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Perth: September 12, 1996

Nation reminded again of option for the poor

By Peter Rosengren The chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, Bishop Kevin Manning, criticised the Federal Budget this week for failing to produce programs aimed at eliminating poverty as the Australia's Catholic bishops were about to release a statement calling for the eradication of poverty.

Bishop Manning accused the Howard Government of retreating from the fight against poverty and said it was ironic the Budget should be brought down in the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty.

The Archbishop of Canberra and Goalburn, Archbishop Francis Carroll, released the bishops' statement on global poverty and poverty in Australia. A New Beginning, Eradicating Poverty in Our World, at the National Press Club in Canberra today.

Acknowledging some of the Budget's positive measures, such as better targetted family tax packages, Bishop Manning said

the fundamental moral measure of the Budget was how it had effected the poor.

"It is clear that the unemployed, indigenous people, poor families, the aged, students, the sick and new migrants will suffer because of the Budget cuts," he said.

"They have to bear a disproportionate amount of the pain of this budget."

Bishop Manning criticised the Budget on a number of fronts, saying unemployment was the greatest cause of poverty in Australia and questioning the Federal Government's approach to solving the problem.

"No government can disagree that the most urgent priority of economic policy must be to create jobs with adequate pay and decent working conditions. It is the present government's means to achieving this goal that is questionable," he said.

The Bishop also said the unemployed had effectively been abandoned to the forces of the free market, with no specific targets for reducing unemployment and no replacements for the cuts in labour market programs. "The government is retreating from the fight against poverty," Bishop Manning said.

The document released by the bishops makes a number of recommendations for what it describes as a new beginning in the struggle against poverty, and calls for the widespread adoption of the 'preferential option for the poor' as the guiding principle to action on poverty.

Cardinal Edward Clancy of Sydney in the foreword to the document said it had been offered as a contribution to the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty.

Describing poverty as a structural problem, Cardinal Clancy said the central message of the document was that the post-war struggle against poverty was still continuing and required a total response from all sectors of society.

"We propose that poverty can be eradicated only if governments, public institutions, non-government organisations and each of us as individuals adopt a new beginning based on that preferential option for the poor people which Christ demonstrated through his actions," the cardinal wrote.

Reliance by governments on market forces on their own to provide a just dis-

tribution of economic profit, prosperity and power could not determine the common economic good of nations, he wrote.

Other recommendations included a call to Catholic organisations to develop strategies for implementing the 'preferential option for the poor' in their own contexts and for Catholic social agencies to develop their capacity for policy analysis.

Catholics were urged to participate in courses and programs designed to educate about poverty's causes and take appropriate actions such as purchasing goods from Third World sources.

The document also calls on the government to increase the level of Australia's aid to poorer countries to match the internationally agreed level of 0.7 per cent of GNP and to devote 20 per cent of the overseas aid budget to the eradication of poverty.

Domestically, the statement calls on State and Federal governments to devise clear poverty eradication strategies with an explicit timeline attached to them and to address what it describes as "the national disaster" of unemployment and long term unemployment.

Perth charismatics rally High Court appeal bid to praise the Lord

Charismatics pray last Sunday at WA's Catholic Charismatic Renewal rally at St Kieran's Church in Osborne Park. Approximately 200 people from Perth prayer groups met for the first rally of the movement in several years. A highlight of the rally was the visit of the Australian representative on the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Committee in Rome, Alan Panozza, from Melbourne. He was on his first official visit to the WA prayer groups.

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The Australian Catholic Australian Catholic Health Care viding full opportunity for aborHealth Care Association and the Association, which represents tions or abortion referrals and Australian Catholic Bishops' Catholic hospitals and hostels consequently sued.

Conference this week sought to across the nation, Mr Francis SulMr Sullivan also said there Intervene as 'friends of the livan, said the ACHCA was seek- could be significant implications court' in a High Court appeal ing involvement in the case for State and Federal health care case which could possibly see together with the Catholic bish- budgets.

Catholic doctors and hospitals ops because of the possible impliHe said that with Catholic hosliable to be sued for failing to cations of the Court's decision. pitals comprising somewhere "We're seeking to intervene provide opportunities to between 10 and 13 per cent of the because the implications of this women for abortion.

Australian health care system the The two bodies have sought to ruling, if the appeal is dismissed, implications for Federal and intervene as the decision may we're advised that Catholic hos- State-funded hospitals would be directly impact on the operation pitals, particularly, will have to "huge" if the hospitals were of Catholic hospitals. Catholic demonstrate that they are not placed in a situation where they teaching demands that Catholic liable for not providing the full could no longer operate. health care institutions have noth- opportunity for termination [of The term 'friend of the court' ing to do with abortion services pregnancies)" he said. or referrals for them He said the possibility of hospi- meant that a party was effectively saying to the court it had a parDepending on the decision of tals and doctors being sued was a the court, Catholic hospitals could clear possibility that the Associa- ticular view relevant to the case which no-one else would be be forced to close down materni- tion was worrying about. putting, he said. ty facilities serving pregnant "It's certainly one of the probHe said if the court did not grant women rather than provide abor- lems that we're worrying about. tion services and referrals.

That sort of clarity has to be leave to to intervene in the case The case being heard is an sought after the decision's made. there would not be an implication appeal by Sydney medical clinic, That's why we've decided to inter- it was in favour of abortion.

Superclinics, against a full bench vene at this point," he said.

"All it means from our perspecdecision of the New South Wales He said the association was tive is that the Court does not Supreme Court in September aware the High Court had to keep believe that it needs to hear our 1995 which found that a doctor in mind many different factors particular point of view separatecould be held liable for 'wrongful when making its judgement but ly to the other submissions [if that birth' through failing to diagnose the association was concerned happens)," he said. a pregnancy in time for the moth- that if the appeal was dismissed, - Peter Rosengren er to have an abortion.

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The Legion of Mary years ahead of Vatican II n the history of the Church, St Vincent de Paul Society in his When we read the Decree on success. Obvious is the devotion lay people have made many native Dublin. the Apostolate of the Laity of the to Mary, Mother of God, and devooutstanding contributions.

The inspiration to found the Second Vatican Council, we tion to the Rosary which is recitSome of the best known organ- Legion of Mary came from his realise that the Legion of Mary ed at every meeting and indeed isations owe their inspiration to involvement with the Society of St was years ahead of its time. every day by active and ancillary ordinary Catholic men and Vincent de Paul.

"The immediate aim of the col- members. women who saw some particular The first meeting took place on laboration of the laity in the aposEssential to its Apostolate, and need and worked to provide for 7 September 1921 and so we are tolate is the evangelisation and indeed to every form of the aposthat need. now observing the 75th anniver- sanctification of men and women tolate, is a sincere love of others.

Two of the many such organisa- sary of that remarkable event. and the formation of a Christian We must walk in love "as Christ tions featuire strongly in the life of Ills remarkable because it has conscience among them so that has loved us". the Archdiocese. survived and indeed flourished they can infuse the spirit of the So there is love of Mary, love of The St Vincent de Paul Society for all that time.

Gospel into various cominunities the Rosary, love of others, all was founded by a university stuIlls also remarkable because it and department of life". inspired by our love of God Himdent and later university profes- has spread to so many countries This is what legionaries have self. sor, Frederich Ozanam who will in every part of the world. always done everywhere and this A big task you might say. But is be beatified next year.

It was in China before the Com- is what they continue to try to do. it? Are not these the very essences This society is not only dedicat- munists, and was in Moscow It is very difficult if not impossi- of our Catholic Faith? ed to the practice of charity to the before the fall of communism. ble to measure the success of a There is nothing very new in this neighbour but in so doing is a Most of all it is remarkable spiritual organisation but suc- organisation. reminder to all followers of Christ because of the objective enunci- cessful the Legion of Mary cerAs the St Vincent de Paul Socithat we have a special responsi- ated by its handbook which is "the tainly has been. ety spurs us on to serve the needy, bility to come to the help of oth- glory of God through the sanctifiEven for those who are not so the Legion of Mary spurs us on ers. cation of the members" and members this should be a stimu- to serve those who need our help It is of interest that Frank Duff "active co-operation in advancing lus to look at the Legion and to to come to the faith and to live it. was a very active member of the the reign of Christ". discover some of the secrets of its There is one last note of interest

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Jim Petrie, Rector of the RedempHe noted the second report contained comment toris Mater diocesan missionary on consultation with Churches, "yet neither the seminary, Fr Michael Moore SM, Roman Catholic Archbishop Barry Hickey, Angliand Vice Rector Fr Eric Skruzny with can Archbishop Peter Carnley, Uniting Church many seminarians in attendance.

Moderator Lillian Hadley, nor the Heads of Churches have been approached or consulted by PCC or its agents on this matter," he said.

Some individual Churches in the central business district (CBD) had indicated conversations of a most preliminary manner, said Reverend HartGYOR, Hungary (CNS) - Pope John went in July 1992. The procedure ley, "but it needs to be emphasised that an Paul II suffers from a recurring was performed to remove a large approach to individual clergy or Churches, does intestinal ailment that may require benign tumour. not constitute a discussion with the mainstream further treatment, which could An adhesion is the abnormal mergChurches. range from simple observation to ing of tissues that are not usually Mr Hunt was unavailable for comment to The minor surgery, said a Vatican joined. Ills most likely to occur at Record. spokesman. the site of an inflammation.

The spokesman, Joaquin NavarroNavarro-Valls, who is not Pope Valls, said the exact nature of the ill- John Paul's physician but is a medness, which last struck in mid- ical doctor by training and is usualSt Kieran August, was unknown. ly well-informed about the state of Primary School He called it a digestive infection, his health, said the ailment could 1 Morgans St, explaining that the symptoms return. "{hart Hill of such an infection are fever and If that happens, he added, an examPhone 444 9744 nausea, and the Pope had experi- ination may be done either via a enced both. tube threaded through the Pope's Navarro-Valls said doctors had not digestive tract, or with minor determined whether the cause was exploratory surgery a virus or a bacterium. The intestiNavarro-Valls discussed papal nal troubles have dogged the Pope health during a news conference at since December, and Navarro-Valls the end of the Pope's September 64 said they could return.

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25 years of service Government sex and priesthood education material dumped

By Peter Rosengren

The Director of the Catholic education Office of Western Australia , Therese Temby, has written to all principals of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Perth directing them to withdraw any unsuitable materials on sex education from use in classrooms.

"Although in the past it has been indicated that Catholic schools/teachers are not to use the parts of the syllabus that are in conflict with Church teaching, these parts were not specifically identified," she told the principals at the beginning of August.

Mrs Temby's letter to principals asked them to cease use of parts of the Health and Physical Education K-10 syllabus issued by the Ministry of Education in the early IOM's and which has been used in Catholic schools with students from Years 5 to 10.

A separate CEO directive carries a long list of the health education syllabus sections which are to be withdrawn from use in schools.

Archbishop Barry Hickey said this week that a committee, numbering parent representatives among its members, has been set up within the CEO to assemble appropriate guidelines for Catholic schools in the use of sex education materials.

The decision to set up the Committee follows a request from Archbishop Hickey to the CEO that all materials used by Catholic schools in sex education be consistent with the clear directives contained in two Vatican documents - Educational Guidance in Human Love. released in 1984, and The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality released earlier this year.

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week schools were meant to com- able. "The sections on Communiplement rather than replace par- ty and Environmental health. ents in the matter of sex Physical health and Social Secueducation. rity issues are valuable texts," he The 1996 [Vatican] document said. called on parents to remember Speaking to The Record from their special role and their oblig- Broome, where she was visiting ation to form their children in the schools, Mrs Temby said memunderstanding of human sexuali- bership of the new committee had ty. Schools could complement the not yet been finalised but that it role of parents but not take it would be chaired by a member of over," Archbishop Hickey said. the CEO's religious education and He said sections of the syllabus development committee. were found to be unsuitable The committee would be made because they did not reflect up of primary and secondary Catholic teaching and values. school principals, parents and "Some of it, especially the treat- employees of the CEO, she said, ment of contraception, does not adding that it was hoped a priest conform with Catholic moral and a psychologist would also teaching. Other sections offer become members. information or encourage class However she was unaware of activities that many parents find objections sent to the Archbishop offensive," he said. from parents regarding the mateThe archbishop also said some rials withdrawn from use in of the material contained in the Catholic schools, she said. syllabus was too sensitive and "We have always indicated to explicit for mixed classes. schools that they were not to use He said the unsuitable segments the parts of the syllabus that were had already been identified and in conflict with Catholic teaching their withdrawal from use fol- and values, and that has always lowed "the objections of many been the position," Mrs Temby parents who rightly claim that sex said. She pointed out that with instruction of their children is recent curriculum developments their prerogative, and that they in Western Australia, as well as should have a say in what is pre- the release of the Vatican docusented in Catholic schools." ment on sexuality earlier this When the CEO committee has year, it had been an appropriate finished drawing up the new time to assist teachers in indicatguidelines they will be forwarded ing which sections were not in to Archbishop Hickey for appr- keeping with Catholic teaching oval and become mandatory for and values. all Catholic schools.

She did not believe schools had Archbishop Hickey said efforts been using the materials which were being made to encourage had been withdrawn. parents to accept a greater role in "We have always said schools giving their children a proper aren't to use [those parts of the understanding of human sexuali- syllabus] and I do believe schools ty, and to provide them with suit- have been following that direcable materials. However, he tive. What we've done, given the added that not all of the Health current developments, is listed Education syllabus was unsuit- them for teachers." she said.

