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By Colleen McGuiness-Howard Pain and a sharp sense of loss were never so evident than at St Mary's Cathedral last Tuesday during the ecumenical Memorial Service for the 18 soldiers of the Special Air Service Regiment and 5th Aviation Regiment who died in the training accident on Wednesday night, 12 June near Townsville in Queensland. Tears flowed freely from women, men and children alike, from politicians, and some army personnel at the waste of young manhood in the air disaster, among whom were sons, husbands, fathers, and friends. But what was also apparent was the great sense of unity and somehow, peacein-togetherness in the shared grief in the cathedral where aisles and side altars were packed with mourners. The Governor-General of- Australia, Sir William Deane and his wife, Lady Deane, attended along with Prime Minister John Howard, Premier Richard Court, Opposition Leader Kim Beazley, the Governor of Western Australia, Major

General Jeffery, the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant-General John Sanderson, heads of churches - including Archbishop Barry Hickey, 18 chaplains, members of the Australian Forces, and many hundreds of mourners. The brilliantly decorated sanctuary was aflame with the red uniforms of the Australian Army band Kapooka - who filled the cathedral with magnificent music - and an altar ablaze with red flowers. Eighteen army berets were laid in a row on the altar's edge, each with a red rose, representing the dead servicemen. After the haunting sadness of the Last Post, there was a two minutes silence during which there was a spectacular RAAF fly past over the cathedral in honour of fallen comrades. At service's end, 18 comrades of the dead filed onto the sanctuary to retrieve the roses representing their unit dead, and bowed to the altar before leaving. "Heroes," as Major General Jeffery described their comrades, because they had given their lives for their country, just the same as those who died in battle.

'Search and destroy' tests on babies By Peter Rosengren A Perth disabled advocacy group has alleged that a foetal abnormality diagnosis support network is advising that the killing of unborn disabled children is neither right nor wrong. The Support After Diagnosis of Fetal Abnormality network, was launched last week at King Edward Hospital. Disabled Advocacy Group spokeswoman Monique Bertino-Clarke, who attended the launch of the network, said this week she and her husband were appalled by statements made at the launch, including one that the killing of disabled unborn children was neither right not wrong. The decision to kill an unborn disabled child was justified as an impossible one, but one which had to be made, she alleged. She said the Disabled Advocacy Group also rejected the claim made at the seminar that the widespread use of genetic screening to eliminate disabled children was having no effect on the status of those allowed to survive. Mrs Bertino-Clarke said her group was well aware of the discriminatory and hurtful comments increasingly being directed at parents of children with Downs Syndrome and other disabilities as to why they had not had tests to determine if the unborn child was disabled. "People say 'why didn't you have the

test?'" she told The Record. "And if parents have the test then they're pressured to abort the child." 'Mrs Bertino-Clarke, who has a child with Downs Syndrome, said that "search and destroy" genetic testing was effectively treating babies with disabilities as less than human and as enemies to be eliminated. Disabled Advocacy was already aware of many parents who felt pressured to abort their babies after testing revealed a possible abnormality. Additionally, some false positive testing results from amniocentesis were causing the abortion of unaffected children, she said. The Disabled Advocacy Group already knew of parents who, when diagnosed with a disabled unborn child, were told they had 72 hours to make up their mind as to whether they should abort it. "It's a whole search and destroy mentality. The only reason they're searching for these babies is to eliminate them," Mrs Bertino-Clarke said. She said her group was looking at the possibility of organising counsellors with a pro-life perspective for parents faced with a pregnancy that could result in the birth of a disabled child. A spokeswoman for Genetic Services of WA, the unit based in King Edward and Princess Margaret hospitals which sponsored the launch of the network, refused to comment on the allegations other than to reject them as inaccurate and insensitive to parents.

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Chaplains support bereaved, and the Army supports the chaplains By Colleen McGuiness-Howard The death of 15 Special Air Service Regiment soldiers last Thursday meant Australian Defence Force chaplains such as Father Peter Whitely of Bateman, Deputy Senior Army Chaplain Western Region, had to deal with the sadness of helping tell family members their loved ones were dead. These included a young woman who, with one soldier, had intended to announce their engagement this Sunday, and the young wife who lost her baby by miscarriage a few days before she also lost her husband. A chaplain for 15 years, Fr Whitely, along with local RAAF chaplain Fr Michael Gatt of Manning and 15 other chaplains representing various denominations, were called in to console the bereaved, all coordinated by Perth Uniting Church Minister and SASR chaplain, Captain David Jackson. Within one and a half hours of notification of the tragedy, the 17 chaplains were organised to go out individually early Thursday morning, along with two soldiers, to break the news to the families and roved ones. It's part of the military procedure that a chaplain always accompanies members of the Forces to notify families of bad news. Frs Whitely and Gall said that never were they needed more than during those visits. The role of the chaplain seems to be very Important in those situations to notify service families and friends, support them, and ensure they receive on-going support, they said. What the chaplains really appreciated, Fr Whitely told The Record before last Tuesday's memorial service, was the fact that the army worked very hard to support all families "and many sections of the army responded wonderfully to assist them, with their psychologists, army community services and so on." There was also great sadness for some of the soldiers

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having to inform families of their own friends who'd died. "We had our own grief to contend with as well as theirs and then trying to support the families of the unit members," Fr Whitely said. What had emerged out of the tragedy was the unity of Australia from top to bottom, Frs Whitely and Gall said, and the cooperation between chaplains of all denominations, with prayers being said in parishes throughout WA. The principal Australian Army chaplain, Canberra-based Catholic priest Father John Butler, told the Perth assembly in his homily that support was a human endeavour, but hope was divine. Support touched emotions - but hope touched the soul. "We need to know that those who die have a future; that physical death is not an end, but a change; that human life is not just a brief endeavour, but that it flows on to a better life." Because troubles, difficulties, sadness and sorrow come, "and it is only through death that we can attain perfect happiness; where our soul can be in the hands of God and no torment can ever touch us." Archbishop Hickey reflects - Page 2

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he tragic loss of eighteen young men in the recent helicopter accident in Queensland has touched Australia to the very core. People everywhere have responded to the grief of the families and their comrades-inarms with messages of comfort and with their prayers. In a very real sense, the death of these men in the course of their duty has caused the nation to grieve. Australia is in mourning. The ecumenical religious ser-

vice held in St Mary's Cathedral last Tuesday, attended by people holding the highest public offices in Australia was most moving, particularly because it took place in Perth, the home of the SAS Regiment. It is interesting that in times of tragedy, people so often turn to the Church for comfort. They need to hear of the compassion of God and feel supported by the prayers of people around them. Death brings forcibly to mind the reality of human existence

and how unexpectedly it can be taken. It turns our mind to the promise of eternal life and keeps hope alive in the midst of tragedy. Despite all the problems that Churches are faced with today, the tensions they experience, the bad press they often get, in times of great grief they are still seen as channels of divine mercy and love, offering comfort and giving meaning to sorrow. Our deepest sympathies go out to the families and close

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wrong." He said Mr Djiniyinni not sanction the ending of a Gondarra was a senior tribal human life," he added. elder from Elcho Island in the Other grounds of the challenge Northern Territory as well as a are: the Rights of the Terminally tribal keeper of the law. Ill Act 1995 is unconstitutional "He says Aboriginals have been because it offends against fundadisenfranchised through this mental rights underlying the law," he said, "They're 25 per Australian Constitution: euthanacent of the population and sia was not one of the powers they've not been consulted about given to the NT under the it at all." Territory's Self-government Act; Dr Wake said euthanasia was the legislation was beyond the contrary to the Aboriginal way of power of the NT Government life and laws and the introduc- and had been invalidly assented tion of the legislation would see a to by the NT Administrator. further destruction of Aboriginal Dr WoHard said modern medculture and values. ical practices and advances in AMA federal president Dr Keith palliative care meant patients Wollard immediately backed the could be allowed to die in dignichallenge as he released the ty and free from pain. He warned AMA's policy on the care of that unless the legislation was severely and terminally ill overturned many lives would be patients. lost unnecessarily. "Voluntary euthanasia is simply Dr Wake said that while the legalised killing, and the AMA challenge to the legislation had fully endorses the Supreme been launched in the NT Court challenge against the Supreme Court it could eventualNorthern Territory euthanasia ly be removed to the High Court laws," he said, Society should of Australia in Canberra.

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The challenge to the Northern Territory's euthanasia legislation was launched in Darwin's Supreme Court this week, with an additional hearing seeking an injunction against the laws coming into effect on July 1 set to be heard in the State's Supreme Court this Friday morning. Dr Chris Wake, president of the branch of the AMA and the Reverend Dr Djiniyinni Gondarra, a minister of the [Inning Church and a member of the NT Aboriginal community launched the challenge. backed by a broad coalition of churches, the Australian Medical Association and pro-life groups. Dr Wake told The Record there was no basis for a state being able to legislate to kill its citizens. "That's a right of the judiciary and we argue the INTI has the separation of powers between the state and the judiciary all

friends of all those young men who lost their lives. We will continue to pray for them that the pain of loss will ease with time, and that the memories of their loved ones will fill them with pride. We too salute them for undertaking the noble task of the defence of our country and for accepting the serious risks that go with it. We commend them to the mercy of God. May Jesus Christ our Saviour lead them home and may they rest in peace.

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He said both the PFF and the Office of Non-Government Schools agreed that debt servicing cost was a recurrent cost and any debt servicing of government schools' students had to be taken into account. if you do that, the actual percentage prior to this initiative [to increase funding by $2 million and $4 million] was 22.8 per cent, and the two million rising to four million will increase it to 24 per cent," he said. In other motions conference delegates welcomed the recent Vatican sex education document on the truth and meaning of human sexuality, calling on both Church and Catholic education authorities to do all they could to support parents in their role as educators of their children in sexuality. A study of the school voucher funding scheme currently being trialled in New Zealand was also approved. The conference heard talks from a number of speakers over the weekend. including Brother Jack Dwyer. Professor of Education at the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle, who spoke on the culture of Catholic schools and the long term studies of Catholic education carried out by Brother Marcellin Flynn. Dr Steven Houghton from the University of WA's Education Faculty provided an insight into the motivation behind delinquent behaviour and how educators could better handle problems such as motivation and discipline of students at risk of failing socially and academically.

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Sir John Lavan (left, ret'd), Mr Justice Terry Franklyn of the Supreme Court and wife Louise, Mrs Sue Lee and husband the Hon. Malcolm Lee, judge of the Federal Court were all present to support the launch of NDA's new College of Law in Fremantle last week.

Notre Dame Vice Chancellor, Dr Peter Tannock, addressing members of Western Australia's legal fraternity at the launch. interview with former NDA Vice Chancellor Prof David Link - Page 5

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The serenity and peacefulness of Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup, was challenged last weekend as the Performing Arts Ministry held their first formation weekend. PAM is a Catholic Youth Ministry group that strives to spread the word of God through the performing arts. It is a group where people who have specific and diverse talents within the performing arts area can use and develop their talents. The talents can then more effectively be used for reaching out to tell people about God's love and the effect that God can have on our lives. By using the performing arts in this way, it encourages and appeals to many young people who consider themselves distant from the Church. The weekend allowed each of us to consider what our role, vision and commitment for PAM really entailed. We were encouraged to think about and compare our own personal vision for PAM with the wider group vision. The weekend was filled with scriptural teachings, prayer, discussion and music. In each of these areas, we were asked to consider their relevance to PAM, and how we could use them to make the work of PAM more effective and purposeful. The weekend also provided an opportunity for people to get to know each other and to build a stronger sense of community.

This will allow us to work better as a team, and to become more dynamic and capable of spreading the message of God. On Saturday night we celebrated Mass as a united group, and this was followed by a formal dinner. The dinner allowed us to share and socialise with each other on a different kind of level. Following the dinner we prayed with a combination of music and personal prayer, strengthening the bond between people and alerting people to the needs of others. After prayer, people changed into their oldest and darkest clothes for 'war games' down in the valley adjacent to Eagle's Nest. There were two teams, one of attackers and one of defenders. The defenders had to defend it red bucket positioned in thr middle of the valley while the attackers had to try and capture the bucket. We descended into the blackness of the valley armed with torches and enthusiasm and we returned back to Eagle's Nest wet, cold, but still enthusiastic. This was team building at its greatest. The defenders proved to be triumphant, but that is not to say that the attackers went down without fighting, or should I say, crawling down the creek! PAM is a relatively new group. The weekend cleared up many doubts or misunderstandings that we had about the functions of PAM. I think we now have a clear and unified direction about where PAM is going - it exists to serve and to spread the gospel to the young people of Perth.

