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Lifelink welfare funds boost

Perth: July 11, 1996

Spiritual blowtorch applied to the belly of euthanasia law

Australia. Mr Prentice told The Record the Knights wanted to The Archdiocese of Perth's recognise the importance of the welfare funding has received Lifelink Foundation to the Perth and to give a lead to a significant boost with a archdiocese, other potential donors to the Putting in the hours with the power of prayer to fight euthanasia law last Fdday donation of $75,000 over five Lifelink Foundation.

Perth Catholics took up the "And I thought a body [of peo- night for something as important years.

The Knight's gift will be struc- challenge on euthanasia last ple] coming together in prayer as the euthanasia issue.

When people believe in the Perth's Knights of the tured to flow to the agency as Friday evening when they gath- would be very powerful," she ered in St Mary's Cathedral for added. About 30 people were true presence of Jesus, they Southern Cross, to mark 75th Investments mature.

Fundraising consultant to the an all-night vigil of Eucharistic present when the devotion com- believe in the strength and the anniversary of the establishpower that radiates from the Lifelink Foundation, Brett adoration praying for an end to menced at 9pm. ment of the Knights in Eucharist, she said.

Mendez, said gifts the Northern such as the Territory's death It included the Rosary, a novena Australia, decided to make the She hoped the vigil, organised Knights' legislation. contribution helped give to the Infant Jesus of Prague, the donation to the Archdiocese's Mrs Jean Gardner, national con- Memorare and the chaplet of by the Dean of the Cathedral. Fr Lifelink Foundation to help the organisation a very clear ibm McDonald, and authorised indication of the funds available venor of the society for eucharis- Divine Mercy each hour. build a self-sufficient funding to it and where it stood in relatic adoration, said the vigil had Time was also left for personal by Archbishop Hickey. would be base for the Archdiocesan wel- tion to its long term goal of been organised to contribute to prayer before the Blessed repeated in the near future. fare agencies.

"What many people have asked achieving the $4 million base the spiritual fight against Sacrament exposed.

Archbishop Barry Hickey that would make the foundation euthanasia.

The vigil concluded at 6arn on me and said to me [is] that they received confirmation of the self-sufficient.

"I felt very strongly about it and Saturday morning with Mass in would really love to have an allfunding commitment from night vigil on the first Friday of "We appreciate the highly sym- I thought if the Act came in it the cathedral.

Knights state chairman Brad bolic gesture in the Knights' 75th would have a devastating effect Mrs Gardner said it was signifi- every month, for the [Immaculate Prentice when the two met at the anniversary year and accept on all the other States round cant that people were willing to and Sacred] hearts," she said.

Church Office in Victoria Square gratefully this commitment to Australia," she told The Record. make the sacrifice to come out at - Peter Rosengren In Perth last week. providing the $75.000," he said.

The Knight's financial commitHe said the contribution was a ment to the charitable work of gift in perpetuity because the the Church in Perth represents a funds would not be used for anythousand dollars for each year of thing except to earn income for the Knights' work in Western the Lifelink agencies.

TURIN, Italy (CNS) - Two shroud in 1998 and 2000. The was actually used to cover Italian university professors discovery was claimed after two Christ's body. Yet some have said studying the Shroud of 'Ruin say months' research in Turin by Pier the linen, because it bears the they have discovered the image Luigi Baima Bollone, a professor apparent marks of the Passion, of a Roman coin that would date of legal medicine and a longtime has the religious value of a "sign" the cloth to the time of Christ. shroud expert, and Nello for Christians.

Using computerised instru- Balossino, a professor of commuIn 1988, a team of international ments, the experts said last nications. scientists using the carbonSaturday they found the coin's The researchers said markings 14 dating technique concluded outline over the left eyebrow of on the coin indicated it was the shroud was a product of the human image imprinted on from the 16th year of the reign of the Middle Ages. Some historians the shroud, which some believe Roman Emperor Tiberius, or 29 have said several such burial to be Christ's burial cloth.

AD. Most experts now date cloths existed in medieval times, Church officials in Turin, where Christ's death to around 29 AD. usually in connection with pilthe shroud is kept, greeted the In effect, Professor Baima grimage sites. news cautiously and said further Bollone said, the shroud has In 1980, a US Jesuit said he had studies were needed. dated itself. found the imprint of a 1st-centu"I hope those who made this He called the discovery "defini- ry coin above the right eye of the 'discovery' can submit their pro- tive" and said it was now "almost shroud's figure. Other experts cedures to an examination by 100 per cent" certain the cloth contested the finding, raising a their (scientific) colleagues," said was used to wrap Christ's body number of objections; for examFather Giuseppe Ghiberti, a 'Ruin after the crucifixion. ple, the practice of placing coins priest in charge of preparing the But Church officials have never over a dead person's eyes was Mr Prentice and Archbishop Hickey discuss the Knight's donation last week next public viewings of the made the claim that the shroud unknown in the Jewish world.

By Peter Rosengren

Coin find might date Shroud

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No search without an ending in the Church H

ave you ever heard someone say: "I'm a spiritual person, but! wouldn't call myself particularly religious"?

One of the debates going on at the present time is between "organised religion" and the freedom to follow one's own spiritual path, as if there were a conflict between the two.

"Organised religion" is often given a bad name.

It is presented as restrictive, authoritarian, fossilised and concerned more with external behaviour than with the inner life. The Catholic Church is certainly an "organised religion".

And suffers from these accusations.

On the other hand the freedom of the seeker of truth is praised by way of contrast. Praised are the forays into all manner of reli-

gious experience, however ences that give one a "buzz" in bizarre, as if the journey is far order to cover the inner emptimore important than any point of ness. That does not work either. arrival.

The search for authentic spiriSo one tries spiritualism, non- tuality must at some stage come Christian mysticism, drugs, body up against the reality of converexperiences, crystals, pyramids, sion, of radical change. pagan rituals connected with the The message of Jesus was not planes of the moon, and even "be converted and you will find brushes with the satanic occult.

God", but, "find God and you will The New Age movement, amor- be converted". phous and varied as it is, is a When we find the love of God shorthand way of describing for us, it leads us to change, to what can happen if one rejects drop our selfishness, our pride, "organised religion" in favour of our jealousies, our lust, to an unstructured spiritual path. become more loving and forgivThere is no end to it, and the ing people. Conversion is of the appeal is in the seeking, not the essence. Conversion is carefully finding. sidestepped in the New Age Of course, the other way of search because it is too challengrejecting "organised religion" is ing. to forget the spiritual search alto"Organised Christian religion" gether and try to fill one's life is the experience of a community with work, money, football, social that loves God, that prays togethactivities and a series of experi- er, that is bound by common

Migrant cuts a worry: lobbyists

Australian church and community criminate against Asians, he said. The refugee organisations have criticised the leaders of Catholic and Anglican orders Federal Government's decision to restrict held their annual conference in the Australia's migrant, refugee and asylum- Queensland town from July 3-7. seeker intake next year.

Sydney-based Jesuit Refugee Service High among their concerns was the pre- coordinator Kerry Murphy also quesvention of refugee organisations from tioned the decision on refugee numbers as gaining access to refugees and asylum shortsighted, saying that under the seekers held in detention.

Government's proposed cuts 3,000 The Australian Conference of Catholic refugees would miss out. and Anglican Leaders of Religious "The total for last year was 15,000 and Institutes, meeting at Caloundra in that included an extra 2,000 that the previQueensland, expressed their "deep con- ous government had 'borrowed' from this cern" at the decision to cut the intakes in current year," he said, "so the new the 1996-97 immigration program.

Government has said that the 2,000 were Father Kevin Dance, the newly elected taken from our quota for this year and. . ..

ACRI1 president, questioned the grounds [in addition they're] taking it back down to on which the proposed cuts were to be 12,000" he said. made, including reductions to the Family He said the way boat people were being Reunion Program, and claimed the handled by authorities was potentially a Government had broken election commit- contravention of human rights. ments.

"Its certainly a major concern that there "Prior to the March Federal election the are people who are being targeted to be Coalition strongly endorsed a pm-family excluded from the asylum process, or cerstance and promised to maintain the cur- tainly in a way where there's no way of rent migrant intake," Fr Dance said. monitoring what's happening in Port "Mr Howard's statement on Wednesday Hedland," he said. has overridden both of these commitIndependent Council for Refugee ments."

Advocacy spokesman Richard Egan, who Saying that many members of ACLRI said it appeared there was now a de facto work with people who will be influenced policy of not accepting any refugee asylum by the Government's decision, he claimed seekers. that humanitarian considerations were He said he found it hard to believe that of being lost in the process. those refugees who risked their lives in The emphasis on English language skills hazardous voyages to Australia, particularin the new policy would, despite the ly from China, none had any kind of claim Government's rhetoric to the contrary, dis- to refugee status at all.

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teachings, and a common form of Eucharistic worship, a common history and a deep, accepted process of personal formation that draws us to an ever deeper union with God. Our Catholic faith does this.

The fundamental belief of the New Age is "know yourself and you will find God".

We say, "know Jesus Christ and you will find God".

In our "organised religion" we deepen our knowledge of Christ and therefore of God, and are led to an inner conversion through prayer, penance, the Sacraments, Holy Scripture, and experience a Catholic community of believing people. Do not throw this away for the spiritual loneliness of those who reject '"organised religion".

It is a spiritual communion that fully satisfies the seeker of wisdom and truth.

Archbishop's

Perspective

Maria Goretti's: 40 years young

Three Year 7 students at St Maria Goretti School, who played the part of Sisters of Mercy in the 40th anniversary tableaux with the first Principal of the school, Sr Imelda Ryan, second from the left, and the current Principal, Nadia Maso. The students are: Naomi May, left, Rosalyn Bynder and Anna Rogoz.

Photo: Bnan Coyne,CE0 Like its name saint, St Maria Goretti Mercy who had been former principals of School, Redcliffe, is small. However, it has the school. established an enviable reputation in the • Saint Maria Goretti was a child saint. community and last Friday celebrated its In Italy on 5 July. 1902, at the age of 12, she fortieth anniversary. was murdered in a frenzied attack by an The small Church of St Maria Goretti eighteen year old who was subsequently was packed to standing room with stu- sentenced to 30 years gaol. dents, ex-students, and parishioners for a She died on 6 July 1902. Before her Mass of Celebration followed by a death, Maria Goretti forgave her attacker tableaux performed by students. and, years later, he acknowledged his Beautifully written, the tableaux related crime, sought forgiveness and was reconlife in this once outer suburban school of ciled with the Goretti family.

Perth, to the wider canvas of historical He was released from gaol after 27 years events unfolding internationally, national- and spent his later years as a lay worker in ly and within Western Australia during a Capuchin Monastery. the life of the school.

Maria was proclaimed a Saint in 1950.

At the end of the performance, students Her mother was present at her earlier presented gift baskets to the Sisters of Beatification.

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Justice group finds fault with industrial Bill

However a spokesman for the vide services to employees, while The Federal Minister for Industrial Relations, Peter Mr Reith, told The Record a restrictions on the Industrial Reith, was due to meet this meeting had been organised Relations Commission would Friday with representatives with the commission following make it harder for employees to seek redress against breaches of from the Melbourne Archdio- its criticisms.

He added that discussions on the workplace agreements, the cese's Catholic Commission for Justice, Development and Peace the Bill had already been con- commission said.

It also described the prohibition to explain the workings of the ducted with the Australian new Workplace Relations Bill Catholic Conunission for Indus- of the right to strike after entry into a workplace agreement as after the commission alleged trial Relations. the "too draconian" and said that, in executive officer of The the legislation could potentially Catholic bishops' industrial rela- Its opinion, the right to strike cause large-scale poverty tions body, Paul Gair, refused to would still be a moral entitleIn a submission to the Governcomment on the Melbourne jus- ment in extreme circumstances. ment on the impact of the Bill, The commission was also concriticisms but said tice body's the commission said it could, if to cerned the Bill would undermine number of amendments that a passed, lead to lower wages for unions as mechanisms of the Bill had already been the workers, increased inequality participation for working as a result of the dissocial achieved between rich and poor, and it said. people, cussions between his office and weakened unions.

"Unions have mediated social It said the legislation represent- the Government. justice conflict, and provided a culture its criticisms, the Among ed a radical break in Australian Industrial relations, would put commission said that without or reasoned debate and particilarge numbers of workers at "an union representation it would be pation for working people," the enormous disadvantage" in bar- unrealistic to expect people from commission said.

