The Record Newspaper 19 September 1996

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Appendix out for Pope after Rice beatification vAncAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II will hold off an appendix operation until after the beatification of the founder of the Christian Brothers, Edmund Ignatius Rice.

The Pope's doctors have decided on the operation after intestinal problems, caused by an inflamed appendix, continued recently.

"Ilw Pope was due to begin a to France today.

Pope John Paul. giving his usual Sunday talk to visitors gathered in the courtyard of his summer residence September 15, did not nitration his health problem.

According to a Vatican statement. the doctors had ruled out the presence of abnormal growth

related to the problem with the appendix.

'The operation is expected within the course of the present year," said the statement, issued by the Vatican press office with the authorisation of l/r Renato Buzzonetth the Pope's personal physician.

Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the Pope's spokesman, told reporters last Saturday Pope John Paul would preside at the October 6 beatification ceremony of Edmund Rice.

The Pope would undergo the operation sometime after that, he said.

At Christmas Pope john Paul had to intemipt his internationally broadcast Christmas greetings because of nausea, abdominal

pain and a fever. Events were postponed or cancelled in March and again in mid-August when the pain and fever recurred.

Because of the pain, the pope underwent a CI' scan at a hospital near his summer residence on 14 August

The Vatican said the test showed the pain had no connection to the benign colon tumour removed in 1992.

The Vatican statement said a variety of laboratory and other tests were performtA since Christmas_ -In consideration of the numerous pastoral conimitments of the Holy Father, the episodes themselves were treated only with medicinal therapy and were

The Diocese of Bunbury is preparing for the launch next January of its innovative training program for deacons and lay ministers designed to help Bishop Peter Quinn and his priests do their pastoral work in the parishes more effectively.

Bishop Quinn reminded the Bunbury diocese in a special pastoral letter last month of the opportunities the two-to-three year training program offered the diocese.

The Pastoral Ministry Training Program initiative will see the training of candidates selected tw parishes with the aim of infusing talent into the parishes within the next three years.

Bishop Quinn said the program would be for the diaconate and lay ministries and would commence in January 1997 To help parishes choose c.andidates, a reflection kit has been made available.

Bishop Quinn has urged parishes to participate in the selection and the support the candidates need during the training period

until their integration back into the work of the parish after completion of the course.

Bishop Quinn said the course had been tailor-made for the Bunbury Diocese. It took into account the diocese's difficulties with distance. isolation and small communities.

The course will involve monthly gatherings, with some travelling. as well as private and group work, and he asked for 'total support by prayer. encouragement and on-going involvement"' from parishes and the diocese.

The program first aims to involve a parish in the discussion and planning that will identify its needs and direction to help it thrive as a community of faith.

Having done that, a parish then puts forward candidates who are available, adaptable and acceptable on account of their active parish involvement and good reputation.

They have to he active participants in parish prayer life and possess a sense of service. Church and the ability to build community Summer schools in Bunbury and Albany will mark the formal beginning in January 1997 fol-

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Other aspects of the health of the Pope were not cause for particular worry and were carefully followed with periodic multidisdplinary checks. Dr Navarro-Valls added.

Pope John Paul II speaks last Sunday at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy.

Br Leo leads Luurnpa learners to city lights

Bunbury sets sail for new parish training

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

resolved rapidly," it said. Dr Navarro-Valls had told reporters that the Pope had taken antibiotics each time, however, as late as 7 September, he said doctors did not know the cause of the problem.

He said that Dr Buzzonetti, along with two professors of surgery and two professors of radiology from three Italian university hospitals, had agreed the problem was related to recurring inflammation of the appendix, but that an emergency operation was not

lowed by the presentation of the program from February to November.

At the end of this first-year foundational course, there will be a further one or two years training according to the specific ministries involved - diaconate. parish worker or other ministries.

Each candidate will attend four weekends a year in Bunbury. Narmgin. Manjimup and Albany with other six monthly gatherings held as one-day regional assemblies of parish clusters.

Candidates will also gather on a weekly or fortnightly basis with other members of their parish undertaking the program.

There will he private reading. reflection, assignments and 'journalising" to be undertaken.

The program is designed to adopt a holistic approach to education and formation and will contain elements such as personal growth and awareness: theological formation - systematic. moral and liturgical: Scripture study: spiritual development: and pastoral and liturgical skills.

Full text of Bishop Quinn's Pastoral Letter - Page 2

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Br Leo Scollen has been teaching in the Kimberley for longer than he can remember.

Since 1983 he has been based at Luurnpa Catholic School. Balgo Hills, in the Kimberley - one of the most remote schools in the Catholic Education system.

Last week Br Leo 'came to town" with a group of secondary students from the school.

'Coming to town' meant a 1.000km trip to Broome in the

community truck and then the flight to Perth.

Br Leo brought the students to Broome and Perth to "broaden their horizons". Their visit included trips to Scitech. other schools. the museum, the art gallery and many of the other places that people in the city often take for granted.

Luurnpa Catholic School has 90 primary students and 20 secondary students.

Aboriginal support call Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome has again reminded Australians of the need for Government support of Aboriginal Australians in achieving national reconciliation.

In a letter to The Record published today on Page 7 he also questioned the sincerity of the Howard Government's commitment to the process.

-Since the success of a campaign for national reconciliation depends very much on the sincerity of the participants it is less

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than credible for one principal party. the federal government, to continue to posit a preference for such reconciliation while removing the substance of support that will assist to make it happen." he said.

The Bishop was referring. in part, to recent cuts to Aboriginal funding, saying they 'should be the cause of some concern to Christians who are anxious to see justice prevail for the indigenous people of Australia."

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ear Brothers and Sisters Prospective candidates for this Church (900) when it speaks of This program entails a two to in Christ. After extensive course are to be presented and lay Christians in these words: three year commitment which consultation throughout supported by their parish com- "Their activity in ecclesial com- will involve a monthly gathering, the diocese Iproposed in my Pas- munity. Consequently each munities is so necessary that, for sonic travelling, as well as pritoral letter of Advent '95 that a parish is now invited to enter into the most part, the apostolate of vate and group work. training program be implement- a dialogue, as a parish commu- the Pastors, cannot be fully effecI hope parish communities will ed in the Diocese for the dia- nity, reflecting on its future needs tive without it." prayerfully sit together and think conate and lay ministries. and discerning suitable candiThe focus of the program is about their future and invite Over the last six months a plan- dates for training and ministry in training people for pastoral more people from within their ning and advisory committee has their parish. involvement at the local parish parish to come forward and be been meeting to formulate guidelb help each parish with this, a level. The parish community is trained for work in the parish. lines for this program. special "reflection kit" is being Involved from the selection of I also hope this initiative will These guidelines were present- prepared, and will be available candidates through to the com- continue to build up throughout ed in draft form at the 1996 Cler- In all parishes by the first week pletion of the program. the diocese the level of configy Conference, at sonic Deanery of September.

The planning for this course dence, skill and understanding gatherings and to the Diocesan All parishes are urgently has deliberately attended to the that will enable our mission as Pastoral Planning Committee. required to participate in this particular circumstances of our the Church to be more effective Amendments were made accord- vital next step. diocese. into the 21st century. ing to the responses received.

This program is not only a The difficulties created by disWe trust everyone will give this Work is already underway response to your expressed tance, isolation, small communi- program total support by prayer, preparing the course content and needs: ills also a response to the ties, etc, have all been considered encouragement and on-going procedures, for conunencement call of the Church as expressed as much as possible in the plan- Involvement.

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The ministers operating together in iii ecumenical initiative in the developing outer Brisbane suburb of Springfield were "a basic ealesial advance squad" visiting Catholic Augustinian priest Father Michael Endicott told the Western Australian Conference of Church, general meeting at the Maylands tJnitIii Church last week.

Fr Endicott. one of the three Church ministers who make up the Churches Together in Springfield team - a joint ecumenical initiative in collaborative ministry between the Catholic, Anglican.

Uniting and Lutheran churches - was the keynote speaker at the meeting which was attended by representatives from most major denominations in WA. He said the initiative, which has seen a Catholic priest. an Anglican woman studying for the priesthood and a Uniting Church minister doorknock and letter-box every house in the new suburban development of Springfield. provided an example of a Church which would "carry us forward into the 21st Century."

The Brisbane priest also suggested the new Perth satellite village of Alkimos to the north of Perth. announced by the State Government last week, as a Springfield-like opportunity for a similar experiment to begin in Western Australia.

The Reverend Wes Hartley. general secretary of the WA Conference of Churches, welcomed the suggestion and said that it was situations like Springfield and the Alkimos idea proposed by Fr Endicott that was "where the breakthrough is

Fr Endicott describes CT1S

going to be made" in ecumenical relations and collaboration.

Fr Endicott said one of the major advantages of the Springfield project was that It was a 'top-down' initiative which had come from church leaders and was operating with their full support.

However. Fr Endicott said the Uniting Church had decided to withdraw its fulltime CT1S team member later this year on the grounds the returns were not justifying the cost.

He said the initial challenge in Springfield was to become pre-evangelising community builders.

In an urban site which still did not have shopping, medical, police or educational facilities, helping Spring-fielders to discover a sense of community was

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Northbridge will be on display at: St. Mary's Cathedral during Eradication of Poverty Week: 23 - 29 September, 1996

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May God bless this initiative.

Brisbane's parish sharing discussed

By Peter Rosengren

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essential before any significant achievements in evangelisation could be achieved. he said.

We certainly can't (10 it within the tntditional parish structure and we're not going to do it within a litany of Church rules and regulations," he said.

Fr Endicott listed three stages of work the CTIS team had planned in its approach: Community Grouping Involvement - a pre-evangelisation stage: Growth Group Involvement - involving discipleship and evangelism training: and Worship Involvement - where Springfielders would hopefully attend CTIS and denominational services.

He said the team's work had been an attempt from the beginning to form a single parish involving all the CTIS churches.

Fr Endicott said the degree of ecumenical collaboration engendered by the project was impressive.

He had chosen a Uniting Church minister as his own spiritual director, while that Minister, in turn, had a Jesuit as his director, he said.

Rev Hartley told The Record the Springfield initiative showed how collaboration between the churches could provide a "fashioning-edge" in community building.

He also welcomed the Alkimos suggestion from Fr Endicott. 'Why not? We could look at other places like the northern suburbs where Catholics and Anglicans are still setting up separate schools," he said. 'This has to he the way forward In both ecumenical attempts at collaboration and reaching out to the unchurched." Rev Hartley said.

'Appeal could take a year' The Superclinics case currently before the High Court will have farreaching implications for abortion In Australia and could see the High Court effectively limiting the access of Australian women to abortion, a source close to the case told The Recmy-1this week.

Both the 1989 Victorian Menhennett ruling on abortion and the later New South Wales Levine ruling would effectively be reviewed by the Court. the first time abortion law points had been considered in the High Court in Australian legal history, the source said.

The case, due to be back in court on November 11, could also take up to a year before a decision was handed down.

The Menhennett ruling of 1969 laid down that no intentional miscarriage of a pregnancy could he

induced unless in the case of necessity to preserve the physical or mental well-being of the mother.

Under this 'loophole', abortion on demand had become widely practised throughout Australia for the last three decades. Pro-life groups estimate that between 80,000 and 100,000 abortions are performed annually by Australian doctors.

The Australian Catholic Health Care Association and the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference were admitted to the case as 'amicus curiae', a legal term meaning 'friends of the court', last Wednesday after they became concerned that if High Court dismissed the appeal by Sydney medical company, Superclinics.

Catholic hospitals and doctors would become liable for not offering the full range of abortion and abortion referral services to patients.

Anti-euthanasia fight grows

By Peter Rosengren Anti-euthanasia letter-writing kits giving hints on how best to write to members of Parliament urging them to support antieuthanasia legislation currently before the Federal Parliament were handed out at three public meetings in the Perth metropolitan area recently.

The kits are part of an action plan designed to get members of the public involved in the push against the legalisation of euthanasia.

Organiser of the meetings and Sydneybased anti-euthanasia activist. Tony Burke, told audiences that all Australian organisations representing people most likely to be the subject of euthanasia were opposed to it, with the exception of the AIDS councils.

Mr Burke. a Sydney-based campaigner.

said cancer and heart disease bodies, disability organisations and bodies representing the elderly were all opposed to the practice, which was legalised in the Northern Territory in June.

Mr Burke briefed audiences on the current state of the passage of the Andrews anti-euthanasia Bill through the Federal Parliament, saying that it was critical members of the public became involved in the push to ban euthanasia.

Members of the Anglican, Baptist and Reformed churches attended the meetings as well as Catholics.

Mr Burke said the Federal Government had the power to over-ride the Northern Territory legislation.

The Andrews private members Bill, if passed, would stop any future legislation in the Northern Territory or the ACE the other Territory where euthanasia legisla-

lion had a chance to be passed. Euthanasia laws were currently unlikely to be passed in State parliaments, he said, pointing out that support for legislation of the kind passed in the Northern Territory had dropped off significantly.

He said it was important to clarify that euthanasia Bills such as the one passed in the Northern Territory were not about pain control or the switching off of machines or respirators, but about lethal injections administered to people.

Euthanasia was about the direct killing of people by doctors, even though most members of the public were under the mistaken impression it was simply a question of turning off a life-sustaining machine, he said.

This made it important, when writing to members of Parliament, to specify that

lethal injections were being objected to, he said.

Mr Burke also attacked the misconception that euthanasia was something for extreme cases.

Under existing euthanasia laws, the depressed, those under pressure from relatives or from hospital staff, those whose illness was misdiagnosed and those who had not had a chance to change their mind would also ask to be killed as well, he said.