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He said that part of the process of making the NDA law graduate a distinct type of lawyer would be the broadening of their education beyond a strictly legal vista. "If you're going to be a kind of general problem solver you've simply got to be well-read. So . . . . we're having these lawyers study literature, the great books, general theology and philosophy, because we want them to be wellrounded people who understand how to think." he said. Ethics teaching based on the Catholic understanding of the natural law would permeate every subject. "So it won't be just that we'll teach ethics in the ethics course. We'll teach it in every course we'll teach it in the torts course, we'll teach it in the contracts course, and we will examine the law from its moral foundation, which of course is where the natural law is going to come in." Finally, with open and implied dissidence to Church teaching on major moral or doctrinal issues a serious problem in Catholic universities in recent times, Professor Link acknowledged that it was necessary to have a strong mission statement which clarified what was expected of staff. If staff didn't measure up there were plenty of other law schools with a secular or positivist approach to law that they could teach at. To prevent dissent from Church teaching a Catholic university's mission statement had to be "clearly in the Catholic intellectual tradition." he added.

Pope appoints Archbishop Hickey to synod group Pope John Paul Ii has appointed Archbishop Barry Hickey as one of 11 cardinals and bishops to the planning council for the pre-2000 synod for Oceania. The Oceania synod is one of three regional synods announced by the pope for the period leading up to the start of the third millennium. Others will be held for the Americas and Asia. Three other Australian bishops were appointed to the council: Cardinal Edward Clancy of Sydney, who is president of the Australian Catholic Bishops'

Conference: Bishop Peter Connors. an auxiliary bishop in Melbourne: and Cardinal Edward Cassidy, president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Other bishops appointed were: • Cardinal Pio Taofinu'u of SamoaApia, Western Samoa: • Cardinal Thomas Stafford Williams of Wellington. New Zealand, president of the Federation of Catholic Bishops' Conferences of Oceania: • Cardinal Jozef Tomko. prefect of the

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Oblate priest a 'Rock of Ages' God has kept him on straight and narrow for 70 years By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

itting comfortably in his easy chair at Foley Village in Hilton Park, Father John Ryan OMI, the oldest serving Oblate of Mary Immaculate in Australia, has a directness of speech that hasn't faltered over the years. How do you feel about celebrating 70 years of priesthood? I ask. "Pretty indifferent!" he replies. But what he really means when you probe further, is (having achieved that notable slice of time), that it's no "big deal. Just good luck" He's a practical sort of a fellow who ,although not insensitive, doesn't mince words, but that in itself is quite refreshing, because he has a clear, direct mind which gets straight to the point and isn't bogged down with saying what he thinks you may want to hear - or disguising what's really on his mind. Born in 1901 in County Limerick in Ireland of solid farming stock, he was one of ten children and has two surviving sisters in their nineties. Having inherited a constitution for his age which is excellent, he feels "very well," apart from about five per cent vision, but that's still enough "for me to poke around." And it doesn't stop him from celebrating Mass daily with fellow resident Fr Baron. Asked as to whether the Sacred Mass means more to him now after all these years, as repetition sometimes might cause one to become blase, Fr Ryan emphatically asserts the magnitude of the Mass increases with time. In retirement, you get more time to devote to many things, he explains, "with fewer distractions and things to contend with." Fr Ryan was ordained in Ireland in 1926 by the visiting Bishop John Norton of Bathurst, NSW: he then came to Australia in 1927 where he has spent the last 69

years labouring in God's vineyard. Appointed for 20 years to the then widely scattered Fremantle parish, Fr Ryan wasn't able to return to Ireland in all that time, something which he found hard. He worked diligently in a parish area which today comprises eight parishes, servicing it on his two-stroke motorcycle and not shirking from hard physical labour, laying tennis courts on a rocky site and working on the lovely Beaconsfield Church of Christ the King he erected in 1936 before he left Fremantle. With the war's end in 1945, Fr Ryan was transferred to Sorrento, Victoria, as parish priest and then in 1949 to Moe in eastern Victoria - a newly established parish in a settled diary farming area that was hosting thousands of immigrants arriving monthly to work in the brown coal and power Industry of the Latrobe Valley and the SEC headquarters for Victoria. St Kieran's Moe had 35 nationalities, some of whom had fought on different sides during the war, but Fr Ryan united them in a faith community and set about building school accommodation for the 800 children at St Kieran's School. Generous and chivalrous, Fr Ryan gave his presbytery over to the newly arrived Presentation Sisters while he lived in a store room under the staircase in the school for 12 months while a new convent was being built. After Moe, he was appointed Oblate superior in Geelong. Victoria, chaplain to Fremantle prison for six years. and chaplain at Boys Town, Beaudesert, in Queensland for five. Always enjoying community life, he has been described as an example of deep faith, admirable priestly dedication, humility, and an outstanding team man: qualities which proved of great benefit to those he lived with when finding himself in his

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sorrowfully." Fr Ryan admits without the grace of God it would have been "impossible for me to have survived." and says he would have fallen by the wayside. As for Our Lady: "She helps everybody and it's her dearest wish we love her Divine Son: Our Lady helps us as much as we let her and is more anxious to help us than we are to receive, so we should accept her help." He believes student priests are mollycoddled and compares his days in the seminary "when we were always hungry, and had absolute poverty" to the seminarian of today who is well fed, "with plenty of money to buy drinks or smokes." Meanwhile, he's grateful for the long. healthy life God has given him, and his cherished priesthood. As the 'Oblate doyen' Fr Ryan - professed 75 years as an Oblate last October was honoured with a 70-year jubilee Mass at St Patrick's, Fremantle. this Thursday and plans to visit his friends in Victoria and NSW

'Irish Brigade' stalwart notches 50 years Father Aemon McKenna has now notched up 50 golden years of priesthood after 22 years as the parish priest of Rivervale, and will be celebrating with parishioners and friends this Sunday with his golden jubilee Mass followed by a get-together. Born in Clogher, County Tyrone, in Ireland, he entered All Hallows seminary when he was 18, and spent the next seven years there. Ordained in 1946, he joined the -Western Australian contingent" of Irish priests and came out on the ocean liner Otranto with Frs Michael Byrne and Paddy Lyng. Fr McKenna's main, initial postings were in Leederville, Highgate, St Mary's Cathedral, and then North Fremantle as parish priest. While there he was also the Royal Australian Navy Reserve chaplain for about five years with junior recruits drawn from all around Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Fr McKenna: priests about helping people Fie then served in Mirrabooka, Shenton Park for six months, and finally Rivervale. Fr McKenna, one of four children, left behind his family to help out on the Australian frontier and found with oth-

ers who'd come from Ireland, that the heat, separation from family and general homesickness were big factors to contend with. That. and being a Priest- "was tough. but you just took it in your stride." He admits, however, to having enjoyed his life as a priest and considers himself an Australian. adding *Australia's been good to me." And what about the daily interaction of parish life? .... it's been a rewarding time "with people in every parish being good and cooperative." As for his reasons for becoming a priest. Fr McKenna's heart is certainly in the right place when he answers with "It was the normal thing to do, to do a bit of good for people. To help them!" And any satisfaction for a lifetimu given to others? To that he replies . . . . "Yes! I suppose helping people was the best part of my priesthood." - Colleen McGuiness-Howard

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&tiers lo .1& Time to view Christian Brothers' work positively any people blame my Church for the acts of some of its less perfect members. (The Record, Letters, 6 June). I was educated by the Christian Brothers and have had the privilege in helping some of them in their work in later life. I never was aware of these more imperfect members but certainly knew many who were most dedicated. I suppose that on today's standards we were physically abused and our parents paid fees for it. I am sure it did me no harm! Wharabout picking on the civil authorities of Britain and Australia without

whose policies of child emigration a lot of the unfortunate practices could have not happened. Maybe they thought they were giving some children an opportunity in life they would not have had in their native country - and some certainly proved this. This is a very imperfect world and this modern age has a habit of judging its historical past through today's eyes. Today, we would criticise the early Benedictines who gave sanctuary to the native women in Kalurnburu where they were being horribly beaten by their men; we would criticise Bishop Gsell, the Bishop with a thousand wives, who bought the young female children to save

If we have to go back into the past and them from being given to old men; we would criticise the police of 60-70 years judge on today's enlightened standards ago chained the lepers, (infected by the lets take note of Catherine of Sienna; of Malays and Filipinos) in the Kimberleys Therese of Avila; the famous St Benedict: Ignatius of Loyola; Francis of Assisi to to bring them for treatment to Derby. Would that all these critics would read mention a few. Come to today and read about Sr Teresa history a little more and they would realise that really nothing has changed of Calcutta and the seven Cistercian martyrs of Algeria only a few weeks ago. when it comes to the nature of man. We are all imperfect but only God can Read our Church history - read about us. judge Pope Alexander VI and you will surely So worry about praying for those you see nothing but a divine institution that are so concerned to criticise and think of could exist for so long. Read about all the Saintly people who all the good things that are happening have carried the church through the mul- every day. titude of attacks people have made J W Dallimore against it. Floreat

Doctors are not killers

such policy goes against the grain not only of who we are as Catholics, or as doctors. or as palliative care providers, but is contrary to who we are as Australians. Dr C E Waddell Medical Anthropology. UWA

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head a research team that has just completed a study funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services on "Doctors' care of severely and terminally ill patients". The study was on a national postal survey of 2,172 randomly selected medical practitioners. Part of the study examined doctors' responses to a request for assisted death by a 56-year-old man with a motor neurone disease with dysphagia. These data, recently submitted to the Medical Journal of Australia, show that over 90 per cent of doctors would respond to such a request by explaining and offering good palliative care only. While ethical and religious factors were significant in influencing doctors' responses, legal factors were not. However, what seemed to explain most fully doctors' refusal to assist death for this man was found in what it means to be a doctor - bringers of life, of healing, of comfort and care and, sometimes, of bad news; but not bringers of death., What does it mean to be a doctor in Australia today? This seems to be a relevant question that may need answering by doctors and by all of us. for we all are or will be patients. Certainly it needs to be empirically investigated, and, along with other more significant moral questions and empirical questions (such as arising from palliative care), satisfactorily answered, before any medically assisted death policy, such as that starting in the Northern Territory on 1 July, is implemented. Indeed, these answers may show that

Of zeal and love . . .

understand and sympathise with Ellen Morris' aversion (The Record. June 13) to the Jehovah's Witnesses' "method of evangelism". However, I did not use the word 'method' - I used the word 'activity'. I don't see how you can separate 'zeal' (- hearty and persistent endeavour) from 'activity' (-exertion of energy). I would have thought that "Good old 'Love thy neighbour*" was a most estimable form of 'missionary activity'.

Fr Gerard Dickinson St Mary's Cathedral

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he Australian Family Association believes the latest reported comments by Eros Foundation president Fiona Patten are another example of attempts by the sex industry lobby to confuse the public over the content and status of X-rated videotapes. The lobby has been promoting the replacement of the Z classification by two new classifications: E for erotica and V for violence. The trick is that violence is already clearly excluded for the X category, and that this call is just another attempt to try to force X-rated videos, especially their demeaning portrayal of women. The AFA has called on the Howard Government to implement its pm-election promise of a ban on X-rated videos in its submission to the Committee on Portrayal of Violence. John Barich Australian Family Association

he findings of the Australian Catholic Bishops' first stage report of its inquiry into the lives of young people, entitled Lean on Me. are not surprising considering our society is rapidly losing all sense of morality. Nevertheless, there is cause for concern as the report revealed that "there was a feeling that the Church was not in touch with the community', and "Church teaching on sexual morality was widely questioned or rejected" (The Record. 23 May). Unlike many other major Christian denominations which are losing respectability and credibility as a result of their "changing with the times" approach to once held traditional beliefs. the Catholic Church is not in the business of compromising its teachings to appease the life styles of contemporary society. If the current attitude amongst our young is to change, Catholic schools and families need to pass on our Catholic heritage unapologetically, uncompromisingly and convincingly. Young Catholic people will then be in a better position to determine exactly who is out of touch with reality. Similarly. the Catholic Church does not approve of having its teachings altered in such a way as to fit the local traditions of a particular culture. With all due respect to Fr Matthew Digges (The Record, 23 May), Catholicism is not about being "Aboriginal Catholics" or "European Catholics". There is only one form of Catholicism for all Catholics as contained in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Cardinal tozef Tomko. the Vatican's top evangelisation official, once described inculturation as "a two-way street that must excise local traditions that are sinful." He said: "It is not the Gospel which must yield to a negative cultural phenomenon, but vice versa" (The Record, April 21, 1994). Joseph Said Noranda

ecent public advertising in The Rn Sunday Times by a woman wantig to become a surrogate mother by artificial insemination, with the resulting child to be handed over to the "commissioning" couple, raises complex legal and social questions. In Western Australia a child born exnuptially is in the sole legal custody of its mother. Only through an order of the Family Court of Western Australia or through formal adoption procedures could legal custody be changed. It is extremely doubtful that either of these methods would be successful in transferring custody from a "surrogate" mother to the couple. Any contract between the surrogate and the "commissioning couple" would be unenforcable. So the couple is completely at the mercy of the surrogate who is legally entitled to retain full custody of the child she has carried and delivered regardless of any purported contract. Conversely the couple may refuse to pay any agreed medical expenses or take no further responsibility for the child. This could happen, for example. if the child was born with a disability, the couple separated or simply changed their mind. Experience from the United States with surrogate mothers, as well as common human experience since Sarah arranged for Hagar to bear a child for Abraham. testifies to the likelihood that a woman who carries and delivers a child will decide to insist on her rights as mother. A society which wants to put children's interest first will wisely refuse to countenance contracts for surrogacy which effectively make children a product to be traded or exchanged. Richard Egan Coalition for the Defence of Human Life

