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Pope beatifies Edmund ice

By Lynn Weil VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Before entering the hospital on October 6 for an appendectomy, Pope John Paul II placed Edmund Ignatius Rice, the founder of the Christian Brothers, and 15 other people one step closer to sainthood.

As well as beatifying Edmund Rice Pope John Paul beatified two women religious who headed Institutes for families and children. and 13 Polish Catholics, whom he declared martyrs for the faith.

The Pope also used the occasion of Rice's beatification to address current problems in Northern Ireland, where an abandoned ceasefire has led to renewed violence and diminished prospects for peace.

"Let us all pray that the Irish people will put tension and conflict behind them and go on to build a

brighter and more serene future for the younger generation," the pontiff said.

"Nothing is lost through peace; everything can be lost through violence."

Of the 6,000 pilgrims from around the globe who came to Rome for the beatification ceremony, 3.500 were from the Republic of Ireland.

Blessed Edmund Rice founded the Congregation of the Christian Brothers in Waterford. Ireland. in 1803.

The Christian Brothers established monasteries and schools worldwide, and now have 200 missions in 22 countries.

The congregation's headquarters moved from Dublin to Rome In 1967 Born to a comparatively wealthy family in County Kilkenny in 1762, Brother Rice first worked in his uncle's importing business.

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Pope John Paul IIwaves to pilgrims gathered for the beatification service of Edmund Rice in St Peter's Square.

1,000 killed annually without consent: US report Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee, released a report on assisted suicide and WASHINGIUN (CNS) - The US bishops' euthanasia based on the 1991 Renunelink pro-life secretariat has joined doctors and Report on the widespread practice of invollegislators in praising a congressional untary euthanasia in the Netherlands, report on abuses of physician-assisted sui- where such practices have been tolerated since the 1970s. cide in the Netherlands.

At a September 27 press conference, conThe report shows that in 1990 alone more than 1,000 people in the Netherlands were gressional lawmakers and doctors stood in killed by their doctors without their con- favour of a bill to ensure that US federal funds would not be used to pay for assistsent.

"By issuing its report this week on ed suicide.

"Simply put, an individual's so-called euthanasia in the Netherlands, the subconunittee persuasively demonstrates how 'right to die,' over time, can be transformed a practice advanced in the name of 'free- into a demand by society that certain indidom of choice' becomes a way to dispose viduals have a 'duty to die,— said Canady. of inconvenient people," said Richard "Particularly as the United States Doerflinger, associate director for policy Supreme Court decides whether to strike development at the US bishops' Secretari- down state statutes prohibiting physicianat for Pro-Life Activities. assisted suicide, the development of Dutch Charles Canady, chairman of the House law and the current practice of euthanasia

By Jennifer E. Reed

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in the Netherlands should be closely examined," he said.

The US Supreme Court is expected to review the laws on assisted suicide in New York and Washington states during its 1996-97 term, beginning on October 7.

The Remmelink Report is the original document which revealed the 1990 figures for Nethelands patients being killed without their consent.

In 1994, the Dutch government codified a procedure whereby physicians are to report to a coroner and complete questionnaires whenever "they assist in suicide, perform euthanasia on request, or terminate a patient's life without the patient's consent," said Canady.

"When a society decides to codify assisted suicide. . . . it must be ready to consider what Jeopardy it places itself in if it allows physicians to be killers as well as

healers," said former US surgeon general Dr C Everett Koop at the press conference.

Dr Herbert Hendin, executive director of the American Suicide Foundation, said at the conference that he met Dutch doctors who presented cases to him in which they performed euthanasia.

"The more I heard, the more my hair stood on end and the moreI was persuaded that even advocates of euthanasia would be shocked" at what was occurring in the Netherlands, Hendin said.

"Legal sanction made euthanasia an ordinary and routine way for dealing with terminally ill patients," he said.

Consequently, "the Dutch didn't have the same incentive to develop hospice and palliative care," Hendin said, and now are behind the rest of the world in treating the pain of the terminally ill.

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Poverty - much more than a lack of money Despite all the valid arguments about the structural causes of poverty that I spoke of last week, there is still much more to be said.

Most studies of poverty list the main groups that live beneath the poverty line: rural Aboriginal people, lone parents, the unemployed, and large families trying to live on one income.

A characteristic of all these groups is lack of money, due mostly to structural imbalances that may be best solved by structural change.

There is another large group of people whose poverty is not necessarily due to lack of money.

Iam referring to those who have had atrocious experiences in childhood that have affected their whole lives, undermined their self-image and self-confidence, and their ability to relate to oth-

ers or to hold down a job. I am Church to agitate for the reform also referring to those who have of structures. been afflicted by mental illness, But we are asked to do much alcoholism, drug abuse and gam- more. bling addiction, resulting in conWe are asked to be personally stant rejection. involved, to see broken people as Addictions cause social and per- our brothers and our sisters. sonal dislocation and make it an More, we are asked to see in almost impossible task to cope their faces the image of Christ with life. himself.

Suicides are due more to the This vision has motivated foldepression caused by failure to lowers of Christ down through cope than to lack of money, the ages to reach out to such peoalthough the two interact and ple and bring to them the consocompound each other. lation of Christ's love.

Money is not necessarily the There are no easy answers for answer to people in these cate- those who are poor through gories. These unfortunate people inability to cope with the comneed friends first. plexities of living.

Only through genuine love can Freedom from addictions or they find the strength to face the from the effects of mental illness enormous climb out of despair comes slowly, requiring great that lies before them. patience.

It is quite appropriate for the Can it be that so many young

lives are being destroyed by drugs? It is almost a hidden problem because the abuse of drugs happens behind closed doors and families feel shame and disbelief when it visits their own home.

They don't like to talk about it.

I hope that in this Year of the Eradication of Poverty, we begin to find the will to tackle the forces that are destroying people, especially young people.

Let us be sure of this that, whatever services are set up, none of them can take the place of genuine, patient and courageous love from someone who can stand with the addict or the broken person and go the distance.

The healing power of Christ will come through such tough love.

Our Catholic community must be first in befriending and welcoming the outcasts of society.

Archbishop's

Perspective

Edmund Rice and 15 others beatified continued from page 1 With his uncle's death, Brother Rice Inherited a small fortune.

He dedicated his resources to help poor Catholic boys receive an education, something which at the time was difficult due to discriminatory British laws.

He opened his first school and monastery in 1803.

Pope Pius VII formally recognised the Congregation of the Christian Brothers in 1820.

In his Angelus address after the beatification. Pope John Paul greeted the Irish pilgrims and reminded them of the dedication that saints from throughout their country had shown to Christianity.

"I invite you to pray that this heritage of authentic faith and holiness will be the Inspiration of new harmony and peace

between the communities in Northern Ireland, between people of different political views," the Pope said.

In discussing the beatification of the two women religious, Pope John Paul praised the timeless value of dedication to the needs of the poor.

Sister Maria Anna Mogas Fontcuberta and Sister Marcellina Darowska were both born in the 19th century, one in Spain, the other in what is now Ukraine but was Polish territory at the time.

Both suffered losses in their families which led them to deeper Christian faith, and both went on to head religious institutions.

Sister Darowska also was co-founder of the Congregation of Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The 13 martyrs named by the Pope were killed by Russian soldiers in January 1874 while defending the church in the town of Pratulin.

They were Eastern-rite Catholics from Podlachia, which is now the Diocese of Stec:lice in eastern Poland.

The Church in Pratulln had been designated for Russian Orthodox use as part of a systematic effort to eradicate Eastern-rite churches.

The small band of faithful locked themselves inside, and they died when the troops stormed the structure.

Pope John Paul said the martyrs from PodIschia gave their lives "for the salvation and reconciliation of all humanity."

He said the martyrs "invite all of us to pursue courageously the way toward unity of the entire family of the disciples of

Christ." Catholic-Orthodox relations generally have improved over the last century, but recent years have seen a return of tensions in Eastern Europe, often over issues of church property.

Beatification is a papal decree that follows a lengthy investigation of the candidate's life, writings and good works.

Further procedures after beatification can lead to canonisation.

A martyr is someone who has been found to have voluntarily suffered death for the faith or for some Christian virtue.

Being declared a martyr also can be a step toward canonisation, and it relieves the requirement of proof of miracles.

The Pope's appendectomy was delayed several weeks until after the beatifications.

- Former Record Editor, Fr Cunningham, reports from Rome, Page 3

Mercies return to their works

They literally came from the north, south, east and west - nationally and globally - when some of the 200 Mercy Sisters, celebrating the Australian foundation's 150 years, gathered for a farewell dinner and the Inaugural Ursula Frayne Memorial Lecture on October 3 at Mercedes College. The lecture was given by Dr Peter Tannock, ViceChancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. For many, their participation in the Perth based on-going Mercy celebrations will be over as they return to other parts of Australia, Ireland, England, Canada, the United States, the Philippines, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea - and for the Western Australian Mercy Sisters who are working in the refugee camps - a return to Malaysia and Nepal. - Colleen McGuiness-Howard

If you miss this year's World Mission Day Appeal, please send what you can to me, Father Brian Brock, National Director, Catholic Mission PO Box A153, Sydney South 2000 Or phone free on 1800 257 2960

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Euthanasia report from page 1 Representing the American Medical Association, Dr Yank Coble pointed to the Netherlands as a "stern warning" for the United States.

"As we speak, this nation is considering travelling down the same road.... This direction threatens to completely subvert the trust that is at the very core of the patient-physician relationship," said Coble.

"The American Medical Association is steadfast In its opinion that physician-assisted suicide is unethical and unacceptable," the doctor said.

His comments were also backed by New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco at the conference.

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Ps urged to consider euthanasia issues

By Annabelle Whitty In a letter written to all Western Australian Federal and State Members of Parliament, Archbishop Hickey has urged legislators to consider seriously the issues at stake in the Northern Territory's euthanasia The letter expresses the deep concerns of the Catholic community with the "Rights of the Terminally Ill Act" and its alarm that an Act of Parliament should sanction the "deliberate taking of human life".

"This Northern Territory legislation will have profound negative effects on the value and sanctity of life." Archbishop Hickey wrote.

"It will erode the will to care for the critically ill, and it will engender fear in people who feel they are a burden on their relatives" he said.

The Archbishop said that "although the conditions laid down In law are very restrictive, there is little doubt that they will be progressively eased either by legal amendment or by accepted practice: Archbishop Hickey said that community attitudes often do not make the crucial distinction between the deliberate taking of life and allowing

a person to die with as much dignity as possible.

