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Bishop condemns Aboriginal funds cut

By Peter Rosengren Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome has described cuts in Federal funding of Aboriginal programs as a "brutal blow" to Aborigines and to reconciliation between them and nonAboriginal Australia at a time when the services were needed more than ever before.

The bishop's criticisms came during a visit to the Kalumburu Catholic community in the State's far north to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption.

"Unfortunately there are some people who think it is time to cut back on funding to Aboriginal communities," Bishop Saunders said, "but the reality is, more than ever, funding is needed now for running programs to do with culture and development to assist Aboriginals establish their place in Australian society."

The Federal Government intends to maintain funding for health, housing and education for Aborigines but has asked the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission to cut $400 million over four years from sport, legal, administration and cultural programs for Aborigines.

Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Herron said he wanted the funding cuts to force a greater focus on individual Aborigines and their families in their local communities.

But Bishop Saunders warned that the cutting of funding to Nrsic would stem the flow of development in isolated communities such as Kalumburu.

"Aboriginal people might get the impression that the rest of Australia just doesn't care about them," he said.

"The Federal Government has a responsibility to restore funding to ATSIC and to establish all the necessary guidelines to make sure that the funding is invested in the communities where it is needed," he said.

He also said the ATSIC cuts would retard the quest for national reconciliation between Aboriginal and other Australians at a time when the nation had great need of it.

Perth: August 22, 1996

Pilgrim Virgin Statue here to inspire Marian devotion

His comments were mirrored by National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council chairman, Marist Brother Graham Mundine, who said the cuts begged the question of what the Government's attitude to indigenous people in Australia really was.

"The way in which the cuts were released on the same day that the diesel fuel rebate [was retained], some $1.6 billion a year, really questions where the Federal Government's priority is in concern for the least advantaged of our society," he said.". ... what more disadvantage will those poor and already disadvantaged people have to suffer?"

He said cuts to Aboriginal groups would cause widespread despair within communities which have just begun to move forward.

In a later statement, Bishop Saunders said the Catholic Church of the Kimberley Members of Perth's Portuguese community carry the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue from Perth expressed its "extreme disappointment" Airport last Saturday for its two week stay in Western Australia. The statue has been travelling with the funding decision. the world, starting in Fatima, Portugal, 50 years ago, inspiring greater devotion to Mary, the MothHe said the cuts to non-essential areas of er of God and her Rosary. Full report - Page 2 Aboriginal funding would do nothing to promote the self-determination of Aboriginal people and did not support "in any way the quest for national reconciliation between Aboriginal and other Australians for which this country has a desperate The Church is vigorous and well-organ- in the building and rebuilding of churchneed." ised in East Timor, despite a strong, all-per- es. Nevertheless, he had also heard of Acknowledging that financial grants relating to health, housing and education had vasive Indonesian military presence in instances of Islamisations where Catholics remained unaffected by the cuts, he said what was an "occupied country," the Arch- were induced by offers of money or other other areas of significant importance to the bishop of Sydney, Cardinal Edward Clan- pressures to become Muslim. And Indonedevelopment and self-management of the cy said last 'ffiesday after a week-long visit sian migrants were taking jobs from native East Timorese.

Aboriginal people had been "brutally" to the island.

Cardinal Clancy said in a statement He said the world community could not dealt with nonetheless.

Bishop Saunders also addressed the released in Sydney he had travelled around accept the situation in East Timor and that spending cuts in his Bishop's Perspective East Timor with its most senior Church the UN would be wrong to put the issue of the country's future in the "too hard bascolumn in this week's Record, (See Page 2) leader, Bishop Carlos Belo of Dili.

There was a great deal of fear, mistrust ket." describing them as a "brutal blow" when Cardinal Clancy said a visit to East Timor "so many are working constantly towards and suspicion at all levels in East Timor, he a means of National Reconciliation, with said, and basic freedoms were restricted dramatised what had been done to the Aborigines in Australia. some measurable degree of success," he and sometimes grossly violated.

On the positive side, Cardinal Clancy writes.

"One hopes that Indonesia will not perThe Catholic community at Kalumburu wrote that East Timor's Catholics, the over- petuate a wrong as we have done in Ausof approximately 400 people celebrated its whelming majority of the population, were tralia, and that familiarity with the situation Nth anniversary on the Feast of the allowed "very significant freedom" in the in Timor will motivate Australians to help Assumption. The parish was founded by practice of their faith and that the Indone- our Aboriginal people here to rehabilitate Benedictine monks in 1908. sian Government even helped financially themselves," he said.

Fear grips Timor: Clancy

St Vincent de Paul world chief visits

Immigrants reflect on the lucky country

Fred Nile keeps up the good fight

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Funding cuts a 'brutal blow' to reconciliation A

s I write, news reports in carry stories of the rioting the normally quiet backwater of Halls Creek Young hooligans, drunk and violent, aimless and near hopeless, turned their anger on property and townspeople.

This was no race riot, just a drunken mob out of control. But it was a mob from the bottom rung of the socio-economic ladder.

Apart from their anger they have in common a sense of low selfesteem, a general lack of purpose in life, and a feeling that they are marginalised, on the periphery of Australian society.

Iam visiting in Kahunbium and a musical band from this Aboriginal community fills the perfect evening air with a number from a Broome musical written by Jimmy Chi. The lead singer belts out a line from its closing, rousing chorus that says: "Everybody's hopin' for a bran nue dae".

In the context of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, the line sums up pretty well our feelings as we leave our confessor having firmly

resolved not to sin again. With appear on the bottom rung of the people in tatters, punctuated with hope we pray for change and con- socio-economic ladder? a litany of broken promises. version.

Well, I imagine the debate as to It has signalled a hope that the We want our lives to be differ- "why" could go on forever. dream of National Reconciliation ent.

But the fact is that the suffering by the year 2001 could be a dream We don't want to suffer the same is a reality and there is no reason come true. harrowing disappointments with on earth how anyone could be In the light of the recent federal ourselves that drove us to the con- content letting it remain so. It is cuts in the ATSIC budget of some fessional in the first place. time for a Brand New Day. $400m, one cannot but empathise In the process of National RecReconciliation will only be a with the feelings of disappointonciliation, the Council of Recon- reality when one group admits to ment among Aboriginal leaders. ciliation has been constantly offences and seeks forgiveness This is not a measure of manageurging the nation, aboriginal and and firmly resolves not to do it ment practice, it is a cut that will non-aboriginal, to seek out a 'Bran again. be felt at the grass roots level.

Nue Dae' - a moment in time Genuineness is an essential eleIn practical terms it will be felt when things will generally be dif- ment of sorrow. The other party in areas of development among ferent for the indigenous people accepts the sorrow and forgives the peoples of Aboriginal comthan they presently are. the offence and the relationship is munities throughout Australia, If we accept that there are rea- restored to its place of rightful including people like the singers sons for most things that happen respect and love. and the band of Kalumburu, and In our lives, and that is a reasonNational reconciliation is a pro- the youth at Halls Creek able position to take, then we gram that seeks to address the The slashing of the budget might well ask, why is that Abo- means of the forgiving process in unfortunately sends out the mesrigines suffer the highest infant the Australian national scene. sage that the government simply mortality rate of any group in the It attempts to bring the family of does not care about the future of nation; why do they have a high- black and white to a meeting Aboriginal people. er imprisonment rate than any around the kitchen table, so to At a time when so many are other group; why are they more speak, to sort out the differences working constantly towards a likely to be unemployed, or to and to restore the relationship. means of national reconciliation, commit suicide, or to die before The National Reconciliation with some measurable degree of they are fifty, more than any other Council has attempted to fly in success, this comes as a brutal group in Australia? the face of a terrible history that blow.

Why do Aborigines consistently has seen the lives of Aboriginal The incarnation of Christ was

the supreme act of reconciliation of humanity with God. Let us pray to the Lord of Peace, Justice and Mercy that this nation of ours will awake to the challenge of working together to be a people of one nation.

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Courtenay Bartholomew MD, an Internationally acclaimed research scientist and mariologist from Trinidad, and Marian Conference sponsor Kevin Morley of the Chestnut Hill Apostolate for the lliumph in Victoria.

Passer-bys at the busy terminal observed in curiosity as tears of joy flowed, children gave flowers, and all briefly united in prayer while this stunningly beautiful image of the Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Fatima was adorned with a gorgeous crown and robe.

The statue was then carried by four bearers dressed in blue hats and capes to a flower filled utility for her procession, followed by a convoy of cars and a bus, to the josephites' chapel in South Perth.

Marian lovers filled the lovely chapel and offered the Rosary "for the Holy Father's strength and safety," as Fr Alimandi explained, "because of the daily dangers he faces and the necessity for this much loved and respected Pope to take us into the next millennium - for which he needs our prayers."

Coinciding with last Sunday's

pray!" as Our Lady urged "to fight evil and prevent catastrophes."

Fr Allman& believes Our Lady's heart, according to the maxim "To Jesus through Mary," is the only sure refuge in this Age, and believes consecration to Her Immaculate Heart "is the only hope of the world today."

Professor Bartholomew presented excerpts from his five years research on Mary that culminated in his November 1995 launch of his book. "Mary, The Ark of the Covenant", a book that is already into its second edition.

He took listeners into a world which science cannot explain, but where faith thrives, and urged people to bring back the Miraculous Medal into their lives "and let no other medal take precedence over it."

Custodian Carl Malburg spoke on the Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima's history since it was sculpted in 1947 and pointed to the significant graces which had accompanied the procession of the statue around the world since then.

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Our Lady's Pilgrim Virgin Statue, celebrating its golden jubilee certainly received a royal welcome when it arrived at Perth's airport terminal last Saturday from the east coast.

At least 200 Portuguese Australians, not to mention other Australians and other nationalities, turned up in a fervour of love and devotion to welcome the International Pilgrim Virgin.

Today, Thursday, is also the fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of Mary the Mother of God, as Queen of the World.

Last Saturday, Portuguese Marian hymns filled the terminal with Our Lady's presence until the statue arrived in the company of her American custodian, Carl Malburg.

He was accompanied by international speakers Father Paul Maria Sigl, a missionary priest from Slovakia, Fr Luciano Alimandi, a former Italian army airman and now extensive Marian traveller and speaker of the Pro Deo et Fratibus order, Professor

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Marian Conference at Mercedes College, the Pilgrim Virgin presided in splendour within a floral arbor in the Mercedes College hall while the large crowd heard several speakers.

Rita Joseph, Canberra mother of 11 children, talked of the damage done by radical feminism through its overt and covert

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destructive influence on women and the Church, and the necessity for Catholics to be faithful and supportive of their Pope.

Fr Sigl led participants in Rosary reflections with the use of supporting colour slides depicting classic paintings on the life of Jesus and Mary.

Fr Luciano Alimandi spoke on obvious and subtle attacks on Jesus and His Mother, and rebuked the critics of those who love Her, "in this century so perverted by Satan."

He argued that no one could call themselves a loving follower of Mary if they did not wear Her Brown Scapular, Her Miraculous Medal of the Immaculate Heart, say the Rosary daily, and make the Five First Saturdays she's urged us to.

During the conference, many people were enrolled in the Brown Scapular.

Fr Alimandi said the prayers of faithful Catholics had brought down the wall of Communism and it was essential to "pray! pray!

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A Kimberley Perspective

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Father Peter Bianchini. Marriage Preparation and Director of the Catholic Cen- Education Service, The Begintre for Marriage and Family ning Experience, Pastoral and Education, with the help of Matrimonial Renewal Centre, family organisations, is organ- Paulian Association of WA, ising a Family Sunday this 1 Retrouvaille (Rediscovery), September in a drive to pro- Focolare Movement, The mote the 'specialness' of fam- Schoenstatt Movement, ilies and to encourage a Catholic Support Service for greater appreciation of them. Divorced, Separated and WidCoincidentally, the Family owed, Rainbows, and Couples Sunday just happens to be for Christ.

Father's Day. One of the tasks Archbishop The CCMFE is the umbrella Hickey gave CCMFE was to organisation for Catholic promote a Family Sunday. movements in Perth that have The group has distributed some links to family issues. literature into schools at all These include Catholic levels in the lead up to FamiEngaged Encounter, Catholic ly Sunday. This material gives Marriage Encounter, Catholic students a chance to reflect,

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Parishes have also been urged to become part of this awareness drive with suggested homily hints, prayers of the faithful, and a prayer card composed by a member couple.

"Basically it's been the task of the committee," Fr Bianchini said, "to encourage people to see that families are wonderful! - and that we want them to be appreciated and treasured."

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Following the lead of Ozanam

By Peter Rosengren The Vice President and national president of the Society of St Vincent de Paul in Rwanda, their wives and children, all paid the ultimate price for trying to help their fellow man amidst enormous suffering when ethnic violence between Tutsis and Hutus broke out, the Society's international president, Professor Cesar Nunes Viana, said this week in Perth.

Warned twice not to attempt to organise aid for the thousands of their displaced and starving countrymen, they were finally all shot by militia as they tried to enter a refugee zone.

Professor Viana told The Record impressed by the respect shown to the SW in Australia this was the kind of heroic sacri- Prof Cesar Viana: fice which characterised the spir- impressed by the level and vari- chemist based at the University of it of Frederick Ozanam, who ety of work being carried out by Lisbon who spends a week every founded the Society of St Vincent the Society of St Vincent de Paul month at the Society's headquarde Paul in Paris in the 1830's. Fred- throughout Australia but also by ters in Paris, was speaking at the erick Ozanam will be beatified in the level of respect they had society's headquarters in Bronte Street, East Perth, on the second earned in the wider community.

Rome early next year.

Professor Viana, a physical last stage of his Australian tout Professor Viana was not only

He said that helping the increas- meditation, prayer to pray for ouring number of jobless around the selves [to adapt] to the new situaworld, helping rehabilitate pris- tions of poverty," he said. oners, helping the aged, and On the last stage of his visit the working against illiteracy were professor will fly to Melbourne among the many important areas this week to be present at a meetof work the Society found itself ing of the charitable organisatrying to deal with as it drew tion's national council before towards the close of the century. leaving for overseas.

He added that while evangelisaLast Sunday night he attended a tion and apostolate were the Mass celebrated by Archbishop organisation's primary objectives, Barry Hickey and attended by social justice was in many ways over 350 WA members of the the most important aspect of its Society. work.