And where an abuse occurred, the likely suspect - the doctor - would be in charge of all records while the main witness - the patient - would be dead making successful prosecution almost impossible, he added.

Letter-writing kits are available from the Euthanasia No office in Sydney on (02) 261 8460 or loudly from the Coalition for the Defence of Human Life on 321 2822.

Bishops call for action against Glory of Old Subiaco poverty at home and abroad The Bishops' statement on rates of rural poverty, the high poverty, A New Beginning: Emil- incidence of rural youth suicide ( ting Poverty in Our World. was and the struggle of indigenous realistic and was probably the people for social justice as manimost significant pastoral state- festations of poverty in Australian ment from the Australian Catholic life.

Bishops' Conference in four years.

The unemployed also had little Archbishop Francis Carroll of to hope for in the medium term, Canberra said last week as he he said, with massive cuts to launched the statement. labour and training programs and A New Beginning also revisited a lack of effective strategies to and developed some of the generate more jobs. themes from Common Wealth kw Poverty was both an evil and a the Common Good launched by structural problem, caused ultithe bishops in 1992, he said. mately by the excessive desire for Archbishop Carroll said at the wealth, power and status, ArchNational Press Club in Canberra bishop Carroll said, saying that the statement came as the first the gap between rich and poor. part of the Bishops' response to globally and within Australia, was the International Year for the widening.

Eradication of Powrty, adding that He also attacked the philosophy the second part would be a major of economic rationalism which he national conference on poverty to described as a contributing cause he held in Sydney in November. to poverty.

He outlined the document's key Although there were different points, saying that A New Begin- forms of economic rationalism. ning had adopted the preferen- some of its common elements tial option for the poor" as its included an emphasis on individcentral approach to solving pover- ualism which understood the perty self-centred: an son as He said a lack of hope appeared understanding of freedom as freeto be present among sectors of dom from government: a faith in Australian society. citing high the free market as the heart of the

e(-Amomy and a belief in the primacy of capital over labour. Archbishop Carroll said.

While some of these ideas were not necessarily bad, taken to extremes they promoted selfish individualism resulting in poverty he said. lit' added that the philosophy underpinning radical economic rationalism was incimsistent with both the Scriptures and Catholic social teaching.

Carroll also Archbishop attacked the burden of foreign debt owed by the poor countries of the world as an example of structural injustice, saying their levels of debt had doubled in the last decade.

The principle that debts should he repaid remains but repayments cannot be demanded at the cost of the hunger and despair of entire peoples." he said.

Archbishop Carroll concluded by saying the Catholic Bishops believed eradicating poverty to be a real possibility and not an impassible dream."

Not to face the task is to continue to condemn millions to misery" he said.

- Peter Rosengren

c' clIterisists dirriag NaSS. Fernando Stetanucci conducts Citta di S Heavenly music, of the kind keen group of lovers of polynot heard in many Australian phonic music and their present churches these days, soared to conductor Fernando Stefanucci. the rafters in St Joseph's Church. have aimed over the years to Subiaco. last Sunday when the continue the ancient tradition of Polyphonic choir "Citta di Subi- chapel music so characteristic aco" from Subiam in Italy sang of the Italian city of Subiaco. the cradle of Western monasticism (luring Mass.

It was an occasion for all things and one of the most important centres of Gregorian chant.

'Subiacan.'

The 40 or so members of the On the 100th anniversary of the founding of Perth's Subiaco, choir are all amateurs and work Benedictine Abbot Raphael da to promote the rich Italian musiSalvo from Subiaco. Arkansas, cal patrimony including tradiin the United States, concele- tional folkloric songs from brated Mass in St Joseph's Latium. based on the recurring themes of love and work, so rich Church as the choir sang.

The choir, formed in 1970 by a in sentiment and passion.

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TOMORROW TODAY

Hidden treasure of faith to be found in youth ministry

By Kylie Hughes

Kytie Hughes and the Catholic youth office in North Perth

Break for Antioch parents

Some of the parents who support the work of the Antioch youth ministry spent time at Dadirri on the weekend of 7-8 September to further their own faith development away from the frenetic pace of family and work life. Sr Emile Cattalini led the group through the pertinent aspects of faith - sacraments and morality - that not only enlightened participants personally, but gave insights to help them in their dealings with today's youth. Just as the Antiochers find support in each other, the adults recognised the strength in sharing with each other and appreciated the chance to freely express themselves. The weekend concluded with Fr Reg Smith celebrating the Eucharist.

YCS River Cruise

Imagine a fifteen-year-old girl. very self conscious, in a crowd of 327 people between the ages of 15 and 25 who were all hyped up and ready to have some fun pniising God. This was me three years ago at the 1944 'Beyond the Call" Catholic Youth Convention.

I was standing there, quite bewilden!d, not knowing whether to laugh or cry and then a total stranger came up to me, introduced himself and took me over to a group of people, saying want you to meet my friend.

Kylie."

They were all so friendly and ;iccepting.

My eldest brother had been to a few conventions before and he seemed to really enjoy them.

I had also been to a few Salesians Summer Camps and most of the leaders on those camps had ilso been to convention.

I had gone to some of the rallies at the Superdrome and from what I had seen and heard. these conventions appeared to be a lot of fun. but I had never imagined them to be quite like the experience that I had.

This convention was a turning point in my faith life. when I started to go to church because I wanted to, not because that's what we have to do in our family.

I wanted to learn More and I started to ask questions to help me along the way and I found that friends that I had met through the convention were able to help me with answers to my questions.

The convention had left me wanting more. so I joined an Antioch group.

This was a great way for me to share my faith with other young people.

At the time. the Youth Office was also running "Friday Nights".

This was for the same age group as the conventions.

I used to describe Friday Nights to people as a small convention.

There was a band that would play at the beginning of the night and then someone would give a talk.

After the talk we would pray and, at the end of prayer. we usually stayed for a while to catch up with friends.

Icouldn't wait for Friday night to come.

Saturday 28 September, 8pm - 11.30pm (please note the return time, no supervision will be provided on the jetty after this time).

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The cruise will be strictly supervised to ensure the enjoyment and safety of all.

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I wanted to learn more and I wanted to share this newly found faith of mine.

The initial feeling I had about Friday nights soon wore off and it became a social event for me.

I still found this a valuable experience, though, as it gave me the opportunity to be around other young Catholics who were willing to share their faith.

No-one at my school knew about any of these things that I went to and it wasn't "coor to be Catholic.

They thought that everything related to church was dull and boring.

One thing that still amazes me is that, out of a school of about 700 students, no-one else knew about this gem that I had discovered.

I wanted to show people what they weren't seeing. but I didn't know how to go about it.

It's quite surprising how few people know about the Catholic Youth scene and what it has to offer.

The next commotion came and went and. once again, it was a valuable experience.

After the convention.I wanted to carry on this experience that I had.

There seemed to he a lull in the activity of the Catholic Youth Office, due to lack of funding.

Friday nights had ended and I had drifted away from Antioch.

Like many young people . I didn't know of any community that I could join where I could share my faith.

After I finished my TEE last year . I started to help out at the Youth Office for the next convention.

That's how I became involved in the Performing Arts Ministry.

I started playing trumpet for the hand and at the 1996 Seize the Day convention I was able to provide a service to the delegates. rather than having a service provided for me. It was a great experience.

Throughout this year. I have remained in PAM. participating in putting on rallies and going to different parishes to sing in the choir.

It isn't always rosy.

There have been times when I've wanted to quit. but I've stuck it out because I have a desire to serve.

I look back over the past few years and I can see a great change in myself.

I started out as someone who was there to receive and learn riln l()w':is . greatly inspired by many people and saw them as people who were better than me, who had something in their lives that I didn't have.

Now I am there out of a desire to serve. wlitsh. till learn andIam still inspired people that 1 come me into contact However. I realist! that these

people are my equals and I ani

able to work with them in their efforts to share their faith with others.

It is my chance to give back some of the things that I have receivisl.

I wish that I could give each person I've ever known a taste of what I have experienced. but I have let opportunities pass and it's hard to share my experiences with everyone.

I find it quite sad that there an! so many young people out there who do not know about the Catholic youth scene, or are misled by the common view among young people that if it's got anything to do with church, it's boring and irrelevant.

Young people aren't being made aware of what we can give them.

This year. the Catholic Youth Office has put on various events for young people.

These events include camps and retreats, three rallies. outreaching to parishes through the Comprehensive Youth Ministry training programs, and is currently preparing for the 1997 convention - The Voice Within.

The longer the Catholic Youth scene is hidden, the harder it is to find the people and the resources to make these things happen.

This can change. There are many opportunities to make people aware of this well-kept secret that we have.

How many young people do you know that haven't experienced what the Catholic Youth Office has to offer and why haven't you told them about it?

Any enquiries can he directed to the Catholic Youth and Young Adult Office on (09) 328 9622.

Disciples Youth Mission Team 'ANCHOR WEEKEND' 27th - 29th September '96 at Stoneville.

For 15- 18 year olds. A fun and exciting expenence of God and our Catholic ii Faith with other youth. With games, dramas, charades. etc as a means to learn .; and come closer to God. Cost $35.

For Details: (09) 341 3392.

No stopping Catholic schools A variety of ceremonies have marked the official opening and blessing of extensions to Catholic schools in Western Australia over the last few weeks.

Optimism despite the challenges that face the Church and our wider community in the 1990s was the message from many of the speeches delivered at the opening ceremonies.

At the opening of extensions at Mandurah Catholic College last Sunday, the Minister for Education. Mr Colin Barnett, said Western Australians "really have much to be proud or in the (totall education s-ystem we have.

The Catholic school system con- 'Mee Robert Healy blessing the new buildings at St Joseph's School, Boulder. The school has moved to a new campus built at a cost of just over S2m. tinues to see steady growth.

In the past ten years there have It was blessed and officially opened on 30 August. been twelve additional streams began providing low interest ten years ago, schools in the added to existing primary schools loans to assist in the building of Catholic system in WA have and twelve to secondary schools. new facilities In 1988. just under received just over &Him from the This is the equivalent of a little S92 million has been channelled Federal Government of Australia. over two new schools being Into Catholic schools through this In 1995, a total of S34m was added to the Catholic system in souxce. spent on new buildings and in WA each year.

Since the Commonwealth Capi- refurbishing older buildings in Since the State Government tal Grants program commenced Catholic schools.

Mandurah Catholic College is a relatively new college with its first Year 12 ebiderits graduating this year. The Stage 2 and 3 extensions opened last Sunder Mire built at a cost of S4.6m. They were officially blessed by the Bishop of the Senbury Diocese, Bishop Peter Quinn, and opened by the State Minister for Education, Colin Barnett.

Mgr Keating explained to students at the opening of extensions to Infant Jesus School, Morley last Friday why the figure of Christ on the Crucifix is the image under which Catholics are united as a community.

The extensions at the primary can of Ursula Pram College cast Newly S822,000 and were blessed and officially opened on 12 September.

Government support Historian to talk on early contact for Aborigines needed Continued from Page 1 Bishop Saunders also called for a commitment to the needs of Aboriginal Australians that would outlast individual governments.

I ndeed. there is much to be said for a national commitment to a policy on meeting the needs of indigenous peoples over an extended term that is above and beyond the peculiarities of party politics and safe from the prejudices of narrow-minded assimilationists." he said.

Bishop Saunders said the cuts had adversely affected, among other things, projects for social and cultural support which were important to counter the domination of indigenous people's culture by the rest of Australia.

He added that Christians were especially called to support Aboriginal initiatives designed to secure their future as a distinct people in the Australian family.

Bishop Saunders last week again apologised to any people hurt by the Kimberley Catholic Church's involvement in government policies separating Aboriginal children from their parents.

The bishop was speaking at a Mass at the close of a two-day gathering of Kimberley church personnel and people affected by separation policies.

Bishop Saunders had called the meeting to honour a commitment he gave to a recent hearing of the national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their parents.

Several recommendations came out of the meeting. including greater Aboriginal involvement in Catholic

Professor Leslie Marchant. tory and piecing together the University of Notre Dame histo- historical clues about the early rian, has been awarded one of exploration of this part of the only two scientific medals given world." by the Mapping Sciences InstiProfessor Marchant says his tute, for his research into the research shows that Australia could have been visited by sea early exploration of Australia.

But he %sill be unable to be at going explorers 5000 years ago.

'So when Captain Cook set the presentation ceremony in Canberra later this month sail to find the great south land. because of a series of public lec- he wasn't heading totally into tures at Notre Dame about early the unknown:- he said.

He and the other 18th centuexploration and trade around the Indian ocean. particularly in ry explorers had a wealth of relation to Australia. information from classical Owing to keen community works and the records of Arab interest. Professor Marchant has geographers."' opened his lectures to the genAlthough people tend to think eral public, in view of their our region was only explored in "tremendous interest in our his- the last few hundred years, Pro-

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education programs: the training of Aboriginal counsellors: the establishment of a Catholic social justice committee to monitor justice issues in society and the Church: and a greater Church commitment to the needs of Aboriginal youth in the Kimberley.

The meeting was also addressed by the chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. Pat Dodson, who said that while the Church often offered Aboriginal people their only experience of concerned nonAboriginal people, the effects of the separation policies had been ones of devastation and oppression.

"The search for justice in relation to these matters will not go away until there is a resolution, involving some form of restitution, as is necessary for any genuine reconciliation," he said.

fessor Marchant explained. 'there's considerable evidence that the ancient civilisations had the capacity for long distance sea voyages and that they visited this part of the world, During the lectures. which will commence on Tuesday 17 September. one topic will examine clues people can look for in relics, artefacts. and Aboriginal cave paintings depicting ships and explorers.