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The haven of the family unit For Family Sunday held on 1 September. Year 12 students from Corpus Christi College in Batenian put pen to paper to record their thoughts on the topic of families in the Churcii.

Here are two of their essa.t:,

By Katrina Wall and Katherine Sampson

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espite the great social changes of the 90's the 'family' remains the one constant.

However, societal changes are having an impact on the family unit in making necessary a change in the nature of family The family of today involves, above all. a 'looser' model.

Gone are the days of the tight-knit nuclear family and its great extensions.

Today's family is a far more casual unit with fewer restraints and obligations, but greater freedom for the individual.

Amidst the growing capitalising of society, it has become necessary for parents to be more career oriented, this distracting attention from the medial tasks often related to 'family bonding..

Money is the prerogative today. not read- Despite the great historical and societal changes, families remain the one constant. ing bedtime stories to children too young important.

In providing a moral basis for sis on the family. Most families today have to understand them!

This 'looser' family model is however, not the individuals which make up the family one or more parents often working so that then the modern day family will invariably family members are in less contact with a negative change. benefit from this influence. each other - the family has become less The 'closeness' still exists even though It is these individuals of the Church com- secure and has declined in its role as a the 'structure' is, at times, greatly lacking.

It is an acceptance of the differences of munity which make up for the greater place of comfort.

A family should be a very close group of individual members of the family which union - the more universal 'family'.

As long as Christianity exists, this family people who live with each other with no now give it strength. judgements and the family a place where Over time it has gradually been realised. ‘vill continue to people do not have to "wear masks". that the restrictive traditions and conforBy Chris Farrell, Regan McClure, Dom mity of the family of old create only an illuInstead they can be themselves in the Reay, Neil Denies and Simon Garces sion of unity. knowledge that they will not be judged or So what role does the family play in the n the 1990's families are changing as threatened, but instead loved and care for.

Church community?

At the present time the amount of family society is changing. There is less and Possibly it is the guidance of the individless influence on the family unit, where break-ups is increasing, with more single ual members of the families which is instead we should be placing more empha- parents being found and the divorce rate

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BROOKLYN, New York (CNS) Four young people who started a Seattle-to-Brooklyn Bike for Life trip on July 4 arrived on schedule at their home parish of St Stanislaus Kostka on August 29.

Shortly before 6 pm. as planned. they and other bicyclists accompanying them for the last miles of their journey reached the Church, which sits at an intersection marked on one corner as Pope John Paul II Square and on another as Walesa Solidarity Square.

The Church is in the Polish-American community of Greenpoint, and parishioners were standing ready to welcome the young people and replenish their energies with Polish sausages and stuffed cabbage.

Frank Carbone, 28. son of an Italian father and Polish mother, heads the St Stan's Athletic League and initiated the idea of a coast-to-coast bike ride as part of the parish centennial.

When one of the league members he enlisted, Anthony Macapugay. a Filipino, asked for time off from his job with the Expectant Mother Care Pregnancy Centres, its director, Christopher Slattery, proposed turning the event into a fund-raiser for the pro-life cause.

Interviewed at the reception. Slattery said enough had been raised from donations, sale of T-shirts and other sources to pay all expenses of the bicyclists and have several thou-

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alarming. Perhaps the reason these fam; lies dissolve is because of a lack of love an concern which must be evident for a fan-i ily to remain intact.

With this love and concern for other faniily members the family can be a haven. ti place where we can really be safe.

The Church places great importance on the family. because families have this strong feeling of love which Jesus taught as being very important.

Jesus said "Love one another just asIhave loved you" which should be an idea which all families adopt to ensure their survival as a haven.

The role of the family in the Church community is important and continues despite the lack of emphasis on the family.

The Church community is really a large family, as the Church is a place where people can come together and share common beliefs with a conunon love.

The Church community even serves to provide family love for those people who do not have families, or who feel that their families do not provide this necessary love.

The Church should be a place where no people judge others, which is the basis of Jesus' teachings. This is the same idea which should be found in families.

The Church community places great importance on the role as family, as they are the main place in which most people interact with other people and therefore practice their beliefs.

Families should change and more emphasis be placed upon them as a place of love and concern which is what Jesus teaches.

The Church community places importance on families for this reason, so that families should continue as a place where people can feel comfortable and safe and where they can find the love they need in the world today This love can only be found in the family.

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sand dollars left over. He said 20 percent of that would go to St Stan's Athletic League and the rest to Expectant Mother Care to aid young women with problem pregnancies who want to avoid abortion.

In addition to Carbone and Macepugay, the bicyclists included two 15year-olds, Kim-Marie Dziegielewski and Wojtek Branach.

Kim-Marie's father. Herman Dziegielewslci, accompanied them in a van that was used to haul their luggage, carry them off the route to places where they found overnight accommodations and provide other assistance.

The group flew to Seattle on July 2, picked up the van, lent to them free of charge, and left from Seattle on July 4.

Taking occasional days for rest, they pedalled some 3,500 miles, or an average of a little over 75 miles for each of 46 travelling days.

Slattery got Father John Bonnici, director of the Family Life office of the Archdiocese of New York, to write to his counterparts in the dioceses the bicyclists would cross, and to ask for help in finding places to stay.

They reported a generous response across the country. getting beds in homes or Church facilities some nights and at other times a place to roll out their sleeping bags on the floor.

Along the way they attended Masses and prayer services, and priests would bless them on their way, and

sometimes take collections for their cause.

Carbone said the bicyclists were grateful for priests such as Father Richard Miller. pastor of St Agnes Church in Toledo, Ohio. where they were expected for a 7 pm service on the feast of the Assumption, rode in five minutes late and were immediately called up to the front for a warm welcome.

People they met along the way sometimes rode with them for a few miles.

And other people from their parish and elsewhere in New York sometimes went out to accompany them for part of the trip.

The most difficult part of the Bike for Life came the day they rode through Yellowstone Park, Carbone said.

Unaccustomed to high altitudes, they were on a route that took them into 8,000-foot passes and three times across the Continental Divide in one day, he said.

"We were hit by a two-hour thunderstorm, and it was chilly and cold," he said,.

Night fell before they reached their destination, and they had to ride the rest of the way in the van, he said.

But the next morning the teen-agers insisted on going back and starting where they left off.

"That was the turning point," Carbone said.

"From then on,Iknew they could do It.,,

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BALTIMORE (CNS) - A pilot program of Catholic Relief Services, the US Catholic bishops' aid agency. to teach Catholic youth about world hunger and poverty is being expanded nationwide.

Food Fast, used in nine American states last year, teaches youth about world hunger, its causes and the work of CRS as well as about moral responsibility and how to act on it.

"When young people gather together to discuss global issues relevant to their local communities, they learn that they can do something to live In solidarity with their brothers and sisters in other countries." said Louise Wilmot, deputy executive director of CRS. in a statement about the expansion.

The program designed for Catholic high schools, parish religious education and youth groups encourages youths to get involved in social action.

It revolves around a 24-hour fast, usually conducted at a school gym or parish centre.

Students participate in discussion groups and sessions on critical thinking, communication, and letter-writing on global issues.

New Carmel association

By Peter Rosengren Sisters from two Western Australian Discalced Carmelite monasteries were present in Sydney recently at the first assembly of a new Carmelite association made up of Carmels throughout ustralia. New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

The new body, known as the Our Lady of the Southern Cross Association of Monasteries of Disc ,i1ced Carmelite Nuns, saw seven m onasteries elect to join with four ihers deciding not to become illembers.

The new body's member monasteries are the Carmels of Auckland. New Zealand: Bomana in Papua New Guinea: Glen Osmond in South Australia: the Gelorup and Nedlands monasteries from Western Australia: Ormiston in Queensland: and Varroville in New South Wales.

The Association's statutes were approved by the Holy See in March after several months of

consideration and voting by the monasteries during 1995.

The inaugural Assembly of the Association was held at the Mount Carmel retreat centre at Varroville in NSW in July and saw 14 Sisters representing member monasteries attend to discuss issues ranging from care of the Association's elderly members to ways of celebrating the forthcoming centenary of the death of St Therese of Lisieux in 1997.

A council of four members, responsible for carrying on the business of the Association over the next three years. was also elected.

The first president of the Association is Sr Katherine from the Carmelite monastery of Ormiston in Queensland.

Sister Jennifer from Varmville in New South Wales, Sr Eliane from Papua New Guinea and Sr Marie Therese from Nedlands in WA were also elected as councillors.

Sister Marie Therese said the decision to form the new organisation had in part been given

Sisters from Carmels around Australia gathered at Varroville in NSW. impetus by the visit to Australia of the Father General of the Discalced Carmelite Order. Fr Camilo Maccise in February 1995.

But fostering unity among monasteries had been a wish of popes going back to Pope Pius XII and had been mooted in the region for many years, she said.

She said among the major topics discussed at the Association's

Anti-euthansia stand backed The WA branch of the Society of St Vincent de Paul has vowed its support for Australia's Catholic bishops in their fight to ensure euthanasia does not gain a foothold in Australia.

The support came as Melbourne's new Catholic Archbishop, Archbishop George Pell, said he saw the tabling of the private members' Euthanasia Laws Bill in Federal Parliament this week

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as an opportunity for MPs to focus upon the crucial issue of whether law in some circumstances should permit one citizen to intentionally kill another, or assist another to suicide.

The WA president of the Society of St Vincent de Paul's stand on euthanasia. John Meahan, said members at the SVDP National Council meeting in Melbourne on August 24 and 25. "resolved to totally support our Catholic Bishops in their opposition to voluntary euthanasia."

Archbishop Pell emphasised the Bill challenged every member of Parliament to ask why they were in politics.

All too seldom were MPs freed from party discipline to vote, Archbishop Pell noted. not as populists or pragmatists, but unambiguously according to their own conscience."

He said he viewed such occasions "as opportunities to give fullest expression to the vocation of serving as law-makers."

Archbishop Pell affirmed that the dying need specialised love and care, a sense of security and belonging, of being valued and cherished as a member of the human family."

The Northern Territory Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 contradicted the fundamental premise of a just society, Archbishop Pell said, which was "the recognition of the inherent worth, dignity, and rights of every person."

Warning that The Northern Territory law establishes a category of people who may be intentionally killed," Archbishop Pell said the Australian people "have a right to expect their Parliamentarians to overturn that pernicious law"

first Assembly were formation and ways of communicating the contemplative and enclosed Carmelite life to the younger generation.

It had been plain at the Assembly that Carmelites loved their life and had a deep desire to bridge the gap to young people today who had little experience of it. she said.

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The Bishop of Broome, Bishop Christopher Saunders, this week convened a meeting of Catholic Church Leaders from across the Kimberley with Broome people affected by the policy of separating Aboriginal children from their families.

The gathering followed the Bishop's July submission to the Human Rights and Equal Commission Opportunity inquiry.

The meeting, held at St Mary's College, Broome. saw priests, educators and representatives of the Congregations involved in staffing missions in the past attend.

Bishop Saunders also invited members of the Broome community to be involved in the meetings.

Mr Pat Dodson. Chairperson of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, was a keynote speaker at the meeting.

POPE'S GOLDEN JUBILEE

SEND A CARD AND HELP TRAIN OUR FUTURE PRIESTS Pope John Paul 11 will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his ordination as a priest on the first of November. 1996.

The Holy Father's Golden Jubilee will attract world—wide attention. The intera. .."61' national Catholic aid organisation Aid to the Church in Need was established by the Holy See. It would like to highlight this event by asking Catholics in Australia to show their support for the Pope by sending him a good wishes card. The card is available from Aid to the Church in Need free of charge.

The Golden jubilee of the Holy Father reminds us of the great importance of the priesthooc1 within our Church. Aid to the Church in Need currently supports the training of 18.000 seminarians each year in Eastern Europe, Latin America. Africa and Asia. For the majority of Catholics in these parts of the world there are never enough priests. In many cases the shortage is caused not by a lack of vocations but by lack of money and facilities needed to sustain students over the long years of formation. Many fine candidates must be turned away. It is vital to the future of the Church that not one single vocation to the priesthood goes astray due to lack of finance. What better gift could we give the Holy Father for his Golden Jubilee than to support the training of our future priests.

About the Card The card has been designed by Hein Walter, a contemporary religious artist. The artist's interpretation is as follows. Our Church encompasses a great variety ot ethnic cultures, scattered all over the world. from East to West The colour vostcard measures 15(m and from North to South. As Catholics we are all unified in Christ. in the Pope (the outstretched arms) and the symbols of this unification are the Cross and the Eucharist. The Latin words -Servus servourn Der mean: Servant of the servants of God. The back of the postcard contains the address of the Holy Father in Rome and a space for your good wishes.

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All will turn on our own forgiveness When you Peter Dwan continues meditations on the readings for Sunday Mass.

This week, the readings for the 24th Sunday of Year A

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oday's readings remind show that more is expected us that we must be for- from those who would serve giving people, because God. It says: "If man nurses anger if we don't forgive others the wrongs they do us, we cannot against another, can he then expect God to forgive us our demand compassion from the Lord? sins.

"Showing no pity for a man This is something which Our like himself, can he then plead Lord insisted on because it for his own sins? goes against human nature.

"Mere creature of flesh, he In the first reading (Ecclesi- cherishes resentment, who asticus 27:30-28:7), we read: will forgive him his sins?"