Professor Viana also visited "Our main goal is to give conin Bunbury and met members sciousness of [one's] rights to diocesan vicar-genBunbtuy with those we visit, to give them a betand bunPenberthy Evan eral Fr ter sense of freedom," he said.

And the beatification of Freder- bury mayor, Dr Ernie Manea.

Professor Viana is the first interick Ozanam would be an imporpresident in the Society's national tant opportunity for renewal of the Society as well, he said, help- history who has not been a ing to inspire the spirituality of Frenchman.

Portuguese by birth, he presides those who undertook the Sociover a world-wide organisation ety's work.

"It's really important to us not with an estimated membership of only to visit the poor, but also we 900,000 in 48,000 conferences should have before meetings a (local branches) in 131 countries.

Christian Brothers call on critic to act with responsibility A war of words has broken out between the Christian Brothers and VOICES spokesman, Bruce Blyth, over the multi-million dollar settlement reached last week between the Brothers and most of the more than 260 men who sued them for sexual and physical abuse in institutions run by the Brothers over several decades.

Of those who sued the Brothers, 116 claimed sexual abuse at the hands of Brothers, 70 had alleged physical abuse and 13 had claimed they were sexually abused by a priest or lay member of staff.

Brother Tony Shanahan, the leader of the Christian Brothers Holy Spirit province covering South and Western Australia, defended the settlement from criticisms by Mr Blyth that the settlement was too small and insulting to the men.

Br Shanahan accused Mr Blyth of stirring up unreal expectations

-Mr Blyth should be well aware Mr Blyth also accused Br "Had Mr Blyth done his homethat the value of the settlement would be higher. Mr Blyth, who work properly, he would have Shanahan of denying the exis- through lawyers Slater and Gorspeaks on behalf of men suing understood that the organisation tence in last week's settlement of don that most of the men who the Brothers, said this week the referred to in the newspaper item provisions that would force vic- qualify under the terms of the Brothers had duped the public is a completely separate religious tims seeking compensation for Trust have already been identiby claiming that the Christian order known in Australia as the sexual abuse to produce psychi- fied on the basis of the docuBrothers in Canada had not paid De La Salle Brothers," Br Shana- atric evidence to prove their case, mentation already submitted to causing them to re-live their the lawyers. Therefore any fur$18 million in compensation to han said. ther assessment will not be nec"In North America, this reli- experiences. victims of abuse in that country.

He quoted legal advice from essary," he said.

He was referring to a 1992 gious order is commonly known He also accused the VOICES Canadian case in which 350 men as the Christian Brothers. The lawyers to victims which said agreed to an $18 million settle- group that we in Australia know that individuals who believed director of being substantially as the Christian Brothers is they had suffered severe psycho- responsible for stirring up "unrement. referred to in North America as logical problems as a result of al" expectations that the payouts "Br Shanahan's denial followed abuse, but had not yet sought in the case would be higher.

Irish Christian Brothers." the which from VOICES comments treatment from a psychologist or which had caused anger and dishe had Shanahan said Br claimed the offer of $3.5 million might be required to appointment when it was the Chrispsychiatrist, the claim with checked compared badly with the Canatian Brothers Province leader in undergo assessment by an inde- finalised. dian settlement," he said. pendent therapist in order to "If Mr Blyth is concerned about But Br Shanahan rejected the Canada, Br Lynch. make claims for compensation men being re-victimised and of plaintiffs the number He said claims, calling on Mr Blyth to Canadian cases was under the terms of the Western manipulated, he could well begin "respect the facts in his public in the three times the Australian Institutions Reconcili- by looking at his own behaviour." approximately statements on matters relating to Australian men who ation Trust. of number he said. the settlement."

Regarding psychiatric assesshad sued the Brothers in the Br Shanahan appealed to the He said the claim that the Chris- Supreme Court of New South ment Br Shanahan said most of tian Brothers in the Canada had Wales. The Canadian cases were the men who would qualify for public to carefully consider the paid $18 million in a settlement also of a much more recent the cash payments of either terms of the settlement before was wrong and had been caused nature, making the payout in that $10.000 or $25,000 would not passing judgement on it. by a confusion in names.

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PAM's Superdome youth rally shakes the rafters

Members of the Performing Arts Ministry shook the rafters at the Superdome last weekend when they appeared at the Running to Stand Still youth rally which they had under the auspices of the archdiocese's Youth and Young Adult Ministry. Approximately 300 young people plus family members attended the evening, which saw faith-oriented sketches, videos, music and talks presented.

Ministry director, Bruce Dowries, said the rally was the first to be completely organised by the members of the Performing Arts Ministry. "We set up the PAM with the eventual aim of running these themselves," he told The Record on the evening. PAM now has its own teams of lighting, sound, audio-visual, stage and backstage crews and can completely organise a rally on its own, he said.

Pope announces world youth day 1997 message

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Young Catholics must become "living icons" of the Church that journeys through history, uniting all men and women in Christ, Pope John Paul II said.

The international World Youth Day gatherings, he said, are an opportunity for young people from different countries, races, languages and backgrounds to witness to the unity found in Christ.

Pope John Paul announced the publication on August 15 of his message for the 1997 World Youth Day, to be held in Paris.

The Vatican released the fivepage letter in Italian shortly after the papal announcement.

The Pope releases a World Youth Day message each year and the day is celebrated annually around the world in local communities.

Every other year, an international celebration is held.

The theme of the August 1997 gathering is the disciples' question - "Master, where do you live?" - and Jesus' response "Come and see."

"Follow Christ," the Pope told young people.

"Do not be afraid to draw near to him, crossing the threshold of his house and speaking with him face to face as you would with a friend."

The Christian vocation, the Pope said, is to respond to Jesus' invitation and seek him out as a

means rather than an end," he said.

Jesus also lives in those who are seeking truth, but do not know the Gospel; those who have lost their faith: and those of other religions who seek God with a sincere heart, he said.

The Pope asked young people to start a dialogue with non-Christians and to work with them whenever possible to improve life in their communities.

It is especially important, he Pope John Paul at a youth convention said, that young people be comIn Denver in the United States last mitted to restoring Christian year. unity, "to overcome the scandal of friend. "It is along the pathways of the division among Christians."

The place where young people daily existence that you can will most often meet Jesus is meet the Lord," he said.

Although Jesus' friendship is in their parishes, communities demanding, he offers a way of life and Church groups, he said. that does not change with fleeting In the Eucharist, Pope John Paul political systems or ideologies, said, they can experience the real the Pope said. presence of Christ in their daily "I ask you, is it better to resign lives. yourselves to a life without ideals "Around the eucharistic table and to a world constructed in its own image and likeness, or is it the harmonious unity of the better to generously seek truth, Church, mystery of missionary goodness, justice and work for a communion, is realised and manworld that respects the beauty of ifested in such a way that all see God, even if it requires facing tri- themselves as sons and daughals?" the Pope asked in his mes- ters and brothers and sisters without exclusion or differences of sage.

Pope John Paul told young peo- race, language, age, social or culple they would meet Christ in tural class," he said. all those suffering in the world.

Enlightened by the Gospel and "His face is that of the poorest, strengthened by the Eucharist, the the marginated, victims of an Pope said, young people are often unjust model of develop- called to go into a hurting ment that gives first place to prof- and divided world as witnesses of it and makes the human person a love, brotherhood and unity.

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Some hot horns from the country breeze into town

No, it's not an early photograph of Glen Miller and his big band on tour getting ready to entertain the troops, but musicians from John Paul College, Kalgoorlie, who had their instruments out for a quick "jam" in the bus that brought them down to participate in the Performing Arts Festival last week.

The sponsors of the Festival, Zenith Music, have provided extra encouragement this year for country schools and colleges to make the effort and undertake the trip to Perth to participate. As well as providing the major Festival A ward, Zenith have instituted a new award that will only be open to participating country schools.

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Christmas art a big winner

Meeting families' schooling needs The rapid expansion of the population in the northern and southern suburbs of the metropolitan area in recent decades illustrates the continual challenge facing the Church and the Catholic Education Office in meeting the needs of Catholic families.

The growth in the northern suburbs shows the trend: St Simon Peter School, Ocean Reef opened with one class in 1987 In 1996 it is one of the larger Catholic Primary Schools in Western Australia with more than 665 students.

Just 31(m north of St Simon Peter is Currambine Catholic Primary School which opened in 1995 and next year will have 300 students.

The school is about to commence stage 2 of its building program (see photo). Only 6km

Prize winners and highly commended Catholic Care Christmas Card art awards included Huy Thinh, left, Ayako Goto, Caryn Allan, Adam Gray and Eduardo Gallardo.

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard For the third consecutive year, Catholic Care has print 11 its own distinctive Christmas Cards aimed at fund raising, and also giving budding artists a chance to compete and win the top selections.

Added to the opportunity of winning a cash prize, the successful prize winners receive a bundle of cards depicting their own art work.

This year's winners were Gwyn Allan of Balcatta, who won first prize in the Open Section, with first place in the Education Section going to Adam Gray of Sacred Heart College.

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Ayako Goto of St Brigid's College: Jennifer Ivey and Eduardo Gallardo of Aranmore: and Huy Thinh in the Special Award section.

Sacred Heart College. Sorrento submitted a record 17 entries.

This year, because Catholic Care widened their entry base to include an Open Section. it allowed Caryn to take off first prize with her beautiful traditional nativity scene which was reminiscent of the Old Masters.

Caryn, is focussed on her art and intends to continue with it.

"Our Lord gave me the gift and I want to use this gift which came from Him, to glorify Him," she said.

"When I am glorifying God - I am happy!"

Architect Murray Johns, of James Christou and Partners, was busy last week with Currambine Catholic Primary School Principal, Sue Groves, and Assistant Principal, Brad Howard, finalising plans for the next building stage.

further north of Currambine is the new suburb of Clarkson.

In 1997 a new Catholic primary school will open there with approximately 85 children.

For enquiries about enrolments at Clarkson Catholic Primary School, parents should contact Alec O'Connell at the CEO on 388 4320.

McAuley homes get a new face-lift

Trish Hall (left), Barbara Forsey, Lorraine Ellis and Lyn Jacques with four of the plaques for the five newly refurbished houses.

It was another great day for the Catherine McAuley Family Centre with the completion of the refurbished five group homes in the Family and Community Services program.

Jointly funded by the Catherine McAuley Family Centre and the Lotteries Commission. these five spacious. appealing houses are home to children, aged from as young as six to 16, who are unable to live in their original homes.

The idea is to create a family atmosphere so each home has a parent couple. sometimes with a child of their own.

On the same 17 acre site the houses are placed so that each has a different street address.

Archbishop Barry Hickey also attended, dedicating and blessing the house plaques.

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Chaplain Co-ordinator Pastoral Care Services Joondalup Health Campus, (previously Wanneroo Hospital) in conjunction with the Heads of Churches Chaplaincy Committee, seeks to appoint a Chaplain - Co-ordinator of Pastoral Care Services. Pastoral Care Services are a core dimension within holistic core and offer a compassionate, professional and spiritual ministry to all patients, their families and staff. This position is initially 0.5 FT for 18 months with a view to a permanent Full Time position early in 1998, as the Campus develops Essential criteria: • Theological qualifications according to the standards of their denomination; • Satisfactory completion of a program of clinically based pastoral education or equivalent; • Commitment to the ethos of Joondalup Health Campus; • Proven pastoral care experience, preferably of 5 years.

An appropriate salary package equivalent to the relevant denomination will be contracted.

All enquiries should be directed to either the Director of Clinical Services at Joondalup Health Campus (405 221 1) or to the Chair, Head of Churches Chaplaincy Committee, The Venerable Michael Pennington (325 7455).

Please make application in writing to the Human Resource Manager, Joondalup Health Campus, PO Box 242 Joondalup, 6919.

Applications must include a complete Resume and the names and ccntact details of three (3) professional referees. The CLOSING DATE for applications is 23 SEPTEMBER, 1996.

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Prisoners of perpetual poverty I n remote areas of India thousands of children are trapped in extreme poverty and want to be rescued. Their parents are uneducated, lack employment and are unable to provide children life's basic needs: 3 healthy meals a day, adequate housing, medical care and education.

These children have only one or two meals a day consisting of maize and rice and anything edible from the jungle. These meals lack nutrition and leave children weak and prone to hunger and malnutrition and to all kinds of sickness some fatal.

Children want to live but they suffer and die in great numbers. Ignorance of basic health care and lack of a medical centre contribute to a tragic toll. Most deaths were medical ly avoidable. Of those who survive five years many will live on with ill health and poor growth, unable to develop to their full mental and physical potential, unable in later years to adequately contribute to the families they will have or to the communities in which they live.

No rescue programmes can make progress without the input of education! An uneducated community is a deprived community, a suffering community, unable to cope with problems, unable to know what to do. Without education these children will continue to live in perpetual poverty.

Priests and nuns have appealed for funds to establish clinics, mother/child health care centres and schools where poverty stricken families can be helped to help themselves. A $50 donation is worth more than ten times that amount in our mission region. Whatever you can give will be greatly appreciated. Donations are tax deductihle. Please make your cheque payable to "Australian Jesuit Mission Overseas Aid Fund" and post it with the coupon.

Australian Jesuit Mission in India cares for the poorest of the poor

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St Simon Peter Catholic Primary School is a co-educational school with a current enrolment of 665 students from Pre-primary to Year 7 The successful applicants will take up these positions on 1 January, 1997 Applicants need to be actively involved in the Catholic Church and be experienced educators committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education., They will have the requisite theological, pastoral and managerial competencies together with an appropriate four year minimum tertiary qualification and will have, or be prepared to complete, appropriate Accreditation requirements.

Further information and official application forms are available from Sr Clare Rafferty, Consultant, School Personnel Team Ph: (09) 388 4268.

Official application forms should be addressed to The Director, Catholic Education Office, PO Box 198, Leederville WA 6903 and be lodged no later than Manday, 2 September 1996.

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The authority of the Fisherman in faith and morals is Christ Peter Dwan continues meditations on the readings for Sunday Mass.

This week the readings for the 21st Sunday of Year A

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hile in some circles following is?" Reporting then-current opinion Vatican II, "authority" was con- about Christ, the Apostles said: "Some sidered a dirty word, today's say he is John the Baptist, some Elijah, readings offer us an opportunity to con- and others Jerimiah or one of the sider the nature of authority in the prophets."

Church.