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God has a reason for every life Peter Dwan continues meditations on the readings for Sunday Mass.

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oday's readings present God as a generous master. In the first reading (Isaiah 55:6-9) God, through the prophet Isaiah tells us: "My thoughts are not our thoughts, my ways not your ways".

We need to remember that because God's ways aren't our ways, we shall sometimes find what he does strange.

Some will even want to question the justice of some things that God permits to happen.

This point is treated at some length in today's gospel passage (Matthew 20:116), in which Our Lord tells the parable of the labourers.

When the landowner went out at daybreak. he hired workers who agreed to work for a denarius a day.

He went out again at the third hour, then at the sixth hour, again at the ninth hour and finally at the eleventh hour, each time hiring labourers, but in these latter cases, the landowner didn't stipulate any specific: sum, but rather just

It shouldn't be assumed that just because a mother works hard for the parish, she is necessarily neglecting her children.

The landowner in today's parable was just to all but generous to some.

Provided we give everyone his or her promised those whom he employed a due, there isn't anything wrong with fair wage. treating some generously.

When the time came to pay the workIn today's second reading (Philippians er, they were called in, starting with the 1:20-24, 27) we hear St Paul reflecting last arrivals, who each received one on his life. denarius.

It is important to realise that St Paul When those who had been first wrote this letter while in prison. employed came in they received their He naturally wanted to go to heaven denarius each. to be with Our Lord, but he wrote: "If St Matthew tells us: "They took it but living in this body means doing work grumbled at the landowner -l'he men which is having good results - 1 do not who came last", they said, "have done know what I should choose." only one hour, and you have treated We need to be generous with Our them the same as us, though we have Lord, being prepared to labour on, done a heavy day's work in all the heat." doing good as long as we are needed He answered one of them and said: down here.

"My friend. 1 am not being unjust to We don't know what God has in mind you: did we not agree on one denarius? for us.

Mike your earnings and go. I choose to If God leaves its on earth, we may be pay the last-comer as much as I pay sure that lie has sonic task lie wants us you. Ilave I not the right to do what I to perform. like with my own? Why be envious If our reward seems to be a long time because I am generous?" in coming, let us remember that it is We need to avoid the temptation to well worth waiting for, as it has been equate generosity with injustice. prepared for us by a generous Master.

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

By Eric Rebeiro

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t is sad to hear that some Catholics find it hard to live their faith in these so-called troublesome times.

Yet many of our saints declare that, because of Mary the mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ. the Catholic is the most favoured by God since, being filled with grace, she is able to through her intercession obtain for us all that is neces.sary to live their life and to attain heaven.

All we have to do is to consecrate ourselves to her Immaculate Heart and do the little things that make up our cross for. as Scripture says. that God always gives us sufficient grace to fulfil His Will in us.

The measure of grace that comes to us is the measure of the humility that we possess. With humility comes faith and with faith comes grace.

Mary was totally humble and totally faithful: hence she was full of grace. She was filled with truth, wisdom and understanding. Or we may say that she was filled with the Spirit of God and, again. she was united with God. Having paid the debt owed to man, by bringing forth her first born without the help of man hut with the inception of the Holy Spirit. and without the loss of her physical and spiritual integrity, she then, by consenting with God to sacrifice her only Son and to hear the most sorrowful and painful life any mother could incur. placed God in her debt. St Alphonsus de Ligouri in The Glories of Mary explains this clearly.

Saint George, Archbishop of Nicodemia, says that Jesus Christ, even as it were to satisfy an obligation under which He placed himself towards his Mother, when she consented to give Him His human nature, grants all she asks: "the Son as if paying a debt, grants all her

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petitions." And on this the holy mat-hr Saint Methodius exclaims: 'Rejoice, rejoice, 0 Mary, for thou has that Son thy debtor, who gives to all and receives from none. We are all God's debtors for all that we possess, for all is His gift: but God has been pleased to become thy debtor in taking flesh from them and hemming man.Another ancient writer says. "that Marv. having merited to give flesh to the Divine Word, and thus supply the price of our redemption, that we might he delivered from eternal death: therefore she is more powerful than all others to help us to gain eternal life."

The Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven is a dogma that all Catholics are required to accept without question.

This is reasonable for, if we appeal to our common sense, reason and logic., we would need to state that we cannot believe that a woman with a corruptible body and who is lying in the dust can bring forth a Divine Person.

Who would want a God horn of a corrupted creature? I doubt if you would find in any other religious theologies a God who is born of a corrupt woman.

The One Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church teaches us that there are only two people in heaven with human natures. These are Jesus and Mary.

The Son of God ascended into heaven with both His Divine and His Human Nature. Hence, because of the fourth commandment. Jesus must always honour His Mother.

Our Lord revealed to St Catherine of Sienna "that He had created this His beloved Daughter to be as a most sweet bait by which to catch men, and especially sinners, and draw them to God." In a reflection on the sacred Canticles.

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Williams the Angelical says that those who live in sin, and neither honour Mary with any particular act of homage, nor recommend themselves to her in order to extricate themselves from sin will at the last judgement be driven "for their eternal misery.. . . . to the left hand with the (lammed.

Jesus was Mary's first born and he was born of the Holy Spirit. The rest of us are called to be Mary's second born. This was revealed by Our Lord to Saint Gertrude.

But we must be born of the Spirit and live in the Spirit like her first born. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

We cannot expect to be saved if we live for our flesh since we have been shown

by Jesus that we must die to ourselves: that is our senses.

This means that we must listen to our hearts and not rationalise with our minds. Jesus said that. 1am not of this world.'" We also must assign ourselves to His world which is The Kingdom of God. The Book of Proverbs says. "Blessed is the man that heareth me. and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors."

The Church applies this to Mary as if she would say: Blessed is he that hears my voice and is constantly attentive to apply at the door of my mercy, and seeks light and help from me. For clients who do this. Mary does her part, and obtains them the light and strength they require to abandon sin and walk in the paths of virtue.

William of Paris then exclaims the debt that Mary owes us: "All that thou possessest of grace and glory and the dignity even of Mother of God, so to speak, thou owest to sinners, for it was on their account that the Divine Word made thee His Mother."

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The Church - not so much out of touch on sex, as light years ahead

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ex, they say. is one of those -difficult" issues for Catholics today. In a wwid where old-fashioned morals seem out of date, many - including some Catholics — see sex as one area where Church teaching is just too hard to awe with.

Personally, I am at a loss to understand how anyone who reads newspapers can claim to find anything "difficult" about Church teaching in this area.

That is because the Catholic teaching on every sex-related topic from condoms to gay rights to abortion laws is a constant subject of news, views and abuse in many parts of the secular media. most weeks of the year.

For Catholics in particular, there is no excuse for not knowing and understanding what the Church teaches in relation to sex.

That is not to say every Catholic Will ile(:i ‘ssarily behave in accordance with Church teachings all the time.

But at an intellectual level at least, all of us should have a pretty dear idea that Catholic wisdom proclaims sex is for marriage, and that couples should remain open to the transmission of life (i.e. not use contraception).

Despite the dear-cut nature of this teaching, it is easy to detect a howling wind of whingeing in some parts of our Catholic community today over whether the Church is -up-to-date" enough in its attitude to sea.

Sex education in schools is a prime area the whingeing is often heard.

With the advent of AIDS. health programs emphasising such complex educational issues as how to roll on a condom have become widespread in secular, though not Church schools.

When teenagers are out there `doing it-. shouldn't we be out there with them, showing them how to "do it" more safely. Catholic trendies ask? Our Church is so backward %then it talks about abstinence, they moan to each other.

What lies behind the voicing of such sentiments when expressed by Catholics?

Often. I suspect, it is fear - fear of seeming too harsh, too fundamentalist, too far out of step with the way we think the world, and the young in particular, are behaving today Like all fears, this one is deeply irrational - not least because it is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what the world, and young people in particular. really want.

Deep down, what people really crave these days is not so much sex, as successful relationships. With so many marriages breaking up around us, it's hardly surprising if teenagers are deeply concerned for their own future happiness.

Yet it is precisely in this area - ie. what it can teach about love and relationships that the Church has far more to offer young people than any number of secular health education courses, which often offer little more than what can be learned with equal force by reading the instructions on a packet of contraceptives.

This is because the Church understands the nature of love, which comes from God, far better than the world does.

It is through walking with the Church in Its full wisdom on God's love that we reach our full potential as people. Far from being irrelevant to modern people. Catholic moral teaching forms an important part of what humans need to know about love.

To be true lovers, you might say. people need to hear the Church's insights in this area. That, at least, is what the Catholic Church teaches. In a confused, unhappy world, it is something to be proud of - not something we should fear.

Prayer, Mass needed to empower the judges L The Record ittle did the woman who sued Superclinics in New South Wales for failing to advise her of a pregnancy In time to have an abortion realise that she is a bit-player in God's plan according to the principle that God brings good out of evil.

As the Abortion Providers Association and other commentators quickly recognised, the justices of the High Court of Australia, in order to reach a decision on the compensation that the woman seeks, may have to rule in effect that most of the 80,000 or more abortions committed in Australia each year are illegal.

If they do make the ruling, it will remind the Australian nation of its hypocrisy in allowing, and paying through Medicare, abortion-on-demand to take place with impunity in the face of the law.

It will be probably too much to ask that Australia's police force enforce the laws but that is what. before God, they should do.

The clinic is arguing that the abortion

she would have sought would have been illegal and thus could not have taken place legally, so the question of compensation does not arise.

The whole affair is, of course, horrendous. How the woman can pursue this case when the child she would have sought to kill is alive today is almost impossible to understand. Presumably, the daughter is aware by now that her mother wanted to do away with her, and wants money for having failed to do so!

The High Court, led by the Chief Justice Sir Gerard Brennan, has enjoyed the praise of significant parts of the opinion making sections of society in recent years for adopting an active role in interpreting both the legislative and common law.

In the case of the landmark Mabo case on native title rights, this has involved

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drawing on understandings of the moral duty of judges in deciding key cases. The justices, particularly those who receive kudos in society for their enlightened, moral approach to the law, now have their chance to remind Australia of the abomination that abortion is, as the Vicar of Christ, Pope John Paul 11, describes it repeatedly.

Even if they are found in the minority, now is the moment of their moral glory.

There is little that ordinary citizens can do to influence the anat. That will be in the hand of the lawyers arguing for the unborn on behalf of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and the Australian Catholic Health Care Association.

But Catholics and other Christians sickened by abortion can and do have recourse to the power of prayer. It has

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educational programs. Thr,,t are but a few of the strategic endeavours pioneered by aboriginal people as an investment in their future - a future which is now placed in serious jeopardy 1”,, harsh budgetary constraints.

In addition, the provision of adequate legal advisory services to aboriginal people may help offset some of the effects of marginalisation which are reflected in the disproportionately high imprisonment figures among the aboriginal peoples of WA. On the issue of culture, the Church so plainly teaches: it (culture) is one of the properties of the human person, that he can achieve true and full humanity only by means of culture, that is through the cultivation of the goods and values of nature.

'Whenever, therefore, there is a question of human life, nature and culture are intimately linked together. . . . (Gaudium et Spes. 53) It remains merely for good-living people to support Aboriginal initiatives that will help secure their future as a distinct people within the Australian family.

Christians are especially called to such action for their ideals are naturally of the highest order and their faith is insuperable and all-embracing.

In difficult moments, even when old chestnuts of tales prejudicial to the welfare of the aboriginal people are trotted-out in the media, to become as testimonials to the urgent need for a national reconciliation, it Is helpful to keep in mind the words of the Holy Father to the Aboriginal People in Alice Springs in 1988: The Church herself in Australia will not be fully the Church that Jesus wants her to be until you have made your contribution to her life and until that contribution has been joyfully received by others: Such a hope should be applied to the nation as a whole, should it not?

Christopher Saunders Bishop of Broome

ecent cieciston.s to cut funding to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait slander Commission should be the cause of some concern to Christians who are anxious to see justice prevail for the indigenous people of Australia.

The secular press has reported that one result of this cost-cutting exercise is the cessation of some 88 projects of social and cultural support among Aboriginal youth and others in the south of WA. It remains to be seen what other indigenous groups around Australia will be placed in a similar position of acute disadvantage.

Brother Graham Mundine. himself an Aborigine, and chairperson of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council. quite obviously has the approval of a significant number of Aborigines when he asked recently what the Government's attitude to indigenous Australians really was (The Record. 22 August).

Since the success of a campaign for National Reconciliation depends very much on the sincerity of the participants it is less than credible for one principal party. the Federal Government. to continue to posit a preference for such reconciliation while removing the substance of support that will assist to make it happen.

Br Mundine's concerns correlate to the response recorded in the media of a multitude of Aboriginal and non-aboriginal organisations who are anxious to see that the Australian National Reconciliation process is not railroaded by the vicissitudes of the Commonwealth 'freasury.

Indeed, there is much to be said for a national commitment to a policy on meeting the needs of indigenous peoples over an extended term that is above and beyond the peculiarities of party politics and safe from the prejudices of narrow-minded perating on the belief that accurate assimilationists. information is one of the best ways In today's economic world the financial to counter the half truths and dissupport of cultural programs by governments is necessary in order to maintain the tortions often found in the media.I want to offer a few brief remarks about the 60 Minintegrity of our society.

Thus, for the benefit of many Australians. utes item of Sunday 1 September. the Australian Council for the Arts receives I don't propose to analyse the blatantly a substantial subsidy as do many other one-sided commentary offered by the item. such organisations around the nation.