"To withdraw or withhold very burdensome and futile life-support systems, if the patient does not want them, or to offer palliative treatment to ease pain which might indirectly shorten life, cannot be called euthanasia because there is no intention to kill the patient" he said.

The Archbishop warned that to give legal sanction to the taking of the life of one person by another "breaches a basic principle of civilised society and will lead to disastrous consequences for the protection of the weak".

He added that the legislation would also undermine the ethical duty of the medical profession to preserve life "The protection of human life, the freedom to 'die with dignity', and the removal of legal powers to kill another human person are far more important than State and Territory rights" he argued.

The Archbishop concluded his letter with the prayer that the Kevin Andrews' Private Members Bill which would nullify any proeuthanasia legislation in Australia's Territories will be passed in both Houses of Parliament.

Beatification pilgrims travel to founder's roots

Despite beatifications, Rome stops or changes for no-one

By Father Pat Cunningham in Rome Rome, the eternal city, eternally between heaven and earth and unable to make up its mind!

Saturday morning and at one end of the city a kilometre-long march of Red Cross workers, protesting budget cuts, throws morning traffic into chaos.

At the other end, - the spiritual end, some 30,000 pilgrims and 300 priests, after Mass in St Peter's Square, throw the streets around the Vatican into chaos.

At St Mary Major Basilica, the WA Edmund Rice pilgrimage happily comes upon Bishop Healy to celebrate Mass.

But the (Irish) vicar capitular of the Basilica loses no opportunity to tell the Aussies that the Basilica badly needs $Al2 million to finish its restoration by the year 2000.

The work already has transformed the once dowdy exteri-

or into a resplendent travertine after Pope John Paul declares in its original tones (as is hap- Edmund Rice "Blessed" - his feast day to be May 5. pening to many landmarks).

Ask that banner, Brother GarWith an advocate like that, Mary will see her Roman home vey says: "Edmund, what made made worthy of her by the Mil- you turn your life upside down?" lennium. . . .

Does Karol Wojtyla know as, And so Rome remains the crossroad of the Catholic world. after a gruelling two and a half This time it's the world family hour ceremony, he concludes of Christian Brother Edmund by asking the vast crowd to pray Rice, heavily Irish, but hundreds for his health as he heads for of Aussies, groups from South hospital - the most famous Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, appendicitis in history?

The media think so as large saluting each other like ants as they recognise each other's dis- photographs display vividly every point of the papal corpus tinctive green Rice scarf.

A two hour non-stop concert that has had something wrong in Paul VI hall by top choirs and over the years.

No privacy for a hospital soloists from Ireland and Brothers' pupils from Africa. India, patient who will have a team of and Newfoundland, says con- 89 security personnel guarding gregational leader, Brother every part of the hospital.

Meanwhile tourists consume Michael Garvey, welded everyone into a family ready for the snacks whose outrageous prices would solve Australia's debt in Beatification.

And so thousands of hearts a month.

That's Rome ... eternally. surge as the Rice banner unfurls

POPE'S GOLDEN JUBILEE

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Pope John Paul 1 1 will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his ordination as a priest on the first of November, 1996.

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

The card has been designed by Hein Walter, a contemporary religious artist. The artist's interpretation is as follows. Our Church encompasses a great variety of ethnic cultures, scattered all over the world. from East to West and from North to

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South. As Catholics we are all unified in Christ.

The Golden jubilee of the Holy Father reminds us of the great importance of the priesthood within our Church. Aid to the Church in Need currently supports the training of 18.000 seminarians each year in Eastern Europe.

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

in the Pope (the outstretched arms) and the symbols of this unification are the Cross and the Eucharist. The Latin words -Servus servorum Del mean: Servant of the servants of God. The back of the postcard contains the address of the Holy Father in Rome and a space for your good wishes.

For fifty yearsPope John Paul II has offered Holy Mass day in and day out for the needs of the Church and the world. This is your chance to let the Holy Father know of your love, support, loyalty, prayer & thanks!

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About to leave for a look-see at Edmund Rice's home ground, some of the 25 pilgrims to the Beatification from WA posed at the international airport for a quick photograph before jetting off to Dublin, Waterford, and Cork. There they visited schools and historical sites before flying to Rome for the beatification celebrations held there on October 5 and 6. The pilgrimage included a beatification Mass followed by a reception, and another Mass in Edmund Rice's honour in St Peter's. The pilgrimage was accompanied by Father Pat Cunningham.

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Postcode Aid to the Church ,n Need A Universal Public Association within the C_atholic Church. dependent on the Hot), See. providing pastoral relief ro needy and oppressed Churches and aiding refugees

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TOMORROW TODAY

Youth convention And you thought you had fun last year is launched for '96

By Teresa Carvey

The 1997 Catholic Youth Con- issues and yet they do not know games with the exhausted young vention The Voice Within" was why or how the Church came to people." officially launched by the Direc- these conclusions.

Other features included camel tor of the Youth and Young Adult While it will not be possible in riding, dunking machines and Ministry at their North Perth as short a time as one week to purpose made video soap operas. offices this week. answer all of these questions, we The activities are not announThe very popular annual Youth hope that we are able to provide ced in advance of the convention.

Conventions have become an the young people with some "you have to come and see". integral part of the Diocesan cal- assistance and formation.

The cost of the convention ender of events with young peoWhile the Convention ranges in includes all meals, accommodaple attending from all over the age from 16 to 25 years young tion, transport and entry to "The State. people are broken into "commu- Voice Within" closing on SaturMr Downes said in launching nity groups" of their own age so day January 18. the convention that The Voice that discussion takes place at an The cost of accommodation in Within is your chance to join hun- appropriate level. tent City is only $225 ($195 for dreds of other young people for The second aspect of the Con- Club Members). seven nights and six days of vention is the fun.

The cost for those choosing Dorexcitement, challenge and fun".

Mr Downes said "at last years mitory Style accommodation is The convention he said was in convention we had a RAM' fly $255 ($225 for Club Members). fact a retreat for young people, an over, the police helicopter played A deposit of $30.00 should opportunity to take some time out spot light with delegates for a few accompany your registration to reflect on the direction that minutes, the fire brigade had the form, with the remainder due by their lives are going and how God best water fight I have ever seen 5pm Friday. January 3rd. 1997. intersects their life. with the delegates - they won For more information regarding There are two distinct sides to they had a "fire truck" and mem- the Convention or Club Memberthe Convention. Firstly, the spiri- bers of the army played army ship contact Penny on 328 9622. tual aspect which gives young people the opportunity to pray and meet God in a personal manner.

Another important feature of the Convention is that each year a different aspect of church teaching is considered through the eleven general sessions.

Mr Downes said that this year the theme of the Convention "The Voice Within" would be explored by studying and reflecting in a variety of ways on the Churches teaching on "Conscience and decision making".

Increasingly we are living in a world where decisions are becoming more complex and difficult.

So often young people come to our office wanting to talk about various decisions that they face and yet they do not have the skills to consider the various aspects of the situation before them.

Young people also know that the Church has teaching on different Bruce Downes and a participant in 1995's convention share a joke.

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Ever since about the age of fourteen I have been dying to go on a convention - Ihad been to heaps of rallies before and really wanted to get a piece of the action.

So when I heard about the "Solid Ground" convention I decided that I would be there.

Iremember turning up on the Sunday afternoon with a friend and we sat down on the grass and watched the buzz go on around us.

There were all these people running up to each other giving each other hugs and saying "I didn't know that you were coming."

My friend and I just sat there not knowing anyone and it was a bit scary.

Then these two girls skipped up to us and said hello and introduced themselves.

They said that the convention was going to be brilliant and that they hoped that we would have a really good time.

Then they went and introduced themselves to some o ther 'lost' people. .1s the week went on I got to know my share group and community group and by the end of the week I didn't want to go home.

"Seize the Day" has been and gone and with 3 months and 6 days to go to "The Voice Within" I'm really excited.

Rumour has it that this next convention is going to be the best convention yet.

"The Voice Within" promises a lot of fun and games and a series of inspiring talks that could maybe change your life.

I have met many people on the conventions who have changed their whole outlook and have a totally different attitude to life by the end of con-

Electives 1. 'Phoning Home' A new look at prayer

and meditation. Presented by Sr Francesca Tan - a vibrant Cenacle Sister who has worked with young people around the world - in Europe. America and Asia.

2. 'Guilt' How do Imanage my past personal history and not let guilt and mistakes paralyse me?

Presented by Sr Jacqueline (ones. Sr Jacqueline has a delightful way of assisting people in looking to the future, and returns from Northam by popular demand.

3. "Thinking inside a goldfish bowl' Developing Creative Thinking Skills. Presented by John Sargeant. a dynamic presenter who has a great enthusiasm for life.

4. 'Reaching for the stars' Awakening your potential. and discovering your gifts. Presenter to be advised.

5. 'Living in a mess' Finding yourself in the middle of the mess. Presented by Melbourne's Sr Ann Ryan. returning for her second convention. Sr Ann's vitality and sense of fun are sure to make this an elective not to be missed!

B. 'Living life to the max' affecting the world around you rather than letting the world affect you.

Presented by Steve Hall. a dynamic and entertaining presenter with over 17 years experience of youth ministry.

7 'Beyond I, me, mine - do my emotions rule my life' Doing the best is not always the easiest. Returning from Sydney for her

vention. A basic outline of the convention is that you have your own community group which has around 30 people in It and then a share group with about 5 people in it.

Over the week you get to know them really well ,share with them, grow and learn with them.

The Keynote speakers for this convention are the one and only Bruce Downes, the wonderful Alyson Chalon and the fantastic Fr Ian Esmond.

There is also a variety of elective courses, and for the people who think that they have done all the electives, this year we have advanced electives to follow on from what you may have done before.

Now you may be finding all of this a bit deep for you.

To relieve your mind from all the thinking you will be doing we have the band for your singing and dancing pleasure.

You will learn heaps of new songs and interesting dance moves.

On the convention there will be heaps of activities.

My sources will not let me reveal what they are, but to give you an idea of the kind of things we get up to, on the last convention we had a water fight with a fire truck. spotlight with a police chopper. a dunking machine, a hospital bed. pigeons(?) and a whole heap of other things.

This year we have a new range of activities.

If you have never been on a convention before now 'The Voice Within" is the convention for you. but why believe me?

Come on "The Voice Within" and find out for yourself. It's on from the 12th of January to the 18th of January. Be there!

third Youth Convention, Sr Pam Williamson Is sure to he among the most popular figures of the convention.

8. 'Music' Using music to bring yourself and others closer to god.