"But you," Jesus said, "who do you say Throughout history, whenever God has I am?" St Matthew continues: "Then entrusted people with a mission, He has Simon Peter spoke up: "You are the Christ," he said, "the Son of the living always given them authority.

God." Today's first reading (Isaiah 22:19-23), Our Lord's next words, although very tells of how God dismissed Shebna, the master of the palace, from his post, and significant, are often overlooked. "Simon, appointed Eliakim, the son of Hilldah, in son of Jonah, you are a happy man. It was not flesh and blood that has revealed this his place. to you but my Father in heaven." Our The reading says: "I invest him with Lord was presenting St Peter as one who your robe, gird him with your sash and utters divinely revealed truths, which is entrust him with your authority." precisely the Pope's role.

The reading also says: "I place the key Then comes the well-known Petrine of the House of David on his shoulder, text: "You are Peter and on this rockIwill should he open, no one shall close, build my Church. And the gates of the should he close, no one shall open." underworld can never hold out against it.

These words are particularly significant I will give you the keys of the kingdom of because they refer to the power of the heaven; whatever you bind on earth shall keys, a theme taken up in today's gospel be considered bound in heaven, whatevpassage (Matthew 16:13-20). This pas- er you loose on earth shall be considered sage is the famous Petrine text, which loosed in heaven". tells of how Our Lord appointed St Peter This text provides the scriptural basis as the visible head of the Church, giving for the dogma of papal infallibility. The him the gift of infallibility, enabling him Pope teaches infallibly, when, speaking to teach without error. or writing in his official capacity as head We need to note the scene carefully. of the Church, he makes statements on When they were in the region of Cae- faith or morals, binding on all the faithsarea Philippi, Our Lord asked the Apos- fuL tles: "Who do people say the Son of Man These statements are called "ex cathe-

dra," meaning "from the chair," (of St Peter.)

Catholics must accept all ex cathedra statements.

Catholic acceptance of Pope John Paul's recent infallible statement ruling out the possibility of women being ordained priests is made according to what Vatican Council II called a "loyal submission of the will and intellect" that must be given, in a special way, to the "authentic teaching authority of the Roman Pontiff, even when he does not speak ex cathedra in such wise, indeed, that his supreme teaching authority be acknowledged with respect, and sincere assent be given to decisions made by him, conformably with his manifest mind and intention, which is made known principally either by the character of the documents in question, or by the frequency with which a certain doctrine is proposed, or by the manner in which the doctrine is formulated."

The second reading (Romans 11:33-36) contains the words: "How rich are the depths of God - how deep his wisdom and knowledge - and how impossible to penetrate his motives and understand his methods."

While some today question papal authority, (taking the notion of freedom of conscience to absurd lengths), its benefits are more readily appreciated by converts, who know from experience what life is like without it.

The great English convert, G.K. Chesterton, once commented that we don't need a Church that is right when we are right, we need a Church that is right when we are wrong.

To Jesus through Mary. . . ... a column of Marian devotion

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f you've ever wanted to make a tangible gift to Our Lady - now's your chance! This is the eighth year when those who love our Blessed Mother will have another opportunity to unite with other Western Australians throughout the length and breadth of this vast state, with 48 hours of consecutive Rosaries.

Although they go Heavenward they are also noted on a Scroll to form a Rosary Bouquet for Our Mother's birthday on September 8 which will be offered at the 10.30 am Mass, St Mary's Cathedral. on Sunday, 8 September.

These Rosary Bouquets, linked with so much love by a WA-united praying community, commence on Thursday, 5 September at 6 pm and go all the way through until Saturday, 7 September 6 pm.

They have been a huge success in previous years with everyone from little children to elderly folk all eager to take part.

The latter group often opt for the wee small hours of the morning.

Margaret Bowen, one of the organisers, emphasises the Rosaries have to be Intention free, giving it solely over to Our Lady "to use as she desires."

In order to ensure continuity, a Scroll has been drawn up with the 48 hours divided into one-hour slots.

Margaret invites you to forward your committed time slot to place on the scroll, but says that individual names are unnecessary when a parish is involved, "because the parish name and times are sufficient."

She emphases the Rosary reaches out to everyone and it can be prayed privately, publicly, as individuals, or in groups.

Urging people to be involved, Margaret suggests that with the family unit under "so much threat, this could be one way of cementing peace in the The Record, AugmAtg ,1996„page 6 •

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The importance of unity in the Body of Christ

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house divided against itself cannot pre stand. So said the great American sident Abraham Lincoln, at the outset of the US Civil War. It took years of fighting, and tens of thousands of lives, but eventually Lincoln's America overcame the divisions he was talking of to grow into the unified United States.

These days, the Catholic Church, too, seems a house divided against itself - certainly overseas. Will it take a Church equivalent of the US Civil War to end division and restore unity? Let us hope not.

Writing in the English Catholic journal The Tablet recently, David Goodall pointed out that disagreements among Christians are as old as the Church - evidence of disputation and division can be found even in the Acts of the Apostles Yet today, comments Goodall, quarrelsomeness between "traditionalists" and "liberals" in the Church has reached crisis proportions.

They have become so bad they undermine the faith itself, he suggests.

Goodall's remarks are one sign of how divisiveness in today's Church is now a major subject of discussion within the English-speaking world.

In America, another sign has just emerged with a landmark initiative headed by Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago aimed at ending division and factionalism in the US Church.

Titled the "Catholic Common Ground Project", the initiative aims to bring together those inside the Church who disagree about the nature of Catholicism, in a series of conferences and meetings around America.

The project draws support from seven US bishops and 16 other prominent Catholic leaders, as well as Cardinal Bernardin.

"For three decades the Church has been divided by different response to the Second Vatican Council and to the tumultuous years that followed it," a position paper released for the project notes.

Worse, a "mood of suspicion and acrimony" hangs over the Church's life, and has even infiltrated the ranks of the bishops. "One consequence is that many of us are refusing to acknowledge disquieting realities. . . . Candid discussion is Inhibited."

This is a very negative picture of church life today.

Yet what is most remarkable about it is not the seriousness of the story it tells, but the fact that such high profile church leaders as Cardinal Bernardin and his colleagues should now be choosing to make It public.

This represents a significant new departure for church leaders who are naturally reluctant to air the Church's problems publicly.

The fact they are now doing so shows how serious the problem has become.

The reason unity is crucial is that the Church is a sacred institution - a sacred trust in fact.

The project's position paper "Called to Catholic" puts this well when it notes that "the Church, for all its humaness, cannot be treated as merely a human organisation."

Because it is more than a human institution, allowing divisions of belief to flourish within it seems tantamount to a form of sacrilege.

Or so Catholics who hold to the notion

that the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ might believe.

But the lesson for all of us is to remember the importance of unity.

All is not black and white in Budget moves

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ast Tuesday's Federal Budget, despite being drafted by Liberal and National Parties rather than the Australian Labor Party, is no different from previous Budgets in that there are winners and losers, and those who win or lose at first glance eventually find they are better or worse off than they first expected.

What is portrayed by lobbyists as a heartless cut to a Government welfare service can turn out to be painless or to the benefit of the poor. Take one example in last Tuesday's Budget.

Corporatising parts of the Commonwealth Employment Service, making it compete with private employment agencies and merging other elements with the Department of Social Security is not necessarily the end of human civilisation. although some welfare activists might give that impression in a five second grab of sound or vision for the broadcast media.

The new policy for helping job seekers might prove to be a heartless disaster but nobody will know until it is tested.

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The road to Eternal Life

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ould you and your readers please answer these few basic questions for me, as I, who have never once abandoned the faith of my fathers, am confused. very confused?

• What is a good Catholic?

• What is a good Christian?

• Can one be a good Catholic if one is not also a good Christian?

Keeping before you the first three questions • What must I do to reach Eternal "Life"?

Marie J O'Leary Shelley

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am a young Catholic who was prompted to write after recently reading an Issue of a local Protestant denomination's newspaper.

What took my interest the most in this paper was the "Letters to the Editor" column because the letters indicated deep divisions amongst that church's members regarding issues of sexuality, in particular homosexuality, pre-marital sex and the Institution of marriage.

The divisions appeared to be brought on by a recent report on sexuality prepared by the leaders of that church.

Most of the letters expressed confusion and dismay at the fact that their church leaders appear to be siding with the modern world's view of sexuality as opposed to Jesus Christ's.

My point here is that I have personally realised how so very thankfulI feel to God for giving us a good and faithful Pope in John Paul II as well as local leaders like our own Archbishop Hickey.

These men are prepared to be lone voices in a world full of selfish immorality in order to defend Christ's teaching. They also stand firm on the issues of abortion, contraception and euthanasia even though the wider community continually brand them as outdated.

As a young person living in a world of moral confusion, I rely on the Catholic Church to give me direction on not what is fashionable but what is the truth according to Christ's teaching.

The Holy Spirit has guided our Holy Catholic Church for the last 2000 years and I continue to pray that the Holy Spirit will be with the Church now and forever.

J M Clark Warwick

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hief Justice Alistair Nicholson of the Family Court of Australia's public advocacy ( West Australian, 5 August) of legal recognition of homosexual relationships shows that he doesn't understand the fundamental nature of marriage or the family and he should

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ture has changed since the CES was established by the Curtin Labor Government towards the end of the Second World War to do what private enterprise was failing to do.

Private job agencies and non-government welfare programs for the jobless, some run by the Churches, are now thoroughly established and recognised as effective ways of helping the disadvantaged.

Giving them the task of helping the unemployed could, at the end of the 20th century rather than 50 years earlier, deliver jobs to the jobless as efficiently as a central government employment agency.

After all, it is Catholic Church teaching that whatever can be efficiently and morally done by the smallest local body should be done at that level.

Other Budget "clouds" could equally

harbour a silver lining as much as a tornado.

Cuts to funding for Aboriginal legal and community services - not to health, education and employment services - might be a boon if the remaining funds encourage self-reliance, a necessary consequence of the principle of self determination.

At the same time, belief in free enterprise solutions should not extend to leaving truly disadvantaged Aboriginals with no support.

And the use of the tax system to support single-income families with dependant children whose mother wants to care for her children at home is not the measure from Hell that some social theorists believe.

Cash payments from tax revenues such as the Family Payment paid through the

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Department of Social Security are necessary to help the disadvantaged but this does not mean they have to be the normal means of channelling government money.

Taxing families into penury and then handing the money back to them as tax rebates or social security cash payments is not only wasteful churning but also an attack on their dignity as human beings living independently and making their own economic choices. Far simpler to keep a family's income in its own hands than launder it through the State.

But, in the end, in judging whether or not a Federal Budget helps build a truly Christian, and thus human, civilisation, Australian citizens need to look at all the facts.

All is never as it first seems when it comes to Government budgets and policy, either of the political left or right.

• The opinions expressed in this editorial, and any other Record editorial, are not necessarily those of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth.

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Islamic societies

resign. Justice Nicholson's advocacy of social and legal equivalence for homosexual relationships with the millennia-old our editorial warning Christians to traditional family of wife, husband and be as wise as serpents in their dealchildren demonstrates that he has failed to ing with Islam was realistic and grasp the fundamental nature of marriage clear-sighted, and acknowledged the exisand the family and its importance in soci- tence of Muslims of good will beside their ety. murderously fanatic co-religionists. as well It is precisely because society has an as that of imperfect Christians. interest in the protection, nurture and flourYour correspondents urge Vaticanishing of its children that every society in inspired tolerance on us, but this idealistic human history has given particular legal approach can blind us to reality. status, involving both privileges and If Fr Ross (The Record, 15 August) ever responsibilities, to marriage. goes to Saudi Arabia he will not find tolJustice Nicholson's claim that society erance extended to him. should focus on the commitment and If he were to try to exercise his priestly financial and emotional interdependence vocation in such a country it would be with of family members is a recipe for social the utmost caution and discretion, and anarchy. inside private homes, and any attempt at We have already done great damage to proselytising could be literally fatal. social cohesion through the no-fault, uniOnly recently, in Kuwait, a Muslim who lateral divorce laws which make a mock- became a Christian after reading the Bible ery of marriage and which lead to found himself without wife, children, home devastating consequences for children. and job, and even under the sentence of Increasing legal recognition of de facto death until the Kuwaiti Government said relationships has further undermined the no such sentence had been applied.

Importance of marriage.

And this is in a country governed not by Recognition of homosexual relationships extremists but by mainstream Sunni Muswould complete a social revolution in lims, a country well-disposed to the West, which the private emotional and sexual a country for which Christian soldiers arrangements of adults are given priority fought and died only five years ago. over the real-world needs of children - the Janet Kovesi-Watt need for a mother and father who stick Claremont together for life.

If two men or two women involved in an emotional relationship are to be given legal recognition, why not incestuous partnerthink Cardinal 0' Connor of New York ships or group sexual arrangements? Once should be applauded for his plea to the interests of children cease to be the American Catholics to fast from meat controlling rationale then there are no log- on Fridays in an attempt to stop the horrifical limits. ic practice of partial-birth abortions (The As revealed in the NSW Lesbian and Gay Record, 18 August).

Legal Rights Service Discussion Paper "The Abortion in any form is an abomination Bride Wore Pink" the homosexual lobby and has reached frightening proportions wants to redefine all legally recognised today. relationships in terms of the fluid concept It is eerie to see what our society is quickof a "significant personal relationship" or, ly becoming with regard to the crime of alternatively, to remove all social and legal abortion, prostitution, the legalisation of recognition of relationships, including mar- euthanasia and the cry by the homosexuriages, in favour of a disaggregated, indi- al lobby for recognition and rights, not to vidualist model of society. mention the recent Port Arthur massacre Also on the agenda, are rights for homo- and the continuing escalation of crime in sexuals to adopt children and gain access our society. to IVF/surrogacy and pro-homosexual eduThe Cardinal's leadership is inspiring in cation programs from kindergarten an age where such leadership may be conupwards. sidered unnecessary and old hat.

Finally, Justice Nicholson's comparison of It is the call of the Gospel to repent, pray the non-legal status of homosexual rela- and do penance which is basically what tionships with apartheid is specious. has always been expected of us to prevent Equality in a democratic society does evil from taking over. There is no doubt in require equal status for all human beings the saying that evil will triumph as long as regardless of race. good men do nothing.