"Resentment and anger, these The second reading (Romans are foul things, and both are 14:7-9), contains the words: found with the sinner."

"The life and death of each of Resentment and anger are us has its influence on others."

While many people have mentioned, because they are two major obstacles to for- influenced my life, reading today's readings, my thoughts giveness. immediately turned to that If we are angry with people, and resent how they have great hero of forgiveness, the treated us, we shall be unwill- Australian Marist, the late Fr Lionel Marsden. ing to forgive them.

A chaplain in the terrible But these are natural reac- Changi prison during World tions, and God expects us to War II, Fr Marsden experishow a supernatural outlook. enced at first hand the cruelty The first reading goes on to of the Japanese, conduct

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Our Lord told the parable of the king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants.

When it came to a man who owed ten thousand talents (a large amount, symbolising the great debt we owe to God,) the master ordered him thrown into prison.

However, when the servant pleaded for mercy, the master forgave him the debt.

Going out, the servant met a fellow servant, who owed him the comparatively small sum of one hundred denarii, and when the latter was unable to pay, he had his fellow servant thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.

When the master learnt what the servant had done, he was angry, and handed the servant over to the torturers till he could pay the debt.

Of course, our greatest motivation for forgiving others comes from Our Lord's first words on the Cross: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."

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which he considered atrocious. After the war, Fr Marsden returned to Australia, and said that there was only one way to return good for evil to such terrible people as the Japanese, and that was to bring them to Christ.

Fr Marsden knew no rest until he had persuaded his Marist Superiors that Australian Marists should undertake missionary work in Japan.

Fr Marsden was appointed Superior of the first Australian Marists to undertake missionary work in Japan.

Anyone who wishes to show Christlike forgiveness to the Japanese should remember them in their prayers.

Donations to help Australian Marists working in Japan may be sent to the Marist Mission Centre, 3 Mary Street, Hunters Hill 2010, New South Wales.

Today's gospel passage (Matthew 18:21-35) gives Our Lord's teaching on forgiveness.

St Peter once asked Our Lord: "Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?"

Jesus answered:

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M

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

The Pope's comments, made at the Vatican on July 3, were part of a series of talks he has been giving about the life of Mary during general audiences and at other venues in recent months.

He said Mary's reaction to the angel Gabriel's announcement was worth comparing to the reaction of St Elizabeth's husband, Zachariah, told by an angel that his wife would bear a child in old age.

St Elizabeth was Mary's cousin, and she gave birth to St John the Baptist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Four weeks later, on July 31, Pope John Paul said Mary's motherhood shows God's love for humanity because through Jesus' life and death, all can be saved.

"The virginal conception (of Jesus) allows for the extension of.divine paternity: all men and women are made adopted children of God in the one who is the Son of the Virgin and of the Father," the Pope said at his weekly general audience.

The Pope told thousands of visitors and pilgrims at the audience that Mary's virginity was an essential part of God's plan to send his Son to save the world.

By excluding the possibility that Jesus

would have a human father, God ensured that Jesus could be recognised as truly the Son of God even as he was born into the world as a human being, the Pope said.

Pope John Paul also told the pilgrims that although the Gospels speak of Jesus' conception by the power of the Holy Spirit. the Holy Spirit was not Jesus' father.

The Holy Spirit is the person of the Trinity "who brings divine riches to men and women and allows them to participate in the life of God," the Pope said.

"He, who in the trinitarian mystery is the unity of the Father and the Son, acts in the virginal conception of Jesus to unite humanity to God. 99

A statue of Ow Lady outside St Patrick's Basilica in Fremantle

don't have problems, start worrying

With Penny Ashcroft

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e are living in a time that is constantly presenting us with questions, challenges, doubts, disillusionment and rapid change.

It could be easy to look at current world events or experience everyday life, and throw up our hands in despair and think "why bother?".

How we respond to the ups and downs of every day life is a real challenge for each of us.

Most of us want to become more effective in various areas of our life, our personal life - marriage and family and our social activity, our profession or job.

How then do we overcome the barriers we often find ourselves facing?

The problems that occur in one or all of these areas can seem insurmountable at times.

Often on my way to work in the mornings, to combat the frustration and boredom that can come with sitting in the traffic on the freeway, I will play a tape.

Some are music tapes, others are tapes presented by high achievers - athletes, authors or educators.

One that had a great impact on me was a lecture given by the late Norman Vincent Peale.

He was the author of several books. but possibly the most well known is The Power of Positive Thinking.

Peale believes that positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of facing problems.

Rather than thinking of a problem as a negative that ought to be removed as soon as possible, he felt that problems were a sign of life.

Following is one of the stories he told to illustrate the point.

"One day I was walking down the street, when I saw my friend George approaching. It was evident from his downtrodden look that he wasn't overflowing with the ecstasy and exuberance of human existence, which is a high-class way of saying George was dragging bottom.

Naturally, I asked him. "How are you George?"

"While that was meant to be a general inquiry, George took me seriously and for 15 minutes enlightened me on how bad he felt.

"The more he talked the worse I felt.

Finally I said to him, "Well George,I 'm sorry to see you in such a depressed state. How did you get this way?" That really set him off.

"It's my problems," he said. "Problems, nothing but problems. I'm fed up with problems. If you could get rid of my problems I would contribute $5,000 to your favourite charity . . . ."

"I said: Yesterday I went to a place where thousands of people reside. As far asIcould determine, not one of them has any problems. would you like to go there?"

"When can we leave? That sounds like my kind of place", answered George. "If that's the case George, I'll be happy to take you to Woodlawn Cemetery tomorrow, because the only people I know who don't have any problems are dead."

That story really puts life in perspective.

Peale followed it by saying that if we thought we didn't have any problems the best thing we could do was to ask God why He didn't trust us any more and to send us some.

I guess the moral of the story is that at least we know we are alive if we have problems, but please, please, God, not too many!

Celibacy for all priests will increase numbers

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wo weeks ago Catholics and the Catholic Church featured on national Sunday night television.

The Nine Network's 60 Minutes served up a re-hash of their 1993 program highlighting the sexual and physical abuse of boys at some Christian Brothers institutions over 50 years.

With only one new allegation of abuse to add to the litany of evil one wonders why old ground had to be gone over.

Perhaps it was to show viewers who had also seen the ABC's recent Four Corner's treatment of child abuse cases against Catholic clergy and religious orders that 80 Minutes was up to speed on the issue - what is known in the media trade as a "matcher."

The motivation is that irrespective of the merit of an issue you follow the herd and Produce and publish your own version of an event or issue to show that you are not missing anything, even at the risk of boring your audience.

Even the terrible child of media analysis, Stuart Littlemore, attacked 60 Minutes for making the Congregational Leader of the Christian Brothers in WA and SA. Br Tony Shanahan, look unnecessarily uneasy by including footage that had Br Shanahan reaching for a glass of water while under hostile questioning, when Br Shanahan's desire for a drink had nothing to do with the matter at hand.

The second event on Sunday 1 September was ABC television's Compass program's investigation of the parlous state of vocations to the diocesan clergy in many Australian dioceses.

This undeniable drop-off in vocations in the Western world, which is not the case in Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, is not only a cause of concern for bishops and priests but also to lay Catholics receive the sacraments priests offer and administer.

What was extraordinary about the Compass program was that almost certainly for the first time in Australian Catholic Church history, Catholics saw two Australian Catholic bishops taking two different approaches publicly on a fundamental matter of Church discipline.

Bishop William Brennan of Wagga and Auxiliary Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn, Bishop Patrick Power, were interviewed separately - on the issue of the shortage of priests and how to solve it.

Bishop Power, as he has argued in the media before, along with Bishop Brian Heenan of Rockhampton, believes all Catholic priests should be allowed to marry as a way of increasing the number

of priests. Not only would more men approach the priesthood, he argues, priests who have left the active priesthood and married could return to help.

Yet Pope John Paul has said the policy of a celibate priesthood is to remain and has explained its beauty and its spiritual benefits for both priests and their flocks.

Bishop Power's views were juxtaposed with the witness of Bishop Brennan in Wagga who has established a seminary in his diocese that follows all that the Magisterium has to say about the formation of priests according to the mind of Pope John Paul II as distinct from an approach based on personal judgement and preference.

Bishop Power did not explain, or seem to be aware, that a celibate clergy is a fruit of the development of theology and discipline, even though he would believe in the development of doctrine and discipline rather than a return to past practices.

The more completely a priest gives himself to Jesus, which he can do better as a celibate, the more he reflects Jesus in his work. This is the way Pope John Paul would teach. The dignity of the ministerial priesthood is best enhanced if all priests are celibate and not just some.

At the same time as Bishop Power and others search for a solution outside the Church's best practice, built up on the insights from the Holy Spirit for the development of Church discipline, Bishop Brennan's seminary is operating at full capacity when many others in Australia and the Western world are sorely under-utilised. if not in danger of closing.

So how is the layman or laywoman to decide who they should follow when they see two bishops taking fundamentally different paths in discussing the shortage of priests?

Bishop Brennan has the fruit of an increasing number of seminarians as a result of eagerly enacting the teaching and heritage of the Church. On the other hand, one future fruit of choosing the lesser good of optional celibacy when the higher good of a celibate priesthood is at hand is that it will encourage in the public mind the question of women priests.

It was not surprising that the Compass program ended its treatment of solving the falling numbers of priests with coverage of the attempt of some Catholic women, with their male supporters, to have women ordained.

• 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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Differences aid to teaching

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n response to Father Smith's letter 'A Critical Question' (The Record. 29 August), I have not yet met Andrew McGowan, but any fair-minded person ought, until she discovers otherwise, to assume that he will do at least two things.

First, teach what is common ground to Catholics and Anglicans, that is, teach Catholic theology to the extent of that common ground.

Secondly, where he departs from Catholicism, he will make that clear.

To make such differences clear in an honest, open, and intelligent environment can only have the benefit of promoting the dialectic essential to a university and the development of critical minds.

The idea of an Anglican teaching theology in a Catholic seminary really would be unsupportable.

But Notre Dame is not a seminary. It is a Catholic University and, as Cardinal Newman insisted in The Idea of a University, Catholic students will always live In a wider community where they will encounter, and must be able to deal with, other than Catholics.

Dr Catherine Killerby University of Notre Dame Australia.

Father's life a lesson

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hen I was in early primary school I had a dreadful secret and it gave me awful nightmares.

Iused to dream that my father was burning in hell.

Ihad these dreams, not because my father was a dreadful man but because he was a member of the Church of England.

As I was being prepared for the sacraments an over-zealous nun, in her wisdom took it upon herself to tell me, that because my father was not a Catholic he would never see God. Now I am older I understand that my father was a man of faith, married to a woman he loved, and excluded, in law, from the faith development of his children.

I understand too that although he may have been excluded in law, he was very much present in person.

My father taught me many things about God, and faith and life.

He taught me about turning the other cheek to a Church that excluded him.

He taught me about supporting his wife

in her faith when the times were tough and his family was condemning and critical.

And it was my father who taught me about the ultimate victory of love when. after 43 years of marriage, he quietly, and privately, began instruction into the Catholic Church.

I believe my father became a Catholic, not because he had come to believe in the "True God" but because he sought to externalise what had always been - my mother and father shared a common faith, lived each day as a reflection of their individual histories and formation.

I sham these reflection as a way of highlighting my distress at the letter from Fr T Smith (The Record 29 August) regarding the appointment of Fr Andrew McGowan to the staff of Notre Dame Australia.

One of the first statements of Pope Paul VI on 18 August 1963 was to repeat the words of John XXIII "Come, let the barriers which separate us fall!"

Ills also worth noting that when John XXIII sought to include the Orthodox Churches as observers to the first session of the Second Vatican Council he sent an Anglican to convince them of his wish.

The Anglican's message to the Orthodox about the Catholics was a simple one: "They are in earnest".

Fr McGowan is an Anglican Priest, an academic of the highest order but above all a man of faith. His God like my father's God is loving, forgiving and able to withstand much. I am sure too, that like my father he has much to teach me, and in turn the other students at Notre Dame.

Welcome Andrew, and may the Spirit take us wherever it will.

Peta Wellstead Nedlands

Bemused by debate

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Leffers lo the St Thomas More's book Utopia uses layers of irony to present a nuanced assessment of an imaginary 'good' pagan culture.

To read it at face value is, at best. careless.

Like Fr Long. I also think that St Thomas More would enjoy having his feast day noted in the latest version of the antipodean Anglican prayer book.

However, his enjoyment is more likely to be based on the delicious irony of a church that can continue to deny the Petrine office while celebrating those who lost their heads defending it.

Of course, some Anglicans, and no doubt some Catholics today, would prefer to turn St Thomas More into a martyr for conscience (a la the play A Man for All Seasons) rather than a martyr for truth.

Other Anglicans will continue to ignore this (and every other saint's day) as sheer Popery.

Richard Egan Ferndale

the power to have the WA Statute of Limitations set aside so that the Brothers' victims could have their day in court.

I do understand that the WA Statute of Limitations is governed by State Parliament. but our legal advice, reaffirmed on 9 September. is that the case could have been heard in this State if the Christian Brothers had agreed to the Statute being set aside to enable the case to proceed.

Bruce Blyth Director, VOICES Editor: This particular correspondence is now closed.

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Why survey women?