Nearly all of it covered ground that has It is reasonable for Aboriginal groups. become familiar to us over recent years. who receive a great deal of this funding The program breathlessly told us that through ATSIC, to be disappointed that the their investigations over the last three years support for their cultural and social needs had come up with new revelations. as the First Nations of this land will be Prepare to be underwhelmed! The first of Impaired by the diminishment of available these sensations was what was referred to funds. as an electric torture machine".

The domination of the indigenous peoThis electrical device to treat bed wetters ple's culture by the rest of Australia is being countered to some degree by the funding was in common use, not only in child care of Aboriginal cultural and societal initia- institutions of the 1950's but in the wider tives . . . . language study programs, music, community. The device was recommended dance and drama courses, aboriginal to the Brothers at Clontarf by the Child media services, courses in aboriginal his- Welfare Department. who sent a doctor to tory and art and law, and the encourage- Clontarf to explain its use.

The device functioned by delivering a ment of self-esteem in individuals and groups by means of especially designed mild electrical pulse to the sleeping child when he wet himself so as to wake him.

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always been needed in the past for prolife issues but this historical moment calls for even greater effort to fortify the judges who, like Sir Thomas More before Henry VIII, must stand for the truth however unpopular.

Prayer will be needed just as much to help those judges tempted to rationalise the truth away so they can see dearly that, even under worldly reasoning, abortion is still the touchstone human rights issue. All other human rights are worthless if one human being can kill another to suit his or her lifestyle.

Catholics, of course, have recourse to the greatest prayer of all - the Sacrifice of the Mass. It would be a powerful thing if each parish offered a Mass each day pleading for the greatest good possible to mine out of this cask. before the High Court.

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

This electrical stimulus was strong enough to wake the child and did not inflict pain.

The device was used for some time at Clontarf, but it seemed to prove ineffective and was sent back. lb describe it as "a torture machine" and to insinuate that it was some fiendish Christian Brother invention is a laughable and pathetic distortion.

This information about the device was available to 60 Minutes who chose not to include it. I think this is comment enough on their integrity.

Their second major sensation was to recycle hearsay stories that have been canvassed over the last few years in the VOICES newsletter.

It is perhaps significant that no other mainstream media have seen fit to pick up these stories over the last few years.

They refer to four students who are buried at Bindoon and one who died in a fall at Tardun in 1949.

Two of the students buried at Bindoon died in road acddents after they had left Bindoon and were brought back there for burial.

The other two died in accidents, one falling under the wheels of a cart on the farm, and the other striking his head on the stairs as he fell from a balustrade down which he was sliding.

The lad at Tardun was a sleep walker and was discovered one morning below an open verandah on the first floor where he slept, with other students.

It is presumed that he walked over the edge of the balcony in his sleep and was killed in the fall.

In none of these cases did the examining doctor who signed the death certificate see fit to ask for an inquest.

I am aware of no evidence which would cause us to re-examine the circumstances of these deaths.Iam aware of no-one offering any eye witness testimony to contradict what we know of their deaths.

The only question I have heard raised about the circumstances of these boys' deaths has come from these anonymous allegation retailed by VOICES and 80 Minutes.

As I pointed out on the program, if someone knows something that contradicts the accepted account of these boys' deaths. why on earth have they not gone to the authorities long before this?

What are they doing putting up these stories as TV fodder and doing nothing further about them?

I think that we have to accept that, unless there is some indication to the contrary we are talking about hearsay and vicious gossip.

Using this sort of thing to blacken the name of the Christian Brothers on national television is.I believe, contemptible.

As always, I would welcome any contact from anyone if they have any questions about this or the related matter of the recent legal settlement.

Br Tony Shanahan CFC Christian Brothers' WA and SA Province Leader

Mistaken identity A person with the same name as myself - Mark O'Connor - was interviewed on ABC 720 BWF in Perth by Fiona Guthrie on 8 August 1996 on the topic of immigration and population.

This gentleman is a complete stranger to me. On investigation. I have discovered he i s apparently a poet and environmentalist and was a guest of the Science Department of the Anglican Christchurch School in Perth. During the interview - for reasons beyond my comprehension - the ABC interviewer incorrectly referred to him as Brother Mark O'Connor.

For the sake of the record. I am writing to a number of Catholic journals and newspapers.

I never participated in an interview on this topic on Perth ABC Radio on August 6.

My position on these important topics of Catholic social teaching is one of complete agreement with the teaching of the Magisterium and the official statements of the Australian Bishop's Conference_ Br Mark O'Connor FMS Education Officer Bishops' Committee for Justice.

Development & Peace and the Australian Catholic Social Justice C,oundl

Priestly celibacy Imad with interest and some dismay your editorial in The Record (12 September) relating to the relative merits of a celibate and a married priesthood.

My particular interest derives from the fact that Iam a married Catholic priest and have been for 27 years There are three of us in Perth and another in Bunbury.

The clear implication in the editorial is that celibacy, claimed to be a higher good than the married state, makes the married priest something less than the celibate, and less able to reflect Jesus in his work.

Marriage apparently decreases the extent to which the priest "gives himself to Jesus".

Yet the very fact that Pope Pius XII in 1950 opened the priesthood to married convert clergy, and his successors have continued to do so to this day, suggests that recent Popes do not regard a married priest as in any way inferior to a celibate priest.

If I am less effective than my celibate colleagues. so be it. but I submit it is not because I happen to be married.

Fr Geoffrey Beyer, Parish of St Joseph Pignatelli Attadale.

Editor's note: Pope Paul VI in his 1967 encyclical on priestly celibacy taught. directly from the teaching of Vatican II, that sharing in the dignity and the mission of Jesus the Mediator and eternal Priest as a celibate priest was the 'mom perfect the freer the sacred minister is from the bonds of flesh and blood" (Swerdotalis Caelibahis 21). Pope Paul also taught in the same encyclical that any dispensation to married clergy converting to the Catholic Church should not be applied so as to 'to preludice the existing discipline regarding celibacy*

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Just before you kick the ball,Iwant you to pray As often said, Australian Rules Football is akin to a religion in Australia, especially as the .4%1.7. final series conies to its climax. But Australians are pagans cornpand with the appnnich of some Americans to sport as Christopher Gaul of the Catholic News Service in Baltimore shows.

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t the two-minute warning before the players take the field, they kneel down in the locker room, join hands and pray the Lord's Prayer.

The brief but reverent ritual is repeated at the end of the game. win or lose.

Several hours earlier, players and other members of the Baltimore Ravens' staff, family and friends may have chosen to attend either a team-sponsored Mass or non-denominational chapel service.

It. too, is a practice to be repeat-

ed before every Ravens game this season.

That the Ravens give prayer a priority in the midst of the aimpetitive intensity of the National Football League is in part a reflection of the spirituality of the man who leads them: head coach Thd Marchibroda, to whom faith is as natural and comfortable a part of his life as is the game of football.

In fact, one of his very first actions upon returning to Baltimore - he was last in town in 1979 as head coach of the Baltimore (now Indianapolis) Colts - was to find a chaplain for his new team.

He talked to Father Christopher Whatley, associate pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Glyndon, close to the Ravens' training camp.

Marchibroda and his wife of 42 years, Ann, have been attending Mass there until they move into their new home.

Father Whatley agreed. impressed, he said, by the coach's

Baltimore Ravens head coach Ted Marchibroda eyes the field during an August exh

soft-spoken courtesN, his modest dignity and the humble ways in which he seemed so devoted to his faith.

The 65-year-old son of devoutly Catholic Polish immigrants, Marchibroda said his faith was formed and directed early on by his parents, especially his mother.

When I look back I sort of feel somewhat guilty," he said. wish I had the reverence and the faith, the deep faith that (my parents) had.Ican always remember my mother praying. She was just oblivious to everything else. She had total concentration. unbelievable concentration.

"I think about her also as she was on her death bed and the priest was giving her Communion.

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she totalIN swallowed the host. could" and stay healthy in the She just held onto his hand." His process, he said. faith was shaped even further Marchibroda's favourite prayer when he attended St Bonaventure Is the Rosary, which he and University, where he was the his wife recite together in the car team's quarterback. when they take trips, and it is The Franciscan college in New a prayer he frequently makes York ''set me on the right mad as when he indulges, as he often far as life was concerned. It put does, in a favourite pastime: walkme on the right path.- Marchi- ing. Walking and prayer. the broda said. coach said, make a great combi"I had the values in place when nation. In the meantime. MarchiI got there, hut they reinforced broda's prayer life and his deep and perpetuated them. roots of faith continue to be lived 1can tell you. if you went sour in out in each of his active days. that environment, you'd go sour Ithink one of the hest ways to anywhere." describe how that occurs," Father If there is one element of faith Whatley said. "is that not only he finds rewarding, it is prayer. does he have dignity himself but He always prayed before every he treats everyone else with digfootball game whether it was in nity. And that, I think. is somehigh school or the professional thing that has developed out of league, and he still does. his faith because his way of dealHe doesn't pray for victory, just ing with people is so much more that I would do the very best I than simple courtesy"

Eclipse of fatherhood bodes ill for society Canadian philosopher Donald DeMarcx) spoke last month in Sydney at a conference of priests at Kenthurst Study Centre on the theme of "The eclipse of fatherhood."

Archbishop Hickey also spoke at the same conference. Dr DeMarai supplied this summary of his talk to The Record.

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he widespread depiction of husbands as oppressors of women, and fathers as oppressors of children has led to the equally widespread notion that men should he replaced by a kinder, gentler, less masculine figure.

Recent research, however, such as David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem, shows that the attempt to replace fatherhood, in particular, with an emasculated, somewhat androgynous substitute is a formula for disaster, not only for marriage and children, but for society as well.

Boys will be boys, but there is no guarantee that they will grow up to be men.

The real man, who can assume the role of father with effectiveness and grace, is essentially irreplaceable.

Society must do what it can to cultivate the emergence of responsible men or face the consequences. There is simply no acceptable alternative.

In his best-selling book. Crvmsing the Threshold of Hope. Pope John Paul II makes the comment that original sin is the attempt to abolish fatherhood - the fatherhood of God. When Adam trans-

gressed the command of God, he also, and more significantly, rejected the will of God-theFather which was expressed in that command.

And since the Father is Love, Adam also rejected Love, thereby condemning himself and his descendants to a series of loveless, master-slave relationships.

Thus, in attempting to abolish the divine fatherhood. Adam rejected his own vocation to love, which left him with the grim alternative of having oppressive power over others.

The Biblical statement. "Her desire shall be for her husband and he shall lord over her" expresses the shift from love to power that original sin brings about in men.

The corrective is not a substitute for men, but the redemptive grace of Christ so that men can overcome the effects of original sin and become who they are truly meant to be.

In sum, the rejection of fatherhood is the very installation of oppression, not its elimination.

And this is why the eclipse of fatherhood is counter productive.

According to one American study, there is a 700% increase in the likelihood that a boy will be convicted of a crime if he lacked fatherly supervision.

Fatherhood, which is imaged by God-the-Father, is a paradoxical combination of authority and love. Those who want to abolish or replace fatherhood view it. myopically, as authority alone, and therefore as a form of authoritarianism.

This truncated view of fatherhood is not the message of Scripture.

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A father plays with his young daughter along a harbour bank in Sydney But it is the message of atheistic existentialism. When Friedrich Nietzsche was thirteen years of age. he wrote his first essay on ethics in which he accused God as being "the father of evil".

In a similar vein. jean-Paul Sartre has written: There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten . . . Had my father lived, he would have lain on men at full length and would have crushed me.

What Nietzsche and Sartre do not appear to understand is that fatherly authority is for the liberty of others.

When a father loves his children, he directs his authority toward their liberation. The eclipse of fatherhood, consequently, means the diminishment of both love and liberty.

Genuine fatherhood is a combination of authority and love that is expressed in a masculine character.

Another way of stating the mat-

ter is to say that a true father is a responsible man who is a "servant-leader".

A leader will not become an authoritarian or an oppressor if he serves the good of those he leads. At the same time, a father does not become a mere servant by serving, if his service is wed to his leadership.

Fatherhood requires vision.

Hence, ills a leadership position that represents a certain authority. Ills also loving and serving.

Hence, it requires a certain humility.

A number of inadequate replacements of authentic fatherhood have received considerable media attention in recent years.

They include the Deadbeat Dad, the Visiting Father, the SpermDonor Father, the Stepfather, and the Nearby Guy. These substitutes are a far cry from true fatherhood, and are virtually indistinguishable from the Unnecessary Father.

Those who promote singlemotherhood as a legitimate

lifestyle option should consider the indispensable role the father plays in providing discipline and direction for his children, especially his sons.

Studies have confirmed again and again that single mothers have extreme difficulty in controlling their adolescent sons. In the absence of a father, a child will lack an adequate amount of self-control, and will often he the victim of his own impulses.

Children need a father. Indeed. as one writer has expressed it.

"They long for one. irrationally, with all the undiluted strength of a child's hopeful heart."

Raising a child without a father may be a tragic necessity at times, but it can never be viewed as merely a choice. Ills simply not true that all choices are morally equal.

To raise a child without a father, or for a man to disavow his fatherly responsibilities toward his own offspring are choices that are extremely detrimental to children.

On a theological level, the eclipse of God's fatherhood robs all his children of the loving authority they need in order to help inspire them to make more loving and generous moral choice themselves.

Feminists who object to the depiction of God as a father must ask themselves whether the ideological discomfort they may feel by any such depiction compares to the real pain they stand to suffer if boys are not civilised by fathers into becoming good men.

And what better role model is there for earthly fathers than their divine father who is in heaven?