It does not require equal legal status for At Fatima in 1917 Our Lady's message the many and varied relationships and was the same when she pleaded with the social arrangements that human beings world to pray by reciting the Rosary daily, choose to set up. and to do penance to stop the tide of evil If Justice Nicholson wishes to continue and to stop offending God. his crusade to undermine marriage and She said that if enough people did what the family then he should do so without she asked the world would be spared a terinvolving the Family Court of Australia by rible war. The world was not spared and resigning forthwith and running for politi- millions of innocent people were unjustly cal office. massacred in World War II. John Barich This surely indicates that Catholics were State President, not doing enough. In a further vision where Australian Family Association.

Our Lord appeared to the sole surviving

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Prayer and penance

seer of Fatima, Lucia, in 1925, He said the only penance He expected was the "faithful fulfilment of the daily duty".

Whatever our duty in life, whether active or hidden. it can be offered to God in a spirit of reparation for our sins and the sins of the world.

This and frequent Eucharistic reparation is surely a simple remedy for the drastic problems facing us and with God's help will bring the world back to it's senses.

Fatima. The Great Sign. by Francis Johnson. is a book which explains the importance and relevance of the message of Our Lady of Fatima today.

Our Holy Father Pope John Paul II has stated that the message of Our Lady of Fatima is more relevant today than it was in 191Z and that it is the answer to all the problems in the world.

Mary Fancote Kelmscott

ABC a messenger It is mostly agreed that TV programs are, in a broad sense, no more than a reflection of prevailing community events, rather than somehow setting the standard.

I don't see that shooting the messenger the ABC in this case - would have much more effect than sticking one's head in the sand.

As these social conditions exist, whether broadcast or not, surely anyone with a mature spirituality, would find such information less than harmful and perhaps of benefit to those who would seek to bring about changes in society.

Edward O'Rourke, Wilson WA

Pray for our priests

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s there a "Tall Poppies" syndrome emerging among Catholics towards their Parish Priests?

I ask that to find a reason for the petty and unwarranted criticism one hears about the social graces of priests, and I wonder how many of those critics welcome priests and invite them to dinner in their homes.

We must constantly remind ourselves of the sacrifices they made in their youth while we were all socialising and enjoying ourselves.

In other professions the student's leisure hours are his or hers to spend as they wish.

Not so the seminarian who spends as many years studying as our family doctor.

This they do for our sakes and to help in the salvation of our souls. They are God's representatives, surely a great responsibility?

How many of us are called at night to the dying and stayed to give comfort to a family through a long harrowing vigil?

Our parish priest does that as part of his life. He then must offer Masses, and preach sermons if it is a Sunday.

I ask my fellow Catholics to try to see life through the eyes of their priest and give him what he most needs, your prayer, support, understanding and charity Name and address supplied

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Migration Sunday 1996 Migration Sunday this year takes place during the United Nation's International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. Record journalist Peter Rosengren visited two migrant families, one from Italy and one from Vietnam to discover whether Australia had proved to be a land of economic opportunity

Cultural cost to Hard work is leading to success a life of luxury F in Australia Isabella and Fabio Ruggiero and son Manuele: still searching for Australian community

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sabella and Fabio Ruggieri, who left the for decades without ever discovering the eternal city, Rome, eight years ago in names of the people who sleep just metres the hope of a better life now live in away each night. material comfort in Perth's northern subAlthough the Ruggieri's left behind a siturbs. But the move has come at a price. uation in Italy rapidly going from bad to They left the increasing political decay to worse - continuously paralysed governfind relative financial security in Australia ment, the impossibility of affording a famthe lucky country but found at the same ily home, close-to-impossible access to time a country, they feel, with no soul. hospitals that Australians take for granted, It's not hard to understand. and massive pollution, to name a few - they Products of a culture that is millennia old have not found the spiritual wealth of the and culturally rich, the Ruggieri's found Old World. themselves confronted with a country in For the Ruggieri's, this has been the which, for the first time in their lives, they biggest shock and it is only recently, after could afford to live. much soul-searching on their own part, But being able to afford the proper neces- that they have decided to call Australia sities of life - almost a luxury now in Italy home once and for all.

- they have found the desert heart of the In this sense it has been a hard struggle.

Australian suburban sprawl: that place Isabella, 28 years of age with one child where neighbours traditionally mind their and another due soon, summed up the own business and live next to each other impression Australia has made.

"Nothing happens. I mean, it's beautiful determined not to fall into that trap. because everything works and everything "In some ways it is difficult, especially is very easy for the people in their life. But when you go to the CES to find a job. It I haven't found the spirit of this country doesn't really matter where you come from, yet," she said wistfully as we sat in the fam- you have to be English to really be listened ily kitchen. to a little bit," she pointed out.

"It's just very plain. You go to Italy, you folThis can make being listened to and taken low the Italian culture, you go to Greece, seriously much more difficult for migrants you follow the Greek culture, you go to than for Australians.

Australia - where is the culture? I can't They have also been surprised by the understand it," she added.

Australian mentality as much as anything "Is it going to the pub to get drunk? Or is else. it just having a nice barbecue? Or is it Fabio, a dental technician by trade. watching TV at eight o'clock and going to describes social relationships as much bed?" she asked. more passionless.

Isabella and Fabio's surprise at Australian "Less passion. yes. Some people are very indifference to what Europeans would call the important things of life throws one schematic, technical, in human relationaspect of a migrant's experience into sharp ships," he said.

And, not surprisingly, they have found relief - the jolt of an alien culture.

In this regard they could almost have not some aspects of life in Australia almost picked anything more foreign to the leg- incomprehensible.

Some Australian's complain when they endary Italian passion for life by coming to are to lose their guns under new laws but Australia.

Another is the attitude that migrants must say nothing when banks raise interest rates, consistently cope with, often when some- Isabella said.

Nevertheless, despite the difficulties in thing as simple as an accent is heard for coming to terms with the Australian way of the first time.

She said that in some ways this made life, the Ruggieri's and their son, Michaele things difficult although, as she pointed have committed themselves to their new out, everything depends on one's own atti- country and a new people, relying on the tude; if you think like a victim then you are same spirit of hope they brought them to a victim, and both she and her husband are Australia eight years ago.

Multiculturalism benefits all, and not just immigrants

It is difficult to know whether cial "Sundays" that parishes have ment's policy of multiculturalism. the Vatican had an extraordinary to advertise during the year have Many people, of all social and foresight of the unprecedented caused Immigration Sunday to be political levels, have taken multiproportions of movements of peo- left by and large practically unobculturalism as a policy in favour of migrants rather than a policy in mmigration Sunday was ple which were to take place from served.

Had churches, in all countries, favour of all Australians, thus cripestablished by the 1952 Apos- that time to our day, and which pling many of its initiatives and tolic Constitution Exul Famil- still are on the increase, or kept up the celebration of this ia to raise the awareness of whether it was merely because it Sunday, perhaps more people preventing the benefits intended for the whole population.

Catholic people on the deep was aware of the deep and long would have been better prepared changes that migration causes in lasting consequences migrations to deal with a phenomenon which A very large portion of the Austhe life of the individuals and of were to have in the entire world. was to immensely affect their life tralian population sees multiculThe Vatican always attached and the life of their country. society as a whole. turalism as something for "them", great importance to the obserI n Australia Immigration SunIt was to be celebrated in all rather than for "us". countries of the world, whether vance of Immigration Sunday, for day has been always promoted This is surely the main reason the Pope has issued a yearly stateby the Federal Catholic Immigrathey were directly touched by the why Ills not accepted by many ment to highlight its significance. tion Committee, which issued a phenomenon of migration or not.

Fr Adrian Pittarello people.

However, the many other spe- statement of its own for the occaed. It could be argued that, if in sion.

Migrant groups did take up the But it has not maintained over Australia Immigration Sunday programs of multiculturalism and the years the momentum it had in has not reached great signifi- have gained much benefit. cance, perhaps it is partly due to the first years of its observance.

This was not the case for many Currently, not many churchgo- the fact that in the parishes where sectors of the larger population. it was celebrated, it was celebrat- Many opposed it, and still do, ers would hear of it.

Few countries in the world, how- ed as a day for "migrants" and not quite strongly and even bitterly, evek, would have reason to cele- a day for the whole community resenting that fact that it does so and country, indeed for the whole much for migrants. brate it as much as Australia.

Any special day has the purpose world.

Those sectors of the nonThis observation does not imply of raising people's awareness on migrant population which did issues which affect their own life, that parishes, particularly those as well as the life of the whole with large numbers of migrants, take them up have benefited should not take this opportunity much and live more happily in community.

There is no doubt that a lot of to celebrate their diversity and, this country, changed so much by immigration. good as come out of observing thus, foster their unity.

It implies Migration Sunday has the purthat this is not enough, these special days. The popularity that some of them have gained and can have even adverse effects pose of encouraging each parish if not integrated with a wider to reflect on migration as a world testifies to that.

It would be totally wrong, and, vision: the vision of the changing phenomenon and see themselves surely, neither according to the situation of the parish and the in that context. intention of the Vatican nor need for everyone to work This will help a parish appreciaccording to the spirit of the cel- towards a positive result for both ate what is happening within its ebration, if Immigration Sunday migrants and non-migrants. community and not be afraid to Too often, in the field of migra- take up bold initiatives to create was perceived as a day for tion, initiatives which are for the that balance of pastoral programs migrants.

Fr Adrian Pittarello, left, earlier This year with three young members of Perth's whole community are perceived which will allow the community Some parishes in the past have Portuguese community acting out in Fremantle the roles of the young Por- indeed made it a day for them. A as addressed, and applied, exclu- to grow harmoniously in unity, tuguese who saw and spoke with Mary, the Mother of God, in Fatima, Portu- part from the good intentions, this sively to migrants. while accepting, respecting and gal, in 1917.

A good example is the govern- appreciating its diversity. format should not be commendThe Record, August 22 1996 Page 8 Fr. Adrian Pittarello CS Coordinator of Multicultural Apostolate

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,or every migrant or refugee there is a human story waiting to be told; accounts of hope, tragedy, hardship or success.

And with every story the same themes interweave through each person's lives and intersect with the stories of others like them.

Migration Week, an annual week of events around the nation with the goal of getting Australians to consider what has drawn or forced people to these shores and the challenges they face on arriving here, sees the stories of new Australians brought into the spotlight of national attention.

Wanneroo strawberry farmer, Lich Lam, is one of the success stories.

Together with his wife Mary and their five children, ranging from seven and a half months to 15 years of age, they can today look back on 16 years of hard work that have brought them from penury to prosperity.

Lich, who arrived in Australia as a refugee from the Vietnamese communist regime in 1980, is today president of the Vietnamese Catholic community in Perth and owner of a strawberry-exporting business in Wanneroo worth close to Si million.

A former secretary to the Archbishop of Saigon, Nguyen Nhat, Lich said ambition and hard work were essential for migrant success, especially when starting from nothing.

His first job, for which he broke off a university course, was collecting wildflower seeds after

having learnt from his parents at the bank and bought his own home that his two brothers had small farm just outside Wanbeen jailed, like tens of thousands neroo, in the semi-rural market of others, for attempting to flee gardening belt on the borders of Vietnam via Cambodia. the sprawling northern suburbs Keen to help support the family of Perth and set out to build his at home, he took the work to keep own business. his family in Vietnam together.

"That's why we could get someToday, his children speak with where," he said. "If we just worked Australian accents. for wages for somebody we could"They always laugh at us when n't get there [very] fast." we speak English because we "WhenIbrought this farm it was don't have the right accents," he $100,000 and it didn't have worth smiled as he sat in the loungeanything on it - just bush," he said. room of the family farm, "but Lich and Mary now own Today, that's good."

It's part of being a migrant and a sprawling strawberry farm with Lich accepts it, like he does many 150,000 plants worth somewhere in the vicinity of $850,000. other things, philosophically.

Their market is almost excluPerhaps most of all, though, Lich emphasises the effort and sacri- sively export-oriented, with strawfice needed to go into being a suc- berries going to Hong Kong, cess in whatever anyone tries to Singapore, the United Kingdom. achieve. For migrants this is con- Europe and, last year, the Middle siderably harder because of lan- East. guage and cultural barriers.

Outside the house farm equipBut, Lich said, doing one's home- ment and machinery for harvestwork on a project and never giv- ing lie - all testament to the hard ing up were essential. work and success of the family Having abandoned his universi- business - sprawling just a few ty course to support his family in metres away from the front door.

Vietnam, Lich found work with He said the first two years they WA company Flora Technic. struggled a lot. Lich often worked From there he moved to one of the company partner's strawber- 20 hours a day.

"We had the land but we had ry farm, starting work with 20,000 nothing," he said expressively. plants.

But while they had difficulties There he became farm managalso had freedom, one of the they er and, after a while, was urged by his employer to branch out on reasons why they had left their country behind. his own.

"We thought, if we've got ambiAfter all, they told him, now he had enough experience and tion and we try hard, we'll get somewhere," he told me as we sat expertise. Why not give it a try?

Lich did. Eight and a half years and sipped tea made by Mary. ago he borrowed $100,000 from And so they have.

Lich and Mary Lam and their youngest on the Wanneroo strawberry farm

Illegal immigration demands the response of Jesus Christ can be neither violated nor public opinion that is often hosignored tile to immigrants.

Illegal immigration should be The first way to help these peoprevented, but it is also essential ple is to listen to them in order to vigorously the crimi- become acquainted with their he phenomenon of migra- to combat activities which exploit ille- situation, and, whatever their nal tion with its complex probgal immigrants. legal status with regard to State lems challenges the The most choice appropriate law, to provide them with the International community and which consistent will yield and necessary means of subsistence. individual States today more long-lasting results, of is Thus it is important to help illethat than ever. co-operation i nternational migrants to complete the necwhich gal . . . . Migration is assuming the aims administrative papers to to essary foster stability political features of a social emergency, and residence permit. underdevelopto eliminate a obtain above all because of the increase Social and charitable instituin illegal migrants which, despite ment. . . . . The Church considers the tions can make contact with the the current restrictions, it seems problem of illegal migrants from authorities in order to seek impossible to halt.

Illegal Immigration has always the standpoint of Christ, who appropriate, lawful solutions to existed. . . . Today the phenome- died to gather together the dis- various cases . . . .