"To weaken such structures gaining with employers, and non-English speaking backundermining some of the risks adequately grounds to bargain risked "driving Australia down main pillars supporting the civil the US road to increasing afflu- with their employers.

The new Bill would also make it peace and consensus in ence for some but poverty for many." more difficult for unions to pro- Australia."

Lay movements talk to bishops in Sydney Representatives from Australian Catholic lay movements will report to the Australian Catholic bishops on their successes, failures and activities for the last year at a two-day meeting of the Bishops' Committee for the Laity in Sydney this week.

Representatives of the major lay movements in the Church, Including the Knights of the Southern Cross, the St Vincent de Paul Society, the Catholic Womens' League, Focolare, the Cursillo movement, Paulian lay

missionaries and the Catholic first day with the second devoted Charismatic Renewal, will be at to reports from the adult movements. Youth organisations the meeting in Randwick.

Representatives of Catholic involved in the meeting will youth organisations will also Include Antioch. Young Christian attend to brief bishops' represen- Workers, the International tatives and other participants on Movement of Catholic Students In Australia, the national diocetheir respective movements.

Part of the agenda for the meet- san youth coordinators' network. ing includes discussion of how St Vincent de Paul youth and adult movements can assist the Young Christian Students.

Participants will also be given youth bodies in their work.

The two day meeting will see an overview of the work and the work and goals of the youth goals of the Australian Catholic organisations discussed on the Bishops' Conference.

Albany salutes Christian Brothers as they leave

Christian Brother Pat Grant lights one of 48 votive candles late last month in St Joseph's Church, Albany, to honour the 48 Christian Brothers who have served the Albany community since 1898. The Brothers are leaving Albany and the church was packed with Albany parishioners and friends thanking God at Mass for the work the Brothers and the inspiration of their founder, Edmund Ignatius Rice.

Guns not a right: Gore Leaders of Catholic religious cause of deaths from domestic meeting at murders and youth suicides was congregations, Caloundra in Queensland last the availability of a firearm withweek, have backed the Howard in the home.

"There is no right to be armed Government's policies for the control of automatic and semi- within Australia," said Fr Gore, automatic weapons, saying ways who was imprisoned by need to be found to educate the Government forces during the wider community towards a 1980's in the Philippines.

"We have lived in Australia trymore restrictive gun policy.

Columban priest Father Brian ing to resolve our social and Gore, spokesman for the heads of domestic problems without Australian Catholic and Anglican resorting to violent means and, religious orders on the issue, said as leaders within the Catholic the leaders were conscious of the Church in Australia, we do not intense pressure being applied to intend to allow that heritage to politicians by the pro-gun lobby. be damaged by vocal minority "We recognise the tremendous groups falsely claiming the right political pressure being placed to bear guns," he said. "We are on the existing political parties determined to build our future by the pro-gun lobby, but we through active non-violence".

He said that domestic, cultural affirm and support the stand that the Federal Government has and religious differences were part of the richness of Australia's taken." he said.

Fr Gore said that while the con- multi-cultural heritage "and we gregational heads recognised it thank God we can generally live would be very difficult to prevent at peace with our neighbour, and all tragic incidents, it neverthe- do not have to resort to the use of less recognised that the greatest firearms for self-defence."

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'Protect young stars Salesians lead from greedy clubs' way for Aussie youth on Internet One of the first Internet sites focussing on young people was the Bosconet, set up by Australian Salesians. This account of Bosconet by Salesian Julian Fox comes courtesy of the Australianproduced Salesian Bulletin of September 1995

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stand if I said to you "catch you on The Net - capital T, capital N', Dad?"

It was an impromptu question to a 90-year-old who could easily be forgiven if he thought I was speaking in a foreign tongue, but there was only a moment's hesitation as he adjusted his hearing aid and asked me to repeat the question.

"The Internet I suppose you mean" he answered. "People seem to have it like wearing a watch these days."

Too much Star Trek gazing, or is The Net so much a part of common parlance these days?

It certainly was not a case of Star Trek gazing, as Dad has well and truly "turned in" before Trekkers turn on. There is a third possibility of course - that Dad is so much smarter than I've given him credit for!

BOSCONET belongs to the Internet, though it is a hybrid

word somewhat more pleasing to the ear than the thousands of acronyms now being spawned by what is otherwise known as the Information Superhighway.

Bosconet is a hybrid of two great communication enterprises - that of Saint John Bosco who disseminated news, education, entertainment via his Catholic Readings, Salesian Bulletin and a dozen other publishing ventures, and that of the Internet, that global, unregulated, unwound but very real linking of millions of computers and their users.

Bosconet is an Australian innovation, just three years old. It owes its existence, however, to an international gathering of Salesians called to Rome to discuss ways and means of harnessing the vast news and communication possibilities of the worldwide Salesian presence.

Networks are essentially about people rather than machines.

Bosconet began as a linking of local correspondents within Salesian centres who would send local news of interest to the Salesian Family to the Salesian News International correspondent.

That network continues to exist but much more loosely. Instead, Bosconet has taken a quantum leap forward as a way of linking Salesians all over the world.

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depends, are disheartened to the point of giving up.

It is also true to say that many of those "signed up" do not eventually make the grade because many more are approached than are needed.

These people are then discarded by those who in the first instance promised the world.

The fact is that, despite the rhetoric used by scouts and promotional people, the conif and on over the last cern of those invading the 24 years I have been playing fields of our schools Involved with school and junior competitions is not sport, particularly as a strap- the welfare of the players or, per/trainer/medic. indeed, even the sports, This association has been except in as far as these with many codes of football, increase the bottom line of cycling, basketball and other the balance sheet. sports.

To my mind, what we see In that timeIhave found it to happening amounts to nothbe, generally, rewarding and ing less than another form of fulfilling as I have watched abuse. young sportspeople learn disThe current trends, if cipline, skills, self apprecia- allowed to continue, will only tion and become more round- end in the increase of young ed and complete people for people believing their self having worked as members worth is dependent on what of teams to achieve their they can do, rather than who fullest potential. they are as human beings.

In recent years, however, I Schools and under-age comhave noticed what I can only petitions are also affected as describe as a creeping evil so-called "elite athletes" focus descend upon school and age on their futures and play for sporting competitions. themselves rather than for As adult sport becomes their team mates. increasingly professional, Some students are becomthere is a growing tendency ing uncoachable by those for sporting clubs and organi- who have put their time and sations to look to under-age energy into teaching the basic sportspeople as a source of and fundamental skills that future success. have brought individuals to You' sople, with their the noti-e of major clubs. hope !reams of sporting It is time to stop before we glory al, )ecoming pawns in go furs' r in destroying the corporate bids for higher lives of young people. financial gains.

We need legislation preventPeople as young as 15 are ing any club or organisation being approached with grand from approaching people still promises and offered con- at school or in under-age tracts, euphemistically called competition. Our children scholarships, by sports clubs must not be "for sale". and associations.

If sporting clubs or organisaPeople, already struggling tions want to promote the with the tensions and stresses well being and future of their of adolescence and the sport let them give, no strings demands to succeed in acade- attached, money and support mic or career education, are to schools and junior compebeing bombarded by people tition which makes available trying their hardest to get a greater access to resources commitment to a particular and coaching. club or organisation.

By all mean:, ,!ent scouts To many approached, the should attend competitions "too good to believe" offers and note down players of seem a chance to get out from potential, but they must not under some of the pressures be permitted to approach they feel. players.

Many of the young people In a real sense what we are approached are neither emo- seeing today is no better than tionally nor mentally mature the child workhouses of enough to cope with their Victorian England or the child pressures. labour abuses of some develAt the same time those who oping counties. are passed over are left with It is time for action now their self-esteem in tatters. before the situation worsens.

Passed over, they often feel As a society we make a great worthless because no one is deal of noise about protecting interested in them. the innocent and the young, In some cases the "triers", but we still allow this the team players on whom exploitation to continue and every successful team truly do nothing.

Father Peter Schultz, director of youth ministry in the Queensland Diocese of Toowoomba, has written an open letter to Governments, parents and sporting organisations decrying the way sporting clubs deal with champion boy and girl athletes.

The letter is reprinted courtesy of Brisbane's Catholic Leader newspaper.

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Surfing the Net with BOSCONET

where an enterprising Salesian school principal set up BOSCONEWS. a simple electronic bulletin board service (BBS in the trade) for, as he called it, educators in the Salesian tradition.

The BBS can be accessed both locally and internationally on Bosconews@Nexus.edu.au as a text-based service only. Its future is undoubtedly a graphic one.

The next development has come with Bosconet's connection to what is known as the Web. The World Wide Web (WWW) is the Internet at its best. It is a graphical view but can also be multimedia - a video and even sound.

Our page can look as good. sound as good as that of the biggest multinational corporation in the world and it can be accessed anywhere from Iceland ) Antarctica with fairly basic hardware and software.

"Salesians (Australia) World Wide Web Page Welcomes You" reads Bosconet's colourful screen and the view can then be linked by a simple click to information about Australia, including a detailed map.

A picture of Don Bosco can be brought to the screen via a site in Italy somewhere, research into youth in Australian society, a Salesian Oratory in Italy, the European Youth Parliament - all are available amongst the present hot-links.

The concept of an online version of Don Bosco's most significant and enduring communication enterprise, the Salesian Bulletin, is an exciting one.

It offers global news for a local audience and local news for a global audience - all in the Good News popular tradition of Don Bosco.

Bosconet - a truly global interactive opportunity in the Salesian tradition.

Try it at: http://ww.ozemail. com.au/-jbfox/

'Not that sort of guy. .' Lingua franca of East Pallottine priest Father Joe Kearney recently celebrated 50 years of priesthood at a special Mass at St Joseph's Church Beachlands in Geraldton when eight priests, with Bishop Justin Bianchini presiding, joined Fr Joe to celebrate Mass.

Also joining the celebration were a large group of people from Wandalgu School and Mission Tardun, who provided the music for the Mass.

Archbishop Daniel Mannix ordained Fr Kearney in St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne on the 28 July, 1946.

Pallottine Provincial Superior Fr Michael McMahon told in his sermon of the many initiatives Fr Joe had introduced wherever he had served.

"Fr Joe . . . . he did not expect and did not look for recognition in anything he achieved," Fr McMahon said.

Fr McMahon went on to say how when some of the initiatives were not carried through he did not worry - "he is not that sort of guy." And Fr Joe not only shared the Body of Christ, he gave of himself as well.

Fr Joe Kearney

Although from the East Fr Joe spent most of his priestly life in Western Australia, working in three of WAs four dioceses.

Fr Joe has worked in the Geraldton Diocese for about nine years working in the Aboriginal Ministry.

He also worked in Rossmoyne where the Pallottines had a set of six cluster homes providing

accommodation for young Aboriginal students seeking a secondary education in Perth. Fr Joe also spent about 22 years in the Kimberley working in places like Broome, Derby, Wyndham, Balgo and Beagle Bay. He spent 10 years in Melbourne serving terms as Provincial and Vice Provincial.

After Mass ,Bishop Justin spoke on the qualities and gifts that Fr Joe brought to the diocese and shared with the Aboriginal People.

He told of how Fr Joe had grown with the times in his thinking and movement with the Church during his 50 years of ordination.

"He has a gentleness and patience about him and I will always welcome him back to the diocese should he want to return," Bishop Justin said.

After the Mass, people were invited to take part in other celebrations performed by students of Wandalgu Art from Tardun.

This was followed by a barbecue with meat provided by Wandalgu.

Priests on move in Geraldton The move of Bluff Point.

Geraldton, parish priest, Father Robert Cross, to join the staff of Seminary at St Charles' Guildford had led to a round of changes in priest appointments in the Geraldton Diocese.

Bishop Justin Bianchini has appointed Fr Brenton Taylor as parish priest of St Lawrence's Bluff Point. Fr Robert O'Bryan will replace Fr Taylor as assistant to Fr Bob Pocock in the Karratha/Dampier Parish.

In Karratha. Fr Taylor served as an Army chaplain and on many local community committees.

At St Charles' Seminary, Fr Cross will be involved in the formation of men in training for the priesthood.

Fr Joe Kearney. who has been chaplain to the Aboriginal community at Beachlands is also leaving Geraldton after nearly nine years in the Diocese to live

Fr Brenton Taylor

Fr Robert O'Bryan

at the Pallottine Community House in Rossmoyne in Perth.