9. 'Drama' How to use drama in a Christian setting.

Advanced Electives The following electives are available for those who have attended previous Catholic Youth Conventions 10. 'The good book' - Who wrote the world's best selling book why. and how to read it. Presented by Fr Ian Esmond. assistant Parish Priest at Rockingham and noted hockey coach.

11. 'Being Catholic' - I'm a Catholic - so what? What does it all mean? Presented by Paul Russell speaking at his Catholic Youth Convention. Paul has completed a Bachelor of Theology, and is returning to study for his Masters degree next year.

12. 'What's the story?' 'Adam - Jesus - Now. Who came first. Abraham or Moses? Where does David fit in? A walk through the history of the bible. Presented by Fr John Duigan.

Parish Priest at Midland.

13. The moral dilemma' - Presented by Fr Walter Black. Fr Black is an expert in explaining the many moral dilemmas that face society today - euthanasia, genetic engineering.

IVF technology, etc - and is a challenging and thought provoking speaker.

Day focuses prayer for priests Praising God By Colleen McGuinness-Howard About 200 people assembled at Holy Spirit Church at City Beach last Monday on Our Lady of the Rosary's feast day, to spend a day in prayer for all priests.

The format included Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Rosaries (one lead by children), Holy Mass, the Angelus, the Divine Mercy Chaplet, Benediction, and a talk by Archbishop Barry Hickey.

People had come in solidarity at the invitation of PP Father Tom Phelan - from country areas and the suburbs - to prayerfully fortify their priests and pray for candidates to the priesthood.

Archbishop Hickey noted a certain unwillingness on the part of people to accept that priests represented Christ as well as the Church, and said some priests were frightened at the implications of representing Christ. being aware of their sinfulness and didn't dare to present The Archbishop speaks at the Day of Prayer. themselves as representatives of Christ.

But priests were not merely elders, or leaders of the Church but true representatives of Christ, and this was clearly defined in the Catechism, he emphasised, "where it states that the priest represents Christ in His leadership and headship."

He illustrated the priest representing Christ in the sacraments of Baptism, Reconciliation, Mass, and preaching the Good News in the name of Jesus, in healing (through the power of God), opposing evil, and by being the Good _Shepherd.

In expressing delight at the attendance of adults and children, Archbishop Hickey urged people to pray for priests so they would be strengthened to be good representatives of Christ and would not be frightened to strive in every way.

Encouraged by the enthusiastic participation and numbers present, Archbishop Hickey said he believes the Day of Prayer for Priests may well be repeated in other parishes.

Volunteer community helps others What brings a couple of idealistic young people together who were formerly strangers, to live in another state, make do on little income, and spend a year of their life working for others?

Well. the Companions Volunteer Community (CVC) was the catalyst for Barbara Grant of Murwillumbah. New South Wales and Bill Boyer from the Goulbtum VIHey in Victoria to be transplanted to Wembley in a CVC house sponsored by the Mercy Sisters, Jesuits and Christian Brothers.

Bill works at the Catherine McAuley Centre helping out with elderly folk and doing all sorts of other things, while Bar-

bara works at Anawim, the Aboriginal increased their tolerance and understanding, their awareness of others, and refuge for single women.

Both love their work and as for Barbara, taught them how to manage on a strinworking with Aboriginal people has gent income.

It has also given Barbara a greater been a new "but excellent!" experience and claims it has allowed her to enrich appreciation of the good things she has her own spirituality through observing In life and she thanks God for His goodness reflected in her strong family backand sharing with others.

Many of the women are there because ground and life she has at home.

CVC folk also tend to develop a greater of domestic violence and so she spends time working with them and taking oth- sense of social justice through their work ers down from the country, to various which they take back with them, and additionally, according to Barbara. it has appointments.

This work. plus the difficulties Barbara highlighted the areas in her life she will and Bill have encountered through shar- increase her focus on. and allow her to ing a house and different lifestyle, has let go of the less important.

Mercy Sisters reflect on their missions

Sisters Helen Marie and Sheila Carney.

The I•estival of Mercy Alive saw many Mercy Sisters come together during two days of lectures and workshops held at Mercedes last week as part of their 150 years celebrations.

Presenters of the morning sessions were American Mercy Sisters Sheila Carney and Helen Marie Burns who worked with the two themes of hope and jubilee. drawing parallels between them.

The larger proportion of their talks was based on the biblical theme of jubilee as detailed in Leviticus and they elaborated on the five "tasks" they associated with this: Let the land lie fallow (an injunction to observe the Sabbath): Forgive debts (allow yourself to be forgiven); Free captives and proclaim liberty for all the land; Justice - return land and other goods to their original, rightful owners: Hold a festival.

Sr Helen Marie comes from Detroit and Is currently on the Board of Directors of College Misericordia, while also a lecturer on the charism and traditions of the Sisters of Mercy.

She is also a full time doctoral student In the School of Religion at the Universi-

Cardinal to visit Australian poverty conference

Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, will speak at the People First conference organised by the Catholic bishops of Australia as a follow-up to their recently launched statement on poverty.

The conference which Cardinal Etchegaray will address will be held at the Australian Catholic University's Strathfield campus in Sydney from 22-24 November.

Among the other speakers attending will be Sydney's Cardinal Edward Cassidy, Anglican Archbishop Peter Hollingworth of Brisbane, Opposition leader Kim Beazley.

Social Security Minister Jocelyn Newman and Senator Cheryl Kernot.

A number of overseas speakers will also provide perspectives on

global poverty while prominent Australian personalities Lois O'Donoghue, chairperson of ATSIC. Professor Bettina Cass and ABC Radio's Geraldine Doogue will also speak.

The conference, following on from the launch last month of the bishops' statement, A New Beginning, Eradicating Poverty in Our World by Archbishop Francis Carroll of Canberra Goulbourn diocese, aims to educate Catholics as to the causes of poverty in Australia and throughout the world.

The conference is also planned to help identify issues and strategies which can be used in fighting poverty as a modern phenomenon and will attract representatives from a broad range of Church welfare, social justice, aid and development organisations.

German style

Fred Petrig wifh his Swiss Alphorn adds musical flavour to the monthly German Mass at St Francis Xavier church in East Perth.

German speaking people, Lithuanians and some Swiss united for the Erntedankefest, the annual European celebration of thanksgiving to God for his harvest.

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In a talk based on the WA Mercy theme of Liberate Compassion, Engender Hope, Sister Helen Marie quoted Australian Mercy foundress Ursula Frayne when she wrote that no one should be discouraged or deterred by difficulties from at least attempting good works.

Citing a world growing daily "more fragmented and violent" one had to at least attempt good works as perhaps the only hope "we can and need offer one another in our lives." she said.

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Pray and accept God's invitation Peter Dwan continues meditations on

the readings for Sunday Mass.

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oday's liturgy presents God's invitation to the banquet. While the banquet refers primarily to the banquet of heaven, there are points which also refer to the Eucharistic banquet.

We must realise that if we refuse God's invitation to the Eucharistic banquet on Sundays, when we are able to go, it is tantamount to saying that we aren't interested in the heavenly banquet In today's first reading (Isaiah 25:6-10), the prophet Isaiah tells us that God will prepare a banquet of rich food and a banquet of fine wines for all peoples.

This is the heavenly banquet which God will prepare for us at the end of time. The reading says: "He (God] will destroy Death for ever. The Lord will wipe away the tears from every cheek" In Scripture, a banquet is the symbol of the fullness of life and happiness.

In today's second reading (Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20), St Paul writing from prison says: "There is nothing I cannot master with the help of the One who gives me

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.Meditation strength." We should realise that if we look to God for our strength, and especially if we find our strength in frequent Communion, we can master all obstacles on the road to the heavenly banquet.

Today's gospel passage (Matthew 22:114) is the parable of the wedding feast.

The first part of the parable echoes the controversies between Jesus and the pharisees; the hostility of the Jewish leaders to God's messengers and to his Son will exclude them from the eternal banquet, consequently all manner of men will be invited.

The second part underlines the conditions required of those who would attend: to put on Christ and so produce the fruits of the Spirit.

We need to remember that the wedding garment of grace is required for both the Eucharistic banquet and the heavenly banquet.

If we have mortal sin on our souls, let us go to Confession as soon as we can.

The parable tells us that those initially invited to the wedding feast weren't inter-

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try's visit to her cousin before the birth of Christ demonstrated her mediating role in spreading the good news of the Saviour's coming, Pope John Paul II said.

The Pope made the remarks at a general audience on October 2, a few days before he was scheduled to enter hospital.

As several thousand people sat under Intermittent rain in a windy St Peter's Square, the 76-year-old pontiff read his talk slowly beneath a canopy.

The Pope. who has spoken for several weeks about the life and meaning of Mary. turned his attention to the Visitation. when Mary travelled to see her relative Elizabeth, who was pregnant with St John the Baptist.

In St Luke's account of their meeting, Elizabeth felt her own child leap for joy at Mary's approach, and cried out the words which would later become part of the Hail Mary: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb."

"Like Elizabeth, the Church rejoices that Mary is the mother of the Lord who brought her son into the world and who constantly cooperates in his mission of redemption for all mankind," the Pope said.

He said Mary's visit to Elizabeth should

ested: one went off to his farm, another to his business.

We must make sure that our everyday activities don't keep us away from prayer and worship.

When tempted to economise on prayer, we must realise that any apostolic work which we neglect prayer to perform won't be blessed.

Then there were those who seized the King's servants, maltreated and killed them.

The reference to the King dispatching troops who destroyed the murderers and burnt their town refers to the coming destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD. The longer version of the gospel passage ends with the parable of the wedding garment.

The King noticed that one of the guests wasn't wearing a wedding garment and asked him: "How did you get in here, my friend, without a wedding garment?" And the man was silent. The King then said to the attendants: "Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the dark...For many are called but few are chosen."

God certainly calls many to the heavenly banquet, but the chosen ones are those who accept God's invitation on his terms, wearing the wedding garment of grace and virtue. Shall we be among that number?

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be seen as a prelude to Christ's future mission and anticipation of the crowning of that mission at Pentecost.

During the audience. the Pope also sent greetings to 23 US seminarians who were to be ordained deacons the following day.

"By ordination to the diaconate, you will be configured to Christ and sent forth as ministers of the Gospel and servants of the people of God." the Pope told them.

The students attend North American College in Rome.

The full text of Pope John Paul's remarks on Mary at the general audience are as follows: "Dear brothers and sisters, continuing our catec.hesis on the Blessed Virgin Mary, we now consider the mystery of the Visitation.