Features

istory's a shod walk away

Sr Anna IIPorta O'Shea (front, left), Sr Hwy Steeie (rear), Paula Boars, Sr Marie Lewis (front), Kathie Margaret Sanchez, Pat Raphael, Clare Woods, lawbara Teale and Cheryl N Young add St Mal Delahunty at the pioneering Misr, Saabs cemetery in Mercedes Convent John's pro-Cathedral, the first Cathok arch in the Sew River Callow

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very diocese develops its own character and very F often because of the early impact of religious onlets.

And WAs Swan River Colony Catholic Church was shaped by the 26 missionaries who stepped ashore 150 years ago, Maranatha students were told during their recent seven week course on the local Church under the tutorship of Father Pat Cunningham.

The Sisters of Mercy and Spanish Benedictines made an early mark on the local scene, he said, followed shortly after by the "French" nuns of St Joseph of the Apparition.

To get a feel for these pioneer missionaries two of the course sessions included a physical walk around Fremantle Church landmarks and the Victoria Square environs.

Religious orders follow a more intense way of spirituality but bishops use them to launch local initiatives. Fr Cunningham explained to the students.

Religious weren't -better" or "holier" than lay people but they were better organised to get projects like schools, orphanages and hospitals under way he pointed out.

At Fremantle St Patrick's Basilica Fr Henry McFall described the arrival of the Oblates a century ago. when the Church was simultaneously opening up to the efforts of the Christian Brother and the St John of God and Presentation Orders.

Down near the Orient Hotel the students saw where the party came ashore and stayed their first night in the Emerald Isle Hotel.

Sister Helen Giles told the story

of the Apparition Sisters starting their first school in the same Henry Street a decade later.

In Perth. the students sat in the St John's church that was a bleak ruin when the pioneers reached it on January 9 1846.

After a reading there of the Pope's 1845 decree setting up the Church in WA. Sister AnnaMaria O'Shea walked the party through the pioneer Sisters' cemetery and the adjacent convent.

The older section of St Mary's Cathedral and the Cathedral Presbytery opposite illustrated what the Spanish Benedictines, diverted from their New Norcia work for Aborigines, did for Perth CatholiGs, The 1930 St Mary's Cathedral told a different story of how the Perth Church was thinking at the time, the students discovered.

Merely completing today the design envisaged 70 years ago would not take into account how the Church had changed in that time Fr Cunningham told the students.

A local Church was the product of practical decisions, good and bad, made by flesh and blood people, ecclesiastical and lay, trying to follow the Spirit, he told the group.

Catholics needed to learn and understand the importance the Church places on the local bishop. with all his human limitations. being the building base of a truly local priestly, prophetic and governing mission in which all the baptised shared, he told them.

Not only did WA now have four distinctly different diocesan Churches. but recent war conflicts had brought about the establish-

front of St

ment here of the Ukrainian Catholic and Melkite Catholic Churches with their own bishops and customs, he said.

He said not knowing, or misunderstanding the organisational structures flowing from this fact could result in a poor or mistaken understanding of the Church.

On the other hand. the Church's canon laws have been radically rewritten to describe the Church after Vatican II. he pointed out. but too few realise the rights and responsibilities that are now part of Church life, especially for the laity.

Studying local happenings and personalities instead of cold theorl,- was an easier way to understand the complexity of the Church. Fr Cunningham said by way of explanation of the method his course had followed.

Spreading the word of God is a dawn till dusk job for Fr D'Souza

By Colleen INcGuiness-Howard

H

ave Bible Will Travel is probably the best way to describe Father Terence [)'Souza who's just completed a packed Novena to Our Lady of Good Health - Vailannkanni at Embleton last week.

Yes- heaps of bibles and heaps of travel have been a large part of his thirty years of priesthood and he's as keen as ever to keep travelling and preaching, because that's a major part of his vocation.

Born in Burma. Fr Terence has spent the majority of his priesthood working in or operating out of India.

Currently based in Dibrugarh. in the north east state of Assam, he is also editor of the Dibrugarh newsletter which goes to ten countries and to many bishops in India.

To date he's been invited to bring the Word of God into 23 countries and this is his third visit to Australia.

Fr Terence is a charming man with a personality which must surely be an asset as he takes his Operation Martin (in its 12th year) Into the villages of the ten dioceses throughout the north east of India.

Named after St Martin of Tours, a fourth century missioner known as the Apostle of the Villages, Operation Martin has proven highly successful in bringing the

bible into people's lives. It is head- Italian. Latin and English. Bibles ed by Fr Terence and usually in English. Sadree. Assamese. and includes a bible animator, a local Hindi, are given to every particicatechist and a touring Sister of pant whether literate or illiterate. the parish where the camp is If illiterate, Fr Terence believes it being held, promotes literacy, but more Only 2.5 per cent of India's teem- importantly "just holding the ing population of 990 million (80 bible in hand and reverencing it per cent of whom live in villages) brings us a step closer to God." are Catholic_ The Word of God is explained to But this is an incentive, not a the people and each evening they deterrent for Fr Terence. go to the various Catholic homes But this is an incentive, not a and install a Bible on their famideterrent for Fr Terence who ly altar, in a special ceremony. remarks that feedback after one Testifying to the thirst of people Bible camp, revealed that four to drink in the Word of God. Fr days after its conclusion, 170 peo- Terence said crowds ranged from ple approached the local priest 250 to 1,600 at some camps, with asking for Catholic baptism. a 40 to 50 per cent non-Christian Operation Martin Bible Camps content -proving the tremendous last for five days, during which Fr hunger in the heart of every man Terence would be given a little for God." room and shared family food.

When leaving a village Fr TerThen it's off on an action-packed rence urges the people to let their day with a 6 am start and an 11 lives be an example and to share pm ftnish preaching to adults and their faith with non-participant children with bible songs, audio villagers who may have heard the tapes, studies, skits, choral read- mission through the public ing, prayer, bible meditation. address system. administration of the sacraments.

Camps are also offered for and 16 mm bible films plus school children and college stuvideos. dents.

In each village, the predominant Citing India as being in general language is used both in preach- a very religious country, Fr Tering and for bible films depicting ence said the Catholics are very scenes from the Creation to the strong in their faith.

Acts of the Apostles -which give But because of the recent Hindu them the rudiments of the faith," Revival there, churches have been multi lingual Fr Terence desecrated, priests and religious explained. physically attacked, and two sisLuckily, he speaks three Indian ters killed. languages, as well as Burmese.

In some Hindu states, Catholic

Fr Timm DToozoin *sort of St Mary's Calleekal dirk, kb meat visit priests or religious are not given permission to enter. but Fr Terence instanced one state 18 years ago where a priest entered incognito and successfully brought out children to be educated in Catholic schools in another state.

These children then took back

the faith into their own families and as a result of that priest's foray, as of the last three years, two parishes and schools have been started with a couple of priests and sisters working in them while the Catholic population has now risen to 80.000.

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Movies

The problem with Visual panache and a certain old charm shaving somebody T else's legs

By Aileen Hawkes

D

ating the Enemy is very much a 'good for a giggle' modem romantic comedy which combines all of the elements of love, relationships, commitment and gender antipathy to produce a light. fast moving, funny film. It is also an Australian film.

It's the story of Brett the host of A n WV-style television show, and lash, a science journalist, who fall In love despite their apparent differences.

He is organised, beautifully groomed and egotistical whereas she is an intellectual: a little awkwant. untidy and disorganised.

'Dm) years pass and they are in the process of falling out of love when something mystical happens. 'rash wishes that Brett was in her shoes and when they wake up he Is, metaphorically speaking that Is. They are forced to live each other's lives and through this get to know each other from a different perspective.

Dating the Enemy is quite different because of the nature of the switch and the fact that each of the couple is able to investigate the other's life.

There are many extremely

Bret, who is now rash, gives rash, who is now Brett, a headlock while making a point in Dating the Enemy, a comedy about switching gender identities.

funny episodes. These generate a great deal of laughter as various situations, common to all of us, are explored from the differing positions.

For example the female partner being relegated to the kitchen for most of a dinner party and the `chatting up" of Thsh/Brett by socalled friends.

Claudia Karvan of The Big Steal and The Heartbreak Kid fame is Tash while Guy Pearce, the

youngest drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. is Brett.

While they both met the challenge of playing switched roles well, it was interesting to note that while Tash tended to become more vibrant and confident. Brett. rather than seeming sensitive and soft appeared just a little weak.

Recommended for an entertaining night out for the more adult members of the family.

he Phantom" (Paramount) may be bulldozed at the box office by high-tech action thrillers but it has a certain old-fashioned charm and visual panache that set it apart.

The adventure movie is based on Lee Falk's comic-strip begun in 1936 and still appearing.

The Phantom (Billy Zane), also known as The Ghost Who Walks, is a mysterious, masked, purple-clad figure who lives in and has protected the jungle, for hundreds of years.

His mission is passed down from father to son: outsiders think he is a myth: native tribes think he is immortal.

Back in a swanky-looking Ne‘‘ York of the late 1930s, spunk adventuress Diana Palmer (Kristy Swanson) decides to head for the jungle to find out what is drawing power-mad millionaire )(ander Drax (livat Williams) there.

It turns out Drax has acquired one, and soon two, of three magic skulls which together can unleash a power that will put the world at his evil feet.

Who better to foil him than the fearless Phantom? Especially since before becoming the latest Phantom, the young man lived in New York and dated the now-endangered Diana.

But Max has allied with latterday pirates in search of the skulls so the opportunities are ample for swashbuckling derring-do as the interested parties drcle the globe to capture the climactic cranium.

Where many recent movies

The Ghost Who Walks - or wades.

have pushed the envelope by magnifying mayhem and violence. director Simon Wincer seems more concerned with delivering a lively, colourful adventure than in shocking his audience_ Speaking of fashions. the picture's production design is a swell leap hack to the '30s, as dapper Dans and slinky sirens are seen in vintage Pan Am Clippers and sleek automobiles.

The action may be a tad tame, but the movie is never visually dull.

Because of some stylised violence and frequent menace, the US Catholic Conference cla.ssification is A-II - adults and adolescents.

Cinema brilliance among Top drama comes from tog of war all the secrets and lies S

By Mary AIM Ryill

S

ecrets and Lies is a brilliantly directed and acted film which brings to life the very ordinary lives of a British working class family.

A story of acceptance, compassion, love and personal growth made possible by the revelation of family secrets, this film leaves the viewer with a sense of hope that life can only get better.

The opening scene induces the viewer to expect a depth of detail not often seen in movies today.

Set in a cemetery on a sunny day, the camera presents images of love and death all around us.

Overturned, disintegrating, lichen-covered headstones contrast with trees splendid in their greenery, and the half empty tanks of the town's gasworks

standing in the background, as a black family bury their dead.

For Hortense, who had a happy, loving relationship with her adoptive family. the death of her adoptive mother triggers the search for her birth mother. Cynthia. a factory worker.

Cynthia's brother, Maurice is a successful photographer whose wife, Monica, has somehow thwarted the close relationship between the two. The guilt Maurice feels is almost palpable.

The family get together for Roxanne's 21st birthday is totally upset by Cynthia's revelation that Hortense is Roxanne's half sister.

But out of the ensuing chaos come more truths, and although some serious questions remain. for the time being. unanswered. calm, understanding and forgiveness prevail.

Well worth seeing.

tanding apart from the latest mostly mindless movies is the thoughtful drama, Courage Under Fire".

Denzel Washington stars as guilt-ridden Army tank commander Nathaniel Serling. back from the Gulf war, where, in the nighttime confusion of combat, he ordered one of his own tanks fired upon. killing several men.

His superior assigns Serling to rubber-stamp the Medal of Honour candidacy of Medavac pilot Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan), killed in the Gulf several months earlier.

The tortured Serling has withdrawn emotionally from his wife (Regina Taylor) and children and started drinking heavily.

However, he takes his new assignment seriously. and when discrepancies turn up after interviewing the four soldiers under Walden's command on the fateful night, Serling won't budge on giving a hasty approval.

It seems when Walden's rescue chopper crash-landed (shown in flashbacks), leaving them stranded - and likely doomed behind enemy lines overnight, she either was a fearless, selfless leader as the medic (Matt Damon) recalls, or in gutless hysterics. according to the macho gunner

(Lou Diamond Phillips). With a probing script from Patrick Sheane Duncan and precise direction by Edward Zwick. the drama is powerful and absorbing.

Swelling music and a soft ending mar the movie's serious thrust, but overall "Courage Under Fire" can be saluted.

The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Al Alaska, All Basquiat, AIV The Cable Guy, AM Carpool, AM Celestial Clockwork, AM Chain Reaction, AM Cold Comfort Farm, All Courage Under Fire, AM The Craft, AM Dragonheart, All Eddie, AM Emma, All Eraser. 0 Escape from LA., AM

The Fan, AN Fargo. AN Fled, 0 The Frighteners, AM Harriet the Spy, All Heavy, AM House Arrest, AM The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Al Independence Day, A111 The Island of Dr. Moreau, AM Jack. AM Kansas City, AIV Kazaam, All Kingpin, AM Lone Star, AM

Manny & Lo. AM Matilda, All Maybe, Maybe Not, 0 Mission: Impossible, AM Multiplicity. Al!!

Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud, AIII The Nutty Professor, AM Oliver & Company, AI The Phantom, All Phenomenon, AM Rendezvous in Paris, All The Rock 0 She's the One, AM Solo, AM The Spitfire Grill, All Spy Hard. AM

Stealing Beauty, AN Supercop. All Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood, 0 A Time to Kill. AN Tin Cup, AIII Toy Story, Al Trainspotting, 0 The 11.uth About Cats & Dogs.