Denying love the only problem, embracing it the answer

hat does it mean to be Probably Catholic? something different for

all of us. I am not at all sure that I knew what it really meant for me until recently. The content of a current affairs program and a subsequent message left on the answering machine at our office, the witnessing the reception of a country couple into the Catholic Church and a homily given by Archbishop Hickey were a sequence of events that came together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and it was as though a light had been turned on. I chose to become a Catholic several years ago. A convert from the Anglican church. I came into this faith family with a conviction that God loves me deeply and, considering what I have come to understand and learn about Catholicism in the

ensuing years, a basic knowledge of the Catholic faith and it's practices. Father Leon Russell, when welcoming the couple into the Busselton faith family, said they would need a lot of love and support as it takes time to get used to "our way of doing things". I thought at the time: " that is so true!". It takes time to "become" Catholic: being received into the Catholic faith family does not automatically give that to a person. I am not sure that I fully understood that until now.

If I am this Catholic person who I profess to be, then that means taking the good with the bad, being accepting of that and not just being aware of it. It means standing up and being counted. Recently I heard Archbishop Hickey speaking about seeing "the true face of the church" in our parishes, and how important that was for both he and Bishop Healy. He said that they were faced daily with almost overwhelming problems and that seeing families worshipping together and

people participating fully in the Eucharist were very positive elements in their lives. Yes, the Church has problems, but in the over all scheme of things, these problems are not what our Church is all about. Iam very thankful that Ibelong to a vibrant, supportive parish, thankful to have a parish priest who is very welcoming and very concerned about our spiritual welfare. This is a combination that for me, epitomises what the real Church is. My heart goes out to people who no longer feel that relationship with the Church as a result of being hurt in the past. Until now, problems like abuse have been 'out there'. I didn't realise that I had felt so separated from them. Then I saw the current affairs program and heard a message that came out of a brokenness that has not yet been healed.

Now I feel a responsibility to pray for those affected and for those people in positions of responsibility within our Church that they will find the courage the make the right decisions when the decisions have to be taken. The problems are no longer 'out there' they are part and parcel of my Church and I cannot ignore them. Authoress Marianne Williamson wrote - we think we have many different problems, but we have only one. Denying love is the only problem, and embracing it is the only answer. Love heals all of our relationships - to money, the body, work, sex, death, ourselves, and one another. Through the miraculous power of pure love, we let g"o our past history in any area and begin again.

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Teen sex education: keep on talking By Mart and Carol Pacione

,mm Alanis Morissette to L L Cool J, from Friends to Moesha, from ads for Calvin Kline to Sassy Magazine, teenagers are inundated with messages about sex. No wonder parents of adolescents want to talk to them, protect them, shield them or hide under a rug. Because these messages are delivered in rapid fashion from sun up to sun down, parents cannot afford to limit themselves to a one-time, tell-all, classic birdsand-bees lecture to their children. There is no medical vaccine to protect against poor sexual decisions. Helping teenagers develop good sexuality decision-making skills and values requires regular workouts. Here are a few workout ideas. Help teenagers to think through ahead of time the tough decisions that they will face. This means encouraging them to develop a game plan for avoiding or getting out of difficult situations such as pressure to be sexually active or an overly aggressive date. Have them think about questions like these: What if you are at a party where couples are taking turns using the back bedroom and your date tells you that the two of you get to use the room next? What if. even though you have said no, your date continues to insist? The goal of this process is more than the right answer. The goal is a well-thought-out answer. The success of this approach depends on your ability to listen to the teenagers' ideas, to affirm what is positive in their response and to offer another viewpoint for them to consider. Ills important for parents to say clearly what they believe is right and best for their young person. But respect for the adolescent is also important. To respect your teenager doesn't mean you accept decisions without question, however. And once you've listened, you can always add, "But can you see

More helpful parent hints

on't assume that your teenagers know what your thinking about sex is. In calm, conversational ways, tell them. If, with the Catechism, you believe sexual union in marriage is God-like (No 2335), say so. Your teen may suspect that deep down you think sex is bad. Be willing to tell your teen that you are faithful in marriage. How? Perhaps say, "You know, don't you, that your mother and I don't have other sexual partners and that this makes us happy." Your integrity interests your child - even if he acts uninterested. Remember how deep the parent-child bond is. Remember too that all children need someone to believe in them. Express your confidence that this child can make good decisions about sex. In these conversations with teenagers, parents should listen a lot. But parents also should make clear that they believe sex has meaning. For a teen may get the impression with peers that sex isn't meaningful enough to think through carefully - that it's trivial. Finally, if some of these conversations don't go well, remember there's always a next time. where I'm coming from?" This approach allows parents and teens an opportunity to look for options together, it avoids giving up too quickly on dealing with each other or taking the risk of terminating communication at home altogether. No one can prepare for every possibility, but talking through these kinds of situations will give your young person the skill to make decisions that reflect the values he or she has regarding sexuality. One advantage of these times when the entertainment media are overloaded with sexual mes-

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sages is that parents have an unlimited number of teachable moments when they can start a conversation. Television is one such source because with little planning you and your teenager can be in the same room watching the same program. Select a character, preferably one who would be your teenager's peer, whose sexual attitudes or behaviours are just the opposite of the values that you hope your son or daughter will model. Ask some of these questions: Do you know people in your class like that? What do you think of someone who acts or thinks that way? If you had a friend who started acting like that, what would you say to him or her? Also try to select a character whose sexual attitudes and behaviours are something closer to the values that you are hoping to pass on to your son or daughter. And try some of these questions: Do people really act that way? Do you have friends who take that kind of a stand? Is it hard to stick to those kinds of values? Remember, the goal here is a conversation, not an inquisition. If your teen says he or she doesn't know anyone who shares your positive values, ask, "Well, what kinds of opinions and stands do your friends take?" Again, you are continuing the discussion. You might add: "But I would think that, if they lived that way, these are - the consequences that could happen . . . . Can you see that?" As you get ready to discuss sexuality with your teenager, you will want to convey that sexuality Is a gift from God. It might be difficult to get the conversation going, so don't be afraid of long periods of silence. It is important to be patient. Talking about sex with your adolescent cannot be a one-time deal. The message is so important that it has to be discussed again and again and again. US bishops on sex education programs - Page 14.

Sex education for teenagers: give a reason for Christian standards

Casual love trivialises By Father John J. Castelot

e have in the Bible some moving stories of marital love and fidelity. One of the most touching is that of Elkanah and Hannah. Hannah was childless, and this was a sore trial to her. Following the custom of the day, Elkanah fathered children by her handmaid. And the proud mother taunted Hannah insensitively. When they made preparations for the annual family pilgrimage to the shrine at Shiloh, Hannah's consciousness of having no children reduced her to bitter tears. Her husband instead of growing impatient, comforted her with these revealing questions: "Hannah, why do you weep, and why do you refuse to eat? Why do you grieve? Am I not more to you than 10 sons?" (1 Samuel 1:8). Indeed, in the Old Testament, love and mutual fidelity were hallmarks of marriage. Very early in the Bible the need of man and woman for each other is recognised and given divine sanction. In the story of Eve's creation, the man was hungry for companionship with someone like himself.

When he beheld Eve, he cried ecstatically: "This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh," and the biblical author comments: "That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body" (Genesis 2:23 -24). So physical love was a divinely sanctioned fact of life. There was nothing puritanical about the people's attitude toward sex. A gift of God, it was to be treasured and used gratefully and responsibly. If St Paul insisted on marital fidelity and respect for sex, it was precisely because he valued them so highly. Contrary to some ill-informed caricatures. Paul was not "against" sexual pleasure in marriage. Corinth was a moral cesspool, where casual sex was taken for granted. Paul had to insist that people not trivialise something so precious. It was not the pleasure that he considered sinful, but the depersonalising, cheapened "use" of human beings simply as objects for self-gratification, without the commitment which the embrace, by its nature, demands.

Make no mistake, preaching the Gospel brings ridicule Peter Dwan continues meditations on the readings for Sunday Mass. This week the readings for the 12th Sunday of Year A

oday's liturgy presents the important theme of prophetic witness, reminding us that prophetic witness is never popular. In the first reading (Jeremiah 20:10-13), we see the unpopularity and maltreatment which the prophet Jeremiah endured because he told his contemporaries what God had told him to say, not what they wanted to hear. Judah was then in a political crisis. They were rebelling against a pagan, foreign power under whose dominion they had fallen because of their infidelity to God. But they were putting their faith now in another pagan power, Egypt. They thought Egypt would come to help them repel the threatened Babylonian invasion. God knew that this wouldn't come true, and He told Jeremiah so. It was God,

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Meditation . . . with Peter Dwart whom they had long since forgotten, in whom they should have trusted. For proclaiming God's message, Jeremiah was considered an enemy of the people. Jeremiah was punished and hated, and he asked God to give him the pleasure of seeing them suffer for their wrong political moves, for their disloyalty to God and from the maltreatment he himself had received from their hands. He lived to see his wish fulfilled. While we can understand Jeremiah's natural reactions, we cannot admire them. But we must remember that he was a saint of the Old Testament, when God's

justice was heavily stressed. In the per- Christ's message. St Maximilian Kolbe, son of Jeremiah, it was God himself who who gave his life in place of a fellow prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration was despised. We Christians, seeing the example of camp during World War II, considered Christ forgiving and praying for those that working for the salvation of all souls who crucified Him, have a different idea was something which required the effecof God, seeing His mercy is as infinite as tive use of the mass media. The passage also contains Our Lord's His justice. In today's second reading (Romans words: "If anyone declares himself for me 5:12-15), we are reminded of God's love In the presence of men, I will declare and mercy. Referring to the Fall and the myself for him in the presence of my Redemption, the reading says: "If it is cer- Father in heaven." We need to realise that tain that through one man's fall so many the open profession of our Faith somedied, it is even more certain that divine times brings us ridicule. During World War II, there was a group grace, coming through one man, Jesus Christ, came to so many as an abundant of servicemen stationed in Darwin in the Northern Territory. A Catholic among free gift." The Gospel passage (Matthew 10:26-33), them knelt and said his prayers at night, gives further instruction regarding our and was ridiculed for his piety by some of prophetic mission. It records that Jesus his fellow servicemen. However, when the Japanese bombed told the Apostles: "What I say to you in the dark, tell in the daylight; what you Darwin, some of his fellow servicemen hear in whispers, proclaim from the began to pray. The leader of those who ridiculed the serviceman subsequently housetops." We need to be keen apostles, using received the gift of Faith and later became whatever means are available to spread a priest.

Refugee Week 1996 The Federal Government is currently reviewing refugee and normal migration to Australia. Colleen McGuiness-Howard spoke to three refugee families in Perth and found why Australia should continue to welcome the world's oppressed.

Out of the mouths of babes: God helps E

xploding grenades shattered the peace of the Bosnian town of Bugojno . . and it too, was reluctantly dragged into the active war zone. The ferocious bringers of death and destruction rained down their grenades, day and night, killing and maiming anything they could reach. The war to date hadn't touched Bugojno, where the Gaspar family of Perth's Hamilton Hill once lived. But when the Serbs attacked, grenades were dropped at the rate of anything up to 500 In a day. Escape was the only answer . . . . but not for all, because the men had to stay behind to defend their town, so all the women and children had to be evacuated as soon as possible. Ivona Gaspar, nearly six at the time, knew there was something strange going on. The telephone kept ringing and ringing and her parents 'phoning out urgently to find out what was happening with their friends and relatives. Many had fled the town. And 20 days after the Serbian onslaught, the Gaspar family's chance came too. Watching her parents frantically packing, Ivona was told they were to leave the next day for the Adriatic Sea coast in Croatia. "where there are no explosions."