Fr Kearney will be replaced by Pallottine Fr Michael Gitner who

will continue the work in the Aboriginal ministry and take over as chaplain to Nagle College from Fr O'Bryan.

Timor republished -Napa The Lingua Franca of East Timor

The Australian Catholic Social one of the main academic Justice Council and Caritas resources.

Tetum is a member of the Australia (formerly Australian Catholic Relief) have published Austronesian family of lana revised textbook of the Tetum guages which includes Malaylanguage spoken in East Timor. Indonesian, Tagalog and the Mai Kolia Tetun (Let's Speak Melanesian and Polynesian Tetum) is a language course tongues. It is also a hybrid originally designed by Dr tongue, made up of indigenous Geoffrey Hull from the East Timorese words and othUniversity of Western Sydney. It ers from Malay, Portuguese and has recently been brought up to Indonesian.

About 20 languages and date.

Tetum is the overarching lan- dialects are spoken throughout guage in which East Timorese East Timor.

However, the Tetum course from different regions and of differing dialects communicate. revised by Dr Hull is based on The Catholic Church also the language which developed uses the language in East In the East Timorese capital Timor in its everyday dealings Dili during the centuries of Portuguese rule and which with people and its worship.

Indonesian authorities recent- spread throughout the Eastern ly permitted the teaching of half of Timor.

Those interested in purchasTetum in East Timorese schools again and the Mai Kolia Tetun ing the course can contact the course is expected to become ACSJC on (02) 9956 5811.

Archbishop's Palace placed Fr Walker new bishop of Broken Bay on heritage list permanently The Archbishop's Palace, which houses the central Church offices in Victoria Square. Perth, has been entered on the Register of Heritage Places on a permanent basis.

The Heritage Council, which compiles the list of places throughout the State which are of sufficient significance to warrant special care, placed the building on the Register on an interim basis in February this year.

But the permanent listing was announced in The Government Gazette on 28 June, describing the Archbishop's Palace.

Built in 1855 by Benedictine brothers from Subiaco and New Norcia, the building was extended and refurbished by prominent Adelaide architect Michael Cavanagh in 1911 under the direction of Bishop

Patrick Clune. The refurbishments

by Cavanagh, who was responsible for many the Church's ecclesiastical buildings in Western Australia, extended the original 1855 building while leaving the original substantially intact behind the remodelling.

According to the permanent entry on the Register of historic places, the building is a good example of the Federation Academic Classical style of architecture by Cavanagh, and forms part of a precinct of nineteenth century ecclesiastical buildings which include St John's proCathedral, St Mary's Cathedral, the Convent of Mercy and Mercedes College.

According to the entry, the building was also listed for its historic and social value as well as architectural significance.

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Fr Stuglik on the move Archbishop Barry Hickey has appointed Fr Kazimierz Stuglik of the Cathedral staff as acting parish priest of Holy Family parish, Maddington, for six months, after which a permanent appointment will he made.

Pope John Paul II has appointed Father David Walker of Sydney as Bishop of the Broken Bay diocese in New South Wales.

Up to the present, Fr Walker has been the director of the Educational Centre for Christian Spirituality at Randwick.

The news was released this week by Archbishop Franco Brambilla, Apostolic Pro

Nuncio to Australia. Father Walker was born on 13 November 1938 and ordained a priest in 1962.

He was assistant priest and then teacher at St Patrick's College in Manly and at the Catholic Institute of Sydney.

He succeeds Bishop Patrick Murphy whose resignation for reasons of age was recently accepted by Pope John Paul II.

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Parents can count on God's grace Further excerpts from the Vatican's Pontifical Council For the Family's guidelines for education within the family on human sexualiti,

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n granting married persons the privilege and great responsibility of becoming parents, God gives them the grace to carry out their mission adequately.

Moreover, in the task of educating their children, parents are enlightened by "two fundamental truths. .. : first, that man is called to live in truth and love; and second, that everyone finds fulfillment through the sincere gift of self." .... They are sustained from day to day by special spiritual energies, received from Jesus Christ, who loves and nurtures his bride, the Church.

As husband and wife . . . . they share the duty to educate their children through willing collaboration nourished by vigorous mutual dialogue that -has a new specific source in the sacrament of marriage, which consecrates them for the strictly Christian education of their children: That is to say, it calls upon them to share in the very authority and love of God the Father and Christ the shepherd, and in the motherly love of the Church . . . ."

In the context of formation in chastity, "'fatherhood-motherhood" also includes one parent who is left alone and adoptive parents.

The task of a single parent is certainly not easy, because the support of the other spouse and the role and example of a parent of the other sex is lacking.

But God sustains single parents with a special love and calls them to take on this task with the same generosity and sensitivity with which they love and care for their children in other areas of family life.

Some other persons are called upon in certain cases to take the place of parents: those who take on the parental role in a permanent way, for instance, for orphans or abandoned children.

They too have the task of educating children and young people in an overall sense as well as in chastity and they will receive the grace of their state of life to do this according to the same principles that vide Christian parents.

Parents must never feel alone in this task. The Church supports and encourages them, confident that they can carry out this function better than anyone else.

She also encourages those men or women who, often with great sacrifice, give children without parents a form of parental love and family life.

In any case, all of them must approach this duty in a spirit of prayer, open and obedient to the moral truths of faith and reason that integrate the teaching of the Church, and always seeing children and young people as persons, children of God and heirs to the kingdom of heaven.

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he right to die or the right - sanctimonious crap" by one to kill? That is the question prominent euthanasia supporter. now dividing Australians Nevertheless the architect of as political fighting rages over the the national bill to overturn the world's first legal euthanasia law, law, Kevin Andrews, also which came into effect in the describes himself as a supporter Northern Territory last week. of the "right to die."

Emotions are running high on In the late 1980's in Victoria, Mr both sides as the fight grows, Andrews helped draw up new with euthanasia opponents "dying with dignity" legislation accused of prolonging the sufferwhich enshrined patients' entitleing of terminally ill people by ments to refuse "futile medical agreed: "We all think the same on a misunderstanding of natural attempting to subvert the new interventions or burdensome way, it comes out of the one rights. tra"The fact that some nurslaw. dition. We have our customary ing home and hospfice patients treatments."

At the same time, traditional law." would rather be dead does not Northern However, the Aboriginal people NT have entitle doctors kill them," to he beyond Territory law far the goes However. despite Aboriginal described as "hurtful" moves to right to die with dignity, Mr legalise killing of the aged and misgivings, the main battle over said.

Opposition to the euthanasia Andrews believes. euthanasia will be fought out far sick law comes also from the from tribal lands, in Canberra.

"We cross an ethical threshold The emergence of Aboriginal when we, as a society, decide that The feeling of most members of Australian Medical Association. leaders as leading critics of But it has been the Catholic there is a right to take life by otheuthanasia lends enormous the Federal Parliament is strongly Church's opposition that has ers," he said. against allowing the Northern moral weight to the national campaign now growing to have Territory euthanasia law to stand. drawn the strongest emotional What makes Mr Andrews' arguthe law overturned by an Act of "Lethal injections are a form of response from euthanasia sup- ment ultimately convincing - and likely to win the day in the the Federal Parliament. capital punishment in the United porters.

For example, when the Vatican Federal Parliament is that it's not a form of medical That is now highly likely, with States, but an overwhelming majority of treatment in Darwin." Govern- newspaper L'Osservatore Roma- just him or the Catholic Church politicians from all parties ment MP Tony Abbott has noted no criticised the Territory law last saying it. week - in an editorial which also expected to support a private Bill sarcastically.

Now it's Aboriginal people too. expressed sympathy for the proposed in the Parliament by Mr Abbott argues that the patients in Darwin waiting to die Politically, they're much harder Catholic MP Kevin Andrews, Northern Territory law is based to ignore. the Church was accused of designed to nullify the Northern Territory legislation.

For many Federal Parliamentarians, there is a strong air of absurdity in the whole affair, due to the small size of the NT legislature which narrowly passed the euthanasia law last year. In population terms, the entire Northern Territory is in fact no bigger than approximately two average Australian suburbs.

Many of the Territory's large population of tribal Aborigines, strongly oppose euthanasia. The new law has thus set the scene for an intriguing conflict between indigenous values and contemporary Western ethics.

The conflict was highlighted in Aboriginal protests outside the NT's Supreme Court in Darwin last week There, one Aboriginal leader, the Reverend Marranjul Garrawitcha, said that legalising euthanasia was "hurtful to Aboriginal people."

"We don't like it because we The KT could become the home of doctors dealing in death as the notorious Dr Jack Kevorkian does in the United want to die naturally," he said. States. Dr Kevorfcian's activities (he has now killed 32 people who have asked him to do so) have led to protests such Another Aboriginal spokesman. as this one last month outside his home in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Deborah Cunningham, right, and other wheelthe Rev Djiniyini Gondarra. chair-bound protestors chant -We're not dead yet!"

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Suffering lived in faith is soil for the seed Peter DWEL11 continues meditations on the readings for Sunday Mass.

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n today's readings, we are invited to see the word of God as something powerful, always having its effect The first reading (Isaiah 55:1011), comes from the prophet, second-Isaiah, who, in the first nine verses of Chapter 55, has been exhorting people to come back to God. In today's reading, we are reminded: "As the rain and snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth .... so the word that comes from my mouth does not return to me empty without carrying out my will and succeeding in what it was sent to do."

God's word has a definite purpose; it is the yardstick by which all human conduct is to be measured. It enlightens us as to how we are to think, talk and act; and It will go harder for us on judgment day if, despite having heard the word of God, our lives are no better than those who haven't

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had a religious upbringing. In some Christian traditions, the Ten Commandments are referred to as the Ten Words.

Today's gospel (Matthew 13:1with Peter Dwan 23) is the parable of the sower, • one of the most important parables, perhaps, Our Lord ever told. madly a means of ensuring that even when we do hear the word While Our Lord lets us figure this won't happen, for the with understanding, some of us out the meaning of most of the preacher tries to show the prac- will produce a richer harvest other parables for ourselves, He tical implications of the readings than others. explained the parable of the for the congregation.

There is one area where undersower.

The seed which fell on rock is He tells us that the seed is the the person who joyfully receives standing the Christian message word of God. He tells of the dif- the word, but who has no roots. gives people a philosophy of life, ferent yields of the seed when it In times of trial and persecution, and that is in regards to the mysis planted in different types of he or she doesn't persevere. tery of suffering. soil.

Those who receive the seed in In today's second reading Some seeds fell on the edge of thorns are people who receive (Romans 8:18-23), St Paul says: "I the path, and He explained that the word, but the worries of this think that what we suffer in this this represents people who hear world and the lure of riches l ife can never be compared to the the word of God without under- choke the word and they proglory, as yet unravelled, which is standing, and the evil one comes duces nothing. and carries off what was sown in We must realise that we just waiting for us." their hearts.

If we remember our eternal can't afford to be flirting with We need to remember that one materialism, while claiming to destiny, we shall see the trials of of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is have a love affair with Jesus. life in their proper perspective. understanding. Hearing the word Our Lord concludes: "And the We shall not give up our Faith of God won't influence us if we one who received the seed in Just because trials come, but lack understanding. rich soil is the man who hears One of the greatest dangers fac- the word and understands it; he rather let our Faith help us ing us when we listen to the Is the man who yields a har- through our trials. readings at Mass is that we shall vest and produces now a hunThen the seed of the word of hear the story but miss the mes- dredfold, now sixty, now thirty."

God will produce a rich harvest sage. The homily at Mass is priWe need to remember that in our hearts.

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To speak for truth and the common good

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Record

elcome to the new look colour Record. The Record, which has been serving the Catholics of Western Australia since 1874, has gone through 12 months of extensive administrative and editorial change in an attempt to bring to its readers a newspaper as full lication, whether it be owned by a bishop, other readers follow and imitate Jesus Christ, Our Saviour, as closely as possiof up-to-date news, thought provoking a Rupert Murdoch, or a Kerry Stokes.

Some bishops in other dioceses around ble. and edifying features as is possible.

The Record also believes that Jesus can Welcome also to the resurrection of The the world have, and do, ensure the opinions argued in a diocesan publication are only be imitated fully by following the Record's editorial column. teaching of His Spouse, the Roman The editorial will try to interpret events always those of the bishop.

But this is not the policy of Archbishop Catholic Church, as understood by the in the world and in the Church from a Christian perspective faithful to the Hickey, who allows the legitimate free- Pope and those bishops in communion teaching of Jesus Christ as understood by dom that is due to a Catholic diocesan with him.