AN liffister. AM A Very Brady Sequel, AM Walking and Talking. AM Welcome to the Dollhouse. AM

Dietzel Washington mattes a point with macho gunner, Lei Diamond Phillips

Movie Ratings NEW YORK (CNS) - Here is a list of recent films the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting has rated on the basis of moral suitability.

USCC classifications: A-I - general patmnage; A-II - adults and adolescents; A-III - adults; A-IV adults, with reservations (this indicates films that, while not morally offensive in themselves, are not for casual viewing because they require some analysis and explanation in order to avoid false impressions and interpretations); 0- morally offensive.

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More WA news

Minister meets agencies

By Colleen McGuinness-Howard

WA Minister for 7777777?, Cheryl Edwardes

A meeting convened last Thursday with the Cheryl Edwardes MLA, Vicar General Monsignor Michael Keating and sonic of the 31 agency members of the Catholic Association of Soda! Services, allowed concerns to be aired by agencies to the government regarding the new system of contracts and government funding.

Although a statement by Archbishop endorsed the overlapping of government and Church philosophies he expressed concern at aspects of the system.

Pointing to contract time limitations which are subject to 'eduction through unilateral government financial cuts or extinction, such as Skillshare.

Archbishop Hickey said time-limited contracts give no guarantee a renewed contract would not be given to someone else.

The Archbishop's statement said if Catholic agencies were to depend entirely on government contracts, we could soon cease to

exist completely and eliminate nearly 150 years of tradition."

While asking CASS to continue to dialogue in the matter of contracts. Archbishop Hickey said we would not want to be seen as simply government agencies or simply agents of government."

Should there be any change envisaged in government philosophy. we would be grateful for an involvement in the decision making process, because our own future will be affected and our viability likewise."

C.ASS Chairperson. Mr Alan Jennings, said Church groups were concerned over the high emphasis placed on "efficiency and effectiveness" criteria.

He said the new criteria appeared to have become the main benchmark in determining the worth of a service.

This has devalued the human dignity of persons most in need as the primary criteria used to provide welfare services by Church based groups." he said.

If efficiency is perceived primarily as less cast, he said. pro-

Catholic Association of Sodisi knrices represerrtatives at the meeting.

viding "caring and human centred services becomes very difficult."

And if effectiveness was perceived as the lowest common denominator, good quality services would inevitably become average, he said.

In reply. Mrs Edwardes stressed the limit on available government fund.s.

She said agencies were sup-

posed to declare any surplus from government allocated funds for a contract, and technically speaking return that amount.

"In fact no one has been asked to do so." she said.

Mrs Edwardes also welcomed continuing dialogue dealing with concerns and issues which would arise as a result of the amtracts and Award which is due to be implemented shortly.

Annual meeting hears of busy year New roles at Notre Dame for Catholic Womens' League It's been a busy year for the Catholic Women's League members who've attended 42 different functions and knitted 152 blankets for the Society of St Vincent de Paul.

Not only that. but they've raised S4.000 which they presented to Rector Father Paul Fogarty of the St Charles Seminary, at their archdiocesan Annual General Meeting recently.

Having spoken highly of the CWL Fr Fogarty said there were now eight seminarians in residence with three more young men in preliminary courses.

Making the point that although it seemed unfortunate that many more had begun

training and then dropped out, "their studies and spiritual training would never be wasted." he said.

Meanwhile in her report.

CWL Archdiocesan President Bernadette KowaId referred to the "mysterious role of suffering in lives.

She said that one of our great strengths stems from our complete love for God and our trust In Him, and from the love we share together as members of our League." she told CWL members.

Going on to say that only those who have been so blessed by our Dear Lord who has asked us to accept suffering or the grief of bereavement. can

fully know the comfort drawn from receiving such love and support. so much sharing and caring.

Mrs KowaId urged members to always be there for each other.

She showed her appreciation to members in attendance. 'especially those who have travelled from the country and from Bunbury Diocese."

In her address. Mrs KowaId showed her -great appreciation and understanding" of the wonderful values of the CWL and challenged members to ask themselves what they could do for the League rather than enquire what they were getting out of it.

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MANNING & ASSOCIATES

Dr Jells Weed The University of Notre Dame in Fremantle. has announced the appointments of two new Deputy Vice-Chancellors.

Taking up their new positions with the harbourside university will be Professor John Wood and Professor Peter Dallimore.

Professor Dallimore is Dean of Notre Dame's Arts and Sciences College and will retain that position as he fulfils the duties associated with

Dr Peter DelImre his new role. Professor Wood will also retain his existing responsibilities as Dean of the university's Business College.

As a Deputy Vice-Chancellor. professor Dallimore will have responsibility for finance and resources.

Professor Wood will be responsible for academic affairs.

Notre Dame is a private university, established by the Catholic Church and has been teaching since 1992.

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Catholic Lawn Tennis 1996.

-1Wenty-two year old Jennifer Coffe . representing the Thomlie Tennis Club. was crowned Miss W.\ Catholic Lawn Tennis Association at the Association's annual dinner dance recently.

This event was held at the WACA Boundary Room in the Lillee-Marsh stand on Saturday evening 24 August.

Jennifer did her schooling at Saint Mary's Primary School in Kalgoorlie and Corpus Christi College.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with dancing from Edith Cowan University.

Jennifer teaches dance and is a cheerleader of the Western Reds, recently winning a part in the Australian production of Aida.

She will represent %VA in the Nils,: Australian Catholic Lawn Tennis Miss WA CleSat Lawn Teen& AssociaAssociation to he held in Perth later tion, 19* JesaIter Coffey. this year.

Between Christmas and New Year.

The evening also included the 1996 Perth will be hosting a National TenPennant trophy presentation. The nis Carnival. Anyone wishing to winning teams were: Division I - help or get involved, please phone Manning; Division 2 - Bicton: and Peter Quain on 387 7070.

Division 3 - Gosnells.

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International News

Papal visit to France comes under more fire

By Lynne Well VACICAN CITY (CNS) - A controversy over the legacy of a fifthcentury French leader has caused protests throughout France in advance of Pope John Raul ll's trip there from September 19-22.

The Vatican has made no comment on the subject. though it has been an issue of debate among French politicians, historians and faithful for weeks.

A number of people have even demanded to be taken off the Church rolls over the matter.

At issue is a Mass planned for the morning of September 22, when the Pope is to commemorate the 1,500th anniversary of the baptism of Clovis, considered the first king of France.

By embracing Catholicism, the former pagan king solidified France's recognition as the - -eldest daughter of the Church,- a distinction to which many today point 1.vith pride.

The Pope is to acknowledge the event at an airport in Reims, the city where. in 496, Clovis' conversion is said to have taken place.

Reims has been the focus all year of exhibits, lectures and other events, and a federal government committee has been appointed to oversee commemorations nationwide.

None of the events has attracted as much apparent dissent as the papal visit to Reims.

Some groups objecting to it because of Pope John Paul's stance on abortion and other matters are using the stop in Reims as a focal point for protests.

Nationalists have found this an occasion to rally supporters in a display of French pride.

And some people say they prefer to keep matters of the Church separate from those of the state and point to Clovis as a leader of all the French, not just the Catholics.

Clovis became leader of the

Missing Scots bishop resigns

In his statement. Bishop Wright said he was anxious to ask forMANCHESTER. England (CNS) giveness for all the harm and hurt - Scots Bishop Roderick Wright caused by his actions, and espeannounced on September 16 he cially that caused to his family is seeking to resign as bishop after and that of McPhee.

"In particular I ask pardon of my it was learned he had been missbrother priests in the diocese and :ng for a week, am physically and spiritually my brother bishops in Scotland." unable to sustain the responsibil- he said. ities of a diocesan bishop and ask wish to remain a committed to be released of my office as bish- member of the Catholic Church. op of Argyll and the Isles. I ask "I now wish a time of privacy to your forgiveness and prayers.- the reflect on my future as I await bishop's statement said. acceptance of my resignation as The statement was issued fol- bishop," he added. lowing a private meeting of the Bishop Wright did not state bishop and Cardinal Thomas whether he was hoping to marry Winning of Glasgow. and Arch- McPhee. bishop Keith O'Brien of St Church-goers in the northern Andrews and Edinburgh, Scot- Scots Diocese of Argyll and the land.

Isles were asked on September 15 Speaking at a press conference to pray for Bishop Wright. who on September 16. Cardinal Win- had not been seen at his home in ning said. "I think that the man Oban for a week. has been under a terrible strain Church officials in Scotland confor a number of months, if not firmed that Bishop Wright. 56. had years, and having lost a very close not been seen since September 9. sister in the last few months, he is when he had tried to telephone just about at the end of his tether.

Cardinal Winning, president of He insisted on resigning.

"We tried to point out that when the Scots bishops' conference.

He was reported as having you are in a state of turbulence Inside and upset, that this was not missed a number of appointthe time to make big decisions, ments during the week of Sepbut he felt that there was no going tember 9.

Father Tom Connelly, director of back. He could no longer be what he wanted to be, and that was a the Scots Catholic Media Office, good bishop." said Cardinal Win- said he had been preparing for a potential scandal and massive ning.

The September 15 edition of the media interest.

"Yesterday I had more than 55 Mail on Sunday newspaper reported that the bishop was calls." he said in a telephone being linked with a 40-year-old interview on September 15.

"They started at 6 in the morndivorcee, Kathleen McPhee.

The mother of two was said to ing and went on right through the have been receiving counselling day and night. I even had a call from the bishop following the from the Sunday Times at 1:20 in breakdown of her marriage. the morning."

By Paulinus Barnes

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Salian Franks at age 15 and is credited with subsequently uniting the many Frankish tribes into one strong state - mostly by murdering or ordering the murders of other Frankish kings.

He expanded his realm to the Alps, the Pyrenees and the Rhine, defeating the Visigoths and other tribes that had long controlled southern and western Europe.

Married to a Catholic princess named Cloti1de. he converted to Catholicism.

This placed the Church's authority at the king's disposal and may have opened doors for his army as it advanced into new territory.

Clovis was baptised along with 3.000 of his men. Historians agree that this was done on Christmas Day, but they debate whether the year was 496 or later.

Among the people who have protested the recognition accorded to Clovis this year is a group calling itself "Clovis is Not

France." The argue that the Church and state have been officially separated since 1905, so there is no place in modern France for a state-sponsored celebration of a Catholic milestone.

The group has been in regular and increasingly active contact with the French press and foreign journalists based in France ever since the papal visit was announced last January.

In a newspaper article printed in mid-August. Archbishop Gerard Defois of Reims said the dispute was ironic because Clovis is best-remembered as the man who united France, not as one who divided it along nationalist or religious lines.

The Archdiocese of Reims has responded to the protests with a low-key public relations campaign of its own.

Goureau, Father Bernard spokesnuin for the archdiocese, said in late August that he gets -five to 10 calls a week" from

reporters wanting comment .on Clovis and the controversy.

Archbishop Defois told Vatican Radio in early September that it is important to respond to the debate in a positive manner, "with the spiritual rediscovery of the baptism of Clovis, rather than with polemic language meant to confront our adversaries."

Meanwhile. Cardinal JeanMarie I.ustiger of Paris told the French daily newspaper Le Figaro that -to attack the Pope is to sacrifice French history." since France and Catholicism are intertwined.

Trying to classify the event as purely Church or state-related would overlook its overall meaning. Cardinal Lustiger told Le Figam tie added that everyone in France can identify with the baptism of Clovis because "the national (=science is made up of communal memory."

Doctors clear Mother Teresa after bruising fall from her bed at home CAW( rITA. India (CNS) Mother liwesa suffered a bruise near her right eye after falling from her bed at the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse the afternoon of September 10.

A Missionaries of Charity spokeswoman said Mother Teresa complained of light-headedness after her fall and was taken by ambulance to the intensive cardiac care unit of Woodlands Nursing Home.

She was conscious and sitting up in a wheelchair when she arrived at the hospital.

Her injury was reported not serious. but she underwent a brain scan at the hospital and remained there for a checkup.

A hospital statement said: "Mother Teresa had a fall this morning and sustained a minor injury in her head. Her condition is not serious." "Mother can see well and is keeping fine." the Press Thust of India quoted a doc-

Mother Teresa prays on September 10 at a ceremony to mar* 50 years of her service to the poor in the Missionaries of Charily.

C,'4S -tor as saying. The Nobel laureate was released on September 6 from the same hospital after

spending 18 days recovvring from heart problems, a lung infection and malaria. -She doesn't have any teniperature but her cardiac irregularih continues." the September 10 statement said.

Mother Teresa. 86, attended the final profession of five Missionaries of Charity brothers in Calcutta September 8. the first event she participated in since leaving the hospital two days earlier.

Her appearance at her usual place in the chapel of the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse on September 8 caused a slight commotion and made heads turn.

She sat in a wheelchair, a service leaflet in her hands. reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

On September 10 she observed the beginning of the order's Jubilee year to commemorate her inspiration September 10. 1946, when God called her to serve the poorest of the poor.

Cardinal calls for Italian unity

ROME (CNS) - Leading Italian Church figures were urging unity in the final days before a declared secession of the country's wealthy northern provinces.

Separatists were scheduled to propose forming a "Republic of Padania" at a rally in Venice Sept.

15 to distance the North from the central government in Rome and from taxes used to support the South.

No formal election was scheduled, and opinion polls registered a negligible minority favouring the separation.

But Church leaders were taking the movement seriously and expressed disapproval.

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini of Milan issued a pastoral letter on September 9 calling for integration.