When no solution is foreseen, non of illegal migrants has persed children of God (cf. In same institutions should these 11:52), to rehabilitate the marassumed considerable proportions, both because the supply of ginalised and to bring close those direct those they are helping, perforeign labour is becoming who are distant, in order to inte- haps also providing them with excessive in comparison to the grate all within a communion material assistance, either to needs of the economy, which that is not based on ethnic, cul- seek acceptance in other counalready has difficulty in absorb- tural or social membership, but tries or to return to their own ing its domestic workers, and on the common desire to accept country. . . . . ills very important that because of the spread of forced God's word and to seek justice. . . . . The Church acts in conti- public opinion be properly migration.

The necessary prudence nuity with Christ's mission. In informed about the true situation required to deal with so delicate particular, she asks herself how in the migrants' country of origin, a matter cannot become one of to meet the needs, while respect- about the tragedies involving reticence or exclusivity, because ing the law, of those persons who them and the possible risks of thousands would suffer the con- are not allowed to remain in a returning.

The poverty and misfortune sequences as victims of situa- national territory.

She also asks what the right to with which immigrants are tions that seem destined to deteriorate instead of being emigrate is worth without the stricken are yet other reasons for corresponding right to immi- generously coming to their aid. resolved.

One's irregular legal status can- grate. She tackles the problem of .... Adequate protection should not allow the migrant to lose dig- how to involve in this work of be guaranteed to those who, nity, since everyone is endowed solidarity those Christian com- although they have fled from with inalienable rights, which munities frequently infected by their countries for reasons Excerpts from Pope John Paul Ill's message for this year's World Migration Day.

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Perth's Italian Catholics marching in honour of St John the Baptist in Beaufort Street last January

unforeseen by international con- know the law, are accursed" an ventions, could indeed be seri- 7 49), was how the Pharisees ously risking their life were they judged those whom Jesus had obliged to return to their home- helped even beyond the limits land. established by their precepts.

I urge the particular Churches Indeed, he came to seek and to to encourage reflection, to issue save the lost (cf. Lk 19:10), to bring directives and to provide infor- back the excluded, the abanmation to help pastoral and doned, those rejected by society. social workers to act with dis"I was a stranger and you welcernment in so delicate and com- comed me" (Mt 25:35). It is the plex a matter.

Church's task not only to present When an understanding of the constantly the Lord's teaching of problem is conditioned by prej- faith but also to indicate its udice and xenophobic attitudes, appropriate application to the the Church must not fail to speak various situations which the up for brotherhood and to changing times continue to creaccompany it with acts testifying ate.

Today the illegal migrant comes to the primacy of charity. . . . . Man, particularly when before us like that "stranger" in weak, defenceless, driven to the whom Jesus asks to be recogmargins of society, is a sacrament nised. To welcome and to show of Christ's presence (cf. Mt 25:40, solidarity is a duty of hospitality 45). and fidelity to Christian identity "But this crowd, who do not itself.

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Book Reviews

History's enigma but Henry's bishop

DIARMAID MACCITLI OCI Thomas &warner

by Diarmaid MacCulloch (Yale University Press, 1996). Price $US50.

Reviewed by George Russo

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ere, this Oxford Professor of Church History has given us a superb life of Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury and reluctant martyr of the reformed Church of England.

The sheer sweep of the scholarship, ranging from his birth in 1489 to his death in 1558, and covering the main events of Tudor history, simply dazzles and compels to be read.

For, the biographer writes about religious conflicts in the gripping style of the novelist, and impartially, when it would be easy to

create your 'hero' or 'villain', according to what side you belonged, but he remains unbiased, showing great sympathy for the man, 'who was frequently confused and who confused others'.

And the 600 and more pages are demanding, but also rewarding.

MacCullogh ilhunines Cranmer, the man, as well as the age in which he lived. The reader feels that he is there among the cruelty of Tudor monarchs, their corruption and sexual licence.

Opponents of their supremacy were 'treated ruthlessly', like the Carthusian monks burnt at lYburn, and 'most shockingly of all, Bishop John Fisher and Thomas More'.

Poor Cranmer, one can feel for him, though, as MacCulloch says, he 'had a remarkable penchant

for temporary adaptation to circumstance'. This conflict between conscience and conformity was one that afflicted many of his contemporaries, even his great rival Bishop Stephen Gardiner. He had to serve under that 'self-righteous, God-obsessed royal bully', Henry VIII. When Henry tired of his various wives Cranmer found no problem in calling the marriage null and marry him to another, even when it meant presiding at the funeral of the former spouse.

He buried Anne Boleyn one day and married Henry to Jane Seymour the next. And he not only baptised his heirs as legitimate, but in the case of Edward, became god-father as well.

Still, it was Henry who restrained Cranmer on many of his more radical reforms.

The young Cranmer had married and therefore forfeited his right of ordination and post at Cambridge University where he had been a graduate.

His wife died in childbirth, so he resumed his place at Cambridge to pursue the academic life.

And he was a model student, engrossing himself in the study of Scripture and keeping a watchful eye on the work of the continental reformers.

As a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and native of Nottingham, he associated with the sons of the 'ultra-devout' Clifton family (whose descendants were early pioneers of our South West) who were also pursuing a clerical career.

One of them renounced his inheritance to become a priest academic at Cambridge. Another went to Milan to study for his doctorate in canon law (Sir Gervase Clifton was the royal receiver in 1477 when the Cranmer family were among the chief gentry.

Alice was Prioress of a nearby convent; and another son, Robert,

was rector of Bucknall, and chief priest to the priory).

Cranmer's rise, as every one knows, came when he urged Henry to take his cause for the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon away from Rome to the Universities, and he became the principal agent abroad.

In Germany, the heartland of the 'reformers' he met and married a niece of one of them even though It was forbidden to one in Holy Orders. He concealed her from Henry (in a box with breathing holes) and from the public over all the years he was Archbishop of Canterbury: 'A complete silence envelops his wife and family', affirms MacCulloch.

His marriage was 'a drastic step' seeing the clergy were still sworn to celibacy But this did not deter Cranmer who had already sworn oaths before which he betrayed.

One was to the Pope, to recognise his supreme authority, when he was enthroned as Archbishop.

Then came the dissolution of the monasteries. Of course, Cromwell ordered it, but Cranmer agreed, being, says MacCulloch 'closely involved with monastic enclosure', and its terrible aftermath.

Again his part, as with the condemnation of Anne Boleyn, 'is a stain on his reputation, the unacceptable face of his loyalty to the supreme head'.

Was he , like Hitler's commanding officers, just carrying out orders in spite of the moral conundrum?

The key to Cranmer, as to the man who made him, Henry VIII, is the whole doctrine of royal supremacy over the Church of England.

Cranmer knew well the 'destructive quality of Henry's grief and anger', yet, in every case, he went along with it, and allowed such atrocities to take place; as, for example, the brutal closure of

the monasteries. So many good men were left homeless and impoverished whereas the nobles were enri-ched with monastic lands, thus cementing their stake in the Reformation.

Were the monks 'bad'?

As with any large body of men some few erred morally, allowing 'hostile commentators (read modern media), to 'bray for churchmen to provide a firm moral lead with strong, simple answers', whereas the real situation was 'complex', requiring 'pastoral wisdom and courage'.

Again, with Cranmer's connivance, Henry destroyed many valuable shrines throughout England, part of the national heritage.

The worst was St Thomas a'Beckett's at Canterbury, depicting the story of the English martyr who stood up to an evil king.

Finally, under Queen Mary, Cranmer was tried for treason and heresy, but hesitated about his beliefs (he actually recanted his Protestant pronouncements) and stuck with his old adherence to Catholic beliefs.

He even went so far as to agree to the universal primacy of the Pope. But this did not save him, he was burnt at Oxford on the 21st March, 1556.

Cranmer's greatest legacy was his language; he had a genius for writing prose. Whatever about his policies, his theology, even his moral choices, his use of language was impeccable. He has a 'natural ear' for 'sound and sentence construction'.

It was his most enduring monument and, as this most admirable of biographers shows, 'his language lies at the heart of our own English speaking culture, which has now become so central to the destiny of the world' and relevant to the way we 'construct our lives and our culture'.

A wholesome lesson for all Australian educators.

An unfortunate, intemperate and revolutionary life Tom Paine: A Political Life.

John Keane (Bloomsbury) $19.95

Reviewed by George Russo

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his is an impressively sympathetic biography of Thomas Paine, by a man who shares his radical views. Ills easy to read and lengthy. But I have reservations; manly due to my own dislike of the character who is Tom Paine.

Paine (1737-1809) was a political reformer and author of many political pamphlets; he was a master of political prose.

Born at Thetford in Norfolk, where he witnessed prisoners being tortured and hanged, he was educated in the beliefs of his Quaker father.

He was an adventurous spirit, taking to the sea at an early age; and learning the rough ways of seamen and their hardships, even witnessing harsh cruelties.

He had other odd jobs, for example as a customs officer, before he went to the United States and came under the influence of Benjamin Franklin.

There he became an editor, attacked slavery and agitated for the emancipation of women and their political rights.

He considered that local assemblies were dominated by colonial elites - men from landowning, professional and merchant families in the North, and from the planting families in the South.

There was still too much of Britain in the colonies of America for Tom Paine.

In 1776 he published a pamphlet, Common Sense, which outlined his ideas on independence.

It was immediately seized upon by influential Americans, and he became famous - so much so that during the war of independence he wrote a series of popular pamphlets, entitled The Crisis.

Surprisingly, Paine designed a bridge for building throughout America, and presented the plan in Philadelphia, before sending it to Britain.

For him bridges had philosophic impact, `by widening the horizons of public mobility and expectation'.

"Those crossing bridges", he asserted, "inevitably pass from the secure to the temporarily insecure... from a sense of momentary danger... into safety" He used it as a metaphor in many of his famous speeches and writings.

In 1791 came the first part of his famous pamphlet The Rights of Man in answer to Burke's Reflec-

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dons condemning the French revolution.

It was his great defence of Republican democracy, written in a colloquial style to be understood by the common man.

The following year, he published the second part of Rights, considered so subversive that he fled to Paris to escape arrest. He criticised 'courts and aristocracies' and the whole unwritten British constitution, and exposed them to ridicule.

This, of course, made him very popular with the French.

He threw himself into French politics during the troubled days of the revolution, but it was his attacks on religion that aroused opposition.

He partook in the efforts to deChristianise Parisian society. And Keane is inclined to defend him, believing that he did not take part in the worst excesses such as the sacrilegious march on Notre Dame, and despolitation of its altars.

He wrote The Age of Reason in 1793 which 'savaged Christianity In militant and witty language', concludes Keane, whose defence delighted in describing antiChristian activities, like the ejecting of the Archbishop of Paris and 400 priests and the closure of

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churches, adding: "Then on Nov 10 came the crowning event: the renaming of that pillar of mistaken belief, Notre Dame" (he mentions the names of the organisers).

"Led by the Goddess of Reason, the procession of soldiers, musicians and young girls dressed in garlands of flowers and tricolour ribbons slowly advanced on the church. Marshalled inside the marcher witnessed a ceremony for the purpose of renaming the Temple of Reason, after which a

hymn of liberty... was sung". Thus desecrating and mocking centuries of Catholic tradition in France.

But, popularity went to Paine's head; and he was arrested and thrown into prison. There he spent a year writing the second part of The Age of Reason and when released fled the country and crossed the English channel.

But he was not so well received by established British society; this 'upstart', with republican ideas.

His doctrinal belief in Deism that attacked all revealed religion caused him to lose much former support.

In 1802 he returned to America, where he spent his last years in disillusionment and disappointment. He had lost all his former friends because of his fanatical opposition to Christianity He died in 1809, a lonely man immortalised by the painter, John Gilbert, whose portrait is reproduced in the book, with other fine illustrations.

This is an excellent book for students of History and Political Science, provided you take account of the bias, but for those of the 'one, true faith' (who must be by now fully fed up with attacks on their sacred beliefs)Irecommend you give it a miss.

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Christians must fight for beliefs through parliaments: Nil

By Peter Rosengren It is now more vital than ever that Christians get involved in the life of the nation and the political scene, from the grass-roots activist level all the way to the parliamentary chambers of the nation.

This was the message from the Reverend Fred Nile, in Perth this week to rally the troops of his Call to Australia movement as the West Australian branch held its annual meeting and elected a new executive.

Reverend Nile, a Uniting Church Minister who was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1981 with a then-surprising 245,000 votes, told The fleverend frodMk in Perth last Monday: fighting for Chr an principles Record the issues being debated Reverend Nile often finds supIn parliaments around the coun- liament who can understand that try today are now the fundamen- and who can engage in the dif- port, and opposition, from unextal ones where there was no room ferent debates," he said. pected quarters and works with He said he often called the view politicians from all parties in a for compromise or retreat.

"It's vital that Christians be that Christians should not parliamentary Christian prayer Involved because what is really become involved in politics, and group where the MPs read the now being debated in the parlia- that somehow to do so was almost Bible and pray together. ment are issues which I call part 'dirty', "one of the devil's tricks."

He often receives support from Humanists, atheists and antiof God's creative purposes for his creation - 'planet earth'" he said. God people all get involved so figures such as the Catholic Arch"We're now debating life and why shouldn't Christians, he bishop of Sydney, Cardinal Edward Clancy and the Anglican death issues like euthanasia, asked?

"People say to me, 'Well, you're Archbishop of Sydney and from we're now debating should you have same sex marriages which telling people to join your party' representatives of other churches obviously is against the Christian andIsay 'No,Itell anybody who's but, ironically, gets opposition ethic - you name all the different a Christian to pray and seek God's from his own church - the Uniting issues which are coming up and guidance,'" he said, adding that Church - a current example being they are really dealing with fun- the nation needed Christians in the Homosexual Vilification legisdamental Christian teaching and all the political parties, not just lation being debated by the NSW parliament. we need more Christians in Par- Call to Australia.

Project Compassion boost Perth Catholics have contributed $48Z029 to Project Compassion this year so far, an increase of $14,542 on 1995. The total includes contributions from religious orders, schools and individuals as well as parishes.

The Lenten Project Compassion program is the Church's main financial response in support of development and relief programs throughout the world. Parishes shown with an asterisk indicate an increase on 1995 figures.

