archbishop of Kaunas, Lithuania.

We are the Jesuits on the brink sinful structures of human society in the name of the Gospel of the third millennium and not will imply a political dimension." Ignatius' first companions of the 16th century," he added. he added.

"However, having overcome a Father Kolvenbach, a Dutchman who has been superior general first surprise, Ignatius would disof the Jesuits since 1983, cited a cover easily that his spiritual number of cases in which Jesuits exercises and constitutions still were working for human rights, inspire all that the society is peace or the environment or doing today."

He said his predecessor, the late to defend minorities around the world.

Father Pedro Arrupe, led the Asked whether St Ignatius of Jesuits through "a time of trial Loyola would recognise the and error, of experimentation order he founded in today's and renewal" following the Jesuits, Father Kolvenbach said, "I Second Vatican Council.

"This process is still not finhope Ignatius would not immediately recognise the Jesuits of ished if it will ever end at all," the Jesuit leader said. today.

Archbishop Tamkevicius succeeded leaders, opinion makers and journalists." retiring Cardinal Vincentas Sladlcevicius the bishop said.

"What were their attitudes, their posiin mid-May. First assigned to a parish in Lithuania's tions, their actions and their responsibilipoor southeastern Suwalki region, then- ties at that time?" Bishop Delgado asked.

He deplored what he called "the disproFather Tamkevicius soon drew the wrath of the Soviet authorities. portion between the pressure placed on In 1968, his priest's license was revoked, the bishops' conference for our stateand he was forced to work as a manual ment" and the almost total lack of responlabourer. sibility attributed to others.

In March 1972, he helped launch the underground newsletter Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania, later nomiVATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul nated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

I I appealed to Czech authorities to work sizeable crowds whenever He attracted he was summoned for interrogation by out a plan to restore Church property seized under communism. police and prosecutors.

He said religious instruction and pasIn 1983, Soviet authorities sentenced toral activities in state institutions were him to six years in a labour camp. additional issues needing resolution.

The Pope made his remarks on June 8 to 5,000 pilgrims led by Cardinal Miloslav BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Four Vllc of Prague, the Czech capital.

He said current Church-State issues weeks after Argentina's bishops published an "examination of conscience" for should be seen in light of the church's its actions during the Dirty War, one bish- continuous contributions to the nation.

The Pope praised the Church's strong op has said that others must do the same.

Bishop Alfonso Delgado Evers of role in the demise of Communism in Posadas, spokesman for the Argentine 1989, which he said came after years of bishops' conference, said that "there are "victims, blood, silence and hidden comother sectors in society that must express mitment" by Catholic pastors and laity.

Since 1992, church leaders have been in their own repentance too."

"Regarding the political and social situ- dispute with the Czech government over ation that our country lived during the demands for the return of 3,400 commu'70s, we still wait for the examination nist-seized church buildings and 350,000 of conscience of other sectors, like union acres of church land holdings.

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HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION SUNSHINE, WINTER BREEZES. SUMMER Kalbarri, comfortable, self contained accommodation by the sea, within walking distance of shops and entertainment, $140 for two: $210 for four. for seven days. (09) 572 3297 LAKE LODGE. PINK Esperance. 85 Pink Lake Rd. Ph: (090) 712 075 Fax: (090) 714 754. Best value for money in town. The Lodge offers 4 self-contained apartments plus 23 rooms with shared facility.

Fridge, tea, coffee in room.

Guest kitchen, Lounge with TV, Video, Pool table.

From BYO Restaurant. $25 single. $35 double, $55 family.

B&B PEMBERTON "Falconhurst". M&S Dow (097) 76 1737 Forest Edge - a place of refuge. Each room opens onto wide verandahs that overlook Pemberton's famous trees.

Walking distance to the Lavender and Berry Farm, and the Gloucester Tree. $30 per person. per night.

CAMP KALBARRI PCYC. All school groups. Church groups. Cheap accommo$20.

Children dation. adults $22 per day. Please ring Ann and Malcolm Butcher (099) 371 630.

ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE BALCATTA M/F, 17-23 years to share large 4 br FF Family home with 2 male students and occasional family use. Retic garden. Sola HWS. Close Wanneroo Rd & Northland shops. Bond $200 Rent $60 p. wk + expenses.

Phone (090) 765 022.

HOME OPEN SINGLETON $119,5000.

Home open 3 Manders Way, 2-3pm Saturday 15 June. Qlty 3 bed, 1 bath, B/Tile ideal holiday/ Permanent or ivestment extra accom - tenanted.

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

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

This service is definitely non-sexual.

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

SUPPORT PSORIASIS GROUP meets every first Wednesday of the month at Bassendean Community Hall at 7 pm. Supper provided. Next meeting, 3 Gwen Enquiries July.

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

Your wish will be granted no matter how difficult it may be.