He asked the faithful to pay attention -to genuine historical and traditional values, such as those that gave the Italian nation moral, cultural and religious unity well before political unity was achieved."

Until Italy was unified in 1870, the region was ruled by popes. princes and various European powers.

The movement to split Italy is headed by Umberto Bossi, leader of the political party called the Northern League. which won up

to 30 percent of the vote in northern provinces in April's national election.

Much of the country's wealth is in the North. along with the headquarters of many of Italy's more successful companies.

Some northern taxpayers complain that their contributions are drained away from the region to prop up development in the poorer southern half of Italy.

Others say they are fed up with the federal bureaucracy and the slow pace of reform.

The Northern League intends to set up a government of its own and have full independence from the rest of Italy within a year.

UK Church report on child abuse released LONDON (CNS) - People in the Church need to learn to listen to those who have suffered from childhood sexual abuse, according to a report by a committee of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales published in midSeptember.

The report. "Healing the Wound of Child Sexual Abuse," was produced by a committee of the bishops' conference set up in 1993, chaired by Auxiliary Bishop Terence John Brain of Birmingham. to investigate how the Church

could offer care and support to victims of abuse and their families.

The members of the committee included a clinical psychologist, a mother. the assistant general secretary of the bishops' conference and the secretary of the bishops' social welfare committee.

Half the members were lay people, half of them clergy. The committee consulted bishops, priests, doctors, child welfare workers and survivors of sexual abuse.

The report urged the Church to:

• Appreciate the depth of pain in the lives of those who suffer.

• Listen carefully to those who are victims and survivors and acknowledge their prophetic voice in the Church.

• Promote open dialogue about child sexual abuse in the Church.

• Activate pastoral resources.

It calls on Catholics to acknowledge the reality of child sexual abuse within their communities and to become more confident in responding to the needs of victims and survivors.

International News

How saints make the Church's 'Hall of Fame'

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Just because you're a saint doesn't guarantee that anyone outside your homeland will remember you on your feast day.

Pope John Paul II. having declared more than 250 new saints in his 18-year pontificate, could have almost single-handedly filled the Church's liturgical calendar with observances of saints.

But he has added only a sprinkling of obligatory and optional memorials to the (..;eneral Roman Calendar for the Universal Church.

The calendar determines which saint or feast is remembered at Mass and in the Liturgy of the Hours each day around the world.

Three of Pope John Paul's additions, all optional memorials. irinounced by the Vatican in

1996: St Adalbert (also known as St Wojciech), a 10th-century bishop and martyr whose missionary activity took him all over central and eastern Europe. His feast day is April 23.

• St Peter Julian Eymard, a 19thcentury French priest and founder of the Congregation of the Priests of the Blessed Sacrament.

His feast day is August 2.

• St Peter Claver, a Jesuit missionary sent to South America in the early 1800s, where he ministered to African slaves and fought to improve the conditions under which they lived.

The three changes to the universal calendar were the first additions since 1989.

The news was not the stuff of headlines, quite unlike the revision of the universal calendar in 1989.

That's when St Christopher and

dozens of others were stricken The 1989 addition was the from the list of holy men and November 24 feast of the Vietwomen remembered around the namese martyrs. world.

To reflect the universal nature of Most of the -expelled" were rel- the Church. the first group of maregated to the "proper calendars" tyrs from a particular country to of individual dioceses, religious be canonised are inserted in the orders or nations. said Jesuit universal calendar for all CathoFather Mario Lessi, head of the lics to honour. liturgy section at the CongregaThe Vatican said adding St Peter tion for Worship and Sacraments. Claver to the universal calendar The reform aimed at ensuring was a response to requests from the calendar was not so filled with -prelates in many and various saints that events in the life of Parts of the world."

Jesus were overshadowed and But even before his inclusion, Liturgical seasons such as Advent his feast was internationally celeand Lent lost their focus. brated.

The criteria for deciding which Local bishops' conferences had saints to remove from the gener- decided his work for brotherhood al calendar were similar to those and justice was so exemplary and still used to decide who should be worthy of imitation that he was added: historical certainty, geo- Inserted in their countries calengraphic representation and uni- dars. versal Importance. Father Lessi The Pope announces the feast said. day at the canonisation ceremo-

Faith, conviction call for Catholics in Indonesia

By Lynne Well VATICAN CITY (CNS) Catholics in Indonesia, faced with new political tensions, need more than ever to have faith and strength of conviction. Pope John Paul II told visiting bishops from Indonesia in mid-September.

Indonesian Catholics "in cooperation with the followers of other religious traditions, will continue to play their part in building a society capable of ensuring that the dignity of all citizens is upheld and respected." the Pope said.

"They are especially eager to contribute to the integral progress of the nation when it finds itself in difficult and complex situations."

The pontiff said the political riots that took place in Jakarta in late July brought "concern and suffering to all those who truly have the good of Indonesia at heart."

Government forces killed at least three people in the incidents. and hundreds more were injured.

Pope John Paul's remarks were addressed to the second group of Indonesian bishops on their 'ad limina" visits to the Vatican this year.

Bishops from around the world make the trip every five years to discuss conditions in their dioceses.

Cardinal Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja of Jakarta. chairman of the Indonesian bishops' conference. told the Pope during a group audience that a religious awakening among Indonesian Muslims has sparked new awareness of their social and political responsibilities.

We are, on the one hand happy. because religions are considered to be important in the life of the people," Cardinal Darmaatmadja said.

"On the other hand, we know that religion can he easily misused by certain politicians to obtain political power. This will really do harm to our traditional good relationship with our Muslim brothers."

Indonesia is 90 percent Muslim

and about 2.6 per cent Catholic.

Cardinal Darmaatmadja reported that several recent political incidents have aggravated tension between Muslims and Christians there.

In parts of Indonesia. Catholics are in the majority. For example.

Archbishop Longinus da Cuhna of F.nde says his diocese is 95 percent Catholic.

"There have been no Problems with Muslims among us." he said in a telephone interview with CNS at the end of his "ad limina" visit.

"But we have to build up and maintain dialogue with them."

Bishop Hilarius Moa Nurak of Pangkal-Pinang, a diocese covering the islands in the South China Sea, says the main problems in his diocese are an increase in crime and illegal drug use.

"There are some difficulties coming up now that we never thought we would have to face." he said after meeting privatel with the Pope.

"These are the special challenges that I told him about."

Fears for key Nicaraguan election MANAGUA, Nicaragua (CNS) Church leaders in Nicaragua have expressed concern over preparations for October elections, in particular the lack of voting cards.

'This is a very worrying situation. . . . People should have their voting cards in time for voting."

Cardinal Miguel °hand° Bravo of Managua said on September 12.

"Let's hope the authorities keep their promise to distribute them." he added.

Less than half of Nic,aragua's 2.7 million voters have obtained their voting cards and might not do so In time for the general elections scheduled for October 20. according to official observers of the

Organisation of American States.

"It's worrying that with the elections so near the authorities still have so many documents to hand over," Oscar Santamaria, head of the OAS observers, told reporters in Managua.

Church sources told Catholic News Service that the problem is especially difficult in remote areas of the countryside, the scene of hitter combats in the 1980s between the army and USbacked counter-revolutionaries.

"There could be serious problems in the voting in these areas." one Church leader told CNS. Due to the impossibility of distributing permanent voting cards in time for the elections authori-

ties have organised emergency registration facilities in some 26 rural municipalities.

Officials at the Supreme Electoral Council, responsible for organising the electoral process, blamed the delays on underfunding and logistical problems.

They also warned that there are insufficient funds to finance a possible second-round run-off for the presidency The race for the presidency. in which 23 candidates are taking part, is the first election to be held since the 1990 electoral defeat of the Sandinista regime. which governed the country for 10 years following the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship.

ny. but bishops and religious orders decide whether or not to seek Vatican approval to add it to their annual calendars.

What tips the balance for inclusion in the universal calendar is international grass-roots support and the cause to which the saint devoted his or her life. Father Lessi said.

-For example, at a time when the importance of confession is seen to be lessening or Marian devotion is decreasing, then a saint who knew the value of confession or who was truly devoted to Mary could be inscribed as an aid to reviving a practice." he said.

The decree for St Peter Evmard's inclusion mentions petitions, but emphasises the saint's devotion to the Eucharist and his belief that "the eucharistic mystery is the centre of the whole life of the Christian community"

Pope condemns an archbishop's murder

Archbishop Ruhuna Osumi* bodies of 304 Burundians killed in a masshap himself was slain on September 9. sacre on July 23. The an

V ATICAN CITY NS) - Pope John Paul II deplored the slaying of a Burundian archbishop. calling it the latest chapter of unprecedented violence in the predominantly Catholic nation.

Archbishop Joachim Ruhuna of Gitega, a member of the Thtsi minority was murdered on September 9.

A car carrying the archbishop. two nuns and four others was ambushed at Mumngwe: several of the others were also report-

edly slain. The Burundian army blamed Hutu rebels who also accused the army.

The Pope sent prayers to the families of the victims and to the faithful of the Gitega Archdiocese.

Archbishop Ruhuna had been a strong critic of the violence which has killed 150,000 people over the last 3 'ears as well as the influence of extremists in both the Tutsi minority and Hutu majority.

US bishops unite in unprecedented protest \ NSHINGIUN (CNS) - With votes on the override of the veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act expected in the House and Senate before the end of September, eight US cardinals and more than 60 bishops together with religious leaders from several other denominations took their battle against the veto to the steps of the US Capitol.

"I think it's very appropriate that we pray here. Don't you?" asked Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, chairman of the bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities, at the September 12 vigil.

"We pray not as Catholics. Baptists. Lutherans or evangelicals." he said. "We pray for wisdom, truth and hope."

The interfaith prayer vigil on the West Terrace of the Capitol which also attracted about 1.000 lay people and clergy - was the

largest assemblage ever of US Catholic bishops in a public demonstration on federal properOn no other US policy debate in memory has the US Catholic hierarchy taken such a high public profile. In April President Clinton vetoed the bill, which would prohibit one type of abortion used late in pregnancy.

Saying it borders on infanticide.

Church leaders have vocally opposed the procedure, in which a doctor partially delivers the unborn child, stabs surgical scissors into the base of the infant's and suctions the brains out.

At a press briefing before the vigil. Cardinal fames Hickey of Washington said. "We come not as political leaders or as lobbyists, but as people of different faiths united in a common cause.

And that cause is life."

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International News - *

India n prote wome st n Nuclear ban treaty staging of Miss World In Brief

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A proposed Comprehensive Nuclear Thst Ban Treaty is the best agreement possible under current international conditions, a Vatican official said.

-This treaty responds largely to the expectations or world public opinion. Just consider the reaction to the recent nuclear explosions by France and China." Archbishop Giuseppe Bedell° told Vatican Radio on September 9.

India and Pakistan haye refused to sign the treaty

Universe online MANCHESTER. England ((:NS) - Britain's largest-selling Catholic newspaper, The Universe% is back on line after It briefly withdrew its electronic page from the Internet when it learned that its service provider was supplying porn to paedophiles.

In August, The Univorsv's owners, Gabriel Communications, learned that the Demon Internet company was one of 40 British service providers that refused demands by Scotland Yard's child protection unit to put blocks on Internet users supplying child pornography.

US denounced ERIE, Philadelphia. (CNS) Pax Christi USA. the US branch of the Pax Christi International Catholic peace movement, denounced US military action against Iraq and mourned the loss of life and injury fallowing two separate cruise missile attacks in earl1.

September. ''As followers of the nonviolent Jesus. we unequivocally condemn the violent acts of aggression ordered by Saddam Hussein and the retaliatory actions of President Clinton." the organisation said In a September 5 statement.

Pope reviews VATICAN CITY (CNS) Although not able to meet with the Russian Orthodox patriarch. Pope John Paul II called his September visit to Hungary an ecumenical advance that should help ChrisHans along the road to unity.

The Pope, reviewing the trip at a general audience on September 11, said the two-day pilgrimage evoked Europe's long Christian past, including the period before the 11thcentury Catholic-Orthodox split.

Bishop jailed OTTAWA (CNS) - Bishop Hubert Patrick O'Connor, former bishop of Prince George.

British Columbia. was sentenced to two-and-half-years in prison on September 13 for raping a woman in the mid1960s.

Justice Wally Oppal of the British Columbia Supreme Court also sentenced the bishop to three months in prison for sexually assaulting another woman the year after the rape. The term is to be served concurrently with his other sentence.

NEW DELHI, India (CNS) - The Indian bishops' women's commission and female activists are condemning the Miss World beauty contest to be held in the country.

"Pageants like the Miss World contest will destroy the moral and spiritual values in the young generation." said Mother Carmel Sister Cleopatra, secretary of the women's commission.

She said the beauty show is "an indecent display of young women" that does not fit within India's rich cultural heritage. Her remarks were reported by LICA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

"It will only create body consciousness among growing girls and loosen their morality," she said.

"It is sad that Western eyes have started discovering beauty queens in developing countries like India," she said, adding that such contests are part of the politics of globalisation.

India is scheduled in November to host the annual world beauty pageant for the first time, in Bangalore, capital of southern Karnataka state.

Women's groups say that the show will degrade India's moral values and cultural ethos.

Members of the Bangalorebased women's group Mahila jagaran have threatened selfimmolation to protest the show.

A September 2 Wilda jagamn statement said women activists would enter the contest and "burn themselves to death to save the Indian culture.

"This dirty, brazen-faced show will injure the modesty of Indian women," the statement added.

But the Mumbai-based Amitabh Bachachan Corporation, which won the contract to conduct the show, said the pageant would provide an opportunity to present India to a global audience.