As the weekly Catholic paper of this the Pope and those bishops in commu- paper as taught by the Second Vatican diocese it will also try to publish feature Council. nion with him, to use a phrase of Vatican Consequently, editorials in The Record items and promote a forum of discussion II. It is important to make it clear from the will argue the opinion of the editor, and with the same objective in mind.

It will try to tell and argue the truth that beginning that these editorial opinions not necessarily those of Archbishop needs to be told for the sake of the comwill not necessarily reflect the mind and Hickey, or other WA bishops.

Apart from its policy on editorials, The mon good of society and the Church priorities of The Record's proprietor, the Record's objective is first to publish the without personal attack, but not recoiling Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth.

Many inside and outside the Church news of all the dioceses of Western from criticising false ideas even if persons mistakenly believe that editorials always Australia, the Church in Australia and the are indirectly associated with them.

After all, nobody need fear the teaching reflect the opinion of the owner of a pub- world, that will help WA Catholics and

Ugrounc The new title of the Letters to the Editor column is inspired by the post-Vatican II Pastoral Instruction on the Means of Social Communication's comparison of the modern media as providing humanity a "great round table" for the exchange of truth and opinion.

No one is indispensable

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would like to second John Morris' praise of Doug Williams (until recently, the Archbishop's master of ceremonies at the Cathedral) and of his serving team (The Record, 4 July).

As a member of the Cathedral community! would broaden that thanks and praise to include all of the acolytes and servers at the Cathedral: their standard, too is superb, and their sensitivity to the liturgy is impressive.

I have found that losing an individual's or team's services anywhere in life is a loss. But it is helpful to remember that no one is indispensable, and that God will send someone else to replace the person who has gone.

An individual's going is a loss, but also an opportunity. This perspective allows us to move on from being angry or discouraged, and to look at the future with creativity and hope. It also means that we can accept the new person coming in, and give them a fair go - even a helping hand.

Given the standard of all the liturgies at the Cathedral, there is no need at all for Mr Morris to believe the standard will "fall dramatically."

There are many people who will ensure that liturgies that involve the Archbishop will continue to be prayerful and beautiful - not the least of those people being Archbishop Hickey himself.

If Mr Morris is correct in saying that the team found 'extremely restrictive guidelines made it extremely difficult . . . . to operate effectively,' and they could not change them, then it is right and proper that they should have resigned.

The new team will need to be chosen according to their ability to work within the guidelines in a constructive way, rather than finding them restrictive.

This should not be difficult, as such things often are in the eye of the beholder.

Whoever takes over from Doug Williams and his team will have high standards to live up to, and by definition will bring new gifts to our liturgies.

The ultimate will be when we do not remark who our master of ceremonies, acolytes and servers are - because serving on the altar is serving with humility and reverence, without being intrusive, and really, without being conspicuous at all.

Maureen Jewell Dianella

of the Church and all its implications as understood by the Church's Magisterium.

The truth, guaranteed by the Catholic Church, the Body of Christ, never defames but enhances a person's human dignity The Record will therefore try to foster a spirit of unity and proper pride in the Church according to the demands of the truth and the common good.

By doing this it will seek to help build up the Church by trying to highlight the Christian lives of ordinary people, especially those committed to the Catholic understanding of human rights, justice and peace, which is first of all a spiritual understanding.

At the same time, outstanding achievements of clergy, laity and religious who give extraordinary witness in their Christian life and their building of true Christian communities will not be ignored.

It is a tall order, but we will try and, having fallen, try again, with the help of God's grace and the intercession of Mary, the Mother of God.

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his may not be of monumental importance to salvation nor to peace in the hearts and countries of the world. Nevertheless, I am writing on Incensing during the Holy Liturgy.

Amid all the myriad changes and modifications to the liturgy stemming from the Vatican II renewal, little rethinlcing of the use of incense during the Holy Liturgy seems apparent.

I suggest that now is the time and that, as with many other liturgical rites, the good historic practice of the East be taken into account as it was with some of the other liturgical reforms - for instance, the anointing with chrism in the Confirmation Rite began to use the Eastern formula "Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit".

I suggest the following. The style of incensing can at times embrace the Eastern gesture of swinging the whole chain of the thurible, not just the lower third.

This is a stronger, clearer gesture that makes the point of incensing - a symbol of prayer, praise and sacredness - more demonstrable.

We make much of the beauty and message of good, clear liturgical dance. This should also be true of incensing.

In no way am I encouraging the melodramatic or theatrical, but strength, drama and clarity Some of the Anglican and occasionally Catholic gesture can verge on the pompous melodramatic - at least it looks like this from the outside.

Beauty and reverence and clarity, yes, but not the theatrical. Planned and designed liturgical experience is fine if it does not lead to this.

The first incensation should be that of building/sanctuary and people as a whole - not specifically the altar and crucifix, but not excluding it. This takes place during the Entrance song or psalm after the ministers arrive at the altar. The Eastern gesture is encouraged because Ills large and thus all-embracing.

The celebrant should begin in the sanctuary, move symbolically towards some of the walls including holy statues and icons (without doing a grand tour which is totally unnecessary).

Then move back to the centre of the sanctuary and with perhaps one reverential incline of the head in respect to the people generally incenses the crowd in all directions using the large Eastern gesture again - three little bobs of the head looks quite pompous no matter how slowly Ills done and is quite unnecessary He may, to stress special occasions, continue the gesture moving down the aisle as much as necessary but certainly not a grand tour to the very last person in the back row who has come in late and probably suffers from asthma anyhow.

This incensing, which says symbolically, "This is a holy place and you are priestly people called to celebrate a holy action" naturally takes the place of the present

incensing of the people after the offertory.

Thus the holiness of the place and people is stressed prior to both the Liturgy of the Word and Eucharist, which is logical.

The priest returns to the presiding chair and the Holy Liturgy continues "In the name of the Father .. ."

The second incensation should introduce the Liturgy of the Word. An acolyte should move with the incenser to stand reverently where the readings will be done or, as is done in the Eastern Rite, the Lectionary of Sacred Readings as a whole is escorted with incense and from a place of honour to the lectern.

At the reading of the gospel, candles and a special incensing may be added as the congregation rises in respect to greet this reading.

The third incensation relates to the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

The gifts of the people may be led to the altar with incense as well as candles as the Offertory song, psalm or motet is sung.

Once the gifts are prepared they are incensed as per tradition accompanied perhaps by another suitable short motet.

This is done in a particularly beautiful way at Applecross Parish with no sense of theatre, only sheer reverence. Well done Applecross!

The acolyte then incenses the celebrant symbolising and reminding the priest that he is about to celebrate a most holy and sacred mystery. This is done in the traditional way.

At this point there should be no incensation of the people as it has already been done much more logically at the beginning of the liturgy On this score, it thus avoids the furtive signalling to the congregation to stand up followed by the mechanical, pompous and largely unimpressive "three nods and three swings" that is usually finished before the last person stands up and realises what is happening anyhow.

There is another possibility here.

If the Sanctus is a substantial composition then the priest could incense the gifts as this is sung.

He would be incensed at the usual time but the gifts reverenced immediately before the Eucharist prayer. He could add incense immediately before he says "lift up your hearts!"

At the conclusion of the "Sanctus" and incensation the priest hands the thurible to the acolyte who immediately kneels reverently before the altar in a suitable place. This is a similar timing with the "Thagion-Sanctus" in the Eastern Rite.

The fourth incensation is that of the consecrated Holy Gifts - the sacred and precious Body and Blood of Our Lord.

To be avoided at all costs is the theatrical and distracting exit or 'incense topping up" by acolytes during this period. It should be noted that in the Eastern Rite it is the priest who incenses the chalice and paten and it happens after he has personally reverenced the real presence of the Lord.

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Be that as it may, in the Latin Rite, the acolyte should move into a standing position in front of the altar as the priest says "Lift up your hearts" in such a way as to not become the centre of attraction - it may mean moving actually down the aisle of the church just a little, then kneeling when all kneel after the ''Sanctus".

It is not crucial that he or she be clearly visible. We are focused on the altar, not the acolyte.

After the incensing, he should not move In any way. Il ls distracting and illogical.

The acolyte should stand reverently when all stand after the Great Amen.

The priest should wait quietly for a few seconds while the acolyte places the thwible on a suitable stand near the altar. The acolyte should not need to leave the altar.

Extinguishing and cleanout can be done after Mass. Then all are ready to say the Our Father together.

Partial use of incense should also be encouraged, and not all these incensations have to be done every Sunday - the complete series is kept for special occasions.

The reform of incensing is worthy of discussion and implementation.

Phil Shields Como

No right to die

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dvoc,ates of euthanasia quite often assert that they have the "right" to choose the time of their own death - in fact, they call it "the right to die".

Christians believe "mercy killing" can never be acceptable under any circumstances.

And, even by secular standards, one can still argue that euthanasia is unlawful.

This is the basis on which the Coalition Against Euthanasia has organised its challenge in the Northern Territory - stating that The Rights of the Terminally Ill Act is unconstitutional.

However, proponents of euthanasia may still insist that they have the "right" to die; but it is precisely this claim that invalidates their argument.

We use the word right to indicate something that is due a person. For example, we speak of people's right to free speech, or the right to fair wages. These things are legitimate rights which when denied are appropriately addressed through the legal system.

But Ills simply not correct to speak of a "right to die" because death is a natural occurrence - a phenomenon, common to all living organisms.

Because no individual is exempt from this inevitable event, any contrived "right" to die is illusionary.

So the pro-euthanasia lobby need not be concerned that their "right to die" is being denied them.

Death is part of our human inheritance and any attempt to hasten this natural event can only be described as unethical.

Joseph Said Noranda The Record, July 11 1996. Page 7

International Features

When mortality confronts men ago when he was archbishop of Cincinnati, charges later withhere are too few books drawn by the supposed victim.

Then, last year, he was diagabout grief written by men and meant for men, said a nosed with pancreatic cancer priest who has written such and is currently trying to beat survival odds of 25 percent. a book.

After asking the cardinal for an As far as Father Robert Miller knows, his is one of only two on account of how he grieved, "he gave me five pages of singlethe market.

And the other looks at grief in a spaced (typewritten) material," more factual and less personal Father Miller said.

Father Miller's own grief quest, sense than does his own, titled which he uses in the book, was "Grief Quest."

"There's a lot of common male the death of his father when the wisdom out there on grieving," priest-to-be was 16 years old. said Father Miller, a priest for 20 "It took me a good 16, 17 years years. And he hopes to contin- to really grieve it," he recalled. ue to tap into it.

Grief is "not efficient," but To prepare, he asked several instead is "a process," Father people to give their own encoun- Miller said. ters with grief. One was Cardinal One inescapable fact for men, Joseph Bemardin of Chicago. according to the priest, is that "as "I'm sure you know his history we get older, we seem to have well," Father Miller told Catholic more griefs, because we are News Service in a telephone more aware of them." interview from Chicago, where He said that for him it "dovehe is in parish ministry. tailed" well that he could finally In a two-year span, Cardinal go through all the grieving he Bernardin was struck first by needed after the death of his allegations that he had sexually father, then write "Grief Quest." abused a teen-age boy years Father Miller called it "acceptBy Mark Pattison

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Reflections for Men Coping With Los

By Robert J. Miller with Stephen I. tirvevniak

Foreword by Richard Rohr, O.F.M.

If you still haven't booked a room •

ing the real world. You tap in not only to grief, but other things."

In the short time it has been available, "Grief Quest" has received a good reception.

"Two-thirds of the people who came up to me said, 'There's a man I know - a husband, an uncle - who just lost something and they really need this book," Father Miller recounted.

At one recent exposition, "I heard a lot of men say, 'I really don't have a whole lot of friends.

I have drinking buddies."

"Grief Quest" contains eight "Cardinal Rules of Crisis" that, even though they appear at the end of the book, Father Miller urges men to read them first if necessary. They are: 'You will survive despite your pain; Self-hatred is a lie; You are still beloved, valuable and worthwhile in God's eyes; Your pain has been seen and redeemed by Jesus Christ on the cross; One day at a time; Postpone any Important life decisions until later, Structure helps maintain sanity; and, finally, Reach out to loved ones."

Church's 'proverbial wake-up call'

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recent document from the US bishops' Committee on biscuits," he advises recruits.