"Following the Annunciation, and now filled with the grace of the Incarnation, Mary sets out for the hill country of Judea, bringing the "good news" and messianic joy to the house of Elizabeth. her kinswoman.

"Mary's visit to Elizabeth is thus a prelude to the future mission of Jesus and an anticipation of the crowning of that mission at Pentecost."

St Luke tells us that at Mary's greeting the child leapt for joy in Elizabeth's womb and that Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,

cried out: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!" (Lk 1:41-2)."

"These inspired words of praise have been repeated by the Church in every generation in the "Hail Mary."

"Like Elizabeth, the Church rejoices that Mary is the mother of the Lord who brought her son into the world and who constantly cooperates in this mission of redemption for all mankind.

"I am pleased to greet the students of the Pontifical North American College who will be ordained deacons tomorrow. Dear young men: by ordination to the diaconate, you will be configured to Christ and sent forth as ministers of the Gospel and servants of the people of God. "May you always be joyful witnesses of the grace and truth which God has bestowed upon us in Jesus his Son. "As the feast of St Francis of Assisi draws near, I also offer greetings and encouragement to the members of animal protection groups celebrating "World Animal Day." "Upon all the English-speaking visitors, especially the pilgrims from Denmark.

England, Ireland. Australia. the Philippines and the United States, I cordially invoke the joy and peace of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

Eagles drop by for a chat and tuppa' A big table full of food was ready as the Eagles football team showed up at the Archdiocesan Presbytery for the annual breakfast with Archbishop Hickey.

Welcomed first by Monsignor Michael Keating and afterwards by the Archbishop, Mick Malthouse thanked all present for the invitation and for a chance for the players to meet some of their very enthusiastic supporters.

He said some of the younger players were not yet aware of the Importance of football in Australia and how much they became public figures.

Archbishop Hickey explained his enthusiasm for football - his father being one of the Subiaco Grand final winners in 1924.

He also recalled his visits in country areas recently, adding Church and civic events had to be scheduled around football broadcasts.

The signing of autographs was a very important item and the chance to fill individual collections and take photographs was enthusiastically seized.

A room full of Eagles - and friends - was the scene at the archdiocesan presbytery recently.

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Don't wait until its too late to love those we meet

With Penny Ashcroft

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nyone who has lived in a small country town will understand completely how a tragedy such as the loss of life in Gracetown or a natural disaster of any kind, can touch the heart and soul of the whole community.

Like ripples in a pond, the effects of a shocking event such as the death of five adults and four youth wash over outlying communities also.

Heartfelt prayers and thoughts have been directed to the families and friends of those who died, and practical help has been freely offered.

Death and natural disasters almost always have a unifying effect.

Igrew up in the small country town of Dwellingup, and like many, many towns. we had our share of tragic events.

'IWo which come readily to mind were a terrible accident involving a car load of our local boys and the fires which swept through the town leaving many families, ours included. homeless.

Both events united residents with a common bond of shared concern for others.

Sadly, it sometimes takes a significant tragedy to bring forth the qualities in us that lie dormant for a good deal of the time, or to help us recognise the qualities in others that we can often take for granted.

Qualities such as the inspirational way Lindsay Thompson communicated his love of life and nature to the young surfers of Gracetown and Margaret River or the way teacher Ian Bremner affirmed staff, friends and students and the compassion and energy of Madlint, Wall in her nursing of the elderly.

Many people who touch our lives are very gifted, loving, faith filled - do we recognise these qualities when we experience them?

Our hectic lifestyle sometimes precludes the recognition of the good in those around us.

What difference could we make in their lives if we consciously set about making an effort to affirm these people?

Educator Lou Tice once said that each of us is a sculptor with the power and ability to shape our own lives and profoundly influence the lives of others.

Psychologists have named this influence "the Pygmalion Effect".

In Greek mythology. Pygmalion was a sculptor who carved an ivory statue of a beautiful maiden.

So realistic was his creation that he fell in love with the statue.

Because of Pygmalion's "belief and his love for what the statue represented, Aphrodite interceded and brought the statue to life, naming her Galatea.

A more modern example of the Pygmalion myth is found in the musical "My Fair Lady", during which the professor, Henry Higgins, changes flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a refined lady through his own belief in his ability to Influence Eliza's behaviour.

If we think about it carefully we all have a 'Pygmalion" effect in every day life on others, sometimes in a negative way.

Wouldn't it be great to become a whiz at helping those around us to grow in self esteem by helping them see themselves as worthwhile, gifted people?

Even those people with high self esteem enjoy having it confirmed by another person.

Lets not wait until something tragic happens to think about and affirm the goodness in the people who are a part of our lives.

Time for the laity to do what only they can F

I j very time a recent American President sat down to work in the Oval Office, he read an inscription at his desk which said "The buck stops here."

In doing so, he was expected to know that every time he sat at that desk he would be making decisions that would determine the well being of his country's citizens.

We also must realise that the buck stops here - one example is enough.

In both the Federal and State spheres the abortion lobby has made significant Inroads into academic and legal circles.

Unchecked this could have dire consequences and therefore the challenge facing each and every one of us is monumental.

On the national front the Attorneys General of the Commonwealth States and Territories have agreed to produce, by 1998, a Model Criminal Code with the goal of having uniform Criminal Laws throughout the nation.

In a recent discussion paper recommendations were made to extend legal protection to doctors who abort children in addition to circumstances when their mothers' lives are in danger - be that physical or mental harm.

For instance, under the recommendations a pregnant woman's "actual or rea-

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sonably foreseeable environment" may be taken into consideration by a doctor in deciding whether to carry out an abortion.

This wording will clearly allow social and economic circumstances to be used as criteria for deciding who should live and who should die.

The ambiguity contained within this single phrase is clear.

And the risk of implementation of this aspect of the Model Criminal Code is neither theoretical or vague - it is quite real.

The approved parts of the Model Criminal Code can be used as a resource from which the Commonwealth, States and Territories can draw to amend their own laws.

Present Western Australian law on abortion is contained in Sections 199, 200 and 201 of the Criminal Code of Western Australia.

These sections make it a crime to carry out an abortion with the exception (Section 259) of those cases where the mother's life is actually in danger.

Section 199 basically declares that any person who, with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman, uses any means

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to do so is guilty of a crime and liable for up to 14 years imprisonment.

Section 200 is similarly worded but directed at a woman who attempts to procure her own miscarriage, while Section 201 outlaws the supply of drugs for abortion.

Meanwhile a High Court case is currently hearing an appeal over the issue of abortion, the first time the High Court will have ever considered the points of law in relation to the practice.

Viewed from a Catholic perspective, this one case will go down in Australian legal and national history as one of the definitive events by which we, as a nation, may assess ourselves.

Definitive, because whichever way the Court finds on the issue will determine, to a large extent, the future of abortion in this country.

For this reason the High Court decision will also be a landmark in Australia's moral history.

However, if the High Court finds in favour of a strider interpretation of the law on abortion, effectively limiting the

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entertained non-stop and to like it. You will please consume your pre-cooked junkhappiness (along with your nice precooked junk-food). And if you think it's pathetic you will please not say so.

You will please not ask questions like.

"What does God think of all this?" or "What about the starving people overseas?"

That way you might discover the nonjunk happiness that comes from asking real questions and trying to live with the answers.

Having found non-junk happiness, you might then fail to line up for your next fix of junk-ideas.

Which would make you very unacceptable in most company.

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number performed in Australia each year then it may well be possible to see a situation arise where the Pro-Death lobby mounts a push for abortion law reform throughout the States and Territories, perhaps as envisaged under the Model Criminal Code's provisions.

We, as Catholics, can therefore do no better than pray without pause that abortion has no future - for the buck stops here.

But prayer alone is not enough.

An ever-decreasing minority of Pro-Life Catholics and fellow-Christians have laboured like Trojans with their with limited resources to reverse abortion.

For Catholics the time to get down and do the dirty work of rolling up our sleeves and doing something practical on the matter is therefore at hand.

Why? Because this is the job that only the laity can do - getting organised, writing letters, lobbying, joining demonstrations, being active in our political parties and telling our politicians how we will vote on the issue.

It's time for the laity to be heroic_ • The opinions expressed in this editorial, and any other Record editorial, are not necessarily those of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth.

L'efiers /0 Me Co/liar abortions in Australia. This suggests that the Church's message is not being heard.

This is not surprising while the Church's genuine concern for life is obscured by the din of those extreme people within the right to life camp.

Unbalanced and biased rhetoric needs to be replaced by sensitive and deliberate communication.

It is only then that the Church's compassion and its care for life will be heard. j.L Goerke Lesmurdie

fight of the Faith as St Paul encourages us: and to act as light and be placed in prominent places for all to be able to see dearly, thus distinguishing the truth from the shadows.

The renewal of the Catholic Church will come from the laity, and we need more captains like Fr T. Smith to stir up the minds and hearts of miles Christi. the soldiers of Christ.

Adrian Bertino-Clarke Guildford

More captains needed

Priests just can't win

he past week since Friday 27th has been a very difficult one for me and for many in the communities of Grace lbwn, Cowararnup, Margaret River and surrounding areas.

During this time I have felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude for all who have been praying for us.

Many messages of encouragement have come to me at the Parish House from s a lay person who has been associuunenism is not an elaborate excuse priests, sisters, parishes, and families all ated with Priests for over half a cenrelativism, there is only one true for over Australia. turyIhave noticed that people often Faith, one Church, one Lord of all: One even from Raratonga in the Cook and this is the exclusive property of the find fault with their Parish Priest, until he Islands!

Is transferred or called by God, to his eterCatholic Church.

I have no doubt that things have gone so nal reward.

Dialogue does not imply compromise. well in the face of such a tragic event and It requires Catholics to learn more about The priest who has gone is the greatest write in Colleen connection with Its aftermath is in no small measure due to McGuinness-Howard's feature on abor their own Faith and that of others in order priest we have ever had, and the new one all the prayers. tion which quoted extensively from Ms to aid members of other 'faiths' to see the Is then the target for criticism.

Many good things have resulted - there For some unknown reason everything must have been more hugs given and Julie Cook. While not doubting Ms Cook's truth and accept the Catholic Faith in all its that does not meet with approval is "his" received (and words of support) during sincerity and passion, there is a danger that fullness.

The appointment of an academic from a fault and when things are successful it is this week than for many months previous- publicity of this kind can actually promote different 'faith' to the one true Faith, to "what a good job we did". abortion.