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hy the Australian Bishops have to waste precious time on women's involvement in the Church (The Record, 29 August) seems impossible to understand.

I have never experienced any priority by men over the women in decision making In parishes - quite often it is the reverse.

There has always been loads of unfinished work waiting to be done by volunteers in our Churches - women or men.

If those ladies who are trying to tear us away from the true Church, founded by Christ Jesus 2000 years ago, were able to hear and answer these cries for help from the Church for our troubled brothers and sisters, they wouldn't have time to cause such a stir about "women in the Church" and bringing disloyalty to the Pope, nor would they find further interest in it.

Their hearts would be warmed and fully satisfied as Blessed Mary's was when she gave her total `Yes' to God. May God grant us the grace to follow in the gently humbling footsteps of His Blessed Mother, and also ours.

Florence Craze Cowaramup

s a former Anglican and present secretary of the Thomas More Centre, I was bemused by some of the comments generated by the appointment of Canon McGowan to the staff at Notre Dame University.

Fr Kevin Long argues as if St Thomas More would have endorsed the appointment and the "new ecumenical reality" it signifies, referring to certain passages about "religious tolerance and charity" in "his famed Utopia". rother Shanahan's reply to my letter This citation jarred asIhad just read that is unworthy of one of his high callthe US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had ing. I have no intention of entering claimed Catholic support for euthanasia into a weekly slanging match with him. likewise based on a passage from the I stand by every point I made in my letUtopia. (The same Court cited Judas Iscar- ter (The Record, 29 August).

But one glaring and indefensible distoriot as an example of Christian-approved tion made by the Brother is that he lacks suicide)

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n his column on 22 August, Paul Gray reminded us that Abraham Lincoln said that a house divided against itself cannot stand. Lincoln was using those words to justify war.

When Jesus told us the same thing, he was teaching us the importance of straightening out our motivation so that we are not divided against ourselves.

His teaching was concerned both with divisions in our conscious motivation and, even more importantly, with the need for prayer and meditation to being our conscious and subconscious motivation into harmony.

We were reminded of the importance of this message in the Gospel on 1 September when Jesus told Peter his ideas were wrong, that God's thinking is different from man's thinking.

This difference is highlighted many times in the New Testament as the conflict between the false self and the true self, the old self and the new self, flesh and spirit.

Jesus offered us the beatitudes (and much other teaching) to show us the way towards God's thinking.

In none of this is there any justification for war.

The difference between Lincoln's view and Christ's view is particularly significant since Mr Gray's article was about Church unity.

The difference is between those who are at least partly motivated by the desire to control others and those who follow Jesus In not controlling others.

Blessed (Oh, how happy) are the meek. . . . that is, those who do not desire to control others.

We don't need justification for war.

We need to be constantly reminded of the need to get our motivation right so that His prayer that where He is we may also be will be true on a daily basis.

Hugh Ryan Currambine

The Record, September 12 1996 Page 7

Features

Students the stars of Festival '96

Talent and spectacular colour were everywhere in this year's Performing Arts Festival for Catholic schools. The winner of the Zenith A ward for 1996 was John XXIII College, while the first award for country schools was awarded to Mandurah Catholic College.

Clockwise: (top, left) Students from Sacred Heart College, Sorrento, presented Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; Mandurah Catholic School's 'Go West'; (below) St Brigid's College's 'Toy Box'; (left) Christian Drama presented by students from St Simon Peter's special education unit; (left again) 'Australian - Gondwanaland' from students of Corpus Christi College.

Corpus Christi College's Senior concert band (above) swung into action in the concert bands category of the festival, while students from Our Lady's Assumption Catholic school in Diane& (left) presented their own interpretation of The Olympics.

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Features

Where the sound of silence is no longer a separating wall For decades being hearing impaired was a social stigma, to he oiercome mill- with great difficulty in filing a full and rewarding life- and being accepted - but not anymore.

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Corey and Samuel Achikian, with mother Angela - prospering in their school environment

By Colleen Mc Guinness-Howard

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orey and Samuel Achikian are beautiful seven year old twin boys in year one at St Luke's Catholic primary school in Woodvale who have a mild to moderate hearing impairment.

But with the use of hearing aids and listening to them talk, the casual observer would never know.

Bright, happy, with personality and good looks, they make quite a picture with their attractive mother Angela who also has the same degree of hearing impairment.

And once again, you'd never know from her speech and seeming hearing ability, that there was any degree of impairment at all.

However, while conceding it's an advantage in being better able to understand your own offspring with the same disability, Angela outlines a different educational upbringing to her own children, who were diagnosed while still babies.

At that point the process of hands-on education started with the boys right from their baby days.

But in Angela's case, she always felt she was considered retarded by outsiders, because her hearing disability was not picked up for a number of years.

So she tended to stay in the background as a shy, retiring child, being viewed with suspicion because the association between

hearing impairment and "being retarded," seemed synonymous from what she could glean from outside reaction.

Her delightful young sons in contrast however, are the opposite, with outgoing, strong characters, and certainly part of the school and peer scene.

Partially this is because they've had the benefit through early detection, of immediate assistance given by the Speech and Hearing Centre which supports families and their hearing impaired children, and are currently assisted by their support teacher at St Luke's.

This ensures that having an impairment doesn't disadvantage the children and also Inculcates a sense of being part of their own peer group.

Angela chose this Catholic school because in a government school, she states, "they may only see a support teacher once or twice a week instead of daily, and I also wanted them to have some spirituality."

There's not a thing to prevent her sons from going to university and achieving their maximum potential, she believes, and is delighted with their progress and the support given by St Luke's and the Speech and Hearing Centre.

As for the other class students, teacher Leanne Adamson believes having children with hearing impairments in a class is an asset "because it helps them grow in their understanding, compassion and empathy."

. "Iloyd Storey of Nollamara is a year seven student at St Luke's and is a remarkable young man.

Although not quite 13, Lloyd has a significant hearing loss, and combined with his hearing aid needs to lip read to an extent But if you're looking for a really 'gutsy young man' you need look no further than this admirable young person who's got real character.

While admitting there are difficulties associated with hearing impairment. Lloyd picks up the positives in life.

Asserting "hearing has nothing to do with study" he merely hums off his hearing aid to concentrate on his study in the greater silence.

Lloyd believes that if he works hard he will go "right to the top!" and intends to do so, but it's not a self-centred aim, because although not needing sign language for himself, he's been learning it so he can 'talk' to those who use it as their prime means of speaking with others.

Hard work has already paid off for Lloyd who's won two trophies from the Speech and Hearing Centre for working hard on his speech, and a tennis trophy.

Now young Lloyd despite his youth, knows exactly where he's going in life and while others are cogitating what they'll do for a career - Lloyd has his all mapped out.

He wants desperately to join the army not in a passive job, but a hands on situation at the cutting edge of defence.

But having been rejected by the army, he's not letting it go at that.

No sir! Lloyd's currently expecting a reply back from the government - having aired his grievances at the army's negative response - and hopes they'll offer more possibilities of joining.

If not, I'm pretty sure they won't have heard the last of this terrific young student.

Having heard his adamant statement: "I'll never give up! Never!" you realise you've met an inner fighting force that's all about tenacity, courage, direction, and commitment to a cause.

If confronted with the absolute fact that the army will never admit him in the field of endeavour he's seeking, he acknowledges if forced to concede defeat, he'll settle for being a chef.

Once again, talk's not cheap with Lloyd he already cooks breakfast, lunch and dinner about once a week for his family!

But there's another area of Lloyd's life

Lloyd Storey - tenacity, courage and direction.

that won me over completely...and that's his faith.

It's the sort of faith which if more prevalent, makes you think there'd be less strife everywhere - and Lloyd wouldn't feel the need `to go to war to rectify the wrongs'.

Raised a Catholic and preparing for Confirmation this year, Lloyd has been an altar boy for the last few years, and says that when he hears the word God and reads about Jesus, "He gives me strength."

In wonderful faith affirmation, Lloyd declares the Spirit will always be with him "and will remain with me wherever I go."

Emphatically adding - "I truly believe He will never leave me even when things get tough."

Asked if he wonders why he's been given a hearing impairment, Lloyd comes back instantly with the most superb response: "I believe God did it for one reason - because He doesn't want everybody to be the same."

School-centre links make education the best for hearing impaired

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t Luke's Catholic primary school in of education and general society. Mrs Joyce Woodvale has for a number of years Plumb works at St Luke's with four hearintegrated hearing impaired children ing impaired children according to their into its mainstream classes owing to its individual needs.

She describes the role of the support links with the Speech and Hearing Centre teacher as being a teacher, friend, counfor Deaf Children WA. There are two other Catholic primaries sellor, and advocate, and is emphatic that with similar 'units' within their schools - St children do much better with such support Jerome's, Munster, and Newman College, teachers "who are the bridge between the Floreat, with children often progressing child and the situation."

Qualifying hearing impairment, Mrs onto Servite College for secondary educaPlumb points out that it isn't just the speech tion.

The Centre, which works with babies and sounds that the hearing impaired people their families right through primary years, miss - "they miss out on language which If necessary provides teachers who work we assume people know" It's a language impairment, she defines, with hearing impaired children in these mainstream schools, on a one-to-one basis. and where a child has a severe hearing Up to six hearing impaired children may impairment, they have to continue to learn be enrolled in each primary school in dif- English, "because there is a difference ferent grades, supported by a teacher of the between speech and language" - (with the accent on certain words, shades of meandeaf.

This early recognition of a hearing loss ing, innuendoes and emphasis).

And she says that sometimes if they hear with children is critical in order to start working with the children, preferably from everything the class teacher says, the lanbabyhood, in order to maximise their guage itself may be beyond their underpotential integration into the hearing world standing.

Year One teacher Leanne Adamson with students at St Luke's - support teachers bridge gaps

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Features

Radical feminists are offering Canberra mother Rita Joseph attended the United Nations conference on population in Cairo in 1994, the UN conference on women in Beijing last year and the meeting of the World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations in Canberra earlier this year. In this edited version of a talk she gave to the recent Marian conference in Perth, she analysed the forces trying to influence Catholic Women today.

The Pope has taught that the of Resolution No 6 which called May the Lord preserve him and Fourth Conference on Women. I divide Catholic women continues Church is bound to "a choice on governments to counteract the give him life and make him saw that great rock battered by to enjoy considerable success.

They have deliberately fostered bound by the Lord Himself' and practice of killing girl foetuses. blessed upon the earth and deliv- waves of fury, as, shored up by the When I tried to point out that er him not up to the will of his immense courage and clarity of a spirit of rebellion in many called for an end to discussions enemies! the Holy Father's campaign for Catholic women - calling us to about priestly ordinations, saying this resolution should include a "the whole truth about women", battle with that most ancient of all that the Church simply has no call to end all abortions, male and he Holy Father has a great the Holy See did battle with what battle cries, Lucifer's non serviam authority to break with essential female,I was slow-clapped. many enemies. Not so Nowhere in the resolution was only describe as the forces -I will not serve. Lucifer, remem- tradition that belongs to the many personal enemies, I can any use of the words "aborthere faith. we deposit of is "the father of all lies" ber, of evil. perhaps, but a great many enePrecisely in order that there tion" and "foeticide" or any I do not use the phrase "forces know it on Jesus' own authority. mies of his office, of all that he of evil" lightly here. I can find no So the radical feminists' lies are could be no excuse for doubting acknowledgement that all aborstands for. other description for the power- of a particularly fine and effective or underestimating the authorita- tion is wrong, not just the killing He has spoken out fearlessly ful, well-organised, extremely vintage. Let's take a look at some tive status of the Pope's teaching of female foetuses. against the Culture of Death. He well-funded battalion of radical of them.

I tried to point out that this plays on the impossibility of women's hasn't pulled his punches in conThere's the lie about the male ordination, the Sacred Congrega- into the hands of the radical femgathered in Beijing feminists that demning all the most popular force onto all govern- priesthood. They have misrepre- tion subsequently explained that inist New York-based Women's kinds of immorality in "a widely and tried to women so much sented this as "discrimination the Pope's declaration is "a mat- Caucus, who were major authors ments and all de-Christianised culture". against women". They have infil- ter of full definitive assent, that is of the Beijing Conference docuHe's weighed in on the side of that is directly contrary to the trated the World Union of to say irrevocable, to a doctrine ments, whose official strategy Faith. tenets of our Catholic the poor. He has warned that document distributed to all heads Neither do I use the word fury Catholic Women's Organisations. taught infallibly by the Church". democracies are moving towards Two other resolutions showed of delegations present at Beijing At the recent international hath ightly.

I can tell you that hell l a totalitarianism in which a tyrant WUCWO Conference held in the disturbing extent to which this "emphasises that the wrong state "arrogates to itself the right no fury like a revolutionary army Involved is not abortion per se, thwartto dispose of the life of the weak- of radical feminists being but abortion for the purposes of See. victory by the Holy ed of total est and most defenceless memimiting the birth of girls. Feticide l Why, you may ask, why this fury bers, from the unborn child to the Is defined as the killing of a fetus. the the Holy Father and against elderly, in the name of a public Feticide should be deleted interest which", he points out, "is Holy See? because it does not address the it seems to me that it's the Well, really nothing but the interest of gender discrimination problem same murderous fury that drove one part." rather introduces anti-aborbut Abel, the same fury He is right to condemn a "super- Cain to attack language through the backtion ficial feminism which fears moth- that motivated Herodias to door". erhood". As more mothers demand St John the Baptist's head So Catholic women are being conscripted into the work force on a plate, the same sort of fury into viewing abortion as a duped suffer separation from their that possessed Henry VIII to exegender discrimination problem.