By Thea Jarvis Marriage and Family calls JoeAnne Lee is executive director muffles of some Olympic of Atlanta Host, which is coordi- Promise Keepers "the proverbial athletes will find a warm nating the efforts of 28 Christian wake-up call to the Church to Southern welcome in the denominations to provide free encourage and offer more ministry suited to the needs of men." homes of area residents through housing for families.

And Ray Giese of St Edna Four other programs through a church-based campaign for volParish in Arlington Heights, Jewish organisations and local unteer families.

For what is believed to be the community groups also are Illinois, has taken that wake-up first time in Olympic history, recruiting volunteer host fami- call seriously.

"I had felt a move toward helpcompetitors' families from lies. ing men in one way or anothA member of First Baptist around the world have been er for many years," said the 42invited to stay free with volunteer Church of Atlanta, Lee believes year-old Giese, a national the influx of international visitors hosts in and around Atlanta. account manager for the OakJane Enniss, Olympic hospitali- means "the mission field is com- brook. Illinois.-based Waste ty coordinator for the Atlanta ing to us," providing an opportu- Management Inc. Archdiocese, said about 700 nity to welcome guests in the Giese founded a men's ministry Catholic households have com- name of Christ at St Edna in 1994, a few months Father Pat Bishop, pastor of after attending his first Promise mitted to hosting families of athTransfiguration Parish and an Keepers conference in Boulder. letes.

She hoped to recruit another Olympic torchbearer, isn't sur- Colorado.

300 in Catholic parishes before prised so many parishioners "The response was pretty the July 19 kickoff of the games. have responded to the request good." he said.

"We're still pushing for people for housing.

"We probably have a group of to get involved." she told the "I have never asked them to do about 55 or BO men, six to 12 of Georgia Bulletin, archdiocesan anything that they didn't respond which meet once a month for newspaper. in great numbers," he said. prayer and support."

But enthusiasm for the program "This is an incredibly generous, Promise Keepers estimates that has been high. "Parishes have Christ-filled family." more than 1 million men will really taken over."

Atlanta Archbishop John Dono- attend the more than 20 two-day Ken Sadeckas of Transfigur- ghue and the archdiocesan conferences scheduled throughation Church in Marietta expect- staff have been supportive of out the country during 1996. ed at least 40 families out of his Atlanta Host, which Lee said has Movement organisers also esti- Fr Charles Antekeler, a volunteer usher for a Promise Keepers event at Soldier parish's 2,600 households to par- helped in recruiting volunteers.

Photo CNS/Caseaa mate that at least 10 percent of Reid hi Chicago, shares the Gospel with his -neighbour." ticipate, providing beds, break"If the head of the Church pro- the attendees are Catholics. the Promise Keepers commission Chicago, has suggested they infast and rides to transportation motes something, people in But for the past few months, a I volve more Catholics. centres for as many as four the pews get behind it," said Lee. group of local Catholic men - n the Catholic Church."

Giese, recalled fascinated being "In any ecumenical endeavour, guests.

And Ennis said archdiocesan some who have participated in "I want to make sure (host fam- procedures have made the pro- Promise Keepers events and by all the circumstances that sur- there needs to be participrounded the Promise Keepers ation from the beginning, not the ilies) are comfortable" with their ject easier. some who have not - have been movement - its rapid growth to job as well, he said.

"Our system of communicating working to organise what they over 1 million men in less than feeling of being invited guests to someone else's event."

Breakfast for guests "doesn't Information is probably the call a "Catholic complement" to five years and the way its mesHis reservations focus on the Promise Keepers in Chicago. have to be ham, eggs, grits and most organized" she said. sage of calling men to be Promise Keepers' "statement of The group, which calls itself radical, Christians rang true. faith" and the evangelical enviCatholic Men In Action, was "Iwas very intrigued, especially ronment in which the conferMEW Ail ANI to host a major "spiritual fitness 1896 - 1 9 9 6 workout" - adopting a sports- by the lack of something like this ences are conducted. rOPPIrt”IIPPr i The "statement of faith" raisoriented motif - on July 13 at in the Catholic Church, "he said.

4.1••• In their document, "A Perspec- es questions about salvation by Notre Dame High School for tive on Promise Keepers," the US grace alone and the absolute Boys in Niles, Illinois.

"I hope it can become a bishops' committee sought to inerrancy of Scripture, items Catholic outreach to Promise help bishops better understand which continue to separate CathKeepers, beginning to bridge the the movement and suggest ways olics and Protestants. denominational gap," said Giese, to work with parishioners returnBut Giese said he has no problem with the Promise Keepers' director of publicity for Catholic ing from the conferences.

Noticeably missing from Prom- "statement of faith."

Men In Action.

125Q "But Catholic Men In Action is ise Keepers events are Cath"Let's focus on the 60 percent not meant to replace or comp- olic speakers or board members. who don't know Christ at all, Father Thomas Baima, director regardless of Church affiliation. ete with Promise Keepers in any Here are three in a series of five stamps the Vatican has issued commemoof ecumenical and interreligious And that's what the whole thing context. rating the centenary Olympic Games, on sale until November 7.

Photo CNS "It's our way to carry out affairs for the Archdiocese of is really all about."

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New Norcia breaks ground in education

A new sound for the bush cloisters

By Colleen McGuinness Howard

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here's a lot more music making around New Norcia these days, and the Benedictine Monks are loving every note of it.

In fact to create more music was their idea, when they assigned Sister Elizabeth Murray SGS as liturgical coordinator for their Benedictine community in January this year.

Enticed over here from Queensland by the lure of the magnificent Moser-Moreno organ, installed in the Abbey Church in 1920, Sr Elizabeth has settled in after six months, and is thoroughly enjoying her experience.

Other benefits include yet another appealing organ - the Bellsham Pipe Organ in the beautiful monks' chapel - the challenge of the job and the magical peace and quiet of this remote town.

As a Good Samaritan Sister of the Order of St Benedict - the first Australian order founded by Archbishop Polding, a Benedictine and Australia's first bishop there was already the Benedictine link with the Monks.

But for their part, they were mindful of the fact when looking for a liturgical coordinator that Sr Elizabeth is indeed highly qualified.

She holds Bachelor degrees in challenges. The monks pray the Music from the Melbourne Divine Office six times daily.

Conservatorium, in Theology Sr Elizabeth accompanies them from the Melbourne College of for three; Lauds in the morning.

Divinity, and spent some time in Sext at midday, and Vespers in the United States completing her the evening, and at choir practice Master of Arts in liturgical stud- on Saturday mornings. ies at Washington's Catholic "The Monks' lives revolve University around liturgy," Sr Elizabeth Arriving back from America, Sr explained, so they stop their Elizabeth took up the position of work and come to pray. education officer for the Brisbane "It reminds them what they are Liturgical Commission. here for and brings them into There she worked with adults, closer contact with God." and found the background of Other Religious also pray at education and music "a marvel- those key points during the day, lous asset in working in the area she said with Lauds at sunrise of liturgy." "because the rising sun has Part of her job there was to always been a symbol of the arrange and organise workshops, Risen Christ to Christians." running courses in areas pertainSext around midday is to proing to liturgy for adults. vide a stopping point in the midShe also taught for a semester dle of the day with Vespers at Banyo Seminary, Queensland prayed as the sun goes down. and served as education officer "And as the day dies, we in the Liturgical Commission. remember that Christ died, but There her job involved educa- always with our eyes on His ristion, consultancy, and member- ing from the dead; during both ship of the editorial committee Lauds and Vespers, we also as for the Commission's quarterly Christians pray for the whole magazine 'Liturgy News'. world."

Commenting on another area Sr Elizabeth coordinates the of interest, Sr Elizabeth said she Sunday Eucharist liturgy, for thought the monks were trying to about 11 Monks, a core group of move out and forward. parishioners, and a changing Coming from her own expertise population of guests and tourists base as well as being on her to the town. order's liturgy committee, Sr If there are any visiting Catholic Elizabeth feels she can more school groups, they too are than adequately cope with any involved in the liturgy if possible.

Sister Elizabeth at the Moser Moreno - steeped in Benedictine traditions.

The monks want to give people good liturgy so the fruits of it can be spread further afield, said Sr Elizabeth who considers herself primarily a pianist.

With over 30 years organ experience, she is full of praise for the "magnificent Moser-Moreno

organ," which has over 2,000 pipes hidden behind the facade and its capability of cracking the walls of the Abbey Church if played at full capacity.

Word has it. she's not going to prove it, much to the monks' relief.

Town provides a unique education for students E ducation takes on a whole new meaning when you're talking about the initiative the New Norcia Benedictine Monks have put in place under Education Officer, Robyn Watson.

The concept which was launched in April has been an overwhelming success with enthusiastic country and metropolitan schools keen to be involved in a curriculum-based, individually-tailored student program which may be simply a one day excursion, or spread over several days.

Schools may opt for an art package displaying the beautiful frescoes on ceilings and walls in the chapels within St Ildephonsus' and St Gertrude's Colleges, and take in the art gallery and museum which represents "one of the finest collections of movable heritage in Australia."

Or the requirement may be for Aboriginal studies at a site where many Aboriginal children were nurtured and educated by the Spanish Benedictine Sisters and Monks during its early years.

New Norcia is immediately attractive because it is uniquely monastic and the only privately owned town in Western Australia.

Steeped in heritage, one needs days at least, according to Robyn, to absorb all the diversity from the richness of artistic culture to the sheer earthiness of walking the land on heritage trails and investigating activities with hands-on experience.

Some is brought from Spain and Italy, but the majority of it was created and crafted in New Norcia by the monks and other artists and artisans.

According to the season, for example, one can watch the olive pickings, the pressings or the sale of the products.

Founded by Dom Rosendo Salvado in 1846, New Norcia is home to 19 monks whose lives are woven through with prayer, uniting the town in a tapestry of peace.

And for students who participate in programs, they get a glimpse of their days as

On display - some of the early artifacts used by the monks of New Norcia.

they are given a Spanish welcome by one of the monks and Robyn.

They can then journey through the history of the monks' lives until their final resting in the historical cemetery with names engraved on headstones that are immortalised in mainstream and religious history books.

It's appropriate that these former colleges of learning for so many years, are now being utilised to once more inform. educate and accommodate those who wish to dawdle through history's pages and meander along the heritage trails upon which many a reflective and probably weary monk has walked while 'telling his beads'.

In a world which largely rejects miracles, or anything that isn't entirely scientifically explicable, one can hear the true story of how Bishop Salvado held up the painting of Our Lady of Good Counsel in unwavering faith, to turn back the advancing raging bushfire which swept away everything in

its path and was so close that the heat singed his beard.

The refurbished colleges can now accommodate up to 220.

The open spaces offer ideal facilities for dance, art and music - offering three onsite pianos, 50 music stands and a range of rehearsal and performance space.

There's also St Ildephonsus' Cottage for small groups, families, or just friends and the convent of the Spanish Benedictine Sisters which houses another 2Z As well, there's the interesting monastery guesthouse in obedience to St Benedict's rule of hospitality and which is a delight to either overnight or merely 'sup' in!

Home cooked fare in abundance complete with wine (not for the students!) within the old, Spanish influenced architectural monastic complex adds to the atmosphere.

But all of this is just a sample of New Norcia, in Robyn's view, "because New Norcia is truly a never ending story."

Pharmaceutical supplies from the days when you did your own doctoring in the bush.

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Book Reviews

The biggest mistake of them all?

AIDS The Failure of Contemporary Science. How a Virus That Never Was Deceived the World By Neville Hodgkinson, 420 pages.

Published in Great Britain 1996

By Fourth Estate Ltd, London Reviewed by Brian A Peachey

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eville Hodgkinson has produced a block buster.

In this well documented book, he is yet another writer saying that most of what we have been lead to believe about Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Acquired Immune Deficient Syndrome (AIDS) by some scientists and most Health Authorities cannot be accepted.

I had long suspected this because the dire predictions of a pandemic among heterosexuals, spread by a sexually transmitted virus did not happen.

I have read the literature on HIV and AIDS published in reputable scientific journals by Western Australian researchers; Royal Perth Hospital biophysicist, Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos; emergency medicine physician, Dr Val 'Rumen and Professor of Pathology at the University of Western Australia, John Papadimitriou, among others.

My own conclusion, largely treated with scepticism, was that the literature indicated that the present research does not prove that humans are infected by HIV, nor did it prove that the virus is

POLITICAL

401111ECTNESS Defying the Thought Polite

the cause of AIDS. It has been reassuring to read Neville Hodgkinson's very readable book, which objectively examines the history and the scientific research on AIDS and supports the above theory.