Ivo and lvanka Gaspar at home with daughters Nona, centre, and twins Martina and Marina It was 1993, and buses were all lined up to evacuate women and children, with 20,000 people trying desperately to flee - "but all sad, with many crying," Ivona recollected. Ivo stayed behind to fight the defence while his family escaped to Croatia, not knowing if he'd ever see them again. Ivanka had little Ivona and her twin little sisters Marina and Martina still in nappies, with

whatever food and clothes they could carry. In the Croatian town of Split they were housed with 5,000 other women and children in a sports stadium. After three days, a lucky break saw them offered a house to share with another family at the seaside in Stobrec, and they remained there for two-anda-half years until their emigration to Australia. Meanwhile. Ivo, after 15 days in

a Serb concentration camp with 1,500 prisoners, was released in a prisoner swap. He did not see his family for 17 months, but his family considblessed themselves ered "because our Dad is still alive." The Gaspar family had spent a two month holiday in Australia in 1989 with Ivo's brother. So, when his brother sponsored him to Australia 20 months ago. it was not to an unknown land.

Since then Ivo has obtained a truck licence and is looking for work The family live in Hamilton Hill. not far from Christ the King school, Beaconsfield where their three beautiful daughters attend. Ivona is now almost ten and has already won an award in the Education Department's multicultural book competition for her story My Journey to Australia. written in Croatian, from which some of this article was constructed. The twins are now six, and the girls are very happy to be here "with lots of friends." Even though they have lost relatives, friends, and their former home and so - from one point of view "have lost everything" - in fact they believe they have everything because they have found freedom, live in a nice home with a good standard of living and a great education for their children. "Do you think God had anything to do with your safe escape from the war, and freedom you now have?" I ask the girls. Captivating little Martina with her great big eyes looks at me and says simply: "Yes." I counter with: "Are you sure?" And once more that clear, confident truth which usually only comes from a child: "Yes."

Ongs await one more Australia's opportunities make up for three years of the pain of separation

The Ong family in Morley: happy to be in Australia

he Vietnamese Ong family of Morley spent just over six years in a refugee camp in Malaysia before being sponsored to Australia through the endeavours of Sister Mary Keely RSM who, along with other Australian Catholic religious, work in refugee camps in southeast Asia to alsist the people and arrange sponsorships. Chin, father of the family, used to work in the rice fields in Vietnam. Together with his wife, Ho!, their 20-year-old son, Son, who is keen to learn English and "get a good job" and 18-year-old daughter, Hanh, with her 11month-old baby girl, Han, were Initially refused acceptance by America. But, with the help of Sr Keely, Catholic Vietnamese the Community arranged their sponsorship to Australia. They arrived in Perth, on 9 November last year and were placed in the care of the Department's Immigration

Community Refugee Settlement Scheme (CRSS) which grants money to refugees to help them with food, rent, furniture, bedding, kitchen utensils and general household basics for two weeks. They also had the solid support of the chaplain to the Vietnamese Community as pastoral worker and coordinator of CRSS work with Vietnamese, Sr Patricia Byrne RNDM, who helps them with such things as the paper work needed to bring out the baby's father who was screened out and now back in Vietnam. Sr Patricia also helps in getting the family acquainted with Social Security, the Commonwealth Employment Service, and other assistance venues and is there to help them in any way she can. The Ong family, who are now studying English, were caught on their first attempt to leave South Vietnam, but succeeded in their second escape attempt and say they are very happy to be in Australia.

t was 1987 - and Alfred Odongkara had only seconds to save his life in a decision which saw him flee from Uganda. There was no time to inform the family he left behind, so it was three years of pain in the silent gulf of separation that followed. It was only after three years in a Kenyan refugee camp that he was able to get a message through to his wife Leonora, daughter Irene, and sons Kenneth, Francis, and Ronald to tell them he was alive. He was able to come to Australia in February 1993 through the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. His family joined him in 1994 and they now live in Willetton. Leonora and Alfred are happy to be safe here, and with the opportunities educational Alfred and their children have "which back home, wouldn't be possible."

Alfred and Leonora and family in Willetton

Network of religious always ready to help

core group of religious in are archdiocese the involved in hands-on ministry with refugees from the time they step onto Australian soil. Our Lady of the Missions' Sister Patricia Byrne works with the Vietnamese community as pastoral worker and coordinator of the with activity CRSS Vietnamese. Her congregational sister, Sr Veronica Martin, works in the Willetton parish with the CRSS group, mainly with Salvadorians. losephite Sister Margaret Ng works mainly with the Chinese community and does pastoral

work with migrants and refugees from Malaysia, Singapore, China and with Indonesian Catholic youth. Geoff Christian Brother Seaman is a member of the St Vincent de Paul CRSS. Brigidine Sister Bernice Tonkin works with the Association for Service to Torture and Trauma Survivors, and is also a community worker with the Horn of Africa communities. Redemptorist Father Peter 'Ilan is involved with the Vietnamese community. Mercy Sister Kaye Bolwell works with a CRSS group and is

a member of Mercy Refugee Service Committee. Mercy Sister Mary Keely has just returned from working in a refugee camp in Malaysia. Good Samaritan Sister Tania de Jong speaks Singhalese and works at the Catholic Migrant Centre. Another Good Samaritan. Sister Joan Paul. speaks some Hindi, Tamil and French and works in placing migrant children in Catholic schools North of the River. Scalabrinian Father Adrian Pittarello coordinates the archdiocese's migration and refugee services.

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Will you help children escape perpetual poverty? In remote areas of India thousands of children are prisoners of extreme poverty and want to be rescued. Their parents are uneducated, lack employment and are unable to provide children life's basic needs: 3 healthy meals a day, adequate housing, medical care and education. The children have only 1 or 2 meals a day consisting of maize and rice and anything edible from the jungle. These meals lack nutrition and leave children weak and prone to hunger and malnutrition and to all kinds of sickness, some fatal. Children want to live but they suffer and die in great numbers. Ignorance of basic health care and lack of a medical centre contribute to a tragic toll. Most deaths were medically avoidable. Of those who survive 5 years many will live on with ill health and poor growth, unable to develop to their full mental and physical potential, unable in later years to adequately contribute to the f amilies they will have or to the communities in which they live. No rescue programmes can make progress without the input of education! An uneducated community is a deprived community, a suffering community, unable to cope with problems, unable to know what to do. Without education these children will continue to live in perpetual poverty. Since 1951 more than 50 Australian and New Zealand Jesuits have spent most of their lives caring for poverty stricken families in isolated and depressed areas of India. The challenges facing the Jesuits were, and still are, enormously difficult. On the personal level they had to learn a difficult language, adapt to a vastly different culture and living conditions, and endure an incredibly hot and harsh climate.

Behind each missionary there is a record of great courage a nd endurance. Many have experienced long periods of isolation and loneliness. Meeting the urgent needs of thousands of desperately poor, hungry, malnourished, sick and uneducated people has been and still is a monumental problem. Much has been achieved with the aid of Indian priests and nuns, teachers and health workers, and thousands of benefactors here in Australia and in New Zealand. Every aspect of the Jesuit Mission is to educate people to help themselves and take control of their lives. Thousands of families now have better food and better health and live with purpose and hope. They are so grateful for the love, understanding and guidance shown them. But there are tens of thousands of neglected families desperately needing help in remote areas where there is no education or medical aid. Life in those areas is incredibly hard. Families have a bitter struggle to exist, to get enough food and water, to find employment. People from these areas come to the Jesuits for help. We need your prayers and financial assistance to help them. Their basic human needs and rights must be met.

No beds for children so they sleep on floor mats and share a cotton blanket. When the winter temperatures drop below 10 'C many children develop pneumonia and struggle to survive.

Water cannot always be spared for washing up so this mother, like many others, cleans her pots and plates with DIRT, an unhygienic practice which f requently makes families very sick.

A look at what lifers like in India's remote villages Visiting remote villages in India is like going back in time. It is tough getting there on rough jungle tracks. The life style of the people has not changed in centuries. Progress has not come to them because no one has so far helped them. If only you could see and experience the conditions affecting their lives. Families try to survive on what they can grow and what edible food they can find in the jungle. This provides 2 meagre meals a day for perhaps 5 months. Until the next harvest 7 months later families have just 1 meal a day. These meals lack nutrition and leave children weak and prone to hunger and malnutrition and to all kinds of sickness, some fatal. It is amongst the poorest and the most uneducated that the needs are greatest. The poorer the family the greater the r isks of low birth weight and malnutrition, of diarrhoeal diseases and respiratory infections, of poor growth and early death. Without education mothers are powerless to improve their own or their children's lives. They need to k now how to combat the many threats to the health of their children.

Water is one of their greatest problems as survival depends to a great extent on what they can grow. Each year they face serious food shortages because of fickle monsoons, lack of water resources and unscientific farming. Every drop of water for

household use has to be carried in. Several times a day, in all weathers, women walk long distances, some up to 2 kilometres, carrying heavy loads of water back to their dwellings for family use. Over 50% of the water is polluted.

Above is a typical village dwelling where the average family of 5 children live and struggle to survive. These 'homes' comprise 1 or 2 rooms made of mud walls and mud floors with roof tiles laid on bamboo and timber supports. During heavy rain the floors become muddy. These 'homes' are devoid of furniture and comfort. Food is prepared on the floor and cooked on a mud stove. Household possessions include a few cooking pots, some glasses and plates and several food and water containers. There is no electricity, sewerage or laid on water. Mothers are affected by hunger and malnutrition. Their babies are born in humble dwellings without the assistance of a doctor or nurse who would protect the infants from unhygienic conditions and practices. During pregnancy they have no medical check-ups, no advice to eat more and rest more. No advice to curtail water carrying, wood collection and eliminate casual labouring jobs. Most are ignorant about hygiene, nutrition and how to care for new born babies.

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A Community Care Centre helps to provide vital aid for thousands of needy people.

Please help us establish Care Centres in isolated areas to save children and aid destitute families Our Mission is situated in a vast backward region with over 10,500 villages with minimal or non-existent facilities. Trying to bring aid to isolated villages is a colossal problem. Many areas have no roads. Travelling on rough tracks is slow and tough on personnel and vehicles, particularly in the heat. Many priests and nuns walk long distances on foot — there is no other way. Caring for people in isolated areas from distant establishments is not practical. It is essential that we live and work among people crying out for our help. Priests and nuns have appealed for funds to establish clinics, mother/child health care centres and schools where isolated families can be helped to help themselves. A $50 donation is worth more than 10 times that amount in our mission region. Whatever you can give will be greatly appreciated. Donations are tax deductible. May God bless you and be assured of a special place in the masses and prayers of our missionaries and from the poor families you help. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

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Education is a basic human right giving children ability, hope, dignity and an eagerness to succeed.

Please make cheques payable to: "Australian Jesuit Mission Overseas Aid Fund" and post to: National Director, Father Tom O'Donovan, SJ., Australian Jesuit Mission in India, P.O. Box 193, North Sydney, 2059.

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Book Reviews

Substance beneath the cardigan Fostering Our Relationship with God: Sure beats Selling Cardigans!", by Patrick O'Sullivan SJ, published by David Lovell. 12ipp. Reviewed by Br Luke Saker FMS

hen I picked this book up to read with the aim of reviewing it! did so with a little hesitation.