Parish

1995 (S)

Applecross 20,328.00 Armadale 5541.00 Attadale 3,796.00 Balcatta 4,000.00 Ballajura 4,212.48 Bassendean 8,47730 Bateman 10,468.00 Bayswater 1,615.30 Beaconsfield 3,400.00 Bedford/Inglew'd Z073.35 Beeliar Park 1,250.00 Belmont/Redcl 2,432.25 Bencubbin 1033.75 Bentley 2,200.00 Brentw'd/Willn 11,600.39 Bruce Rock 845.60 Carllla 470.00 Carlisle 4,333.30 Cathedral 11,250.00 Cty Bch/WDns 3,000.00 Claremont 3,321.85 Clarkson 886.65 Cloverdale 2,604.00 Como/Ken'n 6,288.60 Cottesloe 5,162.00 Dianella 8,035.00 Doubleview 9,151.00 East Fremantle 1,355.35 East Vic.Park 3,309.01 Embleton 1,205.20 Floreat/Wmbly 9,532.45 Fremantle 3,746.51 Gingin-Chitt'g 459.70 Girrawheen 7,650.00 Glendalough 1,445.10 Gosnells 2,877.75 Greenmount 3,062.00 Greenwood 7,829.68 Guildford 738.00 Hamilton Hill 924.00 Highgate 10,457.00 Hilton 5,069.00 Innaloo 2,392.18 3,145.15 Joondanna Kalamunda 1,720.00 Kalgoorlie 7,887.05 Kambalda 1,150.00 Karrinyup 3,015.00

1996 20,800.00' 9,306.75' 3,396.70 3,500.00 3,920.32 8.498.35' 12,999.00' 1.250.00 2,884.00 5,567.50 865.00 2,731.00* 896.04 2,600.00' 15,720.83' 727.00 460.00 4,438.72' 11,603.00' 3,000.00 2,507.23 1,223.65' 2,265.00 6,570.27' 4,101.20 8,616.00' 11,238.40' 1,425.00' 4,925.70* 1,210.25' 10,505.50' 3,262.25 650.00' 8,200.00* 1,255.75 4,642.00* 3,808.15* 9,087.22* 2,000.00' 2,675.00* 10,500.80' 4,389.00 3,089.70* 4,231.05* 2,905.20' 4,601.80 740.00 3.910.80*

Kellerberrin 752.65 1,833.00 Kelmscott Kenwick/Thorn 5,372.65 600.00 Kulin 1,641.90 Kwinana 6,659.00 Leederville 5,094.19 Lesmurdie 3,83700 Lockridge 1,908.60 Lynwood Maddington 2.200.00 2,964.45 Maida Vale Manning 3.881.00 Maylands 4,800.00 Melville 1,811.90 Merredin 1,092.25 10,132.00 Mirrabooka Morley 6,741.50 2,656.45 Mosman Park 5,684.75 Mt Lawley Mundaring 2,326.50 Nedlands 9,677.00 New Norcia 2,400.00 Nollamara 3,350.35 11,882.27 North Beach Northam 3,951.45 2,120.00 Ocean Reef Osborne Park 7,151.00 Palmyra 4,750.00 Pt Kennedy 974.70 4,192.35 Queens Park Riverton 12,697.40 Rivervale 550.00 Rockingham 18,745.00 Scarborough 5,444.22 Shenton Park 2,556.55 4,039.30 South Perth Southern Cross 564.85 Spearwood 4,822.38 Subiaco Z271.61 lbodyay 248.80 Victoria Park 4,896.38 Wanneroo 1,720.00 West Perth 2,494.00 Whitfords 9,285.00 Willagee 60.00 Wilson 1,055.00 Wongan Hills 1,171.55 Woodvale 1,915.68 York 900.50

685.35 2,361.00* 5,333.50 1,000.00' 1,547.95 6,010.00 4,103.39 4,773.00' 3,731.01' 1,428.40 3,086.20' 3,633.00 5,000.00' 2,362.10 729.65 8,500.00 5,786.00 3,857.55' 5,707.40* 2,873.72' 8,666.00 450.00 4,390.00' 16,662.68' 3,926.29 2,130.00' 5,270.89 4,349.00 1,337.40* 4,626.90' 13,500.00' 1,440.00' 22,298.00' 3,462.00 3,005.65' 4,612.20' 223.28 4,865.00* 6,000.00 24795 4,613.70 1,300.00 2,406.00 9,578.00' 100.00* 921.00 1,098.05 782.57 2,853.00*

Serving Christ by bringing shelter to Australia's poor A mission to bring decent housing to the poor of the world is a big job but it is one Bob Mitchell is willing to work for.

Mr Mitchell, who visited Perth from Sydney last week to give a presentation to the Conference of Churches of Western Australia on Habitat for Humanity, the international organisation which has set itself this goal, said he was hoping a Habitat organisation could be founded by WA Christians.

He said Habitat for Humanity was a Christian housing ministry which now worked in over 50 countries around the world buildBob Mitchell ing affordable homes for those who would otherwise have no Carter is the organisation's most chance of owning their own prominent high-profile supporter. house.

Each year he and his wife, "It's aim ....is to eliminate pover- Roslyn, put aside a week of their ty housing from the world," he own time to work with volunteers told The Record shortly before in building homes for the needy. giving a presentation to, among This year he will be conducting a others, the Catholic Social Justice work camp in Hungary.

Commission and representatives Mr Mitchell said each family from other WA churches. who received a house were basiAs executive director of Habitat cally given, according to Biblical for Humanity Australia, Mr principles, a no-interest mortgage Mitchell acknowledged it was a to pay off and the repayments big task but one of the goals of the were put towards the cost of organisation was to awaken the building houses for other people. world's conscience to the need to And families who gained affordeliminate poverty housing. housing had to contribute able "We're aiming to assist in vari500 hours of their own time and ous countries in the world, in parttowards construction, he nership with low income people effort added. who can't afford to own their own Habitat for Humanity has built home under a normal commerhouses around the world 50,000 cial setup," he said. it was founded 20 years ago since partnership "And we come in, in with them and with volunteers and is now currently building at and the community, and help to the rate of 1,000 houses a month.

He said that in Australia the provide that housing." was working in organisation A local group of volunteers who were enthusiastic about Habitat's South Australia, Victoria, New principles raised funds, selected a South Wales and Queensland and needy family and found land to had already built five houses for needy families. build on or a house to renovate.

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CAT scan gives Pope clean bill of health

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II left his summer residence on August 14 to go to a nearby hospital for an abdominal CAT scan and "all results were normal," a Vatican spokesman said.

Passionist Father Ciro Benedettini, vice director of the Vatican press office, confirmed on August 15 that the Pope went to Regina Apostolorum Hospital in Albano, near the summer residence at Castel Gandolfo.

"The situation is completely normal," the spokesman said.

Officials at the hospital said the Pope arrived about 5 pm and left less than an hour later after undergoing the test.

Pope John Paul. as scheduled, greeted visitors in the courtyard of his summer residence on August 14 and again on August 15, leading the midday Angelus prayer and marking the feast of Mary's Assumption.

He spent about 20 minutes talking from a window overlooking the courtyard the morning after the test.

His cheeks were rosy, but he did not seem very energetic, observers said.

Contemplating the mystery of Mary's assumption into heaven, he said on the feast day. "we learn to value our earthly life in the cor-

Archbishop condemns Cape Town vigilantes and gangsters

By Bronwen Dachs

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) - A priest working in a gang-infested area said he sees no easy way to resolve what the local archbishop called the "profound breakdown of law and order" that includes vigilantes as well as gangs.

"Both sides are equally stubborn in their beliefs - I can't see either of them stepping down and losing face," said Father Christopher Clohessy, an executive member of People Against Gangsterism And Drugs, formed in February.

PAGAD, as the group is known, is predominantly Muslim. It rect light." "Help us to never forwas set up as a pressure group to get that our true and definitive home is heaven and sustain us in make the government take action our efforts to make our life here to stop gang activities and drug Masked members of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs chant slogans at below ever more marked by fra- trafficking in Cape Town.

Photo C1VS Reuters August 14 in Cape Town.

In early August, some PAGAD a demonstration on ternity and solidarity," the Pope prayed at the August 15 Angelus. members shot and burned that "it is inevitable that extrem- appeared in court on August 13.

"This is crazy - all gangsters get The Pope also used the Angelus Rashaad Staggie, one of the lead- ists will end up taking matters to announce the publication of his ers of Cape Town's most notori- into their own hands" when the bail but the first member of message for World Youth Day, ous gang, outside his home in Salt public starts to believe that PAGAD to be arrested is refused which he is scheduled to pre- River, less than a mile from cen- law enforcers are failing in their bail," Father Clohessy said. duty. "We now face the terrible "The police are targeting PAGAD side over next August 15 in Paris. tral Cape Town.

Staggie was murdered after the prospect of a cycle of revenge i nstead of the gangs, which is ludiA brief Vatican statement about the Pope's health said, "In the government failed to meet killings in which, as always, the crous." innocent will suffer along with the Archbishop Henry called on the framework of the periodic check- the PAGAD ultimatum to act.

This sparked the revenge killing guilty," the archbishop said. government to give the police and ups which he undergoes, the Holy Vigilantes have huge communi- the courts "whatever resources Father last evening went to the of a PAGAD member, as well nearby Regina Apostolorum Hos- as protest marches with gun-tot- ty support, "much of it unspoken," they need" to put a stop to vigipital, because of its convenience, ing supporters of each side threat- said Father Clohessy, who has lantism. The vigilantes' actions ening violence against the other. much experience mediating "are to be condemned most strenfor a CAT scan examination.

Father Clohessy, parish priest of between gangs and has led cam- uously, as is the gangsterism and "This examination did not reveal St Timothy Church in Cape Town, paigns to get people to hand organised crime which they claim any signs worthy of note, particuto be fighting about," he said. larly in relation to his abdominal said he stopped attending over their guns.

"People felt powerless and now "All of us who value peace and surgery in 1992," the August 15 PAGAD's meetings when they became militant, and he did not they are saying, 'At last, someone the rule of law are horrified that statement said. is doing something." the situation has deteriorated to Pope John Paul underwent attend their protest marches.

The this point," he said. only way to "I support their restore peace ideals, despite is surgery in July 1992 for the remthe fact that I don't condone vio- to end the gang activity, the priest Archbishop Henry said it was oval of a tumour from his colon. "no longer safe to travel to reliDoctors said the growth, which lence," he said in an August 13 said.

He blamed corruption and gious services in our churches was about the size of an orange, telephone interview.

The priest said he was "sur- incompetence in the police force and mosques, even in daytime." was not cancerous. and justice system for the crisis.

Father Clohessy agreed, saying At the same time, surgeons prised it has taken so long for peohis parishioners are afraid to ple to take the law into their own Staggie was taken to court seven removed the Pope's gallbladder hands." times in two years, but was never come to evening Mass or church after discovering gallstones.

"When people are fed up to this convicted because witnesses social functions in case gangFather Benedettini said that extent, they eventually take were afraid to testify against him. sters are shooting in the streets. although the Vatican had given action," he said.

Few families in his parish are A PAGAD member was arrested no advance notice that the Pope Archbishop Lawrence Henry of in connection with Staggie's mur- unaffected by the gangs and would go to the hospital in Cape Town said in a statement der and was denied bail when he drugs, the priest said.

Albano, "this is the time of year he normally undergoes check-ups."

Indonesian bishop praises officer

Pope John Paul II gives his Angelus address from the balcony of his sumPhoto CNS/Reuters mer residence in Castel Gandolfo on August 18.

PONTIANAK, Indonesia (CNS) in Pontianak, the West Kaliman- An Indonesian archbishop tan provincial capital, sentenced has praised a local army leader six officers to up to 11 months for acknowledging that officers imprisonment for their roles in under his command acted wrong- the April violence. ly in killing a civilian and injuring In their defence pleas, the offi15 others. cers demanded that the more Archbishop Hieronymus Bum- than 3,000 villagers who attacked bun of Pontianak called Colonel a military barracks after the inciZainuri Hashym, a provincial mil- dent also be prosecuted, because itary commander, "brave" and they caused heavy property dam"wise." age to the military during three The archbishop spoke after days of rioting.

Hashym accepted a military triHashym, however, rejected the bunal's verdicts against six of his demand, telling reporters after subordinates and apologised for the verdicts were announced that their actions, reported UCA News, "it is not fair to sue the civilians, an Asian church news agency when in fact it was those irrebased in Thailand. sponsible officers who incited the On August 5, a military tribunal Incident."

"I do not want to prolong this case," Hashym said. "All parties should learn from the incident."

Hearing of the remarks, Archbishop Btunbun said: "I think he is quite wise and fair. He is brave to apologise for the mistakes of his subordinates."

The archbishop told UCA News that all parties should learn from the riots by trying their best to prevent such an incident happening again.

"The civilians, too, should restrain from violence. They should be careful to not provoke rumours that could lead to unwanted incidents," said Archbishop Bumbun.

Cardinals not really at odds on dialogue in the Church: US prelate BOSTON (CNS) - Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin and Boston Cardinal Bernard Law are not at odds on dialogue among Catholics, said Auxiliary Bishop William Murphy of Boston.

"Both Cardinal Bernardin and Cardinal Law agree that the current crisis must be met by calling us all to accountability in the Church," Bishop Murphy wrote in his column for the August 16 issue of The Pilot, Boston archdiocesan newspaper.

"That dialogue to meet this crisis is,I am confident, the goal of Cardinal Bemardin's initiative," he said.

When Cardinal Bernardin announced his new Catholic Common Ground Project on The-Record, August 22 1996 Page 12

August 12, Cardinal Law criticised the foundational statement for that project.

He said the statement exhibited a "fundamental flaw" in "its appeal for 'dialogue' as a path to 'common ground."

Bishop Murphy noted that Cardinal Law expressed support for dialogue that is a "pastoral effort to assist in a fuller appropriation of the truth."

The Boston cardinal called that kind of dialogue "laudable," while he rejected as a deception "dialogue as a way to mediate between the truth and dissent."

Bishop Murphy said Cardinal Law "is convinced that it (the foundational statement) needs clarification so that it does

not serve to increase rather than decrease dissent and misunderstanding in the life of the Church today."

"There are some who will want to manipulate" the Bernardin initiative for their own agenda of dissent, Bishop Murphy said.

"Already," he wrote, "Frances Kissling of Catholics for a Free Choice has criticised the initiative because her attempt to change the Church's teaching on abortion Is not on the agenda. Nor will it be, nor should it be. There is no place on the agenda of faithful Catholics for efforts to change the authentic teaching of the Church, to challenge the true faith or redefine the demands of the moral life." "The crux of

Cardinal Law's concern," he wrote, "hinges on the acceptance of a basic truth of the faith: The Church has received the revelation of Jesus Christ and is the faithful guardian of that revelation through the Church's tradition and magisterium.