1Y. Exaggerated claims eg "in a large pro- teach at a Catholic University may be This is no new phenomenon - it has been The community memorial service on Thursday was difficult to put together portion of cases, suffer enormous grief. . ." viewed as a scandal for some and as a pos- In existence for longer than I care to because our Ministers Fellowship had to damages the credibility of many of the itive step towards ecumenical integration remember. for others.

Few people seem to realise the calling. try to make it something that all - espe- other justifiable statements.

As my Metaphysics professor used to say, study and culling of candidates for the The claim that the so called "abortion cially the families who had lost a loved industry" denies the existence of post abor- opportet distinguere!

Priesthood. one, could make their own.

What is the purpose of having Catholic Fewer still, understand that of all people Lots of different shades of belief among tion syndrome is simply untrue.

Why, even the Family Planning Associa- educational institutions? Is 11 10 be indis- with the equivalent of a university educathem. tinguishable from any other educational tion our priests are expected to be, on call.

In the end it came together so well that tion has conducted workshops on grief Institutions? Certainly not. counselling for post abortion trauma. by the phone, visiting the sick, and other the effects of all the prayer support was eviIlls to teach and investigate the truth and parishioners 24 hours a day, 7days a week.

Exaggerated claims and unsubstantiated dent. work towards the harmonisation between Every priest devotes countless hours in On the day it was a very helpful and even facts have the capacity to discredit the Faith and Reason.

Church's position on abortion. ministering to the sick and housebound, as wonderful experience for the 2,500 or so Ills to be used as an apostolic instrument, well as consoling grieving relatives, as well There are many Catholics who are very present. to help to propagate the Good News to all, as being Chief administrator of the parish, committed of life to sanctity protecting the Immediately after the service about 20 Implementing Jesus' command to go and for very little monetary assistance. surfers "Paddled By" the place of the acci- but who prefer to argue their case without teach the whole world. emotional hype and the distortion of facts.

Not many parishioners would care to live dent.

Therefore, it requires from its academics on the total of the The credibility of Catholics, and others Sunday 1st Collection.

Then they formed themselves into a cir- who are the value of life can- a certain intellectual, ascetical and spirituIn addition to the prayer support, which cle and jointed hands and cheered togeth- not be convinced ofundermined al maturity to be front runners in the by comallowed to be is essential. may I suggest; er in full voice. ments that are sometimes thoughtless, defence and propagation of the truth, thus 1) Inviting your Parish Priest to dinner Several spoke of this afterwards as a very insensitive and blatantly untrue. forming the young minds of its students occasionally and get to know him. special moment - a real freeing. making them fertile grounds for the seeds However will intentioned, such com2) Review how much you put in the colI mentioned this at the weekend Masses ments harm attempts to protect the unborn. of Divine Revelation to grow. and said it must have been for many as it Ills to provide Catholic leaders for soci- lection each Sunday. A suggestion is that They also created additional difficulties was for me, observing from a sandhill, a for those women already hurt by abortion. ety, to integrate them into all spheres of 5% of a persons income, after tax may be deeply spiritual experience.

Some people are so committed to "fight- human culture, to act as light, salt and yeast, spilt equally between the 1st and 2nd colIt so happened that the Acolyte assisting ing abortion" they fear the slightest devia- and to transform the whole world and win lections (the 1st collection is the Priests income). me at Sunday Mass said he was in the cir- tion from their extreme position is it over for Christ. cle and it was a wonderful experience for equivalent to being in favour of abortion.

3) Attend your parish church every SunBearing this in mind, it can be seen how him.

In publishing such an unbalanced article the appointment of Anglican lecturer Fr day and if their is any criticism, don't be He told me that never in his life before on a topic so important as abortion The McGowan is a mistake. afraid to talk to the Priest in a friendly manhad he had such an incredible experience. Record has not made a positive contribuThe letters displayed in The Record over ner.

In summary we lay people should at all the past few weeks clearly denote scandal Fr Pat Rooney tion to the debate. times respect our Parish Priest for what he for those convinced about the primacy of Catholic Presbytery. Margaret River Parish reducIf we are absolutely serious about ing the numbers and impact of abortion the Catholic Church and a positive step for- Is - the representative of Christ among us within our society we simply must act out ward for those advocating a false ecu- and be prepared to co-operate with him and ensure his happiness. of an awareness of the complexity of the menism. hese days, it is compulsory to be issue or simply be ignored entirely by the It will be repaid a hundred fold, and help I firmly believe that God has allowed this happy. TV hosts grin all the time. It's broader community. to happen to awaken the consciences, and to enliven the parish. your duty, as a nineties person, to be There continues to be a high number of the spirits of the faithful to fight the good A Concerned Layperson

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A higher plane: getting to know the angels W

alk into most greeting card shops and you can buy a guardian angel pin to wear or give to a

friend.

Pick up a New-Age magazine or brochure and you will find plenty of advertisements from clairvoyants and mediums claiming to speak for angels.

There's no doubt about it - angel-mania has been sweeping the world for some time now and perhaps these inhabitants of a higher spiritual plane have enjoyed their own resurgence in popularity.

But what are angels and what do we know about them?

Perhaps the most famous of the angels is St Michael, an archangel and the leader of the angels who remained faithful to God. At their head he overcame Lucifer and the bad angels and cast them out of heaven: "And there was a great battle in heaven. Michael and his angels fought with the dragon."

St John speaks of the great conflict at the end of time, which reflects also the battle in heaven at the beginning of time.

Many times St Michael has aided those who were faithful to God: he will again come to the aid of the faithful. nadition gives to St. Michael four offices: • to fight against Satan.

• to rescue the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy, especially at the hour of death.

• to be the champion of God's people. the Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New Testament: (therefore he was the patron of the Church).

• to call away from earth and bring men's souls to judgment Gabriel is an archangel whose name means "the Power of God." He appeared to the prophet Daniel

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(Daniel 8:16: 9:21), to the priest Zachary to announce the forthcoming birth of Saint John the Baptist (Luke 1:11, 19), and to the Blessed Virgin Mary to announce the birth of Our Saviour (Luke 1:26ff.).

Gabriel is mentioned only twice in the New Testament, but it is not unreasonable to suppose with Christian tradition that it Is he who appeared to St Joseph and to the shepherds, and also that it was he who "strengthened" Our Lord in the garden.

Raphael is the archangel which appears disguised in human form as the travelling companion of the younger ibbias, calling himself "Azarias the son of the great Ananias".

The story tells of the adventurous journey during which the protective influence of the angel is shown "in the desert of upper Egypt" against the demon who had previously slain seven husbands of Sara, daughter of Raguel. (lbb. 5:11).

After their return Azarias makes himself known as "the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord" Of these seven "archangels", only three.

Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. are mentioned in the canonical Scriptures.

The others, according to the Book of Enoch are Uriel. Raguel, Sariel. and Jerahmeel, while from other apocryphal sources we get a variety of names.

So, what is an Angel?

Unlike the pretty pictures showing winged beings. an angel is a pure spirit created by God. Old Testament theology included the belief in angels employed by God as the ministers of His will.

The Scriptures give us no indication of the precise time of their creation but their existence is assumed at the earliest times.

Our Lord often spoke of angels: in the New Testament they are numerous and seven orders are mentioned: Angels, Powers, Principalities. Dominions (ations).

Thrones and Archangels.

The Old Testament specifically mentions two others Seraph(im) and Cherub(im).

God bestowed upon angels enormous wisdom, freedom, and power, and their many appearances in the New Testament are an indication of the lead role assigned to them.

Both the New Testament and Old Testament refer also to the fallen angels, and the Temptation of Adam and Eve presupposes the existence of bad spirits or demons who were cast into hell from which they have no hope of redemption.

For a start, angels are purely spiritual or bodiless persons (Mt 11:30), some of who, behold the face of God and are thus in bliss (Mt 18:10).

These spiritual beings comprise the celestial court and are called angels (from

St Michael the defender The Devil and his evil spirits - fallen angels -are real and they spend their time trying to prevent us from getting to Heaven. But the prayer to St Michael the Archangel, composed by Pope Leo Xl11, is still a popular prayer to someone the Church regards as a powerful protector against the Devil and the rest of the angels who rebelled against God with him.

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t Michael the Archangel, Defend us in the hour of battle, be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.

May God restrain him we humbly pray.

And do thou, oh Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast down into Hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruination of souls.

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Oar Lady, Jesus and the angels L'Innocence (1893) by Adolphe-William Bouguereeti. the Greek for "messenger") because, the angels who are attendants or guardians according to the Bible, they carry out mis- before God's throne. sions at God's command.

They praise God. calling, "Holy Holy Holy In order to complete these missions, they Is the Lord of Hosts". The only Bible refercan at times assume bodily form. ence to them is Isaiah 6:1-7.

According to the Bible, their missions are Archangels are generally taken to mean sometimes of great importance - for exam- "chief or leading angel" ( Jude 9; 1 Thes ple, the Annunciation (Lk 1:26; 2:9-14).

4:16). and are the most frequently menLike us, the angels are the objects of God's tioned throughout the Bible. grace and love. But because, unlike us they They may be of this or other hierarchies are non-bodily creatures, their response to as St Michael the Archangel. who is a God's love did not require time and reflec- princely Seraph. tion to grow and mature.

A feast day celebrating the Archangels St As soon as they were created and Michael, Gabriel. Raphael is celebrated received grace, they had the opportunity to throughout the Church on September 29.

A special part of the Byzantine Liturgy respond to God's love.

Invokes the "Cherubic Hymn" which celeWhile many did so, some did not.

Perhaps the most significant continuing brates these archangels and the guardian activity of the good angels is to be the angels particularly Of special significance is St Michael, agents of God's providence for mankind.

Thus, the Church teaches that everyone invoked as patron and protector by the has a guardian angel, based on references Church from the time of the Apostles.

The Eastern Rite and many others place to them throughout the Bible. him over all the angels, as Prince of the Angels are ranked in the celestial hierarSeraphim - he is described as the "chief of chy of nine orders.

First come the Seraphim, followed by the princes" and as the leader of the forces of Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Virtues, heaven in their triumph over Satan and his Powers, Principalities, Archangels and followers.

Many other things could be said about Angels.

"No evil shall befall you, nor shall afflic- the angels, far too much to go into here.

So why not try saying a prayer to your tion come near your tent, for to His Angels God has given command about you, that guardian Angel or to St Michael each day they guard you in all your ways. Upon their - you never know, you might just be surhands they will bear you up, lest you dash prised. your foot against a stone" (Psalm 90: 10-12) prayer for parents to teach their chilA Guardian Angel is a heavenly spirit dren is the specialprayer to a Guardian assigned by God to watch over each of us Angel, asking if to watch over and produring our lives and the doctrine of angels them. tect is part of the Church's tradition.