Why? There have been more books written on "Developing a relationship with God" than stars in the sky or sand on the sea-shore. Add to this, the sub-title of Fr O'Sullivan's book, 'sure beats selling cardigans' and. perhaps, you can understand my rather hesitant approach. As I started to read the book I became less hesitant and more and more intrigued. From the Introduction, the reader is immediately drawn into what Fr O'Sullivan is saying with his easygoing style, and with the depth of his reasoning. Fr O'Sullivan is a former Provincial of the Jesuits who, at the present time, is the Jesuit Tertian Instructor. His other roles have been retreat director at the Campion Centre, Melbourne and editor of the popular magazine Madonna. Any relationship, in order to deepen, must be based on trust and dialogue. This is no different from our relationship with God. If our relationship with God is not an 'on-going' developing relationship then it becomes stagnant and non-productive. If I say 'good morning' to you every morning and 'good evening' to you every evening without any further dialogue during the (lay, it may be said that I am an acquaintance of yours but, as for a relationship, well, that's another question. Fr O'Sullivan, by unfolding the Spiritual Exercises of the founder of the Jesuits, St Ignatius of Loyola. in readable and sequential order, allows the reader to slowly see how one is able to enjoy and develop 'Our unique relationship with God'. Even in our busy world of the 90's. We live in a world of non-stop noise. From the moment we get up in the morning to the time we go to bed in the evening most of us are surrounded by "noise'. The radio, the television, the telephone, etc. Some of us do likewise with God. We speak at him non-stop - I sometimes wonder if God does not put on ear-muffs at our constant barrage. Now, if any relationship is a two-way

street, then dialogue must also be twoway: "Be still and know that I am God". In two moving chapters: Intimacy and Prayer, and Prayer of the Heart, Fr O'Sullivan guides the reader through a strategy on how to develop this personal, intimate relationship. When our prayer grows, there can be moments when we experience a certain stillness and silence. Prayer does change

Repetition and dated entries hide pearls The Genesee Diary, by Henri J. Nouwen. Publisher: Charles Paine. Reviewed by Steve Johnson

The joys of contributing to Christian civilisation by having a large family The Large Family - A Blessing and a Challenge by Dr Eugene F Diamond. Ignatius Press, 1996. Reviewed by Phil Dudley.

he book is a reprint of Henri J. Nouwen's diary entries during his stay at the Genesee Abbey in New York in 1974. I was enlightened by his spiritual discoveries and also enjoyed the fact that Henri is human, and has weaknesses like anyone else. His discoveries included: • The contemplative life involves giving over all your moods and attachments and making God your centre. • The essential aspects of prayer include liturgy, spiritual reading and manual work. If work does not lead to God we no longer realise our vocation to pray to God without ceasing. • Discovering we are lovable because it is God's love that dwells in us and that we can reach out to others who manifest this love in their unique way. I felt the spiritual discoveries were worth reading, but found the entries on his daily work boring and felt too much of the book was spent on these entries.

our heart and it enables it to be still. A busy heart wants to hold on and possess, but a still heart can let go. (Page 32) In any relationship there is 'dryness' where communication becomes impossible. This is the 'desert' experience of the relationship. Well, then, if our relationship with God is to be personal there are times when it too will experience 'dryness': "I just don't

As a reprint I found it was dated, mentioning 1970's world issues often. This made it irrelevant to today's situation. I believe the publishers could have produced a much smaller book, concentrating on Henri's spiritual discoveries. I also found the spiritual discoveries repeated themselves, so could have been summarised once. And I would rather have read a summary of his journey to the Abbey, rather than a narrative of his seven month stay.

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seem to be able to pray." "God does not seem to be there for me." This is the desert experience that the 16th century Spanish mystic and found of the Discalced Carmelite nuns, St Teresa of Avila, speaks of so beautifully. Fr O'Sullivan in the chapter, On being Stuck, helps us to come to grips with this dryness and, like St Teresa and St Ignatius, use it to further develop this continuing relationship with God. One of the reasons we become stuck in a relationship is because we 'de-self ourselves. If we don't bring our true self - our inner self - to a relationship and connect with the other person on the level of our truth, the relationship is bound to go haywire. This is not a book to read from cover to cover. It is a book to mediate on, pray with, and, as Fr O'Sullivan says "to discern". I found that as I read the book I would stop at a particular phrase or passage and reread it a number of times and then use the thought as a means of prayer. This would be an ideal book for a retreat or a prayer-day. It is a book that one could keep near one's bed-side table and use from time to time to help us develop our personal relationship with God. It would also be useful for religious education teachers in helping them to prepare their class for prayer or to help a class to see that their relationship with God should grow and change as they grow and change. If teenagers still have the same relationship with God that they had when they were 6 or 7, is it any wonder that their relationship with God becomes "stagnant". "distant" and "non-relational"? The same may he said about adults. Fr O'Sullivan, in easy to read prose, helps us to see how we may foster our relationship with God. As he writes: "The best way to find Jesus in our daily lives is for our relationship with him to be the motive for what we do . . . . When Jesus is the motive, whatever we do deepens our relationship with him. and so we are united with him - find him - no matter what we are doing." (Page 114) This is certainly a book for all people who wish to develop their relationship with God - and is that not what the Christian Life is all about? Go out and buy a copy - your life will be better for the journey with Fr Patrick O'Sullivan Sj.

hy does a married couple have a large family? "The ultimate answer is for the greater glory of God," according to Dr Diamond, a father of 13 children and a practicing paediatrician for forty years. While it is true that "the child in a large family will be socially shaped by a greater number of diverse individuals", he acknowledges that "not everyone is inclined to or capable of parenting a large family". However, "the child from a large family will have an outlook different and complementary to that of the only child". He openly admits, "my real success as a father, consists in my genius in choosing the mother of my children". In a letter he wrote to her when they had their large. growing family at home he recalls, "My Darling, I am writing to tell you of my abiding

desire to be a better husband and father", for life had became "a rosary of hours, but there was more to love than each other. "I remember you great with child, like a loving monstrance filled with life. "Each new child a proof of our love for each other. "Each new child a share in the mystery of creation. "Each new child fulfilling the symbolism of the Trinity within our marriage." As a father of 6 young children, I found particular interest in the chapters The Father of the Large Family and his wise counsel in The Adolescent in a Large Family. "Wise parents", he claims, "will acknowledge this gradual unfolding of adolescent intelligence by including young people in serious discussion about the larger problems of life and in the family decision-making process". Aside from his depth of wisdom and experience, Dr good fatherly Diamond's humour reveals that the "unpar-

donable sin is to shirk a duty that has been loyally performed by a succession of siblings 'when they were your age'." We readily identified with his observation that "many mothers of large families attest to a kind of social ostracism that used to be reserved for women pregnant out of wedlock. The ultimate trial is to endure the interrogation: "Are you pregnant again, dear?" One of our friends responded: "No, I'm, carrying this one for a friend!" He reassures us that "bright, airy responses like 'Isn't it wonderful!' or 'Aren't I lucky!' will disappoint most busybodies". The chapter on the myth of over-population is excellent. This little gem will be eagerly sought after by all parents groping to raise children in these confusing times. I read this book in one sitting, then re-read it more selectively the next day. The book's easy conversational style and wisdom makes it an ideal gift.

Features

Perth's Manila mission on a wing and a prayer Perth's Holy Spirit of Freedom community founder Frank Feain has recently been in the Philippines helping set up the community's mission in the Philippines' capital city of Manila with community members Elena _ and Michael. Here are excerpts from his report of life in Manila in the community's Pentecost 1996 newsletter.

are also asking God now for another house. Doesn't that seem to be the case wherever we go! And God - through someone's generosity - always provides. We give thanks to Him for His never ending Providence, love and care, and for the many who so generously respond to His promptings through the years. . . . . We have been assured that May is the worst time of year to come to Manila and I believe it! The temperature ranges from a daily minimum of 253C to a maximum of 33 - 35. Much of the time during the day, we are drenched with perspiration as the humidity hovers near the 90 per cent mark. Thanks be to God, the rains have come about three weeks early, which does bring relief for a few hours - and also brings some spectacular storms, and lightning displays. I have been told though, that these are as nothing compared with the real storms that will hit in the typhoon season. Back from the struggles with nature to the struggle with humanity! One of the saddest experiences I have had is visiting

around the necks. Bibles on beds, holy pictures above beds. Sr Teresa has been coming here for 19 years, and apparently there has been an extraordinary transformation in the jail since she began visiting. She is so obviously loved, as prisoners flock to her once we get past all the security guards, and they call her name with great love and respect. One area we have not yet gone into, although Sister often does, and we will, is the caged in area we saw, with the men looking through the bars, which is for the 1300 men who have been sentenced to death! Not sure how I will cope with my emotions when we begin going in there! But I trust that, when we do, Cod will use us to bring His hope and love to some. Our first night on the street. though rushed because I left the front door key at home, took us to the area where whole families live and sleep amongst the rubbish on the city streets. We are not quite sure how we will "break in" to be accepted by them, but we know Cod will go ahead of us and prepare

ear community and friends, Praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever. Last night Jeremiah came to my room and gave me a fruit drink. Then several minutes later he came back with Aridl and Val and together they gave me a meat roll. I was both hungry and thirsty as I languished in bed, stricken by some tropical malaise. So I was grateful. But way beyond that, I was deeply touched. You see, these three are about six to nine years old (who can know for certain?!) and have come to us over the past few weeks, having been abandoned on the streets. No one seems to know where they have come from. We have five such little boys in the house Elena. Michael and I live in - and seven older boys and young men. Sr Teresa has another 12 in the other house. The third house is the quiet house, which includes the Divine Mercy Perpetual Adoration the hospital wards in the maximum secu- the way when He deems the time is right . . .. Every time we go out any distance, we rity jail in Muntinlupa. chapel. either witness the poverty of the squats: long describe to able am I sure not am I I reason the Back to my drink story, and was so deeply touched. The boys had just the misery we see there, or my own feel- stretches of lean-to houses (again, a been down to the subdivision shrine to ings about it. There is a ward for the dying euphemism), with a sea of humanity withjoin in the rosary that is being said daily at - we prayed with the men there, a ward for out any comforts at all. The most amazing section is along the 5.30pm during Mary's month, May. It is led those with leprosy, a cancer ward, a ward for those with mental illness, and some railway line - for many kilometres. The by three teenage girls. houses go right to the track itself, and the At the end of the rosary each day, they wards for general illnesses. It seems to me that hospital is a lines are the children's playground. distribute drinks and small "goodies" to eat. So Jeremiah and his little friends had euphemism to describe these wards. Apparently, and I suppose inevitably, chiltheir own food and drink, and which are more like run-down barracks. dren are killed every now and then by a In the ward for those mentally ill, there are train. then brought some back to me. On perhaps a brighter note, Elena and I about 95 patients, and about 40 beds. a Such kindness and thoughtfulness by six-year-old who came to us only two Those who don't have a bed sleep on the joined Father Polinar at their first selfgiven School of Evangelisation in the hills. weeks ago, who hasn't a clue who his par- concrete floor. In the other wards I had to fight back my We went door knocking in a small, huments are, who was sick all the way in the car that brought him to us, will stay with tears as we distributed biscuits, chocolates ble village: and what a delightful experime forever .... The big challenge facing Sr and powdered milk, and prayed with ence this was. We split up and went with Teresa at present is to get all the new boys some who so desired. Their gratitude two others, so our inability to speak into a Catholic school by the time school almost overwhelmed me. In fact, the tears Tagalog was not such a handicap. We prayed most of the time whilst our did flow readily after we left. commences on June 3. It was beautiful to see so much evident companions spoke of the love of Jesus. There are two difficulties: they need some basic English. and the education is piety in those stark wards: paintings of What struck me most was the rapt attenvery expensive. So we are working on the Christmas (Christian) scenes on the walls. tion the majority gave as the new evangefirst. Sister is working on the second. We rosary beads hanging up and being worn lists spoke so enthusiastically about how

Frank Feain in Perth last year

their listeners too could commit themselves to following Jesus in a deeper way. .... And then an even greater joy was the Healing Mass at 4.00pm in the village chapel . . . . After Mass, Fr Polinar introduced Elena and I as missionaries from Australia. and we were invited to join the group who was to pray over the people. This also was a wonderful experience, as people of all ages came forth. The first one was a small boy, who ever so gently almost floated to the ground to rest in The Spirit. I am always touched when the little children rest in the Spirit. There are no theological hang-ups, or mental philosophical discussions within their little minds. When The Holy Spirit touched them, they respond. ... . The type of poverty we meet here is a very real and obvious to our eyes. There is extreme material poverty here, the like of which we would not see in Australia. And yet, by and large people here are happy and smiling, and appear to have a hope that is lacking amongst those we help back home . . . . And yet the ministry itself offers rewards that we rarely experience in Perth, Melbourne, Pemberton or wherever else we have tried to bring God's love . . . . There truly is. amongst the street-people in Australia, a poverty of spirit that we have not yet seen here. People here are hungry to be prayed over. Wherever we go there seems to be this desire for prayer. And because we love praying, this is itself its own reward. . . . . During my time here in the Philippines.I haVe pondered deeply several passages from Luke: "In trust I tell you. there is no one who has left house, wife. brothers, parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of Cod who will not receive many times as much in this present age. and in the world to come, eternal life" (Luke 18:28-30) and "If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me. Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it. What benefit is it to win the whole world and forfeit or lose his very self' (Luke 9:23-25). When we make a decision to leave the familiar, to go away from those we love simply because we believe God is calling, then the words of Jesus take on new meaning in our lives. And what Paul wrote to the Corinthians becomes a great source of encouragement: "None of the trials which have come upon you is more than a human being can stand. You can trust that Cod will not let you be put to the test beyond your strength, but with any trial will also provide a way out by enabling you to put up with it (1 Cor 10:13). Many times here I have felt I could take no more. And so I turn again to Cod, and in Him I find my comfort. My prayer for all this Pentecost is that, as we turn to Cod in our good times and in our bad, the Holy Spirit will come upon us anew to strengthen and encourage us, to lead and guide us, to enlighten and empower us, so that we may continue to walk in the light of His love, and so go forth to touch the poor and needy with a Poverty in Manila: a baby lies in a bin next to tomatoes, onions and potatoes at a public market in Manila last year. The baby's parents, who own new hope in Jesus Christ. Amen. Cod bless you all. Love Frank the vegetable stand, said they did not have enough money for a nursemaid to look after the baby while they operate their stand. Photo CNSI3euters

The beauty of evident piety: Christian paintings, rosary beads around necks, Bibles on beds, holy pictures

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To Jesus through Mary. . . .