Thomas More.

It is the fury cute St babies, the Pope is right to alert The unfortunate fact was that us to the powerful cultural, eco- of the wicked in the presence of most of the good Catholic women nomic, and political currents goodness. at the WUCWO Conference there This is why these women are which are actively fostering "an understand the danger of not did idea of society excessively con- furious with the Holy Father. They feminist terminoloBeijing using want him to say that their evil is cerned with efficiency". understanding its without gy "What", he asks, "would society good. They want to force him to meaning and its ideological bagcontraabortion is good, say that truly gain - even at an economic gage. level - if a short-sighted labor pol- ception is good, adultery is good, Catholic women need to be is good, homosexual fornication icy were to prejudice the family's to this very real danger. alerted acts are good, divorce is compasendurance and functions?" need to understand the masThey "Above all", he says, "it is neces- sionate, IVF is compassionate, etc., sive pressure on the Holy Father sary to respect the right and duty etc. and the immense need he has for They have forced governments of woman as mother to carry out our prayers. her specific tasks in the family and judiciaries around the world There are huge problems loomwithout being forced by need to to say these are good. They have ing. A global noose is tightening forced almost the whole world to take on an additional job." around the Church's schools and and affirm that these evils believe The Holy Father warns of "a war hospitals. A crucial freedom-ofof the powerful against the weak are good. Why not the Holy conscience clause was deleted in .. .. A person who, because of ill- Father? the health chapter of the Beijing The radical feminist movement ness, handicap or, more simply, Document - the right to conscienhis mere existence, compromises can't understand this. They can't tious objection was summarily the well-being or lifestyle of those understand because they can't removed. who are more favoured, tends to see the Holy Spirit who remains In effect, the UN refused to guarbe looked on as an enemy to be with the Pope, with the Church, antee for Catholic health profesresisted or eliminated. In this exactly as Jesus promised. sionals, hospitals, and health The rise of radical feminism has way", he says, "a kind of conspircentres the right to refuse, on been phenomenally rapid. In acy against life is unleashed". grounds of conscience, abortion, With quiet heroism and steady quick succession, it has infiltrated sterilisation, and contraceptive hope, the Holy Father faces this and taken over the media, educa- Women: their true dignity, as with men, is in following God's WA not theft facilities to women who demand conspiracy against life. Virtually tion systems including the unithose reproductive "rights". alone among the world's leaders, versities, health systems, and key Canberra, they tried to pass a res- Catholic women's conference in Because of this, Catholic health he stood his ground as the popu- government bureaucracies. olution demanding that the priest- Canberra was infected by the facilities can be forced to close Radical feminists have worked hood be opened to women. lation control juggernaut gathsame radical feminist ideas and down. The Catholic Church has ered speed for the UN their way into the highest levels of language that dominated the Bei- 98,000 hospitals and health fadlimpression general The International Conference on Pop- political office, as in Australia's received and disseminated by the jing conference. ities caring for women and chilulation and Development in Cairo Office for the Status of Women. dren all over the world, yet the As at Beijing, there appeared to issue that the was media secular Really, the radical feminists have in 1994. radical feminists continue to a preoccupation with gender be still ordination was women's of He sent his finest team of diplo- had a dream run - they've considered a hot topic for discus- discrimination. attack the Church as the "oppresmats to represent the Holy See in reached the highest echelons of sion by all the Catholic women's sor" of women, because it does against grievances Alleged Cairo. Whenever I remember the United Nations where they groups of the world. not provide the brutally destruc(male) priests were aired copiCairo,Ithink of those words from put their revolutionary blueprint tive services they demand. radical cleverly, the This was seized upon with such ously. Very Isaiah, "He set his face like flint". for the next millenniumin a major Unfortunately, in Beijing, access Those wonderful priests repre- series of UN Conferences where zest because the media under- feminists have sown the lie of the to abortion and contraception senting the Holy See had to set all the governments of the world stood (much more clearly, it Church as oppressor, that women were defined as "reproductive their faces like flint, while women have signed declarations and con- seems, than the WUCWO leader- must revolt and defy the Church, rights" and moved from the health spat at them and hurled abuse ventions designed to establish ship) that this willingness to not only demanding admittance section to the human rights secradical feminism as official gov- entertain further consideration of to the priesthood but calling on tion of the document after them. women's ordination in direct defi- the governments of the world, in Iremember the hostility towards ernment ideology.

A specific proviso ruled: "While ance of infallible papal teaching Resolution No 9, to force religion Amidst this enormous success, them as, under enormous presthe significance of. . . . various to give women the right to "reproserious rift a very signalled sure to reach consensus, one the radical feminists have come religious backgrounds must be country after another, one dele- up against a frail old man named between 30 million Catholic ductive health care" (the official borne in mind, ills the duty of UN definition includes pregnanCatholic Church. women and the gation after another, was manoeu- John Paul - the Petrine Rock, the regardless .... to promote Given the Holy Father's 1994 cy termination) and the right to States, vered into dropping its objections Rock that won't crumble, the Rock all human rights and protect and "self-determination", which was declaration in Ordinatio Sacerdoto abortion, until the Holy See that won't budge - and failed. freedoms." fundamental Beijing code word for access the dearer warning the even So what have the radical femi- tails and appealed to be standing entirely "regardless" is word That little to abortion, sterilisation, and connists done? They have been in the 1995 clarification, ResponIsolated. for it means that important, traception. very The Holy See refused to buckle. exceedingly clever. Coming up sum ad Dubiam, put out by the are no longer "scruples" religious There were other radical femithe Doctrine of Congregation for I felt so proud to belong to a against the unmovable Rock they by the State as be "tolerated" to Church that can take a stand on have gone for a soft target - us the Faith, there was absolutely no nist concepts established at the denying women for "excuses" which Beijing conference and the justification for excuse or principles and hold the line Catholic women. abortion, "human rights" to their They have waged an intensive WUCWO leadership to bring Res- subsequently infiltrated the lanagainst overwhelming odds, a contraception, etc.

Church founded truly on the great propaganda campaign to win us olution No 11 to the conference. guage of the WUCWO confer- sterilisation, Also, the rights of Catholic parover to their cause, and this cam- It should not have appealed on ence. rock of St Peter.

A good example is the wording ents to raise their children in their Again in Beijing, at the UN's paign to divide the Church and to the official agenda at all.

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Catholic women Eve's apple own faith and morals were seriously eroded. If it is in the best interests of the children", the State may now impose on our children what we parents may consider to be ethically and morally dubious "health" and "human rights" education programs.

The best interests of the children will now be decided by the State, no longer by parents, while girls are to be allowed "privacy" and "confidentiality" to access abortion or contraceptives without parental knowledge.

So, our Holy Father has been branded as "intransigent" on sexual issues and "intolerant" in his stance against homosexuality and lesbianism.

And to all of this, the Holy Father replies, humbly, reasonably, that he has no power to give in on these things, for they are God's law.

What we must never forget is that Pope John Paul Ills the Vicar of Christ, the same Christ who said: "I have come not to abolish the law but to fulfill it", and insisted that "not one jot of the law" would pass away.

This Pope has been accused of discrimination against women because, they say, he won't allow them to be priests.

Not so, says the Holy Father. He cannot make them priests, for Christ himself in instituting the Eucharist, linked it explicitly to the priestly service of the Apostles so as to express the relationship between man and woman, a relationship willed by God both in the mystery of creation and the mystery of redemption.

It is the Eucharist above all that expresses the redemptive act of Christ the Bridegroom towards the Church the Bride.

It is a man who acts "in persona Christi".

"This in no way detracts from the role of women . . . . role distinctions should not be viewed in accordance with the criteria of functionality typical in human societies.

"Rather they must be understood according to. .. . the economy of 'signs' which God freely chooses in order to become present in the midst of humanity".

So what does that mean? It means himself God arranged things that way that God's order is neither trivial nor superficial, but marvellously integral.

It means acceptance of God's order as is. It means obedience. It means we put that fruit analogous to the apple of the Garden of Eden, that disruptive, destructive idea of women's ordination, away from our minds.

Yet the Holy Father's embargo on all further dissent on women's ordination has not been greeted with acceptance.

I remember one woman demanding angrily: "Now he wants to tell us what to think!

Who does he think he is?".

Well, he knows who he is - Jesus himself told him: "Thou art Peter and upon this rockIwill build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against you. AndIwill give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and what you bind upon earth shall be bound also in heaven." Peter has spoken.

The Holy Father understands better than anyone else the widespread "conditioning" that the secular world exerts on us all.

He says that it is this conditioning that has darkened each conscience so that we find it increasingly difficult to distinguish between good and evil.

Central to this conditioning, it

This is our road to the royal priesthood.

This is how we become truly the daughters of the Kingdom.

Through what this Pope calls "the genius of woman" - our genius for loving - through loving the Father so much that we align our will to His will, we come to reign, to reign through serving.

The Queen of the Apostles, the Queen of Heaven said: "Behold,I am the handmaid of the Lord".

Mary takes her place within Christ's service, which, says the Holy Father, constitutes the very foundation of the Kingdom in which "to serve . . . . means to reign".

In the Pope's letter to women, he says: "This is the way in which all authority needs to be understood, both in the family and in society and in the Church. Each person's fundamental vocation is revealed in this *reigning' . . . . in this perspective of 'service' - which when it is carried out with freedom, reciprocity, and love, expresses the truly 'royal' nature of mankind."

So, when radical feminists set up their rebellious chant of "non serviam" and tell us that we are doormats, that serving husbands and children is demeaning, we must reply that we follow a different drummer, the one who said: "I have come as servant among you", the one who knelt and washed his companions' feet, the royal one who, crowned with thorns, derobed, and nailed to a cross, yet showed "the royal dignity of service" to the last drop of His precious blood, to the final "It is consummated".

Service given freely has remarkable potential for turning disasters into victories.

Jesus taught us this winning move: when someone wants your shirt, lend him your coat as well; ".,..should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him two".

This is the tremendous power of the will to turn all things to the good.

Indeed, free will is at the heart of the whole drama of Salvation, from Lucifer's "I will not serve" to his triumph in getting Eve to say "I too will not serve"; then came Mary's "Let it be done unto me according to thy word" Church's Bridegroom." This, says and finally Our Lord's "Not my dently of our Creator. Once more, are the Christ, the Son of God".

He sees us as splendidly gener- the Holy Father, is "of fundamen- will but Thine be done". we are being tempted to be our own legislators, to defy the natur- ous creatures pouring out in love tal importance for understanding It is ironic that the Pope has been everything we have of value - like the Church", if we are to avoid the criticised for his stark vision of al law, the laws of the Creator.

In the heady excitement of a the woman whose extravagance mistake of applying the wrong cri- life, his black and white choices feminist revolution, of unprece- Judas deplores but Jesus defends: teria to the Church. between the culture of life and The whole structure of the the culture of death, for he derives dented experimentation with new "Why do you trouble this woman? fruits, with new laws, we have For she has done a beautiful thing Church is to make us holy. He this vision from the Gospel itself. foolishly come to undervalue just to me. . . . In pouring this oint- reminds us that "in the hierarchy Jesus said: "He who is not with who we are and all that we have ment on my body she has done it of holiness it is precisely the me is against me" and "he who been given. "If you knew the gift to prepare me for burial. Truly, I 'woman' Mary of Nazareth" who does not gather with me scatters". of God", our Blessed Lord said to say to you, wherever this gospel "'precedes' everyone on the path There are just the wise virgins the Samaritan woman. If we is preached in the whole world, to holiness, including Peter and and the foolish ones.

Apostles". the knew, if we could just glimpse the what she has done will be told in What distinguishes the wise The Holy Father quotes the late greatness of God among us, if we memory of her". from the foolish? could grasp even a tiny fraction of Pope John Paul sees us as superb modern theologian Urs von Wisdom lies in understanding, the truth of the glory and the hon- messengers of the Gospel, grasp- Balthasar here: "Mary our mothour and the dignity with which ing immediately the incredible er is Queen of the Apostles with- in grasping, in knowing the true He has empowered us through truth, the supreme significance of out any pretensions to apostolic situation; in knowing the field the redemption of Christ his Son the Resurrection and hurrying powers: she has other and greater with the treasure, in knowing the pearl without price, in knowing . . . . If we knew who it is that with Mary Magdalene to tell the powers."

So what does this mean? Well, it the crucial importance of planspeaks to us through this Pope, others, to convince them in the Christ's Vicar on earth, we would face of doubt and fear and means we shouldn't be hanker- ning and living for the Bridenot be criticising the Holy Father's Incredulity that the Saviour has ing after the ministerial priest- groom's coming, not to be caught out in tragic frivolity like the foolhood. "intransigence" over not "allow- indeed risen.

We should be seeing in our own ish virgins. ing" contraception or female ordiBut above all this Pope sees nation. " women in the borrowed light and vocation as daughters, sisters.