As a prayer it can help children understand The role of the guardian angel is both to the importance of their guardian angel and guide us to good thoughts, works and how it can help them in their daily lives, words, and to preserve us from evil. assisting them to be good.

Since the 17th century a feast honouring them in October has been celebrated Oh Angel of God, My Guardian Dear. throughout the Universal Church, and To whom God's love commits me here. since the last calendar revision this feast is Ever this day be at my side, 2.

October To light and guard, to rule and guide.

In terms of categories, Seraphim are the Amen. highest order or choir of angels. They are

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Features

ew orcia treasures visit Perth

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

F

mmm the unlikely rural setting of the Victoria Plains comes a veritable treasure trove of heritage to the Art Gallery of Western Australia, dating back from the arrival of the Benedictine Monks to New Norcia in 1846 - hence their 150th anniversary celebration.

It was the start of a Benedictine epoch when European art merged into the Australian landscape and was considerably enriched itself in the process.

Dom Rosendo Salvado, who became the first Abbot of New Norcia, and a Bishop, introduced a way of life to the Aboriginal people of New Norcia and vast surrounding areas, that relied heavily on self-sufficiency for survival.

Because the monks were of European stock they grew their favourite foods, made wine from their cultivated grapes, painted works of art with great professionalism in their monastery and chapels, and created A carved wooden head (17th century) of St an interesting and intriguing way of life Benedict; below: a gold chalice(1857) donated which was literally carved out of the Australian bush.

by Queen Isabella ll to Bishop Salvado.

They made their own artifacts for a huge range of endeavours in their ministering to the Aboriginal people - from musical Instruments, to pharmaceutical items and tools to tame the land and urge its production of food and wine.

But those who went before eventually put aside their instruments, artifacts, art works, magnificent vestments and altar vessels, and it is these which have now become part of an outstanding and unique collection of Australian heritage which the public will be able to enjo'c some of it for the first time ever.

Entitled Treasures of New Norcia - A Monastery In the Bush, the exhibition will run from 26 October to 5 January, 1997 at the Art Gallery of WA. To complement it AGWA is hosting the Benedictine Community's traditional New Norcia Studies Day. The format will consist of a series of four free lectures (including a panel discussion),

at 2 pm on Sundays along with workshops, demonstrations and guided tours on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

The exhibition will showcase 180 art objects from New Norcia's collection begun by Bishop Salvado.

It includes European paintings, works on paper, sculpture, magnificent furniture, rare books, and an outstanding cluster of Spanish and Italian richly embroidered

ecclesiastical vestments and ritual objects. dating from the 17th century to the present.

The collection, interwoven into the proud history of this state and classified as one of Wks richest and rarest, will provide an insight into a monastery life which, grafted from a Spanish tree and nurtured and nourished in Australian soil, ultimately bloomed with its own uniqueness.

Not to be missed.

Top: a throne and prie-dieu hand carved by master wood carver, Juan CaseHas; below: a 17th Century embroidered silk chasuble; and, left a section of the original High Attar in the Abbey Church, also carved by Juan CaseHas.

The Record, October 10 1996 Page 9

PIGS FOR KIDS Two enthusiastic Child Rescue sponsors from Te Pahu, near Te Awamutu in the Waikato region of New Zealand have come up with a very unusual and most effective way of raising funds for their child sponsorships. Owen and Lois Johnson are raising piglets to sell for a profit to sponsor children in Romania.

Having a little space around their farmhouse, they are able to have three sows who produce many piglets each year.

Feeding these hungry and quickly growing animals has become a team effort. Folk from their church join in the project by bringing along their food scraps in covered buckets to church each week. These help to fill the growing tummies of the piglets and their mothers. The small orchard around the house also provides good nutrition in the fruit season The mother pigs have become very tame and have many characteristics not often thought of as belonging to pigs. For example they love to be tickled behind the ears, and to have their tummies rubbed by Owen. They are each one very responsive and show their own personality.

In a good selling season it takes about five well fattened lets to support one child in Romania for a year. What a wonderful plan, and carried out with great commitment! I wonder how many other ingenious ways there are of raising funds that say to the children of Romania who are supported by our Child Rescue work, "We love you"!

Owen tickles the sow's ear, while Lois feeds the piglets.

Owen and Lois Johnson on their farm in the Waikato with the pigs that provide for needy children in Romania.

ONE FOR THREE Child Rescue International cares for needy children in Romania's orphanages. For every child given help through our sponsorship programme two others also benefit equally. So this is a one for three programme. By sponsoring a child you really help three children. Who are these others? They are either little ones, babies and infants in the Babies homes, or older children who live in the homes until they are eighteen years of age. How are they helped? With necessary food items, clothes, medicines, multivitamins, and by receiving love from our Romanian workers in regular Christian Input sessions. cie happy faces of the children in these photos are only . re because they now know that someone loves if em id cares for them. They receive good food and cart.

"1 hese are the very fortunate children. There are still o rer ),000 children in State care who need our help urge) tly s they too can have hope and smiles on their faces.

1. 1! dictator, Ceausescu, forced women to have many c n. The mothers were unable to care adequate! )r t eir children. The children, now known as Ceause 's clrldren, are in great need of lov Christian care.

A lunchtime meal of hot soup and good bread.

Bumps on the head, and sores on the face are all treated with medicines supplied tr NIWB. The smiles tells us he is happy to he playing outside in the summer sunshine.

7 )(lay sadly the Romanian economy has not improve ti e ordinary people. Parents are still being forced to e tl tir children in State care as the:, are often too poo: ) give them food and adequate care.

1 re greatest need of all is for love. Our goal is to ing the love of God to the children. )scuing the body is very necessary but we also kno‘ )ur work is to rescue the child's soul. lid Rescue is currently meeting the needs of over 1,000 needy Romanian children.

Child Rescue began in 1990 soon after the Romanian Revolution that toppled the commur 1st regime. We had been helping Romanian Christians for many years with Bibles, liter: ture, and Family Care supplies. Today we are nown as Mission Without Borders, but then we were Underground Evangelism. We an committed to long term care for Romania, bt •ding on our experience of over 30 years.

James tells us that, "Relipon that God our Father accepts as pure and ultless is this; to look after orphans and widows ia their distress and to keep oneself from being rolluted by the world."

James 1 v 27 New International Version.

CHRISTIAN INPUT . .. BRINGING CHILDREN TO

F.SUS IN ROMANIA TODAY Child Rescue has over 700 volunteers who regularly visit the orphanages.

They share the love of God and have become the children's true friends.

"My name is Iona Sava. It was 1990 whenI first heard about the love of God. Christians from Cluj who work with Child Rescue visited our orphanage and taught us many things from the Bible They showed us how to have an open heart for others.

Life in an orphanage is nice but sad at the same time. It is nice to have many sisters. You can share your joys and sorrows with them. However it is also sad. A child in an orphanage needs to have someone to call mum and dad. We need to say to somebody, "I love you." This is what we do not have in an orphanage: a parent's love. It was a real joy for me to read Psalm 27 v 10 where God promised not to forsake me. I thank Him with all my heart that He made me His daughter.

Mission Without Borders is a Bridge of Love from the West to the East. The Romanian Christians are our hands and arms of love reaching out to the children.

We can fill those arms with the necessities of life for needy youngsters. And we can join in prayer for many others to find Jesus Christ as Saviour and Friend as Ioana has done.

We enjoy receiving presents, but this is only a temporary joy.

What children in the homes really lack is love. Iknow the most beautiful present I have ever received is Jesus the Son of God, who died for me although I didn't deserve it I thank God because He revealed to me the way to heaven through Jesus Christ.

I also thank Him for blessing our orphanage in Gherla and ask Him to bless all the other orphanages in Romania.

I end this testimony by greeting you with Proverbs 17 v 17.

"A friend loves at all times..." With love, Ioana."

Jesus told His disciples to bring the little children to Him "for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these."

This young girl joyfully sings an action song learned at Christian Input classes in Gherla.

Mission Without Borders (Australia) Ltd

P 0 Box 265 Bankstown NSW 2200

Will you join us today in our task of reaching the children and rescuing them for Him? Please help us now.

Phone (02) 793 8100

Child Rescue International is very well recognized and our work acknowledged by the Romanian government through their Health and Education departments that are responsible for the orphanages The Directors send us many testimonials of how our regular, continuing supplies are vital to allow them to care adequately for their children. But in order to keep on meeting these needs, we need people who will commit themselves to helping LEAD A CHILD TO GOD A child sponsorship provides you with a particular child who you can relate to. You will receive a colour photo and an annual update report about your child We encourage you to send photos of yourself and cards about Australia. In this way you may add a child to your family and share in his or her growth Our sponsorship rate of thirty dollars a month provides for the children food, clothing, vitamins and medicines We at Child Rescue believe that Christian Input is vital anI allows God to change lives for good Ioana is only one of hundreds of young people who now have truly chaned lives. Will you join with us so many others will come to know God as Father, and Jesus as Friend?

PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN

Child Rescue's Romanian director Nicu Bisboaca showing the rusting and deteriorating washing machines of an orphanage laundry. These worn out machines can only be replaced by special project fundraising gifts.

Will you pray today to God for the children in Romania?

Their needs are still desperate. We can reach them with love, and the gospel but only with your help May God bless you as you pray for those in very great need.

Do you remember the other two children who are not sponsored They are either too old or too young We In this brief brochure we cannot answer all your queswant to offer you the chance to help them if you do not tions. We welcome you to call us or to write to us about wish to take out a full child sponsorship. Will you give a any questions you may have. pledge of a regular amount each month that is less than the full thirty dollar child sponsorship? Five, ten, If the reply coupon has already been used please call or teen, twenty dollars, or any amount you may choose. write to us about a child sponsorship, regular pledge contributions, or help for a special project Your gifts will be used for the needs of the children.

With the babies this may be supplies of nappies or baby Our postal address is food unavailable in Romania. For the older children hygiene supplies for adolescent girls. School books and other supplies for the boys are always needed.

Mission Without Borders HELP COMPLETE A SPECIAL PROJECT P 0 Box 265 BANKSTOWN NSW 2200 Every home has needs beyond our ability to help by regular giving. We call these specialprojects. They cover a very wide range and have all been requested by various directors Here are some examples Carpet, stainless steel plates, sewing machine, potato peeler, repair Phone 02 793 8100 terra cotta stove (i.e. heater), industrial washing machine, bunkbeds, mattress covers and bedliners, tumOffice address: 2/14 French Avenue Bankstovv n bler drier, stove, socks, shoes, vacuum cleaners, oil heaters, tracksuits, washbasins, etc. They cost from MWB Director: Robert Imlach a few hundred to several thousand dollars per project.