. . . a column of Marian devotion

ermot Lee, a recent convert, had white, blue and pink enamel paint, apparbeen listening, with what he con- ently laid on by an inexperienced hand. sidered most meritorious patience, There was no expression on the face while his old school friend, Miles Waring, beyond a certain simpering prettiness, brought out the usual stock phrases while the eyes had been blurred over, as if regarding the glamour which the Catholic in despair of obtaining the right effect. Church is supposed to cast over her "The statue was unmercifully scrubbed votaries by every appeal to the senses, and by some over-zealous soul when the especially by all that music, painting and chapel was cleaned,- explained Dermot, "and Miss Smythe, a parishioner, offered sculpture can supply. "Suppose you come and see the extent of to paint it - with the result you can see for the glamour for yourself!" said Dermot at yourself." last, after an inward struggle . . . . The little. But at that moment - it was evidently the church, which had made all the difference theological rather than the artistic side of in his life since he had been received the question that Miles was considering. there a few weeks before, was certainly "You worship the Virgin Mary, don't you, lacking all these things, and Miles was an and pray a good deal to Her!" "We ask Her to pray for us. Didn't your artist of no mean standing, would realise mother ever pray for you?" returned this. Dermot pushed open the door of the Dermot, rather on the defensive . . . . Miles allowed the last remark to be church near which they had been standing, and, having blessed himself and gen- passed over in silence. He had drawn uflected, he looked round to see what nearer to examine the statue, and as he impression was being produced on Miles' did so, a locket he wore on his watchchain fell into the piscina which was kept sensitive perceptions. "It is rather terrible." replied the artist, in supplied with Lourdes water. The locket contained a miniature of his response to his friend's questioning glance, and, lowering his voice: You are young mother, who had died when he was avenged and I take back what I said - in scarcely 7-year-old. He now blinked away this case, at all events, the attraction evi- the water which had splashed up into his eyes, and having retrieved the locket, hung dently does not lie in externals." And you haven't seen the worst yet," it again on his chain. A sudden inspiration had come to Miles: said Dermot, leading the way to a side chapel where there was a representation "Do you think your priest would let me try my hand at re-painting the statue?" was of the Grotto at Lourdes. The statue of Our Lady was glaring with his unexpected remark.

Denial of Immaculate Conception 'separates' By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) Those who do not believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary was free from original sin have separated themselves from the Catholic faith. Pope John Paul II said. Pope Pius IX solemnly proclaimed the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception in 1854 after widespread consultation with the world's bishops and with a commission of theological experts, the Pope said on June 12. Within the context of examining Mary's role in salvation history, Pope John Paul had spent several weeks explaining the doctrine during his weekly general audiences. Tanned from an unannounced escape on June 11 to the woods of Gran Sasso outside Rome, the Pope met German- and Polishspeakers in St Peter's Basilica and thousands of visitors from

At that moment a short elderly priest came towards them, "Here is Father O'Grady himself, you can ask him," said Dermot. Dermot introduced his friend to the priest, who was at once told of the subject under discussion. "But, please, take no notice of my proposal, if you would rather not," added Miles. "You would probably not care to place the statue in the hands of any but a Catholic." "There are those who belong to the soul of the Church as well as those who belong to the body . . . ." Father was beginning, when Miles humbly interposed. "And those like myself who belong to neither! My friend will be able to tell you what an arrant unbeliever I am." Father was silent for a moment, but it was only a moment. "Our Lady would like you to paint Her statue," he then said, with as much decision as if he was transmitting the expression of a wish just made to him . . "Didn't your mother ever pray for you?" Miles had been asked that question, and the question had recalled to him with vivid freshness how as a small lad he had more than once half opened sleepy eyes to see his mother bending over his bed, and had heard the gently whispered words: "God bless my little son!" ,.. .He was still back again in those days before his mother was taken from him, when he fell asleep that night after his visit to the little church, and, in his dreams.

he was a child again, lost in the darkness, where dim, unclean shapes lurked ready to spring out upon him. "Mother!" he cried out in terror, and his cry for help was of instant avail. He awoke to see the darkness dispelled by a light of purest radiance and in its midst stood the most beautiful woman he had ever seen; he was conscious of being wrapped around with all the strength and security of love - the love of God's Mother, Who was his Mother, too. When the statue was restored to its place in the church, it appeared of almost unearthly beauty to all who knelt at the grotto. Only Miles was dissatisfied with his work, for only he knew how far it fell short from the beauty of his inward vision. During the month of June of that year. Dermot met Miles again. "I remembered you are just off to Switzerland," said Dermot. "You're right about my leaving town tomorrow," replied Miles. "But I've changed my plans and am going to Lourdes instead to offer my services as brancardier for a month or so. It is the least I can do for Our Lady after all She has done for me in bringing me Home. Father O'Grady received me into the Church yesterday, and I don't forget that it's partly owing to you. Reprinted from the April 1995 issue of the Ave Maria magazine of the WA Garabandal Centre.

Missionaries return from life in the anarchy of Liberia's danger zone By Peter Finney Jr

NEW ORLEANS (CNS) - After leaving anarchy and bloodshed behind in Liberia in early June, Salesian Father John Thompson arrived in New Orleans with only the clothes he was wearing: a print shirt, ragged sneakers, and torn. faded blue jeans with a secret compartment for hiding money. Before embarking on a summer in missionary appeal the Archdiocese of New Orleans, he bought black shoes and black jeans. "I want to look respectable," said Father Thompson, 45, a forthe rest of the world in the Paul mer teacher at Archbishop Shaw VI Audience Hall. High School in the archdiocese. Asserting that Mary's freedom Most Americans and other misfrom sin was a "doctrine revealed sionaries left Liberia in recent by God." Pope Pius declared that months because of escalating it must be "firmly and constantly violence in the country's long believed by all the faithful." Pope civil war. But Father Thompson is one of John Paul said. handful of Salesian priests, two a "Consequently, one who does of them from the United States. not make the teaching his own. or who holds an opinion contrary who remained in Monrovia. the to it. 'founders in the faith' and Liberia's capital. throughout fighting. A US nun stayed on as 'separates himself from Catholic well. unity." the Pope said. He had told his parishioners at The 1854 proclamation did not St John Church and his students say that Mary was the only per- at Don Bosco Technical School son God had preserved from sin that he wouldn't leave unless the from the moment of concep- fighting ceased. tion, "however, that can be intuit"Four days before I was scheded from it," he said. uled to leave, the fighting It wasn't until 99 years later that stopped." he told the Clarion Pope Pius XII said Mary's Herald, newspaper of the New Immaculate Conception was a Orleans Archdiocese. "very singular privilege which "But it is very much tentative." was never accorded to another Monrovia has been calm since the end of May. person," Pope John Paul said.

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During his six-week stay in New Orleans, the priest will spend time with family, especially his mother, Ursula Thompson. a parishioner at St Andrew the Apostle. "My mother has been more concerned about me than anyone else." the priest said. "I think my family is very concerned, but they know this is what I want to do and have been called to do." In Liberia since 1982, Father Thompson has seen the horrors of ethnic conflict and its effects even on his students. He recalled how his students had staged a passion play this year on April 5. Good Friday. One student was particularly impressive as Satan. The next day, that student - along with five others - was killed "because

of his tribe" by members of a rival faction. Father Thompson said. Artillery and mortar fire that had begun in the middle of the night continued on Holy Saturday. -We were expecting to go to Church and prepare for Easter Sunday." he said. "but there was no way we could leave the compound." The fighting was so intense. some parishioners asked to come inside the complex. which is surrounded by an 11-foot cement wall, the priest said. But he advised against it because of a 1990 massacre of 600 people who had sought refuge inside a Lutheran church. The armed teens who scaled the walls first asked the priests for food and money. but soon confiscated cars and began ransacking the living quarters. -That's when we knew it was time for us to move to the Catholic hospital," he said. respected fighters) "(The that hospital throughout. It was a little bit of luck and a lot of prayers, because they didn't respect all of the hospitals." Father Thompson and the other Salesians, along with Bernardine Sister Miriam Sepkowslci from Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Spanish members of the Hospitaller Order of St John of God, took refuge at St Joseph's Hospital in Monrovia. The priest had been in danger before. In 1985, he was jailed for five days for voicing support for government opposition forces.

US theologians fire off missiles to bishops over McBrien issue SAN DIEGO (CNS) - US Catholic theologians were urged to prepare for the 21st century by restoring the study of the natural world to its proper place in theology at their recent annual meeting. The meeting was marked by significant dissent from resolutions that raised questions about the basis on which Pope John Paul H ruled out women's ordination. "There is a vital theme largely absent from the thinking of most North American theologians, namely, the whole world as The Record, June 20 1996 Page 12

God's good creation," St Joseph Sister Elizabeth Johnson said in her presidential address on June 9 at the annual convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America. During its meeting in San Diego from June 6-9 the society discussed a study paper that raises critical questions about the doctrinal authority and basis in Christian tradition of the Vatican position that, as a matter of faith, the Church has no authority whatsoever to ordain women

to the priesthood. Society members have been asked to discuss the paper and submit comment over the next nine months. At its business meeting on June 7 the society approved a resolution deploring the recent decision of the US bishops' Committee on Doctrine not to grant Father Richard McBrien of the University of Notre Dame the formal doctrinal dialogue he requested before the committee issued a staff review critical of the theologian's book, "Catholicism." Sister Johnson told

Catholic News Service that the resolutions passed on voice votes, with majorities of about 80 to 90 percent. But Father Matthew Lamb of Boston College, who opposed the resolutions and the study paper on women's ordination, told CNS he thought as many as onefourth of those at the business meeting voted against the resolutions. He said he was circulating a memo calling for polling by mail of all Society members.