Hodgkinson was the medical correspondent of the London Sunday Times from 1985 to 1989 and since 1991 has been the science correspondence for the paper. He has written a series of questioning reports on the HIV/ AIDS theory.

Most of his writing has been contrary to widely held conventions and practices. That is, that AIDS is not caused by HIV; that HIV is not a virus but a collection of gene products that can appear when the immune system is damaged, that the treatment of AIDS sufferers or people diagnosed as HIV positive with the drug AZT harms more than it helps and that the HIV test has not been scientifically validated.

What he was saying was held to be heresy by the medical profession. Fortunately he had the editorial support of a powerful newspaper.

His book is not the work of a conspiracy finder, but is a well reasoned collection of historical facts and extensive quotations from the research.

The quality of the work is its objectivity. He extensively quotes both sides of the arguments.

In August 1993 Hodgkinson's paper sent him to Africa to inves-

tigate the proclaimed plague of AIDS in that country.

Hodgkinson puts a convincing case that there was no plague of AIDS in Africa.

The large numbers of persons diagnosed as HIV positive was a result of unreliable tests which had never been validated.

Hodgkinson is not a scientist, but an intelligent journalist reporting facts as he sees them.

It could seem that he is fighting a losing battle despite the massive amount of evidence he documents, and the compelling logic of his argument.

But his strength is that he can quote from the works of a large and growing number of eminent scientists, such as Dr Kary Mullis, who was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry, who have come to accept that HIV does not cause AIDS. Even Montagnier, the 'founding father' of HIV "who has been trying to signal to the world that HIV is not as dangerous as has been thought."

It must be of considerable satisfaction to the Perth team of scientists, led by Eleni PapadopulosEleopulos, whose research has received no public funding support, to be endorsed and quoted so liberally by Hodgkinson.

This review can not do justice to a book of such magnitude. It is a work of great importance which should be read by all those involved in the fight against AIDS.

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PC collection amounts to only a technical KO Political Incorrectness Defying the Thought Police.

By Marlene Goldsmith.

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, 243 pages.

Reviewed by Theo Fox

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o called Political Correctness (PC) has been the bane of a lot of people, including this reviewer for the past decade.

To me it was the popularising of a range of unworthy causes in the media, education and politics by the use of various forms of coercion and the invention of an

annoying jargon. The first reac- true, that they may have been tion after a glance at the contents speeches delivered in the House. was that at last someone has I was disappointed in that it been brave enough to defy the does not deal with some of the trend. important issues dominated by But Marlene Goldsmith is, how- PC such as abortion. ever, a Liberal Member of Goldsmith writes three chapParliament in the Legislative ters on violence: youth violence Council in New South Wales and and violence to women and chilsadly she thinks and writes like a dren, but never mentions that in Liberal Member of Parliament; her State, of which she has been albeit well written. part of the Government, one The book is a series of twenty unborn child is killed almost five essays, some of which are every 25 minutes of every day.

When a Government condones quite boring and one suspects, with some pity for the Members such killing no politician should of the Legislative Council, if ills be surprised at violence occur-

ring in all other sections of the community.

Like so many politicians she is soft on the greatest PC con of all, feminism. "To some extent, family income splitting will. I know, slow women's march to full equality, and that pains me..." is just one of many quotes.

There is, however, some refreshing frankness like: "So politicians have only one choice: sooth the anxiety of an electorate threatened by too much complexity, too much change, by promising to fix it all while not rocking the boat."

Movie and video ratings for the school holidays Here is a list of recent films the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broad-casting has rated on the basis of moral suitability. USCC classifications: Al - general patronage; All - adults and adolescents; AIII adults; MV- adults, with reservations (this indicates films that, while not morally offensive in themselves, are not for casual viewing because they require some analysis and explanation in order to avoid false Impressions and interpretations); 0 - morally offensive.

Anne Frank Remembered, All Antonia's Line, ATV The Arrival. All! The Birdcage, AIV Blush, Alll The Cable Guy, AIII Cold Comfort Farm, AM Courage Under Fire, AM

The Craft, All Dead Man Walking, AM Dragonheart, All Eddie, All Eraser, 0 Executive Decision, AM Fargo, AN Fear, 0 Flipper, Al Flirting With Disaster, AN The Flower of My Secret, AM Heavy AM The Horseman on the Roof, All! The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Al (G) I Shot Andy Warhol, 0 James and the Giant Peach, All Jane Eyre, All Lone Star, All The Low Life, Al!!

Ma Saison Preferee, AM Mission: Impossible, AIII Moll Flanders, AM The Monster, AIII Mr. Holland's Opus, All Mrs. Winterbotume, AME Mulholland Falls, AN Muppet Tivasure Island, Al

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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud, AIII The Nutty Professor, AM Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored, All Original Gangstas, 0 The Phantom, All Phenomenon, AM The Postman (II Postino), All Primal Fear, 0 The Quest, AM Rumble in the Bronx, Mil Sense and Sensibility, All Someone Else's America, AIII Spy Hard, AM Stealing Beauty, AN Striptease, 0 The Substitute, 0 Sunset Park, AN A Thin Line Between Love & Hate, 0 Thy Story, Al The Truth about Cats & Dogs, AN livister, AM Up Close & Personal, AM Welcome to the Dollhouse, AM

The US Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting's list of recent videocassette reltheatrical eases of movies, also rated on the basis of moral suitability.

The Amazing Panda Adventure, Al! The American President, Am The Aristocats, AI Babe, AI The Baby-Sitters Club, AI Bed of Roses, AM Bio-Dome, AM Blue in the Face, AM Braveheart, AN The Bridges of Madison County, AN Broken Arrow, 0 Casino, 0 Clueless, 0 Congo, All The Crossing Guard, AM Dead Man Walking, AM Dead Tired, AM Dolores Claiborne, AM Dracula: Dead and Loving It, All

Dtmston Checks In, All Father of the Bride Part II, All Feast of July, AM First Knight, All Frankie Starlight, AM Get Shorty, AIII The Glass Shield, AM Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain, All GoldenEye, AN Grumpier Old Men, All Heat, 0 Heavy Metal, 0 The Innocent, AM It Takes linro, All The Journey of August King, All Jmnanji, All The Juror, AN Last of the Dogmen, Al!!

Leaving Las Vegas, 0 Les Miserables, Alll Losing Isaiah, AM Magic in the Water, Al! Mighty Aphrodite, AM Money 11.ain, 0 Mr. Holland's Opus, Al! My Family-MI Familia, AM Nick of Time, AM Nixon, AM

Now and Then, AM Operation Dumbo Drop, All Outbreak, AIII Persuasion, All Powder, AM A Pure Formality, AM Rob Roy, All Richard III, All Sabrina, All The Secret of Roan Inish, All Sense and Sensibility, All Shanghai Thad, AM Something to Talk About, All Steal Big, Steal Little, AM Sudden Death, 0 Three Wishes, Al To Die For, AN 12 Monkeys, AN 1Wo If by Sea, AM Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, 0 Unstrung Heroes, Al The Usual Suspects, AM Virtuosity, 0 Waiting to Exhale, AN A Walk in the Clouds, AM White Man's Burden, AM

Features

Ordinary lives help inspire new publisher A

woman with a heart for people in their everyday struggles has taken their stories and turned them into a vehicle for communicating the gospel.

She is Teresa Pirola, originator of The Story Source, a grass roots publishing ministry that turns the events of ordinary lives into powerful messages for weekly bulletins for hundreds of parishes across Australia.

The teenager facing a broken romance, the guy who sacrifices himself for family or job, the parent who gets up at 4am to feed the baby are all ammunition for her gospel stories in everyday language which appear in Real People, the parish bulletin resourced and produced by The Story Source.

The stories are developed to parallel and illustrate the gospel readings for every Sunday of the year and have made Real People a sought-after resource in an increasing number of parishes.

"Its uniqueness is its strong story-telling approach which draws on the stories and insights of ordinary people," says Teresa.

"Its underlying vision is that people are living the Gospel in ways they often don't realise.

"In those everyday struggles where people live with hope, courage, love and sacrifice Christ

is there. What we try and do at The Story Source is draw on those real life stories in order to highlight a point in the gospel or in a church teaching."

Toorpe The Story Source began as a Teresa Pirola with one of her helpers, John Field, at the Story Source offices solo venture in 1991, the fruit of From time to time The Story Victoria in tears as soon as she the Church. From then on she Teresa's commitment and broad was very conscious of the contriSource, backed by a small team had read it to say thank you. ministry experiences. bution that ordinary people help with planof people who ideas herself as an Describing At that time her decade of could make to the life of the production, responds to involvement in lay spirituality ning and issues in the commu- person, she said the hands-on Church - they don't have to be particular ideas into real work of turning movements, her work as a dioce"churchy", just by using the as a gesture of good will. san Church worker at the nity of these responses was a products is out of all proportion resources of their daily lives, One inspirational effort. to the Catholic Adult Education Centre. reflection sheet on the Port She is keen to develop new their home, their talents, and Sydney, and her theological stud- Arthur tragedy which looked at that are accessible and their money, they can have a materials ies combined to bring about an the actions and feelings of people not only for people in tremendous power for good in relevant, awareness of the "gap" between i nvolved. those who never developing faith in a wider pews but for the the Church as an institution and it was an opportunity to sphere. to Church. think about or go its expression at the parish level. people by pin-pointencourage she will draw on For this task A graduate in arts she develThere was a lot of church-speak ing the Christ-like responses durexperiences of growing up in her oped her theological knowledge and theological jargon which ing the tragedy and to teach our a strong Catholic family environ- by studying for a Bachelor of Teresa could see was lost on the children what forgiveness is ment and in the creativity and Theology from 1986 to 1988 at average Catholic and she wanted about." Teresa said. back ground developed through the Catholic Institute of Sydney. to produce something that would "We wanted to send out a mes- her work and training.

Manly. make the connection for them. of hope that would help sage to highlight to ordi"I wanted Experiencing the Antioch "It was a great experience and nary people that they spoke the people manage the horror."

Movement in New York with her allowed me to depth my everyThe Story Source produced a brother and sister during a trip to day life experience of the faith at gospel with their lives and help them to draw on the well of faith sheet of reflections which looked in 1981 they returned to intro- an intellectual level." experience as a way of filling out at the gift of life, loved ones, and duce it in Australia, backed by Since then Teresa has been a and making sense of the formal personal grief and tragedy which their parents, Ron and Mavis. diocesan church worker with the might have been re-visited aspects of the faith," she said.

It was a real family effort which Catholic Adult Education Centre, it massacre, which because of the As well as producing Real became a widespread movement where she spent two years.

People, The Story Source devel- mailed out cost-free to all parish- within five years.

Under that hat she was coordiin ops resources for schools and es in Hobart and to parishes nator of the catechumenate for vital it was a very For Teresa dioceses. three Sydney parishes and produces LandIt received a lot of positive feed- experience of what Church could the archdiocese and coordinator marks, a quarterly publication back which made it worthwhile. be, with the responsibility on lay of the Institute of Parish Ministry. that presents official Vatican docinvolvement which gave a great according to Teresa.

- courtesy The Catholic uments in practical form.

One person rang from country training ground for leadership in Weekly, Sydney PICtiffe Me

The true Pentecostal Church offers the enthusiasm of Christ

By Father Des Gregory

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t is a sad fact that many Catholics leave the Church to enjoy what they perceive as the more enthusiastic and vibrant form of worship in one or other of the many self-styled Pentecostal Churches.

They criticise what they see as the dullness and sameness of their former Catholic worship, its conventional style of singing, its lack of bodily activity.

Undoubtedly large-scale human activities, patterned for release of human emotions, are very conductive to elevated sentiments.

But the 2000 year old Church has never considered that mere emotion was a worthy offering to God. Rather, it is the enthusiasm and worship of Christ Himself that is offered, which is on a scale undreamt of and unclaimed by other churches.

This miraculous activity of Christ culminates in His Real Presence on the Altar in Mass.

This is some thing that is neither claimed nor believed by most other churches.

Scott Hahn, the former Protestant Biblical scholar, visiting Catholic churches out of curiosi-

As the Spirit of Sonship, He is ty, was struck by the silence of correspondingly the Spirit of the worshippers, and deeply Loyalty and Obedience: of impressed by their intense reverResponsibility: of Intimacy and ence, and their motionless absorption in the unseen world Conformity.