Real wisdom knows and choos"If you knew the gift of God." beauty and perfection of our mothers, and wives, in each our es the narrow path. not the broad Jesus says to the Samaritan Blessed Mother. own personal call to the royal one. woman. If we, as women created "Mary is 'the new beginning' of priesthood that requires only that In the end as in the beginning.

by God, could glimpse what He the dignity and vocation. . . . of we love and serve God, that we there are only the two choicesmeant us to be And this is the each and every woman," the Pope serve our Holy Mother Church, Lucifer's or Mary's. genius of the Holy Father: that he has said. serve our neighbours, serve husare to choose wiseh, f women I holds up a mirror to us and we In Mary's Magnificat - "He has bands, fathers, and sons and each see not our ugly sin-ridden selves, done great things for me" - the other with the same sort of extrav- we can do no better than to listen ourselves as we really are, but Pope shows us "the discovery of agant love that the Bridegroom to this Pope. ourselves beautiful beyond recog- all the richness and personal has poured out on us.

Long may he reign!

seems to me, are two extremely nition, ourselves as we should be, powerful contemporary ideas: the as we could be, as we were meant, idea that morality can be democ- from all eternity, to be.

When the Holy Father speaks to ratically determined, and the idea that obedience is a mindless, women, his voice is gentle, forgiving and tender - like the voice servile thing.

This is the modern misconcep- of Jesus himself: "Neither will I tion, the straw man, the radical condemn you - go and sin no feminists' caricature: that the more". And thereupon, he shows Church demands of Catholic women a blind submission to non-democratic rules and regulations.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The Church imposes nothing - she only proposes.

She teaches, as she has always taught, that women, no less than men, are creatures of intellect and free will, and that it is human intellect, human reason, that must discern the universal moral law that God has written in every heart. It is human reason, not male chauvinism, that ordains that we must use God's other great gift, our free will, to choose to follow the laws of our Creator.

I can't help thinking here of G. K. Chesterton's quip: "If you become King of England you must give up the post of Beadle in Brompton".

Well, women are being offered today something better than the tawdry kingship of England - for we are called, the Holy Father says, to share in a royal priesthood, to be truly daughters of the Kingdom of Heaven.

And what is our response?

Incredibly, some of us respond with an irrational, willful "no" stubbornly, we go on wanting to Women: better things to do than be Beadle in Brompton. being priests.

It's a funny thing, this perversity in feminine nature - it's a perver- us ourselves as courageous creatures, standing at the foot of the sity as old as Eve. Of all the fruits in Paradise, she Cross, having overcome fear with wanted only the forbidden fruit. the strength of our love.

He sees us as discerning creaIt seems we still haven't lost our taste for forbidden fruit. We still tures with immense insights. hanker after the fruit of the tree of searching with Martha for knowledge - the spurious "right answers and finding the complete to decide for ourselves" what is answer, the only answer that matgood and what is evil, indepen- ters: "Yes, Lord. I believe that you

resources of femininity, all the eternal originality of the `woman', just as God wanted her to be, a person for her own sake, who discovers herself "by means of a sincere gift of self'.

The Holy Father calls each woman to make this discovery, this connection, this "clear awareness of God's gift", of his astounding generosity.

Each of us, he says, must make this discovery in Mary - it must continually reach our hearts to shape our vocation and our lives.

In the Pope's 1988 letter on the dignity of women, Mulieris Dignitatern. the recurring theme is the dignity of women, a deep appreciation of the role of women in the Divine Plan.

The destiny of humanity is shaped by women, by Eve first, and then by Mary, and now by us.

The Holy Father's purpose is clearly to raise an "awareness of our mission", of women's vital role in the struggle with eviL "It is also a struggle for man, for his true good, for his salvation. Is not the Bible trying to tell us that It is precisely in the `woman' Eve-Mary - that history witnesses a dramatic struggle for every human being, the struggle for his or her fundamental 'yes' or 'no' to God and God's eternal plan for humanity?"

The Holy Father shows us here what God really wants of us.

Through baptism, we belong to the royal priesthood of Christ.

But how do we share this priesthood? How do we take up this royal role?

It is through a unique gift, the sincere gift of self that the Bridegroom's love calls forth from the Bride.

This is "the great mystery of Christ and of the Church: men and women are called to respond - as a Bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the World, is the

Mary our mother Queen of the Apostles had no pretension to apostolic powers of priesthood: she had other and greater powers'

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International News

Vatican silent on US raids over Iraq

Pope urges Hungarians not to be discouraged by economic problems

By Lynne Well BUDAPEST Hungary (CNS) Pope John Paul II spread a message of unceasing hope during his stay in Hungary from September 6-7.

Aware of the current atmosphere of despair facing many Hungarians, the Pope came straight to the point during his first speech, in a welcoming ceremony at Ferihegy I airport in Budapest.

"Dear people of Hungary,- he said, standing on the tarmac and facing a bank of television cameras. "let no one be discouraged by the difficulties of the Present: and let no one underestimate the results achieved so fan After the tragic events of this century, which is coming to an end, we should not be surprised if the CNS F rebirth and hoped-for developAn official holds up the Pope's cape ment require time."

To Increase the impact of his in heavy rain on the way to the Cathemessage, the Pope pronounced dral of Gyor on September 7. certain sections of his initial address in Hungarian and con- matically. But hope was again the tinued the practice throughout main message in Pope John Paul's homily at Ipari Park in the industhe trip.

Hungarians lacked the sense of trial city of Gyor on September 7.

In addition to acknowledging euphoria and possibility that the poverty, unemployment and marked the Pope's last Hungarian trip in August 1991, when general decline of life in post the country was emerging from Cold-War Hungary, lie reminded the crowd that they had many the Cold War. Economic troubles and disap- contemporary examples of courapointment with the political lead- geous leaders.

Despite a biting cold wind and ership, composed mostly of former communists, have caused the threat of thunder-showers. more than 100.000 people stood a pervasive sense of pessimism.

At the same time inflation and on the grass for hours just to unemployment have risen (Ira- catch a glimpse of Pope John Paul.

spokesman or the Vatican newspaper had commented on the action.

The Vatican was taking a waitand-see approach, Cardinal Achille Silvestrini. prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, told an Italian newspaper.

"The preference is to wait and watch the evolution of the situation." he said.

Meanwhile, he refused to assign blame to either Iraqi President Saddam Hussein or President Bill Clinton for the latest crisis.

"Whether it's the fault of one or the other, what would change?

The effects are the same, unfortunately," he said.

While noting that the US missile attacks appeared to be on military targets. Cardinal Silvestrini said the civilian population will again suffer because of renewed economic measures against Iraq.

The crisis has apparently torpedoed a plan that would have allowed Iraq tq sell oil for food and ease the effects of the WestVATICAN CITY (CNS) - Palesern embargo against the country. tinian leader Yasser Arafat, a ''We need to remember the neg- day after his first meeting with ative effects of the embargo on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin population, especially the health Netanyahu, spent half an hour and food situation. This is some- discussing Middle East peace thing very important to the Pope, with Pope John Paul ll's closest who has spoken out on the issue adviser. several times." the cardinal said.

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Cardinal Silvestrini's congrega- Vatican secretary of state, and tion hears periodic reports on the Arafat, president of the Palestinsituation in Iraq, where there are ian Authority met on September several hundred thousand East- 5 at the Vatican. ern-rit(The cardinal offered Arafat "a

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican reacted with silence following US military strikes against Iraq in early September.

In previous years. Pope John Paul II and his top aides have criticised Western attacks on Iraq, noting the suffering of the civilian population and the missed opportunities for dialogue.

This time, the situation was more complex. Vatican sources said after the bombings.

The US missile strikes and the extension of a no-fly zone over Iraq came in retaliation for an Iraqi attack on Kurdish targets in the northern part of the country Iraqi soldiers were also said to have brutally executed 96 army defectors during the incursion.

Vatican officials felt that a statement that was no more than a call to dialogue would have been too general.

But a more specific Vatican statement would have been forced to raise the thorny Kurdish issue.

Iraq intervened when rival Kurdish factions, one side hacked hy Iran, battled in a northern Iraqi region that had been declared a "safe haven- after the Gulf War. The situation was further complicated when Turkey said it would send troops into Iraq to prevent Kurdish rebels from crossing over into its territory.

Three days after the US retaliation, neither the Pope, the Vatican secretary of state, the press

After Mass the Pope travelled to the bishop's residence in Gyor to meet members of the Hungarian bishops' conference.

Pope John Paul told the bishops that, confronted with the public's hardships and disillusionment. their fob above all is to promote Church teaching so that it permeates life in Hungary.

The Pope also met briefly with Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Horn and representatives of the Gyor Diocese.

The previous day, the Pope met privately with Hungarian President Arpad Goncz at the Pannonhalma monastery.

There he delivered a speech promoting Christian values and praising the Benedictine order, which has made its home at Pannonhalma.

In his parting remarks at the Budapest airport, Pope John Paul said the message of hope must be repeated continually to help Hungarians overcome their past oppression and present struggles.

He also spoke to Hungary's youth.

"You are the first generation to come after the great social changes of 1989 and 1990," he said.

"Do not fail to seek an understanding of the events of this century. which is now coming to an end. Learn about them and reflect on them, so that the errors and suffering which preceded you will become useful lessons to you.-

Arafat, Vatican meet on peace particular greeting from the Holy Father with his wishes for a rapid overcoming of the existing difficulties in the peace process for the well-being of the Palestinian population and that of Israel," a Vatican statement said.

Palestinian and Israeli officials, as well as outside observers, saw Arafat's September 4 meeting with Netanyahu as a hopeful sign that the stalled peace process would move forward once more.

Both parties said nothing sub-

stantial was agreed upon during the meeting on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, but they were ready to begin negotiations once again.

The Vatican announcement said in addition to the peace process. the cardinal and Arafat discussed "the well-known economic difficulties" facing Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza as well as the problems Palestinians have in entering Jerusalem and Israel to work.

Touching base with near and dear old friends from East's rich heritage

By John 'Mavis Pope John Paul II couldn't hold his first meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei II this September.

The time wasn't right, the Orthodox said.

So instead, the Pope used the summer months to touch base with some older friends from the East: saints, martyrs and Church fathers, writers, painters and philosophers.

In the Pope's eyes, they are all giants of Christianity and culture who transcend ecumenical differences.

In Sunday talks over recent weeks, the Pope's reflections sounded almost like an Oriental litany: • St Basil the Great and St John Chrysostorn, fourth-century teachers who developed doctrine on the Church's understanding of God and salvation.

• St Boris and St Gleb, whose death for the faith inspired centuries of reverence in Eastern Europe.

• St Antony and St Pachomius, who with St Basil helped establish the Eastern monastic tradition.

• Mary, the Mother of God, honoured in Eastern icons and prayer.

• All those who were martyred under communism.

• Feodor Dostoyevski, whose literary masterpieces treated profound themes of z

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faith. beauty and goodness, and Andrei isii-born Pope, who studied the Eastern figFour years before his death, he made a Rublev, a famed painter of religious icons. ures as a youth and later took a special profession of faith, confessed to a Catholic • Vladimir Soloviev, a 19th-century pio- interest in Church history east of his home- priest and received Communion. land. neer of ecumenism.

He died convinced that the Catholic and After only two years in office, he declared Orthodox Churches remained mystically The Pope sang their praises, in detail that probably left some of his listeners baffled. Sts Cyril and Methodius co-patrons of united, despite the schism of the 11th cenMost Sunday pilgrims don't come look- Europe - a symbolic reaching out to East- tury. ing for a papal lecture, for example, on the ern Christians.

Clearly, this was the kind of ecumenical Eastern roots of the allegorical method of He later wrote an encyclical on the two thinking Pope John Paul appreciates. scriptural exegesis - a topic in early August. saints, who in the ninth century evangeIronically. the Pope who keeps looking to Yet it was typical of Pope John Paul to take lised much of Eastern Europe. the East still finds it hard to travel there. a fresh look at the long view when faced In more recent years, it has become evi- The main reason today is Catholic-Orthowith a short-term disappointment. dent how much the writings of the Russ- dox tensions.

He had hoped to meet Patriarch Alexei ian philosopher Soloviev have influenced Russia, so dear to the Pope's heart, (luring his September 8-7 visit to Hungary this Pope's thinking. remains off-limits because of the practical but the patriarch declined in mid-July.

Soloviev, a one-time atheist who came to ecumenical situation.

Over the next several weeks, the pontiff embrace the Orthodox Church, gave lecVatican sources say the Pope would not never even mentioned the missed oppor- tures attended by leading Russians, includtunity. He wanted to emphasise the posi- ing Dostoyevski, who modelled one of his travel to Moscow without some sort of welcome by Patriarch Alexei. most famous characters after him. tive.

The Hungary meeting might have opened In recalling the "great figures of the East," During his September 1 talk, the Pope the Pope appeared to be making two sub- referred to Soloviev as a "prophet of ecu- the door, but, when that fell through, tle points. menism" who worked for the unification of Moscow moved farther back on the horizon.

First, he was reminding people that the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.

Places like Greece, Ukraine, Belarus, beyond the periodic tensions that have He also praised the philosopher's far-seemarked Catholic-Orthodox relations - ing arguments against a monolithic, "uni- Romania and Bulgaria are problematic for especially in recent years - there exists a versal" culture that would erase local similar reasons. rich shared heritage stretching back 2,000 diversity The countries all have majority Orthodox years.

What the Pope didn't mention publicly populations.

Second, he wanted to stress that Rome was that, in his later years, Soloviev So for the near future, the Pope may have itself recognises how much it owes to its expressed growing sympathy with the to keep travelling to the East in his more Eastern brethren.