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Personal Courses for men and women. The course will synthesise personal awareness and relationship education with the teachings of the Catholic Church and Scripture in order to promote and deepen Faith with an emphasis on the Holy Spirit as well as to promote authenticity and tolerance at every stage of development.

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THANKS 0 HOLY St Jude. Apostle and Martyr. great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need. to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. St Jude pray for us and all who invoke your aid.

Amen. Say 3 Our Fathers. 3 Hail Mary's and Gloria's. I have had my request granted. M.B. ASK for three favours. Say nine Hail Mary's for nine days with a lighted candle Pray, whether you believe it or not. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised. adored, glorified, loved today and every day for ever and ever. Amen. A.J.P. MAY the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised, adored and glorified throughout the world for ever and ever, Amen. My request granted. I.G.C.

Bishop bans dissidents from Church property WASHINGION (CNS) - Archbishop Daniel Cronin of Hartford Connecticut.. and Bishop John D'Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, have denied use of Church facilities to local chapters of Call to Action, a national group of reform-minded Catholics.

Their actions followed upon the recent legislation issued in March by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln. Nebraska. declaring that any Catholic in his diocese who still belonged to Call to Action as of May 15 was excommunicated.

At a press conference in Washington on June 5, Charles Wilson. executive director of The Saint Joseph Foundation in San Antonio, defended Bishop Bruskewitz' action as a "lawful, reasonable and justified" response to Call to Action's efforts to challenge Church teaching and practice.

Wilson formed the foundation in 1984 to give professional assistance in Church law and procedures to Catholics who believe their rights have been violated by Church authorities.

Bishop D'Arcy, in a letter to his priests on May 20, said it is the policy of the diocese that "any group associated with the national Call to Action should not meet on Church property."

His decision came after Holy Cross Father Anthony Szakaly of St. Joseph's Parish in South Bend refused permission for a local Call to Action chapter to meet in his church.

The group appealed to the bishop, and he set up a commission to investigate the matter.

In March the commission recommended that Bishop D'Arcy not let the local chapter meet on Church property in light of its affiliation with a national organisation that publicly opposes some Church teachings.

In Connecticut, Archbishop Cronin wrote to his priests on April 26 informing them that he had denied a request from the New England chapter of Call to Action for permission to use Church facilities in the archdiocese. Last year Bishop John Keating of Arlington, Virginia., told his priests that they were not to provide space on Church property for local Call to Action meetings.

Bishop Bruskewitz' legislation excommunicating local members of the group gained international media attention.

Wilson said his foundation supported the Lincoln bishop "because at stake are the most basic rights of Catholics, namely, to know what their Church teaches, to have these teachings properly explained to them and to have access to the spiritual goods of their Church."

The Catechism of the Catholic Church "In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" 232 Christians are baptised "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."

Before receiving the sacrament, they respond to a three-part question when asked to confess the Father, the Son, and the Spirit: "I do." "The faith of all Christians rests on the Trinity."

233 Christians are baptised in

the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: not in their names, for there is only one God, the almighty Father, his only Son, and the Holy Spirit: the Most Holy Trinity.

234 The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It Is the mystery of God in himself.

It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the "hierarchy of the truths of faith." The whole history of salvation is identical with the history of the way and the means

by which the one true God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, reveals himself to men "and reconciles and unites with himself those who turn away from sin."

235 This paragraph expounds briefly (I) how the mystery of the Blessed Trinity was revealed, (II) how the Church has articulated the doctrine of the faith regarding this mystery, and (III) how, by the divine missions of the Son and the Holy Spirit, God the Father fulfils the "plan of his loving goodness" of creation, redemption, and sanctification.

236 The Fathers of the Church

distinguish between theology economy and (theologia) (oikonomia). "Theology" refers to the mystery of God's inmost life within the Blessed Trinity and "economy" to all the works by which God reveals himself and communicates his life.

Through the oikonornia the theologia is revealed to us; but conversely, the theologia illuminates the whole oikonomia. God's works reveal who he is in himself; the mystery of his inmost being enlightens our understanding of all his works.

So it is, analogously, among human persons.

A person discloses himself in his

actions, and the better we know a person, the better we understand his actions.

237 The Trinity is a mystery of faith in the strict sense, one of the "mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God." To be sure, God has left traces of his Trinitarian being in his work of creation and in his Revelation throughout the Old Testament.

But his inmost Being as Holy Trinity is a mystery that is inaccessible to reason alone or even to Israel's faith before the Incarnation of God's Son and the sending of the Holy Spirit.

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YCS RIVER CRUISE Friday, 21 June 1996, 8pm - 11.30pm Leaving from Barrack St jetty Tickets available from the YCS office, 459 Hay St. Perth, phone 325 7208 After 7pm phone 041 147 7840 or 401 8927

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FR CHRIS ROSS O.S.M. is giving an informative series of talks on Colossians at the Bethel Friday night Catholic Charismatic Prayer Meeting. Starts 8pm each Friday night at Bethel Centre, 236 Railway Pde (opp. Railway station) All

welcome.