Office Manager: Suzanne Davey

YESIWILL HELP A NEEDY ROMANIAN CHILD fl I wish to sponsor a child at $30 a month.Ienclose my first sponsorship of $ I wish to give a regular amount of $

a month as a regular pledge.

Please send me further information about a special project for the children.

I am unable to give regularly, but wish to make this gift for Child Rescue. $

NAME: Mr/Mrs/Miss ADDRESS: Post Code:

Phone:

Please make cheques payable to: MISSION WITHOUT BORDERS PO Box 265 Bankstown NSW 2200. Phone 02 9793 8100 Thank you for your support of Child Rescue. Your gift makes a difference. Our workers make the deliveries personally.

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A huge river dries up and women are forced to dig for muddy water.

Please help us provide water for India's poorest families Water is one of the most basic human needs, yet some 2,000 million men, women and children throughout the world, do not have reasonable access to a safe and adequate water supply. Few people in developed societies could comprehend their deplorable problems.

In the Australian Jesuit Mission region in India the acute water shortage for most of the year is an endless problem contributing to severe hunger and malnutrition, sickness and chronic illness and many deaths. Water is one of their greatest concerns.

Their climate is harsh — 3 months monsoon, 9 months virtually without rain, and 8 months of devestating heat.

When the monsoons are good families grow 2 crops a year which provides 2 meagre meals a day for perhaps 5 months. When that food runs out they are down to 1 meal a day for 7 months, consisting of nuts, roots, berries gathered from the jungle.

The lack of water storage facilities in many areas must be r ectified. The monsoons saturate the land for 3 months

Fr. Gavin O'Sullivan SJ., 43 years in India.

f illing wells and dams and overflowing rivers and creeks.

But far too much water flows eventually out to sea. Four months after the monsoon many wells and dams have dried up and families face about 4 months with very little water available during the hottest time of the year when the temperatures range up to 47°C. For most families water must be conserved for drinking purposes only.

To add to their problems cooking and eating utensils have to be 'cleaned' in the dirt, clothes are not washed, people are unable to bathe for long periods. And for many this leads to infections including scabies, yaws, leprosy, trachoma, etc.

But the water problem does not end there. Over 50% of all available water for these people is unsafe for drinking.

The water is polluted. Children are raised on polluted water. Vast numbers die every year due to water borne diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, typhoid and jaundice. Most deaths could be prevented IF P ARENTS KNEW WHAT TO DO. And this is where we hope you can help us.

WHAT AWFUL PLACES TO PROVIDE WATER FOR CHILDREN.

In many areas water is available invast quantities underground We have to hire a drilling rig to reach it some 30 to 50 metres under the ground. It costs about S1,600 for drilling, piping, hand pump and ground work. The result is a tube well which will supply many families with CLEAN WATER ALL YEAR ROUND, and enough water to grow crops during the long dry periods. It is truly a great blessing for families in dire need.

This tube well provides clean and abundant water all year round for a girls' school, nearby village people, and the vast vegetable garden in the background.

WATER CARRYING

is a heavy burden for women

E very drop of water for household use has to be carried in from water wells, dams, creeks or rivers. Several times a day, in all weathers, women walk long distances, some up to 2 kilometres, carrying heavy loads of water back to their dwellings for family use. When water resources dry up women search further afield for water. In desperation they dig in dried out water holes and river beds. What they take away usually adds further misery to families already affected by sickness, hunger and malnutrition.

A properly constructed water well (above) is a deep hole in the ground, 13 to 30 metres deep, 2 to 6 metres in diameter, lined with bricks and finished with a half metre parapet to prevent polluted water flowing into it.

Water is usually raised in a bucket on a long length of rope, sometimes attached to a boom. Costs are from S600.

In the villages the vast majority of women live below subsistence level, many weighed down by the severe effort of caring for their children. Their access to health facilities is extremely limited and most are undernourished. Most women are illiterate and many suffer because of the caste system. The problem for the vast majority of village women is not equality but survival. Women must be able to help themselves and their children but they simply cannot do that without education.

Sister Mary Melani, S.S.

Our Mission is blessed with hundreds of Indian nuns who have come from many parts of India.

Sister Maria.

Samaritan Order.

Help us educate families to care for their health III health, caused by polluted water, hunger, prolonged malnutrition and neglect, is a formidable problem affecting most families in our mission region. Nuns make long and arduous trips visiting many villages. They go on f oot or ride bicycles, often arriving quite exhausted by the rough terrain and devastating heat. They care for the sick, give helpful advice to mothers on diet and the care of children. But, with all their dedication, the nuns can only cope with a tiny part of this vast problem.

Our surveys reveal that many sick people do not know what to do or where to go for help. Most of the severest illnesses come about simply because people are neglected in the early stages of what are often very minor sicknesses.

Many do nothing hoping they will just get better. Some try all kinds of ancient remedies, even consulting a witch doctor. Others adopt spirit worship to appease the spirit causing the problem. The sickness develops over weeks and months till eventually the person is very ill and in danger of death.

We need your help to train, equip and establish medical centres in many areas. Each village needs a health worker who is trained to treat common illnesses such as: Diarrhoea, respiratory infection, malaria, scabies, etc.

R ecognise serious illnesses such as bronchial pneumonia, dysentery, severe diarrhoea dehydration, cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, cerebral malaria, leprosy and get patients promptly to the nearest health facility.

Explain germs and how to avoid diseases.

Give first aid for injuries.

Give vaccinations correctly and at the appropriate times to women and children.

Organise regular child growth monitoring sessions.

Identify children whose health is at special risk.

Most health problems and premature deaths are preventable through changes in family behaviour. Few things complicate a pregnancy as much as malnutrition which may handicap a child from birth.

Giving children with diarrhoea plenty of fluids. Small children can die very quickly when they become dehydrated from continuous diarrhoea. A quick dose of a sugar and salt solution gives instant rehydration.

Feeding children during illness inckiding diarrhoea.

Recognising signs of serious illness and seeking medical help without delay.

Protecting water supplies from contamination by humans and animals.

Giving up harmful traditional practices such as placing cow dung on the stumps of the umbilical cord after birth.

Mothers need to know the importance of: Regular checkups during pregnancy and the need to heed advice to eat more and rest more and to curtail water carrying, wood collection, and eliminate casual labouring jobs.

Hand washing and boiling drinking water.

The welfare of the family depends to a great extent on an educated mother.

A typical village dwelling where unhygienic conditions threaten the health and lives of families.

Please give generously for people in great need There are 7 million people in our region. It is one of the poorest in India. The vast majority of families lack food and water, education and health care.

Our missionaries work progressively through area by area with education a high priority. They are showing what can be done by hard work and dedication. They need funds to build, equip and maintain new schools and health care centres in areas of urgent need. Where schools have been established the village people can attain a 70% literacy rate as against 2-3% in areas outside their influence.

There is no better gift than helping to provide education for f amilies barely surviving in the vicious circle of perpetual poverty. The reward for you is the realisation that you are helping the most deserving of God's people to a better way of life. They will be grateful to you for the rest of their lives.

The whole thrust of our work is so very dependent on outside aid. The poor can't pay. Please be generous and share what you have with families struggling to survive. May God bless you and be assured of a special place in the masses and prayers of our missionaries and from the poor you assist.

Fr. Michael Eather SJ., 36 years in India.

Australian Jesuit Mission in India

Fr. Peter Jones SJ., 35 years in India.

Fr. Tom Keogh SJ., 35 years in India.

Fr. Bob Billings SJ., 22 years in India.

cares for the poorest of the poor

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

I enclose 3 to assist your missionaries in India to improve water r esources and _help provide health care and education for the poorest f amilies. Tick for tax deduction receipt.

Mr/Mrs/Miss

(Please print clearly)

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Address Postcode

Fr. Phil Hosking SJ., 17 years in India.

Donations are tax deductible Please remember our mission in your Will.

Book Reviews

Beacon of light offers hope and compassion amidst propaganda Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth.

by Jeffrey Satinover, M.D. Baker Books (USA). Available from John XXIII Bookshop PO Box 22, Ormond, Vic. 3204, Price: $30.00 Reviewed by Tony Evans

L

ike beacons of light in the flood of religious and semireligious literature that is published over a long period of time there are certain books which stand out as special works of influence and which have the capacity to change lives.

One thinks of Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Chesterton's Orthodoxy, and later, Ronald Knox's Spiritual Aeneid, C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters, Thomas Merton's Elected Silence, and Daniel-Rops' Jesus in His Time; and readers will want to add many, many more.

From its title alone Jeffrey Sailfoyer's Homosexuality and The Politics of Truth might seem an odd work to be included in that illustrious canon but. as I shall argue, its authority eloquent writing, and its spiritual message of hope and redemption amply justifies such a judgement.

First it must be stated that the book is not directed solely at homosexuals - though they may gain great comfort and healing from it.

It is primarily a book for all those Christians and Jews who are depressed by the abandonment of traditional Judeo Christian sexual morality and are scandalised by the display of power wielded by the homosexual industry The author, of Jewish background with a long experience of practising and teaching psychoanalysis and psychiatry fully doc-

uments the largely successful manoeuvres of the militant homosexual lobby in America in their effort to gain control of professional psychiatric bodies, and determine their agenda.

He shows that all the recent changes in the definition and classification of homosexuality by medical bodies have occurred without scientific evidence but have been adopted under pressure from the gay lobby.

Doctor Satinover argues that the general condition "homosexuality" is a loosely defined aspect of the overall polymorphism of human nature which in turn is natural in human beings.

Far from being the result of a homosexual gene, which many gays now tenaciously hold, homosexuality is the likely result of a complex mixture of genetic, intrauterine and extra-uterine biological factors as well as repeatedly reinforced choices.

The role of genetic influence, he maintains, is small.

The chapters detailing the scientific explanation of homosexuality, its causes, growth and variation, make demands on the non-medically trained reader but It is necessary to grapple with them if we are to follow Satinover's later argument.

The central and controversial message of the book demonstrates that homosexual behaviour, though difficult to modify, can be reversed in the majority of cases - a fact hotly opposed by militant gays who, in America, have tried to prevent psychiatrists from treating homosexuals - even those "sufferers" who have requested psychiatrists to help them.