Therefore, whenever we are of the Spirit. told, in a time of adverse fortune, He was filled with envy, and that we must all be submissive to desired this for his own life. the Will of God, we must reject After all, they were ordinary the image of a tyrannical power people like himself, but possesscapriciously curbing our freeing such a deeply prayerful life, dom of thought and action. unostentatious and sincere.

When we pray Thy Will Be Eventually, as the whole world knows, he was received into the force - one might even say 'fierce- Done' we are not just resigning Church, and became one of the ness' - of their love for their our selves to the inevitable, but mutual Spirit is shown in the rather we are begging, and greatest present-day apologists.

As he discovered, she is the real jealous protectiveness in Christ's imploring that the Father and Pentecostal Church, in which the threat: Whoever speaks against Son would send their loving and Spirit of Holiness displays His the Holy Spirit will not be forgiv- adorable Spirit to our rescue en, either in this age or the Age to from the plight that we have got True Personality and Character.

This Holy Spirit turns the same come'(Matt 12:31; also Mk 3:28; ourselves into.

We are praying that our own Face to us that He turns to Father Lk 12:10).

How can they possibly give desire for Him might be elevated and Son: He is their infinite Love away their beloved Spirit to the to the level of His desire for us. for each other.

The intense personal intimacy The Father, seeing His own per- likes of us? Obviously they fect reflection in the character expect the same reverence and of our relationship individually and activity of His Eternal Son, loving attachment to Him from to the Holy Spirit is underlined loves Him forever with a love that us as from Them. by the fact that He knows every surpasses all emotion or sentiThe phrase 'Spirit of God' cell in our body - blood cells, ment, and emerges as another occurs 14 times in the Old bone cells, brain cells - He has Person in God. Testament, 15 times in the New; actually constructed every single And because the Son is the per- and the words 'Holy Spirit' occur one, in their countless millions. fect Image of the Father, He 90 times in the New. And this creation is not somereturns that perfect Person exactAs the Spirit of Fatherhood, He thing over and done with, long ly as he receives Him, unchan- is the Spirit of Authority and ago, but is still going on and on, ged, except that now this is the Sovereignty of Power and as long as we exist.

Spirit of perfect Sonship.

Empowerment: of Nature and And the same applies to our And the infinite overwhelming Providence. soul, only even more so, as ills

infinitely more complex to make.

He knows every source of our thought and imagination, every impulse and tendency of our wilt After all, He made this body and soul to be His own home too.

How gladly and promptly He will enter if we invite Him in not just as a guest but as the owner and permanent occupier of ourselves.

But more than all this, He is the Spirit of Sonship and Daughterhood of God. He is still the ancient Breath of God, breathed into our first ancestor, Adam, and lost by him, but now restored to us.

This means infinitely more than just being created by God, as any other creature (plant, insect, bird or animal) is created.

It means that we are each 'begotten and conceived, as it were, in the Womb of God and brought to birth in Him, to His eternal joy, and ours.

The channel of His entry into us is in the Body of Christ, the Son of God, and the source of the Spirit of divine Sonship.

It is our own entry into the Body of Christ by Baptism and the Eucharist that opens the channel to the Spirit.

The Witness, magazine of the Diocese of Port Plea, Sit

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To Jesus through Mary. . . .

By John Thavis Mary's immediate acceptance of her role as the virgin mother of Christ contrasts with the tendency, then and now, to demand a sign in order to believe, Pope John Paul II said.

The Pope spoke about Mary at a general audience at the Vatican July 3, in one of a series of talks about the life of the Blessed Virgin.

He said Mary's reaction to the angel

. . . a column of Marian devotion

Gabriel's announcement was worth comparing to the reaction of St. Elizabeth's husband, Zachariah, told by an angel that his wife would bear a child in old age. St. Elizabeth was Mary's cousin, and she gave birth to St. John the Baptist.

In a typically human way, Zachariah hesitated and asked for a sign, as St Luke's Gospel recounts.

But Mary, told that she would bear Christ, merely asked how this would be accomplished.

She "received the angel's announcement with simplicity and courage. She asked for no sign, but trusted completely that God would make her, a virgin, the mother of his son," he said.

Her virginity, which seemed like an obstacle, became the concrete context in which the Holy Spirit acted in her, the Pope said.

Mary accepted this, consistent with her attitude of free cooperation with God's plan, he said.

The Church still appreciates Mary's depth of faith, especially when it is compared with the age-old tendency which people have shown to insist on perceptible signs in order that they might believe, the Pope said.

Understanding the quality of Mary's reaction to the angel's message also helps us understand the deep relationship between faith and salvation, and the particular role Mary played in the salvation of the human race, he said.

International News

Current papal primacy Confession complaint 'biggest unity obstacle' In Brief

PORTLAND. Ore. (CNS) - In a complaint filed in federal court, the Archdiocese of Portland claims that government officials in Oregon's Lane County violated a priest's religious rights by secretly tape-recording a prisoner's confession.

The complaint filed on June 27 asks the US District Court to order the Lane County Circuit Court to destroy a tape made as prisoner Conan Hale made a sacramental confession to Father Timothy Mockaitis at the county jail.

Curriculum vote WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Lithuania's parliament has rejected an attempt by excommunist deputies to remove religious teaching from the school curriculum.

The bill, tabled by members of the ruling Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party, would have overturned a law passed shortly before the Baltic republic's 1991 secession from the Soviet Union, requiring all pupils to choose religion or ethics.

Opus Dei on Web NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (CNS) - The prelature of Opus Del has established a site on the World Wide Web. The web site address of http://www.opusdeLorg can be reached by anybody with access to the Internet.

Burma respect VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II urged the minority Church in Myanmar to strengthen its missionary programs while respecting the beliefs of the Buddhist majority The Pope said he was encouraged by the bishops' report on plans to establish a national missionary society, associations of lay missionaries and special programs related to the year 2000.

Czech visit VATICAN CITY (CNS) Czech bishops have announced that Pope John Paul II will make a two-day visit to their country in April 1997.

The visit will mark the 1,000th anniversary of the martyrdom of St Adalbert, copatron of the Czech Republic.

Cardinal Miroslav Vlk of Prague said the Pope would visit from April 26-27.

By Jonathan Luxmoore WARSAW, Poland (CNS) - Two of the world's leading nonCatholic authorities have said the current exercise of the Pope's office poses a "decisive obstacle" to Christian unity that can only be overcome by closer consultation with other Churches and denominations.

'The papal office has become the biggest barrier and greatest threat to Christian unity as it has developed in the Western Church, especially after two great schisms," said Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, considered "first among equals" in the Orthodox hierarchy.

-This has been publicly recognised and confirmed not only under the current Pope John Paul but also in an even more dramatic way under Popes Paul VI and John XXIII." he said.

Patriarch Bartholomew was responding to a questionnaire from Tygodnik Powszechny, a Polish Catholic weekly, on how papal primacy could become "a service rather than stumbling block to unity."

In his reply the patriarch said the "office and service of the bishop of Rome" had created "real problems" for inter-Church relations since the early Christian centuries, although these had intensified after the proclamation of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council in 1870.

He added that the Pope's 1995 encyclical "Ut Unum Sint" would . 'undoubtedly have been accepted with gratitude" by all denominations if the Catholic Church had been ready to consider the papal office in line with the "pentarchy" - the early Christian doctrine giving authority also to the patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem.

-This means if the Church and its theologians had been prepared to see the Pope as a coordinator and senior leader."

Patriarch Bartholomew said, "without extremes and theologically mistaken demands for a world primacy in the jurisdictional sense - or even worse, for personal infallibility over the whole Church and independently of it."

The patriarch, who met Pope John Paul in Rome in June 1995, has since been criticised by other Orthodox leaders for seeking closer contacts with the Catholic Church, and for alleged attempts to extend his jurisdiction.

Also replying to Tygodnik the secretary-general of the World Council of Churches. Reverend Konrad Raiser, said the Reformed and Anglican Churches also saw the current definition of the papal office as the "foremost obstacle" to reunification.

"When we call it an obstacle, this does not express some antiRome superstition. It is only the

Rome's primacy," which had also been recognised by most Reformation thinkers. "Instead, the key obstacle has come to be the way the office of Pope has been justified and conducted since the First Vatican Council."

Reverend Raiser added, "especially the doctrine that the Pope possesses universal, direct jurisdictional power, and that his 'ex cathedra' decisions on faith and morals are infallible."

He said the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council had "enlivened local ecclesiology and opened the path to a more fruitful ecumenical dialogue," including the possibility of reinterpreting previous Catholic Church rulings to bring them "into line with Orthodox and Reformed traditions."

"However, there is no sign yet that the Pope is ready to consider the necessary self-relativisation of his primacy." Rev Raiser said.

Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew "The form and justification of a consequence of an objective unifying office which can be analysis of the factors mutually accepted by everyone is likely to separating the Churches," Rev be decided only within a universal Christian council. Work in Raiser said.

"During ecumenical talks, there this direction could prove very is a consensus that, to maintain important as we approach the unity and universality, the third millennium."

Rev Raiser added that the Church needs not just a conciliar structure, but also a personal encyclical "Ut Unum Sint" had office exercised within the colle- raised the question of "how to find a way of exercising primacy, gial community," he said.

Rev Raiser, 52, a German which is open to the new ecuLutheran, said the main difficul- menical situation, without rejectties arose "not primarily over the ing anything essential from its acceptance of the bishop of mission."

Ukrainians 'can help with Orthodox' Blair will

By John 'Mavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In liturgical ceremonies marking the 400th anniversary of the Ukrainian-rite Church's union with Rome, Pope John Paul II urged its faithful to help improve relations with Orthodox Christians.

The Pope emphasised that the entire Church must not lose hope for significant steps toward full unity with the Orthodox in coming years.

The pontiff made the remarks at a prayer service on July 6 and a Divine Liturgy the next day.

Both events commemorated the 1596 Union of Brest, an agreement under which some faithful in what are now Ukraine and Belarus united with Rome.

At that time, the Russian Orthodox Church opposed the formation of the Eastern-rite Ukrainian Catholic Church.

In this century, the Ukrainian The Pope celebrates the Liturgy of Church was outlawed under the Ukrainian rite last Sunday.

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communism, and its recent regaining of legal rights has sparked renewed tensions.

The Pope, keenly aware of the ecumenical repercussions of the Ukrainian-rite celebrations, placed the accent on harmony.

He characterised the Union of Brest as a partial reconciliation and said he hoped it would contribute to overall CatholicOrthodox unity.

On July 6, he led a "moleben" prayer in front of an icon of Mary a traditional service with songs, Scripture readings and litanies.

In a sermon, he appealed for progress in dialogue.

"We must not give ourselves peace until the divisions that have existed between us for so many centuries give way to the unity of all the baptised," he said.

"We must not abandon hope that the last years of the second millennium may bring new closeness, so that we can enter the third millennium, if not fully united, at least not as divided as before," he said.

not convert NIANCHESTER. England (CNS) - The leader of Britain's main opposition, the Labour Party has denied that he is about to become a Catholic following newspaper reports that he has been taking Communion in a Catholic Church.

Tony Blair, widely expected to be Britain's next Labour prime minister, is a practicing member of the Church of England but regularly attends Mass with his Roman Catholic wife, Cherie Booth, and their three children, who are being brought up as Catholics.

The British Catholic weekly The Universe reported on June 30 that Blair was a regular with his family at St Joan of Arc Church, Highbury. north London.

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Gap between evolution and Genesis 'narrowing'

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Does an evolutionary line connect the Book of Genesis and "The Origin of Species"?

Participants at a recent Vatican-sponsored conference think so, and are devising formulas that could explain the action of a divine Creator in terms even Charles Darwin might accept.

The key concept in this discussion is that evolution describes "ongoing creation" - a view that increasingly makes sense both scientifically and theologically, participants said.

Darwin's 19th-century book, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," disturbed religious leaders, who wondered where his new theory left the biblical account of creation.

Held in late June, the symposium was

the fourth in a series on the theme, "Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action."

Co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory, the meetings were encouraged by Pope John Paul II as a way to bridge the gap between science and religion.

This particular topic, evolutionary and molecular biology, brought together 22 scientists, theologians and philosophers, who debated such issues as "the hominid evolutionary journey" and "the normducibility of ethics to biology."