Corporation spokesman Sidhardh Rajan said the show, to be telecast to 15 countries, will reach more than 2 billion people.

-India should be proud of hosting the Miss World contest as it will prove the country's marketing and commercial capabilities," !titian said.

One women's activist, Nazareth Sister Shalini D'Souza. disagreed.

"It is not by exhibiting women's bodies that India should prove its marketing potential," she siid. in

India, women are known as role models for modesty, and therefore the Miss World contest is against our cultural traditions," Sister D'Souza said.

She said the millions of dollars to be spent on the show could be better used to promote women's development through programs on education, health care and literacy.

The New Delhi-based All India Democratic Women's Association said its activists would incite countrywide agitation if "this nude and shameful show is not stopped."

In a letter to Prime Minister HD Dew Gowda, the association said the contest is "a crude and crass platform created and sustained by big companies to make profits."

Fullness of faith through love: Pope Cambodian CASI'EL GANDOLFO. Italy (CNS) - While it is possible to use one's intelligence to conclude that God exists, the fullness of faith comes through love. Pope John Paul II said.

Those who call themselves atheists, he said on September 15 in his midday Angelus addrem, usually have not denied God's existence so much as they have rejected an idea of God which is false.

One cannot grasp the true identity of God by reason alone, he told visitors at Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence south of Rome.

God's love and the gift of his son's life, death and resurrection

are what give people faith and hope, the Pope said. "Eastern spirituality in particular underlines the fact that our thoughts and our words can never capture the mystery of God." he said.

But God revealed that mystery to his creatures through the incarnation of Jesus Christ and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the pope said.

Continuing a series of Angelus talks about Eastern Christian spirituality, the Pope said Catholics and Orthodox share an insistence that more than being a doctrine or an event. Christianity is "a person: it is Jesus of Nazareth. He is the heart of the Christian faith."

Pope John Paul quoted the mod-

ern Russian writer Semen Frank: -Hie idea of a God who descended into the world, who suffers voluntarily and takes part in human and cosmic sufferings, the idea of a God-man who suffers. . . . is the only convincing justification of God." "This is the message which Christians of the East and West are called to proclaim ever more jointly as the third millennium approaches," the Pope said.

The cross of Christ is the reason people can live with hope. he said.

The Pope prayed that Mary would help all Christians "develop a love for Jesus Christ which is always more personal. profound and consistent."

Vatican paper praises US on marriage VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican newspaper hailed US congressional passage of the Defence of Marriage Act, saying it was a common-sense rejection of same-sex unions.

"To pretend to raise homosexual unions to the level of matrimonial institution represPnts a challenge to good sense, reason and law." the newspaper.

L'Osservatore Romano. said in an editorial on September 12.

It said marriage between a man and a woman is divinely ordained, whereas homosexuality represents a moral deviation that should never be treat-

ed as a civil right. The editorial was written by Father Gino Concetti, a moral theologian.

On September 10, the US Senate voted 85-14 to approve a bill that would allow states to ignore same-sex marriages sanctioned in other states.

The bill, passed earlier by the House of Representatives, has the support of President Clinton.

The Vatican editorial praised the United States for showing more "strength and courage" than European countries in protecting the value of marriage and family. In passing the bill. Congress resisted pressures by homosexual groups, it said.

profession PHNOM PENH. Cambodia (CNS) - Filipino missionary Sister Elizabeth Castro made her perpetual profession as a Salesian Sister of Don Bosco, the first religious profession in Cambodia in more than 20 years.

Some 200 Catholic adulk and scores of Cambodian youths. most of them students of Sister Castro, witnessed the two-hour event. reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

Sister Castm's profession in mid-August was seen as another sign that the oncesuppressed Church of Cambodia is gradually regaining its freedom and identity.

The Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot, ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1978 and tried to wipe out all traces of the Church and suppress other religions.

Last year Father Pierre Sophal lbnlop was ordained for the apostolic prefecture of Battambang, the first ordination of a Cambodian in 20 years.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church Participation in social life: Authority 1897 "Human society can be neither well-ordered nor prosperous unless it has some people invested with legitimate authority to preserve its institutions and to devote themselves as far as is necessary to work and care for the good of all. By "authority" one means the quality by virtue of which persons or institutions make laws and give orders to men and expect obedience from them.

1898 Every human community needs an authority to govern it.

The foundation of such authority lies in human nature. Ills necessary for the unity of the state. Its role is to ensure as far as possible the common good of the society.

1899 The authority required by the moral order derives from God: "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have

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been instituted by God. Therefore power that you have given to he who resists the authorities them, they may find favour with resists what God has appointed, you? and those who resist will incur 1901 If authority belongs to the judgment." order established by God, "the 1900 The duty of obedience choice of the political regime and requires all to give due honour to the appointment of rulers are left authority and to treat those who to the free decision of the citiare charged to exercise it with zens." respect, and, insofar as it is The diversity of political regimes deserved, with gratitude and is morally acceptable, provided they serve the legitimate good of good-will.

Pope St Clement of Rome pro- the communities that adopt them. vides the Church's most ancient Regimes whose nature is contrary prayer for political authorities: to the natural law, to the public "Grant to them, Lord, health, order, and to the fundamental peace, concord, and stability, so rights of persons cannot achieve that they may exercise without the common good of the nations offense the sovereignty that you on which they have been have given them. Master. heaven- Imposed. ly King of the ages, you give glory, 1902 Authority does not derive honour, and power over the its moral legitimacy from itself. It things of earth to the sons of men. must not behave in a despotic Direct, Lord, their counsel, fol- manner, but must act for the comlowing what is pleasing and mon good as a "moral force based acceptable in your sight, so that on freedom and a sense of responby exercising with devotion and sibility": in peace and gentleness the , human law has the character of

law to the extent that it accords with right reason, and thus derives from the eternal law. Insofar as it falls short of right reason it is said to be an unjust law, and thus has not so much the nature of law as of a kind of violence.

1903 Authority is exercised legitimately only when it seeks the common good of the group concerned and if it employs morally licit means to attain it.

If rulers were to enact unjust laws or take measures contrary to the moral order, such arrangements would not be binding in conscience.

In such a case, "authority breaks down completely and results in shameful abuse: 1904 "It is preferable that each power be balanced by other powers and by other spheres of responsibility which keep it within proper bounds.

This is the principle of the 'rule of law,' in which the law is sovereign and not the arbitrary will of men."

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The RistbrEtSepterYiber 19.1996 'Page 115

Hiley Trinity„ p414*i.s4 mAtrprit Small parish with a big heart al.11.110.

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he Parish of the Holy Trinity, Embleton, came into existence on Sunday 1 March 1964 but it was not until May that year that Father Jeremiah McNamara and his faithful dog *Paddy' were able to move into the recently built presbytery.

Included within the boundaries of the Parish were most (unfortunately not all) of the newly developed district of Embleton and sections of three other metropolitan districts" Bayswater, Bedford and Morley.

Father McNamara and the parishioners confronted with the challenges of any new parish.

These were compoundtxl when no order of teaching sisters were found able to provide religious teachers to staff the school that was planned for Embleton.

The fact that a school did not proceed on a permanent basis impacted on the level of financial support available to the parish.

During this period Father Jerry became well known for his television appe,ininces, a work he did not much care for but which he developed considerable competence at.

Father McNamara died in 1968 at the age of 45 hut the efforts of

his labours and those who followed him, have been realised.

On 12 Decf.mber 1973 the parish

Handcarved wooden Stations.

Church of the Holy Trinity was blessed and opened by the late Archbishop Goody.

One of the concelebrating priests was Father Barry James Hickey, our present Archbishop.

The design of the Church accommodated the liturgical renewal of the Second Vatican Council, and the contemporary architecture has been complemented with stained glass windows and marble altars from the recently demolished convent chapel at St John of God, Subtaco.

Although the parish has no school, it has a children's Mass each school term and children are well catered for at Vigil and Sunday Masses.

Currently the parish has 12 altar servers, two boys and ten girls, whose training is supervised by the parish acolytes and parents.

This notion of support and community is extended throughout the parish, through the various ministries of acolytes, special ministers, readers, altar servers, and catechists.

The parish community is also very much a microcosm of broader Australian Society, being multicultural in the fullest sense.

The present parish priest. Father Francis Ughanze. who is from Nigeria, ministers to the community comprised of Australian, European. Asian and Island peoples who are an excellent sign of the multi-cultural and ethnic Church as their diverse countries of origin indicate.

This becomes most evident during August and September with the Novena to Our Lady of Health.

Vailannkanni, which commenced in the parish in 1983.

This Novena has the same place in the hearts of the Indian and Burmese communities as those in the tradition of Lourdes or Fatima.

During the Novena celebrations Embleton becomes a centre of local pilgrimage and experiences a particular association with the Marian shrine and basilica of Vailannkanni in India.

The attendance at the novena this year continued to outnumber

A soft light falls over the altar of Holy SpkiII parish Church, decorated in beautifully carved marble.

available S4 'ating (luring the week at 5pm each Sunday, often foland an estimated 650 people lowed by a meal in the hall. attended the Sunday evening The parish is also fortunate in feast day Mass and candlelight having the services of a pastoral procession on 8 September. worker in Sister Maureen Mohen The parish has seen fit to RSM. respond to the demand for devoSister Maureen deserves muc.h tion to Our Lady of Health by credit for the high standard of commencing a monthly Novena liturgical music and choir which after the 7pm Vigil Mass on the has been achieved. last Saturday of each month. tier practical approach comThe Novena program includes bines well with Father Francis' the blessing of the children, who sense of hospitality, compassion this year led the rosary, and the and rapport with the congregaanointing of the sick. tion to ensure sound spiritual The Rosary will be said before pathways and visible temporal Mass for those wishing to attend. concern.

Father Terence D'Souza. this Holy Thrifty parish is blessed year's preacher, also conducted a with land, buildings and some whirlwind round of visits to local beautiful Church furnishings. hospitals, nursing homes and These things however, are at parishioners' homes. best, a reflection of the soul of the Another feature of the Holy Trin- parish that is found in its parishity parish is the adjacent location ioners who continue to strive to of sixteen retirement units built work as members of the mystic.al by the Knights of the Southern body of Christ toward the good of Cross in 1974 following the sale of the whole. an acre of parish land, facilitating Whilst Embleton parish remains retired people having ready comparatively small, its sense of access to a church. heart, of social concern for proWhile the Parish Council, and viding for diverse spiritual and related committees attend to the material needs, is an example of management of the parish its community that is not readily sense of community is demon- experienced everywhere. strated in the catechetics program. a well attended craft group, an Italian ladies Scripture group, In the Southern Cross parish pora very strong St Vincent de Paul trait (Record 29 August). it was Society (the Parish has a food cen- incorrectly reported that Presentatre for St Vincent de Paul), a strong tion sisters arrived in 1904 to prochoir and a wealth of talent avail- vide the town's first education. able to maintain the Church, sac- However, Southern Cross State School was built in 1894 under the risty. hall and grounds.

The parish is also home to many principalship of Mr Sam Ryan.

In 1898 a Catholic School was In the Aboriginal community, with a Mass celebrated for Abo- established, the staff of which riginal people by Father Tiernan Included three Presentation sisters.

Correction:

Contemporary design outside mixes with beautiful furnishings within.

BROTHER ANDREW PERTH W ORKSHOPS CANCELLED

Perth Workshops at Infant Jesus Parish, Morley have to be CANCELLED as Brother Andrew has to fly out on 30 September. We are extremely sorry to disappoint anyone and request you advise your friends. All retreats at God's Farm will continue as planned and some vacancies are still available.

Contact Betty Peaker, GracewoodGod's Farm, Box 24 P.O. Cowaramup, 6284. Phone/Fax (097) 556 212.

ACT JUSTLY, LOVE CONSTANTLY, WALK HUMBLY WITH GOD

As a prelude to the Bishops' Social Justice Sunday, StThomas' Social Justice Group is presenting a workshop

Archcliocesan Panorama forum on Sunday, 22 September from 4pm and concluding at 7pm with the Eucharist. Supper is provided.

The venue is the Parish Centre behind the church building at 2 College Rd, Claremont.

Peter and Marya Stewart will present the workshop on the theme of "How we can as a parish respond to the biblical call for justice." Enquiries: Marg Carman (09) 386 1393.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE The next pilgrimage in honour of the

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Virgin of the Revelation will take place on 29 September at 2.00 pm at the church of "Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church", Chiffering Rd, Bullsbrook.

There will be Rosary, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and homily preached by Fr Noel Tobin. The Pilgrimage will conclude with blessing of the sick.

Please phone (09) 444 7565 for bookings on the bus from Marangaroo,Tuart Hill, Perth, Highgate and Midland.

For Fremantle bus phone (09) 339 4015.

Art and reality aid devotion.

At a Glance Parish: Holy Trinity. Embleton.

Parish Priest: Father Francis ighanze Secretary: Alison Bishop Address: 8 Burnett Street.

Embleton WA 6062

Telephone: 271 5528 Masses: Saturday (Vigil) 7pm.

Sunday 9am Reconciliation: Saturday 6-630pm

Eucharistic Adoration: Friday gam - 12noon. Sunday 6.30 7.30pm.

Monthly prayers to Our Lady of Good Health: last Saturday of month 6 - 7pm. followed by Vigil Mass. Yearly Novena to our Lady of Good Health (Vailannkanni) starting 30 August.

For further information contact SACRI Assoc, PO Box 311, Tuart Hill 6060 or Phone (09) 447 3292.

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 Doubleview Parish Hall, 17 Angelico St, Woodlands. Cost $10.

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