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Rare Patriarchal interview on East-West dialogue By Cindy Wooden ISTANBUL Turkey (CNS) - In a written response to questions, Patriarch Bartholomew I spoke of Catholic "triumphalism" in Eastern Europe and what he termed the Vatican's hasty and superficial efforts to deal with Catholic-Orthodox tensions. The patriarch, "first among equals" explained in a June 10 meeting in his office in the Phanar neighbourhood that everything he had to say about relations Catholic-Orthodox would be found in his written response. Elected to the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1991, Patriarch Bartholomew held his first meeting as patriarch with Pope John Paul II in June 1995. The two leaders, before jointly blessing a crowd in St Peter's Square. promised their Churches would replace the rivalries of the past with a new spirit of cooperation and brotherhood. Unfortunately, he said, he could cite no "undeniable signs of

progress" made since the meeting. But, a year is not much time. It does not mean there is a lack of desire on either side, he said in his written response - contact and cooperation is ongoing. Patriarch Bartholomew will send a delegation to Rome for the June 29 feast of Sts Peter and Paul, just as Pope John Paul sends a delegation to Istanbul for the feast of the patriarchate's patron, St Andrew. One item the delegation is expected to discuss with Vatican officials is the timing and agenda for the next meeting of the international Catholic-Orthodox theological dialogue. Australian Cardinal Edward Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, had told CNS in late May that the June 13-20 meeting had been postponed at the request of the Orthodox. The cardinal said that while they were trying to heal a rift between the patriarchates of Constantinople and Moscow over the status of the Estonian Orthodox Church. Orthodox offi-

cials did not have time to prepare for the dialogue meeting. Internal Orthodox disputes, Patriarch Bartholomew said, "indeed make smooth cooperation and common fraternal action more difficult." However, he said, "it would be unfair and untrue" to say the dialogue was postponed exclusively because of problems between the Orthodox churches. "The postponement of the meeting is mainly due to the misinterpretation and abuse of the conciliatory Christian spirit manifested by the Orthodox in the Balamand document." he said. The Balamand document is a series of guidelines issued by the dialogue commission in 1993 to help settle disputes over property and Church membership in Eastern Europe. Patriarch Bartholomew said some of the continuing problems could be blamed on "certain narrow-minded negative criticism by Orthodox super-conservative or fanatic elements." However, he said, most of the trouble is due "to the entirely

Pope praises U 'right to housing' link to families By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - While Pope John Paul II praised the UN Habitat II conference for recognising a "right to housing." the Vatican delegation at the conference expressed reservations about other conference conclusions. The right to adequate shelter for every individual and his or her family was a key focus of the mid-June conference, which ended in the early hours of June 15 after a marathon negotiating session. The final debates in Istanbul, Turkey, focused on international assistance for housing programs in the developing world and on mentions of "reproductive and sexual health care" in the conference documents' list of essential urban services. The Vatican objected to attempts by the US delegation to increase the references, which without clarification could seem to imply the provision of artificial contraceptives and the availability of abortion. At his midday blessing on June 16, Pope John Paul said the UNsponsored conference's "unanimous affirmation" of the right to housing "gives hope that this natural human aspiration, already

recognised in previous declara- "Because of human dignity, every tions and international commit- person must be guaranteed lodgments, will be increasingly at the ing which is not only a physical centre of the concerns of all shelter, but an adequate place to states. satisfy his or her social, cultural "It would not be legitimate for and spiritual needs," he said. anyone - least of all public Pope John Paul met on June 17 authorities responsible for the with the 14 members of the common good - to ignore the Vatican conference delegation. drama of so many persons and He praised them for their entire families forced to live on the streets or to settle for unpre- efforts to ensure that discussions dictable and inhospitable went beyond bricks and mortar to "what constitutes a home truly refuges," the Pope said. Pope John Paul also said it was worthy of human beings, a home very sad that so many properly adapted to the needs of young people feel forced to post- the family." The Vatican was instrumental pone getting married and starting a family because they cannot in convincing delegates to find a home or a job with ade- replace references to the needs quate pay. of "households" with references "It is good. then, that this to the needs of families. renewed expression of internaThe Vatican delegation worked tional ethical and juridical successfully to obtain recognition understanding. which reaffirms in conference documents of the the right to a home for all, also importance of setting aside land underlines its strict connec- for churches and other places of tion with the right to form a famworship when planning cities. ily and have a job with adequate As with the UN Conference on pay," the Pope said. and the UN Summit on Women He said the proposals on shelter and on making cities more Social Development in 1995, the livable must be placed within the Vatican delegation joined the framework of an international consensus on the Istanbul docueffort to close the gap between ments, but expressed reservarich and poor nations and to tions to reflect Church teaching reduce the inequalities within on the family, abortion and artifithe world's wealthiest countries. cial birth control.

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unexpected exploitation of the ... document by the Roman Catholic side." He did not explain what he meant by exploitation, but he wrote that Vatican officials and local Catholic leaders seem to

view the Balamand document as . . . .a confession of faith." The root of the problem, he said, remains -the burning issue of uniatism." a reference which Catholics consider to be derogatory - to the Easternrite churches which have reestablished union with Rome. In the Catholic-Orthodox dialogue on how to deal with disputes after the fall of communism, Orthodox participants said the very existence of the Easternrite Catholic churches was contrary to the spirit of ecumenism. While Vatican officials agreed partial unions of churches with Rome would not be ecumenically acceptable today, their rights. faith and perseverance of their communities must be respected. they said. "We cannot share, unfortunately, the Vatican's haste and its optimism according to which the question of uniatism has been settled on the basis on the Balamand document in a definitive manner, or at least sufficiently for the time being." Patriarch Bartholomew told CNS.

Make corporate policy more 'family -friendly' CHICAGO (CNS) - Corporal( policies must be viewed through a "family prism" if businesses want to do right by their employees, according to Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago. He said parents already feel the burden of looking after their families, a task heightened by the fact that today, on average, they are forced to spend 40 per cent less time with their children than thirty years ago. For businesses, it means "creating a climate that underCardinal Joseph Bemardin scores the importance of the family so that it permeates brothers and sisters before everything we do." the cardinal God" said in a June 10 address to the Cardinal Bernardin said conNational Conference of Christi- victions about the dignity of each human life and the need ans and Jews in Chicago. "There are times when one's to work for the common good family takes priority over "form the bedrock of Catholic matters," social teaching" and pose three pressing other key ethical questions for both Bernardin said. Cardinal Not minding the needs of corporate America and the families consistently comes church itself: • "What do our policies and back "to haunt us in terms of lost productivity, the erosion of decisions do for our people our employees, our clients or the social order and costly social problems spawned by consumers, our community?" • "What do our policies and the instability of family life." In his address, "Ethics in decisions do to our people?" • "How do our people particiCorporate America: Formula for Success," he suggested that pate in the development of business leaders evaluate their our policies and decisions?" outlined The Cardinal own lives first if they want to better understand the needs of two ethical principles that he said deserve consideration. their employees. One is to judge economic "Employees are a long-term resource in which you and I decisions by "whether they prohave a substantial investment," tect or undermine the dignity of the human persons affected," Cardinal Bernardin said. -When we become more sen- he said. The other is to give employees sitive to their personal needs. when we respect them as fel- an opportunity to participate in low citizens and valuable con- the development of corporate tributors to society, we will dis- policies and decisions that cover that they are, indeed, our affect their lives.

Catholic men gather to consider what their real job as men actually is SiEUBENVILLE, Ohio (CNS) - At the

1996 Catholic Men's Conference at the

Franciscan University of Steubenville, speakers urged 1,000 men to "take the higher ground" in their personal and spiritual lives, in their families and professional lives. "The people who recognise that in themselves they have nothing but debts are the people in whom God can begin a great

work," said Scott Hahn, a theology professor at the university and former evangelical minister who gave the opening talk "What is in your heart to attempt for God?" Hahn asked. "I'm convinced that if you had no fear of failure you would attempt what is in your heart, which is exactly what God wants you to do." Other speakers at the university's second

annual men's conference, held from May live their Catholic faith. "If you really 31-June 2, included: Tom Monaghan, believed that Jesus Christ is with us on founder of Domino's Pizza; Glenn Wagner Sunday," he said, "you wouldn't come late, and Dale Schlafer, vice presidents of and you wouldn't leave early." Promise Keepers; and Danny AbramIn encouraging men to rely on God to owicz, a Steubenville native who is special strengthen their families first, Wood said, teams coach for the Chicago Bears football "I don't want to be in heaven by myself team. I want all of my family with me." Abramowicz urged participants, who "That is my primary job on this earth," included his father and father-in-law, to he added. The Record, June 20 1996 Page 13

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Dole's abortion to and supported fro' costs him support

Good sex education By Patricia Zapor

WASHINGTON (CNS) - A document on sex education issued late last year by the Pontifical Council on the Family should not be interpreted as opposing well-done, Catholic-based sexuality education programs, said a statement from two US bishops' committees. In a two-and-a-half page . 'reflection" on the pontifical council document, the two US committees said the new document "serves only to enhance and not undermine" previous materials on the subject, particularly 1990 guidelines from the US bishops called "Human Sexuality: A Catholic Perspective for Education and Lifelong Learning." The new Vatican document and the 1990 US guidelines "complement one another and affirm both the gift of human sexuality and the role of the parent as primary educator." said the statement. It was signed by Bishop Robert Banks of Green Bay, Wisconsin, chairman of the US Catholic Conference Committee on Education, and Bishop Joseph Charron of Des Moines. Iowa, chairman of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Marriage and Family. The statement was approved unanimously by the USCC Administrative Board in March and sent to all US bishops by Bishop Anthony PiHa on April 26. In a cover letter, Bishop Pilla said the statement was intended as a resource for the bishops in addressing questions on the various documents on human sexuality.

called big tent won't have any pro-lifers in it." WASHINGTON (CNS) But at a June 10 press conferOpponents and supporters of the ence in Washington, several Republican Party's platform Republican groups that would stand on abortion finally have like to see changes in the something to agree on - they GOP platform stand on abortion don't like what Republican presi- rejected Dole's earlier statement dential candidate Bob Dole has that the platform should include a "declaration of tolerance for had to say about it. "I hope sometime soon the sen- divergent points of view on ator will stop debating fellow issues such as abortion." Republicans on abortion and "They'll tolerate our votes, but start debating the most pro-abor- they won't tolerate our views," tion president in American histo- said Laura Holmes, executive ry," said Gary Bauer, president director of Republicans for of the Family Research Council, Choice. who supports the current platDole, who was to resign from form. "If this keeps up, the so- the US Senate June 11 to By Nancy Frazier O'Brien

Senator Robert Dole

devote full time to his presidential campaign, committed himself in a June 6 statement to support-

ing the Republican Party's 1992 platform opposing public funding of abortion and supporting a human life amendment to the Constitution. He said the GOP would not turn anyone away from his Calllpaign because they disagree with him on those issues. Pat Buchanan, who ran against Dole for the Republican presidential nomination, said in a June 11 statement that any declaration of tolerance "for the idea that a woman has a right to 'choose' whether to destroy her unborn child in the womb entails a negation, and destruction of, our party's pro-life stand."

New pro-prefect for clergy announced Sister bows By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) Colombian Archbishop Dario Castrillon Hoyos, a longtime Latin American Church leader with frequent experience at the Vatican, was named by Pope John Paul II as pro-prefect of the Congregation for Clergy. The 66-year-old prelate, who has headed the Archdiocese of since 1992. Bucaramanga replaces Cardinal Jose Sanchez. who retired at age 76. The Vatican announced the appointment on June 15. The Congregation for Clergy deals with matters concerning the clergy worldwide, with preaching and religious education, and with preserving and administering the temporal goods of the Church. Archbishop Castrillon Hoyos, currently secretary general of the Colombian bishops' conference,

Pope to award $50,000 grants

Archbishop Dario Castrillon Hoyos

was secretary general of the Latin American Bishops' Council, known as CELAM, from 1983 to 1987 and president of CELAM from 1988 to 1991. He attended several sessions of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, and has served on Vatican agencies dealing with

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to a conclusion as soon as possible," said a Church spokesman. ISTANBUL 'ffirkey (CNS) - The Vatican "The claim is being taken seriously." delegation to the UN Habitat conference Christina Gallagher, who lives on Achill announced on June 13 that Pope John Paul II would give grants of $US50,000 Island on the west coast of Ireland, claims each to housing projects in Latin the stigmata first appeared during an allnight prayer vigil in March 1995. America and Rwanda. The "Christ-like" wounds appeared on Addressing the June 3-14 UN Conferher feet on Good Friday this year after ence on Human Settlements, Msgr Diarmuid Martin, secretary of the she spent five weeks fasting during Lent. Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, She said they appeared after she made said the awards were "small symbols a pact with Jesus during a vision to save of recognition" for the work Catholic 5,000 souls from hell. groups are doing to alleviate homelessArchbishop Michael Neary of Tuam ness. appointed the inquiry commission. The first grant recipient was a Chilean- His predecessor, Archbishop Joseph based volunteer organisation that Cassidy, officially opened and blessed has built more than 7 million square Gallagher's house of prayer several years meters of housing for the poor in Chile. ago. Ecuador and Colombia. The house continues to attract a large Early in the conference debates, the number of clerics for retreats. United States tried to block acceptance of a clear declaration of a human right to adequate housing, saying that under US law such an assertion could force the PARIS (CNS) - Four French youths congovernment to provide housing to anyone fessed to desecrating the grave of a without adequate shelter. woman in Toulon and said they chose her grave because her tombstone indicated she was Catholic. "There are numerous and converging COUNTY MAYO, Ireland (CNS) - The elements which indicate that this action Irish Church has set up a commission to was conducted because of the religious investigate what appear to be stigmata on confession of the dead person, and with a woman's feet. the intention of attacking the Catholic "There is no timetable for their investi- religious symbolism of this person," said gation, but it is hoped that they will come prosecutor Andre Viangalli.