Cardinal Bernardin has explicitly affirmed this in his own press statement when he affirms that any conference (sponsored under the initiative) will be 'working within the boundaries of authentic Church teaching."

The foundational statement stressed "accountability to the living Catholic tradition" as a prerequisite for an authentic dialogue among Catholics.

International News

Fr Thurian, Taize ecumenical pioneer, dies at 75 TAIZE, France (CNS) - Father Max Thurian, one of the earliest members of the Taize ecumenical community and a noted theologian, died on August 15, the day before his 75th birthday.

A Calvinist who joined the community of brothers from various Christian traditions in 1942, Brother Max was formally received into the Roman Catholic Church and ordained to the priesthood in 1987 by Cardinal Corrado Ursi of Naples.

Father Thurian died in a hospital in Geneva, his hometown, after a long illness, according to the Taize community In a telegram to Brother Roger Schutz, founder and prior of Taize, Pope John Paul II offered his prayers "for this man of God who was among the first to

work alongside you to build the community of Taize with the aim of serving Christian unity."

"I honour the memory of this good servant of the Gospel," the Pope said in the telegram.

"Untiring seeker of truth, man of profound faith, of unwavering hope and of ardent charity, Father Max Thurian - a Catholic priest in the last years of his life" - was a great model of Christian discipleship, the Pope said.

Father Thurian's decision to be received into the Catholic Church and be ordained was kept secret for just over a year.

He told a Swiss newspaper: "I wanted my decision to remain discrete, so that no one would suffer from the noise that was likely to be made. And also because this was a purely spiritual action,

undertaken in the spirit of the Gospel: 'When you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret."

Father Thurian told the reporter, "a whole series of theological reflections, ecumenical dialogues, liturgical experiences and personal and church events" had led him to full membership in the church.

Father Thurian was Taize's theologian and liturgist; in that capacity, he and Brother Roger were named by Pope John XXIII to be observers at the Second Vatican Council.

As early as 1949, Father Thurian conducted research and study for the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches.

US Republica avoid abortion policy brawl SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Lastminute negotiations brought an apparent end to a simmering dispute over abortion five days before the opening of the Republican National Convention in San Diego.

The agreement announced late on August 7 will allow for the inclusion - in a separate appendix - of major proposed amendments to the Republican platform that were defeated by the platform committee.

Those include three failed amendments on abortion.

In addition, the platform will include a preamble acknowledging diversity of opinions within the Republican Party, but making no mention of abortion.

"In one way or another, every Republican is a dissenter," the preamble reads.

"At the same time, we are not morally indifferent."

Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois, a staunch opponent of abortion who heads the convention's platform committee, said of the compromise: "I call it a prolife victory, but I think the prochoice people were heard."

California Governor Pete Wilson, who supports keeping abortion legal and had been a vocal advocate of change in the Republican platform, also expressed satisfaction with the platform agreement.

He said he was speaking for

He was instrumental in prepar- Doctrine of the Faith and for Clering the council's landmark docu- gY ment on baptism, ministry and "Ecumenical work," he told VatEucharist, which was adopted ican Radio in June 1995, "is not by the membership in 1982. something from which some will In his work on behalf of Christ- emerge as winners and others ian unity, Father Thunan insisted as losers. This (attitude) absolutethat fidelity to the truth ruled out ly has been overcome, it is a the possibility of any doctrinal page that has been turned. compromises.

"Today it is necessary to deepen Ecumenism, he had said, is not together the faith we have in coma search for "the lowest comm- mon. This means that weights on denominator" among Chris- which are too heavy or unnecestians, but a search for the fullness sary sacrifices will not be of truth about Christ and his will imposed on anyone," he told for his followers. the radio after the publication of In addition to his work at Taize Pope John Paul's 1995 encyclical and for the World Council on ecumenism. of Churches, Father Thurian was "Uniformity is not necessary for a papally-appointed member of unity," he said.

"The Church today is open to the International Theological Commission and a consultant to plurality, but in the fundamental the Vatican congregations for the unity of the faith."

Parisian church sanctuary for mother and child

August 7, the platform plank on abortion calls for a constitutional amendment banning abortion and opposes federal funding of CNSneuteorganisations that provide abormother and her child rest on August 19 inside St Bernard Church in Paris.

A tion counselling. where 10 African immigrants were on the 46th day of a hunger strike. The Two days earlier, the committee immigrants were demanding residence permits from the French government, had rejected a proposal by which wants to return them to their home country.

Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole for the inclusion of a "tolerance plank" in the abortion section.

In response, Wilson. Weld and Youth Defence chairwoman DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - A pmother abortion supporters had life radio advertisement by Niamh Nic Mhathuna branded threatened a floor fight when the an Irish group opposed to abor- the radio ban "a most sinister move." convention opened on August 12. tion has been banned.

She said the ads were "apolitiThe state broadcaster RTE and In other sections, the platform cal and simply state the physical and TeleIndependent Radio the calls for expansion of the death penalty to include certain rapists; vision Cormnission. the state body reality of unborn life at eight backs the educational choice pro- that overseas the independent weeks and that abortion kills."

Youth Defence is seen as the grams, including vouchers or radio sector, have refused to air most militant of pro-life groups in by Youth advertisement the scholarships for those attending I reland Project and has been criticised by launched who Defence, religious schools; calls homosexuality "incompatible with military Thrth, a 36,000-Irish-pound Irish bishops for picketing the homes of politicians and doctors service" and says women military (US$58,000) pro-life advertising who support legal abortion. campaign. should be exempted personnel why it will The Project Truth advertising refused to say RTE from ground combat. not broadcast the 30-second campaign also includes billOn immigration, the platform ad. but a spokesman for the IRTC board posters that have not been calls for a constitutional amend- said that Section 10.3 of the Broad- censored. The posters show a ment that would deny US citizen- casting Act prohibits advertise- newly born baby with the capship to children born in ments "which are directed tion: "Kill her now . . . . it's murthe United States to parents who towards any political or religious der. Kill her before birth . . . . it's are not "long-term legal resi- end." abortion." dents."

It also calls for the deportation of immigrants, both legal and illeOTTAWA (CNS) - The lawyer ing male students in the 1970s. gal, convicted of such crimes as domestic violence, stalking, child representing men who claimed Alumni of the Mount Cashel abuse, child neglect and child they were physically and sexual- orphanage in St John's, Newly abused at the Christian Broth- foundland, say their struggle has abandonment. er's Mount Cashel orphanage will been a long and painful one. ask Newfoundland's Supreme Last March, one former student Court to intervene in the fight for scaled the fence surrounding the compensation.

Canadian prime minister's resiAttorney Jack Harris is asking dence in Ottawa to tell Prime Minties. At the Re-education- throughthe Supreme Court to order ister Chretien about his plight.

Labour Committee hearing in A recent decision by Nova ScoFuzhou. China,in March, the bish- the Christian Brothers, who ran provincial govtia's top court weighed in school, and the the defying a ban op was accused of settle the amounts against an appellant who sought ernment to on illegal religious meetings at his victims. from the Church. more than 30 damages owed to home.

In a unanimous judgment, the So far, only one victim, Shane One of the meetings had Earle, has been compensated for three-member panel of the Nova involved more than 300 people.

In 1958, Bishop Zeng was sen- a reported amount of $400,000 Scotia Court of Appeal overturned a 1995 lower court ruling tenced to 15 years' imprisonment. (US$288,000).

Since 1989, nine members of the that held the Diocese of AntigoIn 1983 he was given a further eight-year sentence for "counter- order have been convicted of nish liable for a priest's sex revolutionary activities." physically and sexually assault- crimes.

Irish abortion ads ban

A man carries hats with a pro-life message on the floor of the Republican National Convention, on August 13 in San Diego. Pro-lifers fought to keep their position in the party's platform against the wishes of Republicans who support legal abortion.

himself, Massachusetts Governor William Weld and Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine.

"This is the accommodation that we sought," he said.

"It says the Republican Party is not monolithic."

As approved in committee on

Canadian abuse case move

Amnesty fears for Chinese bishop LONDON (CNS) - Amnesty International said it is "seriously concerned about the health and well-being" of imprisoned Chinese Bishop Zeng Jingmu.

Bishop Zeng is head of the Diocese of Yujiang in Jiangxi province of south-central China and is a bishop loyal to the Vatican, outside the government-approved Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.

Bishop Zeng, 75, is reportedly in

ill health. When he was arrested last November he was suffering from severe pneumonia, an illness he had contracted while in police custody the previous month.

Even before his arrest, he was reportedly in frail health.

Amnesty learned that on March 18 Bishop Zeng was assigned to three years' "allocation through labour," an administrative punishment for his religious activi-

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International News

for identity' 'Crisis of UN prize for Lubich modern religious men In Brief

PARIS (CNS) - A UN agency has awarded its 1996 Prize for Peace Education to Chiara Lubich, the founder of the Focolare Movement.

The UNESCO press office in Paris announced on August 12 that a seven-member jury selected the 76-year-old Italian because of the Focolare Movement's contributions "to building peace and unity among people, generations and social classes."

Lubich founded the movement in 1943 during the height of World War II. She and several Catholic friends gathered to study Scripture and find ways to put into action the Gospel's call for unity among people and solidarity with the poor.

Tape warning PORTLAND, Oregon. (CNS) - A federal judge's decision on August 12 not to allow destruction of a tape recording of an Oregon prisoner's sacramental confession will have a chilling effect on religious practice. according to Archbishop Francis George.

"Citizens of all religions or none should be dismayed that the state may now, with impunity, violate fundamental religious practice," said the Portland archbishop in an August 12 statement.

US District Judge Owen Panner ruled that the role of the tape in a murder case outweighs the Church's interest in having it destroyed.

Anti-suicide law PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (CNS) - Providence diocesan officials praised Rhode Island's Legislature and governor for enacting a law explicitly banning assisted suicide.

The law, signed on August 5

by Governor Lincoln Almond, makes it a felony for a physician or anyone else to provide the "physical means by which another person commits or attempts to commit suicide."

Someone convicted of assisting in another's suicide faces up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.

Marian meeting VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has named Cardinal Adam Maida of Detroit as his pontifical legate to the 19th International Marian Congress, to be held from August 24-26 in Poland at the national shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa. The 12th Mariological Congress will also take place at the same time.

Pro-lifers gather FRONT ROYAL, Virginia.

(CNS) - Bishop John Keating of Arlington welcomed Human Life International to his diocese on August 15 as he celebrated an outdoor Mass for nearly 1,000 pro-life supporters from around the world.

The international crowd included Human Life International officials from 22 countries, including Poland, Russia, Austria, Canada and Latin America.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. (CNS) "What we have seen over the Men religious "share a crisis last years is the corrosive effect of of identity with most people of a new and simpler model of sociour time," according to the head ety," he said, "for we have of the Dominicans worldwide. all found ourselves members of "Who are we? How do we fit into the global market, buying and the fabric and structure of the selling, being bought and sold."

Church? Are we clerical, lay or This has made the Church, some special hybrid of our own?" which "had all sorts of hierarasked Dominican Father Timothy chies and structures that counterRadcliffe, British-born master balanced each other," a less general of the Order of Preachers, confident community of "the indiat the 40th annual assembly of vidual believer and the hierarthe Conference of Major Superi- chy." ors of Men. "That is perhaps one reason why Some 160 of 250 members who the question of priesthood, and represent 25,000 US religious who is allowed to be one, is such priests and brothers gathered in a hot issue for us," he suggested.

Arlington from August 7-11 to con- "Because if you cannot get a foot sider male religious life. on the ladder, then you cannot be In a keynote address Father Rad- anyone that really matters." cliffe linked the "question of idenFather Radcliffe said the answer tity" to the profound social to the identity crisis is not "to aboltransformation of the 20th centu- ish all hierarchy and go for a Church which is more like our ry.

liberal, individualistic society."

Rather, he said the Church flourishes "when we give recognition to different forms of authority....

Tradition is safeguarded by the bishops, reason by universities and centres of study, and experience by all sorts of institutions from religious orders to married life where people hear the Word and reflect upon it in their lives."

For some members, especially younger ones, who need "clear signs of being a member of a religious community," Father Radcliffe said a return to the practice of wearing habits, cast off by many in his generation, might be helpful.

In another keynote address the same day, Vincent Bilofts, a psychotherapist and consultant on religious formation said a necessary "ongoing commitment to a journey of purification" requires

men religious to follow Jesus in "a process of taming our egoism, our false self, our unauthentic self," he said.

"As your religious communities adopt a wider worldly culture that emphasises a managerial approach to reality," he told superiors, "you may be cultivating an orientation focused on the functional, rational and logical completion of tasks to meet external expectations."

In this context, he warned, "the consecrated religious man can become lost in his mere professional life" with his spirituality becoming secondary.

Vincentian Father Joseph Levesque, president of the conference, recalled that the conference was founded in 1956 after Pope Pius XLI encouraged religious to come together in national associations.

Argentina's bells of St Cajetan ring in US Indians nationwide strike to support the poor in meeting BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNS) - The day after thousands of Argentines began a pilgrimage to a shrine honouring St Cajetan, their patron saint of work, a nationwide strike was held to protest the government's economic policy.

The pilgrimage began after the bells of the Shrine of St Cajetan rang 48 times at midnight between August 6 and 7, and workers went on strike on August 8.

The number of pilgrims to the shrine surpassed a million for the first time this year, as unemployment is affecting 4.2 million Argentines - 17.1 percent of the adult population.

The local newspaper Clarin said, "The number of pilgrims at St Cajetan has become an informal yet reliable thermometer of A statue of St Cajetan, patron of work to Argentines, is carried down a street Photo CNS/Reuters in Buenos Aires on his feast day, August 7. unemployment in our country."

Following the record attendance, the newspaper predicted benefits for poor, large families. in the lower-class neighbourhood the success of the following day's According to trade union leaders, of Liniers, honours the saint born strike convoked by the Central the strike paralysed approximate- in Vicenza, Italy, in 1480.

Each August Z pilgrims form a Union of Workers, the most pow- ly 80 percent of the working force in Buenos Aires. line of almost one mile in order to erful Argentine trade union.