During a break at the Observatory headquarters in Castel Gandolfo outside Rome, from a terrace overlooking a blue lake and green hills, the experts broke their concepts down into layman's language.

"I call Darwin a 'disguised friend' of religion," said the Reverend Arthur Peacocke, an Anglican theologian and biochemist from England.

But more than a century later, evolution

has opened people's eyes to the fact that biology is a creative process, thus deepening their theological understanding, Reverend Peacocke said.

"It's made Christians realise that God is immanently working and creating through the whole process of nature all the time," he said.

"He's an ever-present God, not just an absentee God who created once upon a time in the past," he said.

Reverend Peacocke believes the basic account in Genesis is consistent with the idea of "ongoing creation."

God says "Let there be," but that does not rule out the emergence of species over time, he said.

Thomas Tracy, a professor of philosophy and religion at Bates College in Maine, argued that God acts through the evolutionary process, but without directly intervening. In the life of creation, God does

Protect abused South-East Asian children: Pope

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has urged increased international cooperation to protect children from exploitation and abuse in South-East Asia.

"Governments need to intervene strongly, with all the force of law, against those who harm and scandalise the most defenceless among us." the Pope said last Tuesday.

"Cooperation at the international level to secure this and to alleviate child poverty - which is frequently the key factor in the propagation of such evils - is to be encouraged," he said.

The Pope made the remarks in a speech welcoming the new ambassador from the Philippines, Henrietta Tambunting de Villa, who was presenting

not displace "otherwise sufficient secondary causes," he said.

He added it was important not to "insert God in the gaps in our current scientific knowledge."

But from a religious perspective, any divine role in evolution raises the problem of evil, he said.

The new field of genetic research has opened evolution to human intervention, or "playing God," but that may not be all bad, said the Reverend Ted Peters of the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California.

"People have put up no-trespassing signs around DNA. presuming that it's somehow sacred. The assumption seems to be that the human essence is found in the DNA. I disagree," he said.

He noted that there are some 4,000-5.000 identified DNA defects that predispose people to disease.

Cuban Church shows life despite persecution

her credentials at the Vatican. In ness and hospitality toward an interview, she said child immigrants.

• Foreign Catholic missioners labour was a significant problem in her country, but that the in the Philippines will no longer Government was taking steps to face the horrors they used to curb the practices. when processing their immigraShe said many children of poor tion papers, thanks to new visa families are forced to work at an procedures announced on late early age and are thus denied the last month by the Philippines' opportunity to go to school.

Bureau of Immigration.

A related government initiative The bureau has recognised the has been increased assistance to bishops' conference as the misstreet children in the Philippines, sioners' official representative. she said. Child prostitution This will shorten the time for often related to tourism - also processing visas and extension exists in the country, as it does applications for missionaries throughout the region, she said. from six to about two months.

The Pope congratulated the Services handled through the Philippines on the 50th anniver- bishops' conference will include sary of its independence and application for missionary visas, encouraged its leaders to contin- extensions, residence, emigration ue to emphasise social justice and travel permits. and fairness in its development The old process had left rnisprograms. stoners unable to make commitHe encouraged the Philippines ments and to plan ahead for proto maintain its traditional open- jects and activities.

Quezon slum dwellers negotiate land QUEZON CITY, Philippines Mayor Ismael Mathay's office to (CNS) - Protests from 300 u, ian delay the demolition. poor, accompanied by priests While some residents picketed and religious, succeeded in post- In front of city hall, the communiponing the demolition of their ty leaders and their religious suphomes, scheduled for late June. porters met Mathay and the In a mid-June demonstration, landowners, who agreed to postthe 300 residents of Quezon pone the demolition for two City, north of Manila, were joined months. by priests, nuns and seminarians Both sides also agreed that they when they picketed in front of will look for a suitable relocation

site, which will be bought by the landowners for the people.

Meanwhile, the Partnership of Philippine Support Services Agencies said that the 2.6 million slum dwellers in metropolitan Manila cannot afford the government's Unified Home Lending Programs, loan packages to buy a residential lot and finance the construction of a new house.

Catholics stand outside the Havana Cathedral following Sunday morning Mass. Catholics in Cuba have suffered severely for their faith but, despite decades of harsh persecution from the regime of President Fidel Castro, Cuban church officials are citing a re-awakening of the Church on the island nation.

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South African bishops to challenge legal abortion on demand CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) - The abortion on demand be legalised," the human life. Anything less takes us back South African Cabinet's decision to allow Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conf- into the oppressive years of apartheid. We abortion on demand up to the 14th week erence said in a statement issued in are faced here with a question of morality, of pregnancy was "a sad day in the history Pretoria on July 4. not merely legality," they said. of our country" and "will be regretted for The bishops' conference has said it will It is "shameful, to say the least" that those many years," the region's bishops said. who fought to end apartheid are allowing challenge the law, if passed, in the The South African Cabinet approved the "the continued taking of innocent life," the Constitutional Court.

Termination of Pregnancy Bill on July 3, bishops said.

But, after the constitution was adopted in which now needs a simple majority in "For years South Africa has struggled for Cape Town on May 8, Father Sean Parliament's two houses to become law. the recognition of basic human rights, O'Leary, head of the bishops' Justice and "In the midst of escalating crime, rape including the right to life. People spent Peace Department in Pretoria, said he and murder, our long-awaited democratic years in jail or gave their lives struggling doubted the conference would win the government has succumbed to pressures for the recognition of human dignity... case because of the clause which and accepted the recommendation that Society can only be built on respect for says, "Everyone has the right to ... make

decisions concerning reproduction and to have security in and control over their bodies."

At present, abortion is legal under limited circumstances, such as cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is threatened by pregnancy complications.

The committee decided abortion on demand should be allowed up to 14 weeks and under "broadly specified conditions" up to 24 weeks.

The bill would enable abortions to be performed by health workers as well as doctors.

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239 By calling God "Father," the language of faith indicates two main things: that God is the first origin of everything and transcendent authority; and that he is at the same time goodness and loving care for all his children. God's parental tenderness can also be expressed by the image of motherhood, which emphasises God's immanence, the intimacy between Creator and creature. The language of faith thus draws on the human experience of parents, who are in a way the first representatives of God for man. But this experience also tells us that human parents are fallible and can disfigure the face of fatherhood and motherhood. We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes.

He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood, although he is their origin and standard: no one is father as God is Father.

was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God"; as "the image of the invisible God"; as the "radiance of the glory of God and the very stamp of his nature."

240 Jesus revealed that God is Father in an unheard of sense: he is Father not only in being Creator; he is eternally Father by his relationship to his only Son who, reciprocally, is Son only in relation to his Father: "No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

242 Following this apostolic tradition, the Church confessed at the first ecumenical council at Nicaea (325) that the Son is "consubstantial" with the Father, that is, one only God with him. The second ecumenical council, held at Constantinople in 381, kept this expression in its formulation of the Nicene Creed and confessed "the only-begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father."

241 For this reason the apostles confess Jesus to be the Word: "In the beginning

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opening of the Nall, Church of Si' John and Paul hy Nry hbothot) Foley on 22 December. tun; With the appointment of Fr Jim Cowman a. part‘h priest in 1944.

plarna were immediately laid for esiensions to the Parish Centre to accranmodate the parish secretary and humor. who imtil then. had been housed during the working day in the parish house.

Meeting moms were constructed and fitted out. one of them equipped for coodia-ting seminars for the use of the various parish committees, and office accommodation prcnided for the

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF MT CARMEL 16 JULY The Feast of Our Lady of Mt Carmel will be celebrated at the Shrine of the

Virgin of the Revelation. Chittering Rd. BuIlsbrook The Rosary commences at 10.30am followed by Holy fens at 11.00am. AN are welcome.

For further information please contact SACFt1 Association on 447 3292.

lie Malpail al asealiaase-111111•11mi posit ate Mgr el Mars esesellso esg Mb lesmodes l iters and lbw peidineol worker+, Growing Vine group mewl% ininatioe: perish limit amandl. indth a mom set wide for young every hiday at the parish cnntrin swer.

Aperisikui at Clrls1 parishioner& in addition to a no senior ctIbtetia tan low in Charismatic hart Grin*: Si Itheory-reseouts contra Indoor WillStrilk with ttwak and Vincent (in houl Canlareerst and Ms pariah butane. hallowing transport pro% kir.1. dmI N. taas doe Itawary Meditantan group some minor renovaflon. was then 12 nom which killers ir derwcpcurs to st The Skaters uf St Joseph ol the Peregrine, thy Senile mint who hue in return to being the swish Apparition minister In the pen* Is the pelmet of cancer sufkinerk yin *Milken in the financial aim In Ow arras al Catholic Advil and all thaw In nese/ mitmentn to fund the budding Faith Fclutatinst and parlors!

There am many fithiff proitnin, the partial) has alni) ram %net the John Mel Cern but lack of apace prechstiesgroups momdonated $1$0,1310 to Notre [tame Gruup is bawd on the Arch. *mune them other than in on rntversity to establish a perpetu• diocesan Outreach hicatind Cane that they help make the pariah al scholarship in the nanw, '4 th. Pmgrom and oilers practical help the awing veal and Chrta-4 en.

In !boar in need. whether told commetnity that it Is Willettrou-Krenhimod ['Wish In limo tlw parish pun hood Cathibik: is not o n, of throe Is the pantarol care and named Poky House in It Slone Casey leads an mobil- team . distributing Holy Comm‘Villethm in iuun. for refugee sloe& youth Woken /giant WIWk• union.

Ailing the nide* she* familiesNewlranived M6111,161% Inft in involve the volith In the Ins, the sick and them pea armlpariah activttim. can gel MUMS in uiheItIiwrI toy a ninpathetic ear • trudy.

Other active pariah accommodation for around 12 t •hrtotantty in action. mrraths. Regular contact Li main- include: 1,,,te, not crane for a visit one Education secromendews sod (toiner :ontrr ls with the Catholic Mignin1 tal programer: Rita at Christian dal, to we Its 1,ratritelr

tlomenwent has on behalf of the parinh. bought a house in Willetinn known an -1-1w, Crisis House' to priwide short-term shelter for people in urgent need.

winmir "th,- nperwmpei petioner., sin-

41)01 as lik- tink% of re

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mothers laith ends,i pry lib-

Icrim or cuuntrlf people obliged In creme here for medit al treatment The Partgli Primary School.

Omna. opened in lgtm. is another vcample of the ‘iventr of the pariah.

Rut the partith'el building aril-0t' • hag not been to the neglect of the real task and challenge of a pariah: the building of commitni-

There are a great number of organisations within the Parish dedicated to that task.

One of these Ls the Catholit Adult Edit( anon Faith

tnnimittee Its latest prowt v.as the successful promotion of interfaith dialfigne during christtan 7nttv AVeek when guest speakrrc

from other Christian denominations and from the lowish Tomply

shared their faith journeys

Arc hdiocesan Panorama formeriu July. Trinity College Hall. Trinity

Avenue. Perth. Admission by donation. Open to all. Enquiries: Pauline (09) 364 1201.

DAVID PARKES ST MARY'S GUILDFORD David Parkes. one of Irelands lead- Will be celebrating the Diamond ing professional singling. miracu- Jubilee of the Church building (the lously cured of Chron's disease, perish itself was founded in 110110 but gives his incredible witness through the present Church was opened by a worldwide singing ministry in a two-hour concert on Thursday 25

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Amaisitiepl0Miy ameteileg alien at Iffirtkop-Orealomai

Archbishop Prendivilleon 28f7t1936) on Sunday 28 July 1996 at 10.30am

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Perth. Simple lunch provided. RSVP Sr Wendy 474 1349. afh 478 1038.

Donation.

PROGRAMS FOR SINGLE PEOPLE The Redemptorist Lay Community

Mess. BYO Lunch. Coffeeites etc will be provided.

All friends. parishioners and exparishioners ans invited. Rowse note change of RUM tarns from 9 m kg 10.30am.

POPE IN WINTER The Intairtor Journey. A reflection day with Meurettn Kenny RSJ. 9.45ars3.00pin Thiiireday 25 July. 1996. Mary Mach:Plop Centre. 16 York St. South

are again conducting the Positive

Side of Being Single, an evening program on Tuesday 6 August. 7.309.30prn and Exodus Weekend s non live-in program on Saturday 11 August & Sunday 18 August. 1996.

Venue: Redemptorist Monastery.

Vincent St. Nth Perth. For more information contact Carl on 279 8011 or Fr Leon on 328 6600.

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