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evangelisation. communication and Latin America. As president of CELAM in 1989, he had to deal with a controversial pastoral program called "Word-Life" that was eventually blocked by the Vatican. The program was designed by the Latin American Confederation of Religious. Then-Bishop Castrillon Hoyos was the first to criticise the -Word-Life" project, saying it presented a Marxist interpretation of Scripture. In 1990, at the Synod of Bishops on priestly formation. Archbishop Castrillon Hoyos said that in the current "historical crisis" priests must be formed as men of God, truth and the Church. He added that in response to a widespread rejection of authority and an "anti-Roman complex." today's priests "must display, as a sign, the love, veneration and obedience due to the successor of Peter."

out on strike DENVER (CNS) - Mercy Sister Peg Maloney resigned as Denver archdiocesan secretary for social concerns after Archbishop Francis Stafford reversed a staff official's memo supporting a grocery workers' strike. The memo, issued on May Iii by justice and peace director Michael Sheehan with Sister Maloney's approval, urged Catholics not to cross picket lines and asked parishes and schools to consider not selling food certificates for the grocery stores involved. Under the archbishop's direction Sheehan issued a new statement May 22 saying that "both management and labour have rights and compelling interests in disputes such as this one."

During their court appearance June 11, 20-year-old then charged with burglary the youths - two males and two females and theft in relation to a triple-murder - professed their belief in the "prophecies investigation, and Father Timothy of Nostradamus" according to which "the Mocicaitis, pastor of St Paul Church in Eugene. end of the world is nigh." The confession took place on April 22 Viangalli said the four, in their late teens, made clear "their hostility to every- on phones separated by glass. thing, hostility toward all religions, to Catholicism in particular, and to anything concerned with respect for the dead." OTTAWA (CNS) - The Canadian govOn June 9, a visitor to the main cemetery in Toulon discovered that one of the ernment has introduced legislation to prohibit 13 uses of new reproductive and tombs had been smashed open. Foin's body had been removed from its genetic technologies, many of which have coffin, a metal crucifix had been pushed also been condemned by the Catholic through the rib-cage where the heart bishops and the Catholic Health Assocwould have been and the religious iation of Canada. The legislation would prohibit the use plaque from her tomb had been smashed of 13 practices that commercialise reproover her skull. duction, including the buying and selling of eggs and sperm, the cloning of human embryos, commercial sex selection for PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) - Attorneys nonmedical reasons and surrogate mothrepresenting the Archdiocese of Portland erhood. have asked a court in Eugene to order the It also bans the creation of embryos for destruction of the tape of a murder sus- research purposes only. pect's sacramental confession to a priest. The national policy on management of The recording is a "violation of the free new genetic technologies was introduced exercise of a Catholic religious practice, in the House of Commons on June 14 by an intrusion of the state into the practice Health Minister David Dingwall. of religion, and a cognisant violation of "We are acting today to set boundaries the sacrament's very nature," the archdio- on the use of new reproductive technolocese said, adding that destroying the tape gies," he said. is "the necessary remedy" for the viola"We are also seeking feedback on our tion. proposals to regulate their use." The petition was filed on June 12 in To regulate the 13 new technologies, the Lane County Circuit Court, where the government has proposed an agency to tape and a transcript have been sealed develop national standards for the uses under a judge's order. of reproductive materials in medical Lane County investigators secretly research and practice, issue licenses and recorded the confession of Conan Hale, a enforce the legislation.

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THANKS ASK for three favours. Say nine Hail Mary's for nine days with a lighted candle. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised, adored. glorified, loved today and every day for ever and ever. Amen. N.Y. PRAISE and thanksgiving to the Blessed Trinity, dear Mother Mary. St Joseph, St Anne, St Jude. St Anthony, St Teresa. St Dominic Favio and St Gerard Maiella for graces and good news received. Special thanks to Our Lady Vailankanni. Infant of Jesus of Prague and Fr Agnel D'Souza. P.H. MAY the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored. glorified. loved preserved and throughout the wolrd now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St Jude the worker of miracles. pray for us. St Jude. helper of the hopeless. pray for us. Say this prayer nine times a day. Say for nine days. Thank you St Jude and Our Lady and the Sacred Heart. MAY the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised. loved, glorified throughout the world always. May Mary. His mother. lead the world to her Son. I thank you for prayers answered and thanks to dear St Joseph, St Jude and evoked martyrs. Anne

PARISH SCENE (CONT.) A JOURNEY OF GROWTH AND CONVERSION Presented by Fr Elio Capra SDB. Fr Elio will present this seminar for RCIA teams. sponsors and catechists. as well as for all members of the parish who wish to deepen their understanding of their role and mission within the Church today. The seminar will explore the theory and practice of RCIA through storytelling and music. Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July, 9.30am-4.30pm both days. Doubleview Parish Hall, 17 Angelico Street, Woodlands. Cost S25 (discounts available for group bookings). For further information and registration please contact the Archdiocesan Liturgy Office, phone (09) 221 1548. A LAN AT BASSENDEAN PARISH Healing Mass at 9.30am at St Joseph's Church. Hamilton Street, Bassendean on Tuesday 25 June. After a talk by Alan Ames on his conversion experiences. Fr Morahan will anoint the sick and Alan will pray over them for Healing. Bring your family and f riends for a most rewarding experience. Tea and coffee will be served afterwards (please bring a plate). Enquiries: Amy Henderson Ph: 279 2806. Russel 274 6018.

THANKS "0 SACRED Heart of ask you for Jesus ' so many favours, but this one I earnestly imply. Take it and piace it in your open, broken, wounded heart and present it to the Eternal Father, so that when He sees it covered with the cloak of your most precious blood. He will not refuse it. It will be no longer be my prayer but Yours. Most Sacred heart of Jesus. I place my trust in you.- Say three times. May the Sacred heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved now and forever.

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Education on sexuality within a family guided by love Further excerpts from the Vatican's Pontifical Council For the Family's guidelines for education within the family on human sexuality. The Holy Father's Letter to Families recalls that "the family is in fact a community of persons whose proper way of existing and living together is communion: 'communio personarum." Going back to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, the Holy Father teaches that such a communion involves "a certain similarity between the union of the divine Persons and union of

God's children in truth and love." "This rich and meaningful formulation first of all confirms what is central to the identity of every man and every woman. This identity consists in the capacity to live in truth and love; even more it consists in the need of truth and love as an essential dimension of the life of the person. Man's need for truth and love opens him both to God and to creatures: It opens him to other people, to life in communion, and in particular to marriage and to the family." As the encyclical "Humanae Vitae" affirms, married love has four characteristics: It is human love (physical and spiritual), it is

total, faithful and fruitful love. These characteristics are founded on the fact that "in marriage man and woman are so firmly united as to become, to use the words of the Book of Genesis one flesh (Gn. 2:24). Male and female in their physical constitution, the two human subjects, even though physically different share equally in the capacity to live in truth and love. This capacity, characteristic of the human being as a person, has at the same time both a spiritual and a bodily dimension.... "The family which results from this union draws its inner solidity from the covenant between the spouses, which Christ raised to a sacrament. The family

draws its proper character as a community, its traits of communion from that fundamental communion of the spouses which is prolonged in their children. Will you accept children lovingly from God and bring them up according to the law of Christ and his church? the celebrant asks during the Rite of Marriage. The answer given by the spouses reflects the most profound truth of the love which unites them." With the same formula, spouses commit themselves and promise to be "faithful forever" because their fidelity really flows from this communion of

persons which is rooted in the plan of the Creator, in Trinitarian love and in the sacrament which expresses the faithful union between Christ and the church. Christian marriage is a sacrament whereby sexuality is integrated into a path to holiness. through a bond reinforced by the indissoluble unity of the sacrament: "The gift of the sacrament is at the same time a vocation and commandment for the Christian spouses, that they may remain faithful to each other forever beyond every trial and difficulty in generous obedience to the holy will of the Lord: 'What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.'"

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THE PARTSH S CENE BUSINESS PERSONS' MASS Will be celebrated at All Saints Chapel, Allendale Square, Perth on Friday 28 June 1996 at 7am. Followed by a Breakfast Meeting at The Venice Cafe, Trinity Arcade, Perth. Cost of breakfast $8. The guest speaker will be Sr Sheila Sawle of the Sisters of Mercy. Enquiries: phone 384 0809. FR CHRIS ROSS O.S.M. Continues his series of informative talks on Colossians at the Bethel Friday Night Catholic Charismatic Prayer meeting on June 28 and July 5. Starts 8pm each Friday night at Bethel Centre, 236 Railway Pde (opposite Railway station). All welcome. G.K. CHESTERTON SOCIETY OF WA A Chesterton Symposium will be held on Wednesday 26 June at 7.30pm in the newly refurbished "Chesterton Room" at the University of Notre Dame, Henry Street, Fremantle (behind the University Library). A group of Society members read and defend their choice extracts from Chesterton's writings. Cheese and wine provided. Members of the public welcome.

Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Islamic and Baha'i. The festival will take place on Sunday, 23 June, 1996 at 2pm, at the Loftus Recreation Centre, corner of Loftus and Vincent Streets. Refreshments will be served and everyone is welcome.

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PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Gracewood-God's Farm invites you to our Fourth Perpetual Adoration weekend of exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the beautiful stone Chapel for 40 hours continuously. The program includes 2 recent vital messages from Brother Andrew, Rosary, Divine Mercy, or if you prefer, quiet times in the wonderful Nature. A chance to enjoy the fellowship of humble generous folk who dearly love Jesus and our Blessed Mother and Catholic truth. Commencing Friday 12 July approx. 7.30pm with Mass and Benediction, and leaving 2pm Sunday 14 July. Suggested donation: includeing all meals and snacks $60. We can meet the bus by arrangement with you. Reservations Betty Peaker sfo. GraceFarm, Box 24, wood-God's Coweramup 6284. Phone and fax 097 556 212. Promptly please. A MULTI FAITH FESTIVAL Catholic Migrant Centre together with the Baha'i/faith is organising a Multi-faith event to launch Refugee Week. The theme is Unity Catholic Diversity. The in Aboriginal Ministry will open the festival which includes the participation of six other different faiths,

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BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE The next Pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of the Revelation will take place on June 30, at 2pm, at the church of "Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church', Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook. There will be Rosary, Homily and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. All are welcome. Please phone 444 7565 for bookings from Marangeroo, Tuart Hill, Perth Highgate and Midland. For Fremantle bus phone 339 4015. For further information contact SACRI Association, PO Box 311, Tuart Hill 6060 or phone 447 3292. CHILDREN'S WORD LITURGY Presented by Fr Elio Capra, SDB. Fr Elio will explore the relationship between the Liturgy of the Word and the life of the children, through creative means: music, the art of storytelling, drama and mime, sharing of our own personal stories to show the relationship between the Gospel stories and our lives. Thursday 4 July, 7.30pm10pm. Doubleview Parish Hall, 17 Angelico Street, Woodlands. Cost $10. For further information and registration please contact the Office, Liturgy Archdiocesan phone (09) 221 1548.

JUNE 21-23 Visitation and Confirmation, North Beach - Archbishop Hickey Confirmation, Leederville Monsignor Nestor 10th Anniversary Mass, Bateman 22 Parish - Bishop Healy Golden Jubilee Fr E McKenna, 23 R ivervale Heads of Churches Meeting 25 A rchbishop Hickey Re-commissioning of Catechists, St Mary's Cathedral A rchbishop Hickey Confirmation, Trinity College 26 Monsignor O'Shea 28-30 Visitation, ScarboroughBishop Healy Ecumenical Service for Refugee 29 Week, Nollamara Church of Christ - Mr Gerald Searle Confirmation, Riverton- Rev Fr 30 Greg Carroll JULY 2 & 3 Confirmation, BatemanMonsignor McCrann Luncheon celebrating 200th 4 Anniversary of Independence of USA - Rev Fr Chris Ross OSM

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'Gay sues Catholic over job refusal: wins $30,000' Sounds like a nightmare, yet this hypothetical headline could be a reality under a proposed law currently being considered by a Senate committee. If this Bill is passed, a homosexual union will be recognised as the virtual equivalent of marriage. Even transvestites will be covered. If a man chooses to dress as a woman, we will be forced to recognise him as such. Homosexual propaganda will be pushed by the state and taught in schools. Those who express dissent will be punished under so called "anti-vilification" provisions. If this Bill becomes law, a Catholic employer refusing to employ a 'gay' activist could be liable for damages. You don't have to be a Christian to be outraged by these proposals. No normal Australian will tolerate them. But most people won't know until its too late. That is if we don't warn them. We can defeat this law if we make a stand. Reform has been established to co-ordinate a response. But we can do nothing without your help. We wish to raise funds to lobby church leaders and politicians on this Bill. Please join Reform and make a donation. Concerned individuals should make submissions to the Senate inquiry. We can provide you with a submission kit. Write to PO Box 134 Floreat WA 6014 or phone 019 106 793 for more details. Convenor- Stephen Gethin, Patron - Rear Admiral Phillip Kennedy (Retd) AO The Record, June 20 1996 Page 16

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