The strike was held to protest Government sources said that attend one of the 20 Masses celegovernment budget cuts, which figure was "largely exaggerated." brated each hour from 4am will dramatically reduce social The Shrine of St Cajetan, located to midnight

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNS) - Catholicism and Native American religious practices share many traditions because of their basis in faith in the same creator God, said Santa Fe Archbishop Michael Sheehan in a homily during the annual Tekaktvitha Conference.

More than 1,500 people from throughout North America attended the August 7-11 conference of Native American Catholics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, which is in the Santa Fe Archdiocese.

"God revealed many things in natural ways years before he sent his son. But then God sent his son Jesus to reveal many more teachings which we could never know otherwise."

That's why Native Americans should resist the temptation to turn away from Christian teachings out of the belief that doing so makes them more truly Native American, he said.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church The Divine Works and the Trinitarian Mission

after the fall, and the missions of the Son and the Spirit, which are continued in the mission of the Church.

of the Son's Incarnation and the gift of the Holy Spirit that show forth the properties of the divine persons.

258 The whole divine economy 257 "0 blessed light, 0 Trinity Is the common work of the three and first Unity!" God is eternal divine persons. For as the Rinity blessedness, undying life, unfad- has only one and the same nature, ing light. God is love: Father, Son, so too does it have only one and and Holy Spirit. God freely wills the same operation: "The Father, to communicate the glory of his the Son, and the Holy Spirit are blessed life. Such is the "plan of not three principles of creation his loving kindness," conceived but one principle." by the Father before the foundation of the world, in his beloved However each divine person per Son: "He destined us in love to be forms the common work accordhis sons" and "to be conformed to ing to his unique personal propthe image of his Son," through erty Thus the Church confesses, following the New Testament, "the spirit of son ship."

This plan is a "grace [which] was "one God and Father from whom given to us in Christ Jesus before all things are, and one Lord Jesus the ages began," stemming imme- Christ, through whom all things diately from Trinitarian love. It are, and one Holy Spirit in whom unfolds in the work of creation, all things are." the whole history of salvation It is above all the divine missions

259 Being a work at once common and personal, the whole divine economy makes known both what is proper to the divine persons and their one divine nature. Hence the whole Christian life is a communion with each of the divine persons, without in any way separating them. Everyone who glorifies the Father does so through the Son in the Holy Spirit; everyone who follows Christ does so because the Father draws him and the Spirit moves him.

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260 The ultimate end of the whole divine economy is the entry of God's creatures into the perfect unity of the Blessed Trini-

ty. But even now we are called to be a dwelling for the Most Holy Trinity: "If a man loves me," says the Lord, "he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him": 0 my God, 'Dirtily whomI adore, help me forget myself entirely so to establish myself in you, unmovable and peace ful as if my soul were already in eternity. May nothing be able to trouble my peace or make me leave you, 0 my unchanging God, but may each minute bring me more deeply into your mystery! Grant my soul peace. Make it your heaven, your beloved dwelling and the place of your rest. May I never abandon you there, but may Ibe there, whole and entire, completely vigilant in my faith, entirely adoring, and wholly given over to your creative action.

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Deadline for ads: 5pm Monday Phone 227 7778 HOUDAY ACCOMMODATION PINK LAKE LODGE, Esperance. 85 Pink Lake Rd, Ph: (090) 712 075 Fax: (090) 714 754. Best value f or money in town. The Lodge offers 4 self-contained apartments plus 23 rooms with shared facility.

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THANKS 0 SACRED HEART of Jesus, Immaculate Heart of Mary, St Joseph and St Jude, grateful thanks for seeing me through a sad time and making things right. E.C. THANKS 0 Sacred Heart of Jesus, may your kingdom come. 0 Sacred Heart of Jesus I trust in your mercy. May the most Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, loved, praised and glorified throughout the world, now and forever. 0 Holy Spirit, you who solve all our problems. light all roads so that I can obtain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you in spite of material things. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. Amen.

Say this prayer for three consecutive days. S.A.L. MAY the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified. loved and preserved throughout the world, now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us.

ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE WILLETTON $140 per week, 3 bedroom house plus outer room, air con, garage, near bus stop, schools, shops. Long lease available. Ph 457 4847.

WANTED female, live in companion with Christian values for like minded lady.

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Outside interests and/or employment OK. Share expenses. New, clean, presentable furnished unit close to transport in Alexander Heights. Long-term wanted. Ring 342 8709 after 9 am.

IN MEMORIAM

THANKS

SCOTT, Timothy Francis. 8-9-59 to 21-8-83. In loving memory of our Tim. Rest in Peace

THANKS to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Lady of Medugorje, Father Laval and St Jude for answering to my prayers. T.P.

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SEPTEMBER 1 Disciples of Jesus Gathering. City Beach - Archbishop Hickey Thanksgiving Service celebrating 150 years of Christian Witness in Perth - Rev Fr K Long Confirmation, Carlisle - Rev Fr G Holohan 2-5 Central Commission and National Liturgical Commission, Sydney A rchbishop Hickey Benedictine Torch Arrival (Subiaco, 3 Italy to Subiaco, Perth) - Mgr M Keating Blessing of extensions to Nollamara Primary School - Bishop Healy 4 Final Concert of Performing Arts Bishop Healy Civic Reception for High Commissioner of South Africa - Mr G Searle Confirmation, South Perth 5 Mgr M Keating

PUBUC NOTICE M ASSEUSE: Bethany Clinic, professional masseuse, dealing with skeletal and muscular pain, sporting injuries, stress, relaxation and deep tissue massage. acupressure.

Monday to Friday 9.30am to 6pm. Saturday 10am to 5pm. Ring Orial 479 7120.

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Archdiocesan Panorama BUSINESS PERSONS' MASS Will be celebrated at All Saints Chapel. Allendale Square, Perth on Friday 30 August at 7.00 am. followed by a breakfast meeting at the Venice Cafe, Trinity Arcade, Perth. Cost of Breakfast S8. Guest speaker Mr Bill O'Grady - continuing his talk on Our Lady. Enq: 384 0809.

DIVINE MERCY St Mary's Cathedral. Victoria Square. Sunday 1 September 1.30 pm. Rosary, Divine Mercy prayers and Benediction. Sermon: Fr Herron 'Vocation to the Priesthood and religious life'. Film 'Lack of Vocations'. For info phone Adam 448 0002 or John 457 7771.

VIDEO SERIES ON HEALING The Bethel Friday Night Catholic Charismatic Prayer Meeting continues with the presentation of John and Paula Sanford's Healing Ministry, with emphasis on overcoming bitter root judgements, through a unique video series being held each Friday night at 8 pm at Bethel Centre, 236 Railway Pde, West Leederville. Enq: (09) 388 1333. All welcome.

NOVENA To Our Lady of Good Health Vailankanni, Friday 30 August to Sunday 8 September at Holy Trinity Church, 8 Burnett St, Embleton. Preacher FrTerence D'Souza.

Daily 7 pm Rosary. Homily and Benediction. Enq: 271 5528 or 276 4594 or 370 1516.

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PILGRIM VIRGIN STATUE OF FATIMA The Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima visits Sacred Heart Church, Discovery Dr. Thornlie on Sat. 31 Aug. The statue arrives at 12 mid-day. Rosary and procession at 5.15 pm. Mass at 6.30 pm. Statue departs Church at 8 pm. All welcome. Contact Fr O'Malley 459 4459.

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Where a spire rises heavenward

Beauty and contemplation - the interior of St Joseph's in Subiaco is a particularly fine example of Church architecture of the 1930's.

By Peggy Nice-Lynch

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f you are driving up the gentle slope of Salvado Road from the direction of the Perth/Fremantle railway bridge, there is no missing, on the crest of the rise, the lovely red brick Gothic building which is the 62-year-old St Joseph's Parish Church.

But this imposing structure, with its clean cut lines, its graceful spire reaching to the sky, and embracing as it does the beautiful interior, is more than a grand building.

It is the bricks-and-mortar sign of an alive faith community which traces its beginnings back to 1850.

Although it was 1901 before the Parish was formally set up, the first seeds of faith were planted, along with the still surviving olive trees, by Benedictine monks, on a hill above Lake Monger, four years after they landed on our shores.

This is the third parish church. The first was built in 1897 by the Sisters of St John of God and handed over to the new parish four years later.

The second St Joseph's was opened in 1913, neither of these on the present site.

Monsignor Patrick V(erling was the driving force, albeit a quietly spoken, scholarly, gentlemanly priest, behind the erection of such a grand structure in depression times.

He had become Subiaco's first Parish Priest at the surprisingly young age of 26.

This new church, opened in 1934, was the culmination of his fondest dreams of many years.

All his people knew it. They supported him magnificently. The parish history is full of stories of how well they did; fund raising was a way of life.

Of course, there have been changes.

OUR LADY'S BIRTHDAY ROSARY BOUQUET If you would like to be part of the 48 hour Perpetual Rosary Bouquet for Our Lady's Birthday, commencing Thurs 5 September at 6 pm and concluding Sat 7 September at 6 pm, please contact Margaret (09) 446 1935, Kathy (096) 222 766 or Fax (09) 446 1935. This is a gift to Our Lady from the people of WA. The Rosary can be said anywhere at any time. Just send in your committed time slots to ensure the 48 hours are completely covered.

Scroll will be offered up at 10.30 am Mass at St Mary's Cathedral, 8 September.

HEALING AT WEMBLEY PARISH Alan Ames has returned from 6 talks in Ireland and will speak at our Lady of Vic-

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Subiaco (the City was named for the Benedictine monastery foundation) has taken on all the marks of an inner city parish.

The latest parish census reveals Catholics in 800 households, none of them living close to the church.

An in-the-pipeline Subiaco City project envisages high density housing at our back door, and another development a kilometre west down Salvado Road. Only time will reveal the ultimate effect on the parish.

Under the leadership of Father Holmes, a caring Parish Pastoral Council hears and heeds the call to apostleship.

The involvement of many sees dedicated service in the Lord's name in myriad forms; faithful service in the Sanctuary by acolytes and Altar servers, proclaimers of the Word and special ministers of the Eucharist - the latter also bring Jesus in Holy Communion to the sick in hospital and in their homes.

There are Prayer Groups, the RCIA, Chil-

St Joseph, and his Church behind him.

dren's Liturgy leaders, a Committee which has been involved in some memorable Liturgies, a Social Justice group, people looking after welcoming and hospitality.

A group of trained Catechists gives reliName of Parish: St Joseph's, Subiaco. gious instruction to our children from GovAddress: 1 Salvado Road, Wembley, ernment Schools, and prepares them for 6014. Ph: 381 1248. the Sacraments.

Parish Priest Fr Patrick Holmes, Others undertake Sacristan duties and the hundred and one associated largelyOSCam. hidden tasks, to ensure that the House of Parish Secretary: Win Kealy. the Lord is always worthily cared for.

Office Hours: Tuesday & Wednesday The loveliness of our Parish Church and 2pm to 6pm. Thursday. 9am to 5.30pm the manner in which it is maintained is Masses: Sat. 6.30pm. Sun. 8am and maybe a reason for its continued huge pop10am. ularity for weddings.

Music contributes to making all our Reconciliation: Sat 11.30am - 12.30pm weekend liturgies devotional and meaningful. At vigil and 8am Sunday Masses, a kindergarten. Sadly, we no longer have a faithful Bethel Community music ministry Parish School. provides accompaniment and leadership But for 86 years, generations of children for our hymns. received their secular and religious eduAn accomplished cantor and roster of cation at St Joseph's Primary School, taught organists aids our involvement at the 10am in turn by Sisters of St John of God (1897Sunday Mass.

1911), Sisters of Mercy (1912-1941), and the Perhaps you leave your car in our park- Brigidine Sisters (1942-1983) ing bays while you are at Subi Oval for AFL Sisters from all three Orders remain here. football?

The huge St John Of God Hospital and Maybe you are not aware that your fees Convent complex across the road is our contribute handsomely to the work of our near neighbour; so are the Brigidine SisSt Vincent de Paul Conference (when West ters in 12 Salvado Road.

Coast plays) and to our Youth Welfare (on The extensive Mercy Sisters' Catherine Dockers' days).

McAuley Centre occupies the original A well received parish 8-page quarterly Benedictine site on the hill above Station magazine, The Spire, has been our pride Street. and joy all of six years until last March.

In addition, the Christian Brothers' Its production has come under review Edmund House is situated close by Catherand will reappear as a bigger half-yearly ine McAuley, and the Good Shepherd Sispublication by the end of the year. ters' Convent is up the way from them.

Alongside the Church on its wedgeWe are indeed blessed by the presence shaped block, is the Presbytery (1937) and, of these Religious, who contribute in no next to that, the Parish Centre - the latter small way to our Parish life. housing a children's play group and St Joseph, watch over us all.

At a Glance:

Archdiocesan Panorama tories Church, 364 Cambridge St, Wembley on Friday 6 September after the 7.30pm recitation of the Rosary. Enq: Sr Claude McNamara 387 3987 or Russel 274 6018.

PERPETUAL ADORATION MIRRABOOKA Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Eucharist commenced 8 years ago on the eve of the Assumption of Our Lady, at St Gerard Majella Church, cnr Ravenswood Dr & Majella Rd, Westminster. Over 150 adorers from Mirrabooka Parish keep a 24 continuous devotion

Seen from the front - basking in the sunlight.

before the Blessed Sacrament. Those outside the Parish are invited to participate in the adoration and witness to the ongoing presence of Christ amongst us in the Eucharist. For info contact Holy Spirit Community 344 7480/ 470 2251, Yvonne Bolton (a/h 344 6684), Norma Fressanges (342 4136) or Presbytery 349 2315.

CHARISMATIC HEALING MASS Flame Ministries International are celebrating a Mass for healing at Holy Family Church, Thelma St, Como on Sunday 8

September at 6.00 pm. There will be praise and worship and healing ministry for the sick. All are invited to share the celebration and 'expect a miracle'.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE A pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of the Revelation will take place on 25 August at 2 pm at the Church of 'Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church', Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook. Rosary & Benediction, and homily preached by Fr Noel Tobin.

Pilgrimage concludes with blessing of sick. All welcome. To book bus from Marangaroo, Tuart Hill, Perth, Highgate and Midland phone 444 7565. For Fremantle bus phone 339 4015. Further info from SACRI Association, PO Box 311 Tuart Hill, 6060, phone 447 3292.