Catholic Church and defended papal pri- Indirect fashion: by revisiting old Such thinking comes naturally to the Pol- macy friends along the path of history.

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Hollerin' for the Lord in the Appalachian hills

By Margaret Gabriel LOUISA, Kentucky. (CNS) Thousands of times the message has rung through the mountains: "My name is Father Belting. and I'm here to talk about your best friend and mine - Jesus Christ."

It's hard to say exactly how many times Msgr. Ralph Belting. pastor of two parishes in the Diocese of Lexington and founder of the Christian Appalachian Project, has addressed a crowd in this way and even harder to say how many people he has addressed.

But when he sets up his loudspeaking equipment, anyone within a couple of miles is going to hear him, even if they can't see him.

His first time at a microphone was 50 years ago, when, as a seminarian, Msgr. Belting was assigned to spend a summer with Father Joseph Wimmers deep in the Appalachian region of Kentucky. The seminarian was

intrigued by Father Wimmers' focused on the main message: God's love for his people. practice of preaching outdoors.

"The most important aspect of a The priest's car was fitted with a loudspeaker and microphone, family is for husbands and wives and although his outdoor congre- to love each other," he said durgation had little knowledge of the ing a preaching stop in the sumCatholic faith, he reached out mer of 1996.

His message that love in the through the common bond of the world starts in the home is as true Bible.

Ralph Beiting's first street in 1996 as it was in 1946.

One of Msgr. Beiting's favourite preaching experience that summer came on the grounds outside stories shows how vital the strew St Casimir Church in the min- preaching is.

"We were preaching in Breathitt ing community of Van Lear.

"It was an exciting new adven- County in August. It was getting ture. I had never seen this aspect late in the afternoon. but I decidof our faith before and I was ed to stop at a place with about a deeply impressed by it," he said. half-dozen houses.

"We were there about 15 or To this day, Msgr. Belting calls the summer of '46 "the year I fell 20 minutes. and I noticed a man in an old beat-up Chevy going in love."

He was ordained in 1949 and in back and forth.

1950 was given a permanent "I guess he must have passed us assignment in the mountains he six or seven times in the 20 minhad come to love. utes we were there," he recalled.

He tailored his outdoor preach"When we finished, he came up ing to eliminate some divisive top- and spoke. He said the man ics like celibacy, the Blessed thanked him and told him his wife Mother and purgatory. Instead, he and children had left him and he

Exploiting kids 'crime against UManity'

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The sexual exploitation of children should be recognised as a "crime against humanity" and punished on an international level, said the head of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

The exploitation of children through prostitution or pornography often has an international character, for example. when European men take part in socalled "sex tours" to Asia, said Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Tfrujillo.

Recognising the exploitation as a crime against humanity would allow the international community to prosecute organisers and clients of child sex and pornography even when the victims and perpetrators live in different countries, the Colombian cardinal said.

Cardinal Lopez "Ilmjillo's August 31 article in the Vatican newspaper praised the convocation of the August 27-31 world congress on the commercial sexual exploitation of children and explained various Catholic Church initiatives, to protect children and to

help those who have been victims of abuse.

"Those who prey on children are also thieves because they steal their innocence, their freedom and their childhoods," he said.

The cardinal called the children involved in pornography and prostitution "victims of the dissolution of the family" "In various social contexts, including in developed countries, the collapse of the family can explain the exploitation of children through prostitution and pornography." he said. "Frequently, they are abandoned by their parents or, unfortunately, become refugees of parental negligence or cruelty" In addition, he said, in developing countries some families are so poor that "they agree to sell their daughters and sons into organised prostitution."

The situation exists and grows because of a lack of laws and enforcement, which sends the message that such abuse of children is tolerable, he said.

Underlying the tolerance, the cardinal said, is "the widespread phenomenon of the banalisation of sex, particularly where the tra-

ditional values of the person and the family have been weakened under the Western influence of secularisation."

Even if the children involved do not have an adequately developed sense of what is right and wrong, the exploitation thrives because of "the predators. the depraved men who come for the most part from developed countries" "The constant factor remains their decadence and their sexual perversions, which lead not only to the moral corruption of minors, but also to HIV and AIDS infection," Cardinal Lopez Trujillo said.

In addition to the need for stricter laws and international enforcement, he said, every Catholic parish and diocese should offer a strong and dynamic pastoral program for families and for the defence of the rights of children.

"We must continue, promote and support pastoral work to rebuild the life of every victim and to heal their personal injuries," the cardinal said.

"They need love in a family environment where they are respected and protected," he said.

Monsignor Ralph Belting preaches the message of hope and self-help in the Appalachian region of Kentucky.

had been getting ready to commit suicide.

"I never did see him again," Mgr Belting said.

"But I pray that he was able to

make some kind of life for himself. It's very humbling to realise that for one moment we stood between him and his own death. but that God won the battle."

Mother Teresa, still weak, leaves hospital CALCUTTA. India (CNS) Mother Teresa was released from the intensive care unit of Woodlands Nursing Home on September 6, still weak from her struggle with heart problems. malaria and pneumonia.

The 80-year-old Nobel laureate and foundress of the Missionaries of Charity was moved by wheelchair, ambulance and stretcher to the order's headquarters in Calcutta.

"We had a plan to release her on Saturday, but she was restless and wanted to go home today We could not force her to stay one more day" said Dr Sudipta Sen. director of the nursing home and one of six doctors who had treated her.

"She is a little stronger but she needs lots of rest." he said.

Once she arrived home. Mother Teresa was carried on a stretcher to the upstairs prayer room of the Missionaries of

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Mother Teresa leaves hospital

Charity motherhouse where she attended morning Mass, said a spokeswoman for the order.

Leaving the hospital, where she had been since August 20, Mother Teresa thanked her doctors, saying. "May God bless you."

She was fitted with a pacemaker in 1989, and her doctors said she suffered two heart attacks while in intensive care.

Sen confirmed that on August 21 Mother Teresa's heart had stopped beating.

"Her heart was irregular for between one-and-a-half to two minutes. At a time like that, every second seems an hour and, looking back, she was a minute away from death."

Another of the doctors treating Mother Teresa. Dr Dinarnani Banerjee, said: "Her pulse rate is now normal for her age. between 72 and 80. It was more than 100 at the worst time but has been controlled with medicine. Her chest infection is completely cleared."

Banerjee said that because of pressure caused by Mother Teresa's stooped posture, her lung infection had not completely healed.

"Her lung is almost always infected but that is not a problem," he said. "We have to be careful about re-infection of malaria or fever."

He said Mother Teresa told him she decided she would be "happier and better" if she could return home to "pray with the sisters."

Burundi Archbishop, two nuns, murdered in car ambush WASHINGTUN (CNS) - Hutu rebels murdered Archbishop Joachim Ruhuna of Burundi, a member of the Tutsi minority on September 9, along with a Burundian Missionaries of Charity sister and two unidentified people.

A car carrying the archbishop, two nuns, two female students, an accountant and a driver was ambushed at Murongwe on the way to the central town of Gitega in an area described by aid workers as a Hutu stronghold.

Army spokesman Lt. Col. Longin Minani told Reuters, the British news agency: "He

More than 150,000 people have died in (Archbishop Ruhuna) is definitely dead. A deacon saw his body burning in the car."

Burundi in three years of civil war between Minani said the deacon and others heard Hutu rebels and the Tutsi-dominated army. the attack and were able to drag the corpse This year fighting intensified and in July. of one of the two nuns out of the vehi- Hutu rebels massacred more than 300 Tutcle, but the archbishop's body was too sis, mainly women and children. heavy to lift.

At a funeral for the massacred Tutsis July The deacon and those helping him hid 23, Archbishop Ruhuna, 62, was booed the nun's body in a building, and when when he said extremists were at work withthey returned to the car the archbishop's in the Tutsi minority and Hutu majority body was gone, Minani said.

"There are no names for this.I have seen "The rebels probably threw it in the river. it many times but I condemn violence on That's where (the soldiers) are looking both sides." he said. now," said Minani.

The archbishop received many death

threats from the rebel Forces for the Defence of Democracy following his homily, said Jean-Luc Ndizeye, spokesman for retired Tutsi army leader Major Pierre Buyoya.

The Rome-based San Egidio Community, which has initiated peace efforts around the world, expressed horror at the archbishop's death.

The group said he was a man of peace who "never stopped preaching moderation and seeking dialogue," although several members of his own family were murdered in 1993.

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Pa pal -vis it pro tes ter s Migrants need God hurl pies during Mass In Brief

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Church's aid to the millions of non-Christian migrants around the world must be linked to evangelisation efforts, Pope John Paul II said in his 1997 World Migration Day message released on September 3.

The true pastor, even when besieged by enormous practical problems, never forgets that migrants have need of God and that many are seeking him with a sincere heart." the Pope said.

Lawsuit fails EL PASO, Texas (CNS) - After seven years in litigation, the Texas Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against a group of pro-life protesters who attempted to block access to an abortion clinic in El Paso.

Police officer Thomas Airington filed a lawsuit seeking damages against 12 of the demonstrators in the September 16, 1989, protest.

The lawsuit alleged Airington sustained back injuries while trying to remove a protester who had assumed a limp position.

Lack of influence WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Russian Church leaders have welcomed a government peace accord with Chechnya. noting that they had little influence when trying to end the war.

Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, apostolic administrator for European Russia, made repeated offers to mediate between Chechens and Russians but met "no real interest" on the Russian side.

Polish abortions WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Pope John Paul H and Polish Church leaders have condemned a vote by Parliament to permit more legal abortions.

"Parliamentarians elected to defend society and safeguard human life have declared themselves in favour of the death of innocent, helpless people," said Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, secretary-general of the Polish bishops' conference.

At the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo on September 1, Pope John Paul told Polish pilgrims he was filled with sadness by the decision.

Jesuit disagrees BOSTON (CNS) - Jesuit Father Robert Drinan's provincial superior in the US said on August 30 that he disagrees with Father Drinan's public defence of President Clinton's veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. Father Drinan's articles on the issue last spring in The New York Times and National Catholic Reporter "seriously offended many good people," and he caused scandal "without intending to," said Father William Barry, head of the New England Jesuit province.

By Lynne Well ROME (CNS) - A dozen piethrowing protesters who interrupted a Sunday Mass in the northwestern French city of Nantes joined a lengthening list of those who have dramatically made their views known in the weeks before Pope John Paul II visits France from September 1922.

The Vatican offered no reaction to the incident, which occurred at Saint-Pierre de Nantes cathedral on September 8.

The demonstrators charged onto the altar, knocked over one priest and hurled pies made with cold cream at others who were conducting Sunday morning services, hitting some of them.

They also tossed water-filled condoms down the central aisle and threw sheaves of leaflets to the 500 parishioners present.

The papers said "other Masses will be creamfully sabotaged in the coming days in large French cities as a precursor to the annoyances that await John Paul II if he does not cancel his visit."

Some male members of the congregation jumped up and detained a few of the protesters, while police arrived to round up others who were waiting outside.

They confiscated signs with slogans that translated roughly as, "Condoms, not skullcaps."

Police detained two Belgian citizens, one who is known for throwing pies in protest at public figures.

Both suspects were released later in the day.

Several other incidents in recent weeks have drawn attention to the dissent in France over the upcoming papal trip.

In early August an unexploded bomb was found in a church in Reims that the Pope is scheduled to visit.

A message had been scrawled on one wall: "In the name of the father, boom."

Vatican officials declined to comment on the bomb.

Experts defused the device, which a parish priest found in the basilica at Saint-Laurent-surSevre.

Pope John Paul is to celebrate vespers in the basilica on September 19, the first of his four-day

trip to France. Throughout the summer various groups have protested the use of public funds to help finance events related to the papal visii.

As many as 20 political and religious groups have protested the papal visit.

Others take issue with the pope's stance on birth control, abortion and other matters.

Others have objected to what they consider inappropriate mixing of Church and State in a ceremony where the Pope will commemorate the baptism 1,500 years ago of Clovis, a Frankish king who founded France.

Hundreds of Catholics across France reportedly have been asking to be removed from parish rolls.

Pope pleads for non-violent ending Bishop to widespread Mexican rebel attacks arrested VATICAN CITY (CNS) - As government and rebel troops clashed in Mexico, Pope John Paul II sent a message to Mexicans pleading with them to resolve their problems without violence.

"The Church repudiates every act of violence as a method to resolve social conflicts," said the message, released only in Mexico by the Vatican's ambassador, Archbishop Girolamo Prigione.

In a telegram sent to Archbishop Prigione in the Pope's name, the Vatican decried the "sad and bloody events" of late August and early September, when members of the Popular Revolutionary Army allegedly attacked government installations and, in

response, the government sent thousands of troops into southern Mexico to capture the rebels.

The guerrilla violence took place in the states of Mexico, Puebla, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Tabasco.

The beach resorts of Acapulco and Huatulco were among the sites hit.

According to Vatican Radio, Pope John Paul acknowledged "the lack of basic necessities and the injustices which great sectors of the Mexican population suffer."

However, the message said, the Pope "makes an appeal to all sides involved in the bloody and painful episodes of violence so that through a sincere and con-

structive dialogue they find equitable and peaceful solutions to the social problems that could have given rise to the armed actions."

"The Holy Father is convinced that only through law, dialogue and good will can one arrive at solutions for people's problems with respect for justice, peace and human rights," the telegram said.