ST VINCENT'S PARISH, KWIWANA All present and past members of St Vincent's Parish, Kwiwana are invited to a faith renewal mission, to be held in the Church, cnr Pace Rd and Gilmore Ave, Medina. The programme, presented by the Redemptorist Fathers, runs from 24-28 June. Call 419 2920 for more information.

INIGO (IGNATION SPIRITUALITY CENTRE) invites you to a talk by Fr Paddy Meagher SJ "Relating the concerns of our lives to the teachings of Jesus". Multi Purpose room (follow signs) John XXIII College, Tuesday 18 June 1996, 8pm - 10pm. $5 (donation unwaged), pay on entry. Enquiries Murray Graham 384 1122.

HEALING MASS A Healing Mass in honour of St Peregrine, patron of cancer sufferers and helper of all in need, will be held at the Church of SS John and Paul, Pinetree Gully Rd, (off South St) Willetton on Friday, June 21st at 7pm.

There will be Veneration of the Relic and Anointing of the Sick. For further information please contact Noreen Monaghan, Tel. 332 8292.

CHRISTIAN LIFE GROUPS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING To be held at the Nedlands Parish Hall, Tyrell St, Nedlands on Wednesday June 19th, commencing at 7.45pm.

PROCLAIMING THE WORD OF GOD An evening of reflection and formation for those who proclaim the Scriptures in Church. All those who perform liturgical function "must be deeply imbued with the spirit of the liturgy, in the measure proper to each one, and they must be trained to perform their function in a correct and orderly manner" (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy #29). Presented by Fr Pat Cunningham and Sr Kerry Willison. Wednesday 26 June, 7.30pm - 9.30pm.

Sacred Heart Church, 64 Mary Street, Highgate.

Repeated Tuesday 13 August, 7.30pm - 9.30pm St Anthony's Church, 96 lnnaminicka Road, Greenmount. Cost $5. For further information and registration please contact the Archdiocesan Liturgy Office, phone (09) 221 1548.

ALAN AT ROCKINGHAM Our Lady of Lourdes Parish welcomes Alan back for a talk on his conversion experiences.

Mass at 7.30pm will be followed by the talk and Healing. All are welcome, Friday, 28 June.

The Church is on Swinstone St, Rockingham.

Enquiries: Fr Walsh, ph: 527 1605, Russel 274 6018.

BENEDICTINE OBLATES Oblates and anyone interested in Benedictine spirituality are invited to a meeting at lona Primary School, Buckland St, Mosman Park at 2.30pm this Sunday 16 June.

Topics to be discussed will be Chapter 6 of the Rule of St Benedict. A commentary on the Gospel of the day.

And information on the Sesquicentenary Symposium to be held at New Norcia 7-12 July 1996.

Concluding with Vespers.

Enquiries ph: 388 3026.

Cost $10 No alcohol or drugs allowed and we reserve the right to scrutinise people and bags.

Supervision provided.

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JUNE 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, Wanneroo Archbishop Hickey Confirmation, Queens Park Monsignor Keating

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Confirmation, East Frelnantle Monsignor Nestor Confirmation, York Rev Fr G Carroll Ursula Frayne Catholic College Mass at St Mary's Cathedral to celebrate 150th Anniversary of Ursula Frayne's arrival in WA Archbishop Hickey 70th Jubilee Fr J Ryan, Fremantle - Bishop Healy Visitation and Confirmation, North Beach Archbishop Hickey Confirmation, Leederville Monsignor Nestor 10th. Anniversary Mass, Bateman Parish - Bishop Healy Golden Jubilee Fr E McKenna, Rivervale Heads of Churches Meeting Archbishop Hickey Re-commissioning of Catechists, St Mary's Cathedral Archbishop Hickey Confirmation, Trinity College Monsignor O'Shea

MANNING & ASSOCIATES OPTOMETRISTS CONTACT LENS CONSULTANTS MARK KALNENAS (B. OPIUM)

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NAGLE CATHOLIC COLLEGE Gerald ton Nagle Catholic College is a co-educational Catholic secondary day and boarding school which was established in 1994 following the amalgamation of Stella Mans College and St Patrick's College. The current enrolment, from Year 8 to Year 12 is approximately 700 students.

The Principal invites applications from an enthusiastic and suitably qualified and experienced teacher of

Italian, Religious Education and Social Studies The applicant will commence duties at the beginning of Term3 1996, with the possibility of extending to 1997.

Written applications, clearly indicating the qualifications, experience and other qualities which would make the applicant a suitable person for appointment, should include a comprehensive curriculum vitae and name two current professional referees. Applications should be sent as soon as possible; they should be addressed to: The Principal Nagle Catholic College Box 97 GERALDTON 6531