The Pope asked all Mexicans to be guided by "prudence and reconciliation for the good of the entire nation."

At least 18 people have been killed in the violent late-August clashes between Government forces and the rebel troops.

Guadalupe-furore abbot resigns

MEXICO CITY (CNS) - Abbot Guillermo Schulenberg Prado publicly announced his resignation as head of the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe more than three months after being the centre of nationwide controversy.

Archbishop Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City said on September 6 that Abbot Schulenberg had offered his resignation in July.

But the archbishop said that he

had asked the abbot to wait until September to announce it publicly.

Abbot Schulenberg was the centre of controversy in May over reports he had denied the Virgin of Guadalupe's 1531 appearance to Blessed Juan Diego, a poor Indian peasant.

On May 2Z Abbot Schulenberg responded with a brief written statement in which he protested against the "falseness" of the

interview attributed to him. But it was not clear whether the Abbot had resigned over this controversy, his age (he is 80) or media comment about his finances.

However, Fr Antonio Roqueni Ornelas, who served as the archdiocese's legal representative from 1992 to 1994, said in a May 29 interview that it had been well known in Church circles that Abbot Schulenberg did not believe in the apparition.

DETROIT (CNS) - Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney were among 21 religious, civic and labour leaders arrested on August 30 for blocking the entrance to the Detroit News Several hundred people participated in the rally and protest in support of more than 2,000 workers from six unions who have been on strike against the jointly operated Detroit News and Detroit Free Press since July 13, 1995.

The papers have continued to publish by hiring permanent replacements, an action Detroit's Cardinal Adam Maida has condemned.

The blockade of the building entrance appeared to violate a settlement reached a month earlier between the striking unions and the National Labour Relations Board, that unions may not block or "coercively interfere" with people's entry to or exit from News and Free Press buildings.

The August 30 arrest was Bishop Gumbleton's second in the Detroit strike.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church Conversion and society 1886 Society is essential to the fulfilment of the human vocation.

To attain this aim, respect must be accorded to the just hierarchy of values, which "subordinates physical and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones:" Human society must primarily be considered something pertaining to the spiritual.

Through it, in the bright light of truth, men should share their knowledge, be able to exercise their rights and fulfil their obligations, be inspired to seek spiritual values; mutually derive genuine pleasure from the beau-

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tiful, of whatever order it be; structures which "make Christian good rather than hinder it. always be readily disposed to conduct in keeping with the com1889 Without the help of grace, pass on to others the best of their mandments of the divine Lawmen would not know how "to disown cultural heritage; and eager- giver difficult and almost im cern the often narrow path ly strive to make their own the possible." between the cowardice which spiritual achievements of others. 1888 It is necessary, then, to gives in to evil, and the violence These benefits not only influ- appeal to the spiritual and moral which under the illusion of fightence, but at the same time give capacities of the human person ing evil only makes it worse." aim and scope to all that has bear- and to the permanent need for his This is the path of charity, that ing on cultural expressions, eco- inner conversion, so as to obtain is, of the love of God and of neighnomic, and social institutions, social changes that will really bour. Charity is the greatest social political movements and forms, serve him. commandment. laws, and all other structures by The acknowledged priority of It respects others and their which society is outwardly estabthe conversion of heart in no way rights. lished and constantly developed. eliminates but on the contrary It requires the prac lice of jus1887 The inversion of means and imposes the obligation of bring- tice, and it alone makes us capaends, which results in giving, the ing the appropriate remedies to ble of it. value of ultimate end to what is institutions and living con ditions Charity inspires a life of self-givonly a means for attaining it, or in when they are an inducement to ing: "Whoever seeks to gain his viewing persons as mere means • so that they conform to the life will lose it, but whoever loses to that end, engenders unjust forms of justice and advance the his life will preserve it."

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Old award films - last Sunday monthly. The Regent Theatre, 3 The Crescent, Midland Ph: 274 1595.

Forthcoming functions 3-6 pm: 29 September and 27 October. Cost of social with afternoon tea S10. Proceeds to orphanage. Bookings: Margaret 279 6258 Ena 276 6598.

THANKS THANK YOU St Jude for favours granted, past and present. Shirley.

THANKS to St Jude for prayers answered.

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Visit to St Charles Seminary Archbishop Hickey Visitation, East Victoria Park Bishop Healy Blessing of school extensions, Infant Jesus, Morley - Mgr M Keating Mass at St Brigid's, Midland Archbishop Hickey Adult Confirmation at St Mary's Cathedral - Archbishop Hickey Procession and Mass for Feast Day of Associazione Maria SS Addolorata.

Dianella - Archbishop Hickey Confirmation, Bedford/Inglewood Mgr M Keating Confirmation, Kingsley/Woodvale Rev Fr G Carroll Confirmation, Osborne Park Rev Fr G Holohan 150th Anniversary Mass Sisters of Mercy, Entertainment Centre Archbishop Hickey, Bishop Healy Confirmation, Como/Kensington R ev Fr G Holohan Confirmation. Mirrabooka R ev Fr G Carroll Confirmation, Mundaring Mgr P McCrann Confirmation, Aquinas College Rev Fr G Holohan

Archdiocesan Panorama INTERCESSION & SPIRITUAL WARFARE WEEKEND SEMINARS Flame Ministries International is presenting t wo weekend seminars as follows: (1) An Intercessors Training Seminar -21 to 23 September. A Weekend Training Programme for those interested in the ministry of intercession.

(2) A Spiritual Warfare Weekend Seminar - 27 to 29 September.

Both Seminars will be held at Kensington Parish Hall, 17 Carey St, Kensington, on Friday 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm, Saturday 9.30 am to 9.30 pm, Sunday 10 am to 4 pm. Registered delegates only. Employed S40, unemployed S30. To participate in either of these programmes please ring Guy on (09) 277 8848 Mon-Fri (business hours).

FORMATION EVENING FOR MEN A formation evening for men will be held at the Schoenstatt Shrine,Talus Drive Armadale on Tuesday 17 September, starting at 7.30pm.

The topic will be"Man Preparing for the 3rd Millennium", presented by Schoenstatt Fr Francisco Rojas. Enquiries: Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, ph 399 2349.

MELKITE ARCHBISHOP IN PERTH Archbishop Essam Darweesh, new Archbishop of all Australia and Oceania is arriving in Perth for a week's visit on Saturday 21 Sept. Celebrating High Holy Mass Sunday 22 Sept. at 10.30am at Melkite Catholic Church.

61 Glendower St, North Perth. All invited.

Inquiries: Georges E. Chedid, tel. 385 9265

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Practical faith at work - St Patrick's Care Centre manned by volunteers and staff reaches out to those who need help.

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t Patrick's parish and St Patrick's Church (now a Basilica) have always been a meeting place and common ground for diverse traditions and cultures.

Witness the magnificent Gothic Church and its more recent Sanctuary: the congregation of longestablished local families and more recent arrivals; the superbly matured jarrah kneelers (pews) and the recently acquired Icon Tapestry (50 square metres and weighing a tonne) which was commissioned, crafted and hung behind the High Altar in 1994 to mark the Centenary of the Oblates' arrival in Fremantle.

The first church had been erected in 1846 and the first resident priest, Fr Timothy Donovan.

At a glance Parish: St Patrick's Basilica, 47 Adelaide St, Fremantle 6160.

Telephone: 335 2268 World Wide Web - http: // www.iinetnet au / oblatewa/ stpata.html.

Parish Priest: Fr Don Hughes, OMI Weekday masses: 7 am, Ursuline Sisters, 12.10 and 7 pm.

Sunday Masses: Vigil 6.30 pm (Sat.); Sunday 7 am, 8.30 am, 9.45 am (Italian), 11 am Solemn Mass with Basilica Choir, 5 pm (Antioch music

arrived in 1854. The present Parish Priest, Fr Don Hughes OMI, arrived in mid-July this year.

Strange to relate, in the one and a half century of the parish's lifetime, Fr Don is the first locallyborn and educated man to be appointed its Parish Priest!

The present parish church was opened on June 3rd. 1900. Sixty years later on April 24th. 1960, the Sanctuary was blessed and opened by Archbishop Prendiville.

In July 1994 the Congregation for Divine Worship granted the title of Minor Basilica to St Patrick's in recognition of its historical significance as a spiritual home for successive generations of immigrants to Fremantle, for its uplifting and devotional liturgies group). North Fremantle 8 am every Sunday. Mass in Polish: First Sundays at 12.15 pm.

Spanish Mass: Most Sundays 1 Reconciliation: Saturday: 9.30 - 10.30 (English & Italian).

11.30 - 12.15; 4.30 - 5.30 (English & Italian) Exposition: Thursday 7 am 12.10 pm, Saturday 10.30 12.10 pm.

Parish School: St Patrick's primary, which incorporates Maristella Kindergarten (under care of the Ursuline Sisters).

Primary 335 5215, Kindergarten 335 8702.

Principal: Mr Leon Burke.

ST BRIGID'S COLLEGE SCHOOL REUNION St Brigid's College (West Perth) old girls school reunion, celebrating our 100th year, will be held at the Freeway Hotel, South Perth, on Thursday 3rd October from 11.30 am to 3.00 pm. Contact Trish Taylor on (09) 271 8601.

CELEBRATING THE RITES OF THE CATECHUMENATE Presented by Fr Elio Capra SDB. This workshop is an opportunity for parish priests, musicians, parish liturgists and RCIA team members to explore the many creative approaches to celebrating the RITES of the RCIA process through symbol and music. Tuesday 24 September, 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm at Doubleview Parish Hall, 17 Angelico St, Woodlands. Cost

The magnificent 50-square metre icon tapestry.

and to commemorate the Cente- of the Centre's services. As befits Fr Bob McGregor is the Catholic nary of Oblate ministry in the a Basilica, Music is an important Prison chaplain in West Australia, area. part of the liturgies celebrated. serving Casuarina, Canning Vale Successive generations of ItalThe choir sings the Solemn and !Carnet prisons on an almost ian and Anglo-Irish settlers and, Mass each Sunday and an organ- daily basis. in this century, of Eastern Euro- ist and cantor are present at other Fr John Archibold is Chaplain to pean and Asian immigrants, have Masses. the recently-founded (1992) added a rich tapestry of culture Mr David Molloy is Master of Catholic University of Notre and language to St Patrick's. the Music Dame, Australia.

In 1994 the colourful Blessing of The choir, or parts of it, are regMany prayer and other more the Fleet festival was inaugurated ularly called upon to sing at wedand has since become one of West dings, while the evening Mass familiar groups and associations Australia's leading festivals. each Sunday is organised by the also flourish in St Patrick's: the Legion of Mary, RCIA. Antioch On this occasion the statues of members of Antioch.

Our Lady of Martyrs and of Capo Members of the parish team are and the Italian Cenacle - to menD'Orlando are carried in proces- Involved full-time in three major tion a few. sion through the streets. chaplaincy ministries.

Already settling in to a second The Portuguese community Fr Tony Colbert tends to the century of parish ministry, the have their special festival on May patients in the large and ever- Oblates renew their commitment 13 to honour Our Lady of Fatima expanding Fremantle General to bringing God's love and sacrawhile the Irish celebrate St Hospital, being on call day and mental life to the people of FrePatrick's Day with their tradition- night. mantle. al Mass Procession and entertainment on the Esplanade.

Significantly, all the cultural festivals have a strong Church focus.

St Patrick's Care Centre in Parry Street is a long-established facility in Fremantle, founded in the parish hall in 1971 by Br Ignatius Hannick, OMI. The following year the Centre acquired rooms not required by the school and these provided its first permanent site.

Recent activities include establishment of an Outreach Support Service for Aboriginal people; accommodation centres for the needy, provision of meals, counselling and referral services, lowcost housing and crisis accommodation are the mainstay St Patrick's - given Basilica status in 1994 in recognition of its significance.

Archdiocesan Panorama $10. For further information and registration please contact Kylie, Archdiocesan Liturgy Office, phone (09) 221 1548.

NORTHAM CATHOLIC SCHOOLS RE-UNION A re-union of former staff and students of Northam Catholic Schools is being held at Gloucester Park, Perth, on Sunday 13 October.

Further information is available from Eileen Tucker (09) 277 6065, Doreen Bullen (096) 222 931, or Kath Pasco (09) 458 1389.

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OPEN DAY - STAINED GLASS STUDIOS Norma Road, Myaree 9.30 77 Ken Wildy am to 4.30 pm. This is the first 'open-day' in WA of a stained glass studio. It's free - educational and examples and designs may be purchased. Date: Monday 30 September, Queen's Birthday (WA).

SING SPIRIT, SING LIFE - HELPING YOUR PARISH COME ALIVE THROUGH MUSIC Br Michael Herry will be presenting a two hour session which promises to be a

most enjoyable and productive evening, as well as a deep experience of faith.

Wednesday 25 September, 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm, at All Saints Church, Cnr Orkney Rd & Liwara PI, Greenwood, OR Wednesday 2 October, 7.30 to 9.30 pm at Sts John & Paul Church, 5 Ingham Court, Willetton. For further information and registration please contact Kylie, Archdiocesan Liturgy Office, phone (09) 221 1548.

ADVANCED STUDY OF THE ENNEAGRAM Dates and Times: October 9 to November 27 (excluding 23 October) 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm. Venue: Our Lady of Grace Parish, North Beach. Presenters: Celia Joyce and Stephen Truscott. Contact Angela King (09) 447 8130.

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