Satinover leaves us in no doubt

IIOMOSEXUAIITY A ND THE Poulin OF TRUTH

that however much gays "celebrate" their condition, the majority of them suffer intolerably within themselves because of their homosexuality and lead dangerous, sad, and broken lives.

The author's great compassion for his patients - many of them suffering from AIDS and other sexual diseases graphically described - underlies his crusade.

A crusade which is likely to win him vilification and rejection from the very people he wants to help.

Like some modern Cure of Ars, or Vincent de Paul, Satinover has become a medical missionary and like those social revolutionary saints, he requires that we meet the problem with compassion rather than condemnation.

Satinover prefers the word "healing" rather than curing, and he lists organisations dedicated to healing programmes which take as their model Alcoholics Anonyitics of Truth is much more than semblance of sanity. Satinover's mous.

Indeed, he argues, there are a scientific treatise: it is a spiritu- knowledge of the Old and New Important clinical comparisons to al response to homosexuality and Testaments and the Talmud are as be made between promiscuous does not shrink from discussing impressive as his professional the sinful and destructive dimen- expertise. homosexuality and alcoholism.

This is a book which should be Surprisingly, the success rate for sion, not only of homosexuality, long-term "healing" is put at but of all forms of sexual promis- read by those of influence and leadership in the Church who around 65% of all those who cuity Chapter 10, for example is a have the care of young people, or undertake the arduous programmes (for the latest informa- masterly exposition of the doc- who are presently confronted tion on one of these healing trine of our fallen natures and our with the tragic sexual transgressions of past members of the clerprogrammes in America, see the proclivity to sin. report in The Record, August 29, Only through God's interven- gy and teaching orders - those p.14). tion, His Divine Mercy and Grace, people of influence together with If all this book provided was an Satinover argues. can we hope to we lay Catholics who have, unwitauthoritative, scientific study of overcome the natural instincts of tingly, absorbed highly questionhomosexuality and suggested our nature. and he writes that, able 'scientific' information and ways of dealing with the problem, when confronting homosexuality formed attitudes and strategies as It would be important but would and all forms of sexual promiscu- a result. not fall into the 'beacon of light' ity, if we do not understand and Dr Jeffrey Satinover tells uncomcategory that is suggested at the seek a spiritual answer we are fortable facts bluntly but he also head of this review. deluding ourselves and cannot carries a message of hope and But Homosexuality and The Pol- hope to restore the world to some remarkable spiritual insight.

Rediscovering society's dependence on the family unit The Family: There is no other way.

Editors Bill Muehlenberg, Joseph Santamaria, Peter Westrnore, Mary Helen Woods. Published by The Australian Family Association. $10.

Reviewed by Hugh Ryan

The Family there is no other way...

EDITOPS NE Muetst.e.,kng laseph Sentarttttste Peter Westersore Mory fitter, Wood,

The Record, October 10 1996 Page 10

T

he title of the book says it all, but the Since only three per cent of sole parents it employs, it conscripts, it regulates, it contents explain in detail how Aus- are widows, 17 per cent are never-married, polices and it punishes individuals. tralian society in its collective form and 80 per cent are the custodial halves of The problem for the State becomes clear no longer understands or supports this pro- separated couples, this represents a mas- If we substitute the word 'families' for 'indifound truth. sive transfer of wealth from couples who viduals' at the end of that sentence.

The book is a selection of the papers pre- stay together to those who do not.

Clearly, the State does not work that way. sented to the Australian Family AssociaIt is doubtful that public policy has ever However, it is a mistake to believe that tion's international conference on the seriously attempted to justify this transfer because this is the way the State works, it family organised as part of the 1994 Year It has simply carried it out. is the way life works. It isn't. of the Family.

Many other distortions that occur not in Society can continue to function as a The papers come from many authors and the warm and fuzzy theory but in the prac- healthy, caring, value-based entity only if it between them they cover most aspects of tice of the welfare state are observed by continues to receive from families a steady the relationships between family life and various authors to the point where Jerzy supply of individuals who have those qualpublic policy.

Zubrzycki (The Importance of the Family) ities and who are able to choose to conThat the natural family of parents and and Carlson show that, worldwide, gov- tribute to the service of society. children has suffered grievously at the ernments can no longer continue to Families can fail, and when they do socihands of public policy over the last 30 years expand the extensive welfare net to under- ety suffers. write the cost of family breakdown. is beyond dispute.

The crucial thing to remember is that the Contributions are not limited to the finan- State cannot succeed in their place.

Without getting bogged down in unnecessary detail, the authors of this book give cial aspects of family life.

Society is utterly dependent on the famia clear exposition of how and why it has Mary Helen Woods, Susan Moore, Eliza- ly for the supply of individuals who are happened. beth Carlson and Allan Carlson all deal at adequate for the task of living in society Authors like Allan Carlson (who appears some length with education and the famiThat is why the State must do all it can to three times and always welcome) present ly while other writers deal with the impor- protect the family. That is why it must defer the international picture while West Aus- tance and value of parents - both mother to the family. That is why its intrusions into tralian authority, Alan Tapper, gives fact and father - and the consequences for soci- family life create social problems. and figure about the transformation of the ety when the two-parent family is not preIn its 17 chapters and 213 paget The Famserved.

Australian welfare state. ily there is no other way gives a varied and Throughout the book there is frequent valuable range of insights into these issues Tapper, author of an outstanding book in this field, The Family in the Welfare State, reference to crisis in the family, but the and adds sufficient bibliography by way of points out that the early welfare state assist- material presented shows that the real cri- footnotes for those who want to pursue ed two-parent families with children, but sis is in society and it comes about because particular aspects further. today those families receive no assistance of the dominance in media and politics of It is a useful addition to the family book with child raising and are actually forced a very shallow understanding of the rela- shelves and it would be of benefit to all of to subsidise many other groups which have tionships that exist among the State, indi- us if it formed part of the reading of MP's won favour with the welfare state, includ- viduals and families. and public servants who are in any way ing sole parent families for whom subsiThere is a natural tendency for the State Involved in shaping or administering polidies have now passed the $3bn mark. to relate to the individual because it taxes, cies that affect families.

More News from WA

Company under fire on cards

By Colleen McGuinness-Howard Perth parent Greg Smith is mounting a campaign against Smith's Snackfood Company in an endeavour to force it to withdraw or change its series of Oddbodz cards which feature human wine and animal faeces.

Disturbed that "puerile and smutty characters are within the series, with Freely' who urinates in his pants and 'Snoopy Doggy Do' with dog faeces depicted on it," Mr Smith, a journalist with two children at a Catholic school, has contacted the Principal who immediately banned them from the school.

He has also contacted the national company's consumer affairs manager who he says has claimed that the choice of cards was beyond the company's control.

Rejecting this assertion as "Rubbish because it is Smith's who make the final choice of what they put into their products," Mr Smith is urging other parents to contact Smith's on free phone 1800 025 789 to lodge

their complaints. To date he has written to the company's managing director, the Catholic Education Office and the Education Department of WA with letters to all State Education offices, secular and religious on his list.

Mr Smith said he doesn't get angry about things very often, and believes himself to be a broadminded person.

"But no parent needs this kind of rubbish presented to their children," he said, "when it's hard enough instilling virtues today, only to see the good work undone in this way."

While conceding that although companies aren't the arbiters of morals and values in the community, he's disappointed they haven't taken a more mature and responsible outlook when dealing with children.

A spokesman for the company advised The Record the contentious Oddbodz series was being phased out this month and replaced by the Space Oddbodz which he hopes will address some consumer concerns.

College fencers winners Students from Catholic Agricultural College. Bindoon. were in the winners circle at the Royal Show last week, after beating some tough opponents and going on to win the renowned Agricultural Colleges and Schools Farm Skills Competition.

Threnty-one teams assembled on the main arena of the Claremont Showgrounds to contest the prestigious event.

Catholic Agricultural College was well represented with two teams entered in the competition, ten students in all.

Among the skills tested were: fence construction, tractor driving, plant and seed recognition, sheep handling and drenching, sheep, prime lamb and wool appraisals, metal cutting and welding and chemical safety.

Each team took part in the fifteen events.

One of the most exciting events was

the fencing competition, which required the team to erect a 60m. 3strand plain why fence within a 20 minute time limit.

This event, which involved all five team members, required precision timing.

The long hours of practice paid off when, at the end of the day. the College teams were awarded first and fourth places.

In winning, Catholic Agricultural College broke the Cunderdin-Narrogin stranglehold on name on the D & M Bannister Trophy and on the Western Australian Minister for Education Perpetual Trophy.

In his acceptance speech Team Captain, Geoffrey Armstrong, paid tribute to his fellow team members and the College staff, thanking the various companies and societies for providing the necessary sponsorship, and the other teams for the tough competition.

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Sons of Leonora return to join centenary celebrations

Leonora son, Father Russell Hardiman, Is Interviewed by ABC radio personality Ian McNamara during the town's centenary celebrations. Archbishop Hickey and a well-entertained crowd look on.

Its care fell to the priests of Kalgoorlie who supArchbishop Barry Hickey and Fr Russell Hardiman travelled back to Leonora recently to join in plied Mass in the area until around 1980 when

the centenary celebrations of the town.

Both were born in Leonora. Archbishop Hickey's father, Greg, and Fr Hardiman's father, Hugh Patrick Hardiman, were both Mining Registrars of Leonora in the late 30's and early 40's.

Fr Hardiman is a Priest of the Bunbury Diocese and is currently lecturing at Notre Dame University in Sacred Liturgy.

Leonora today is a thriving gold mining town.

Mines that closed long ago, such as the Sons of Gwalia, have been reopened, and new ones have come and gone.

In 1964, after the closure of the Sons of Gwalia mine, most people left the area.

Only the pastoralists and the Aboriginal people remained.

Bishop Thomas announced that the Parish of Leonora-Gwalia would have to closed. Fr Noel Tobin had the unenviable task of winding it up.

the township began to revive again.

Fr Luke Fay CSsR was sent there, and lived in a caravan for a number of months.

He produced a little book. "Presence in the Desert" to record his thoughts and experiences during that time.

Since then the Diocese of Geraldton has maintained a Priest in Leonora.

Fr John Oostdijck MHM is stationed there at present. His area now extends to Laverton, Leinster, Mt Magnet, Cue, Meekatharra and Wiluna.

Many people travelled back to Leonora for the celebrations, including Sir Charles Court.

Even Macca (Ian McNamara) broadcast his Australia All Over programme from Leonora for the occasion, and interviewed both Archbishop Hickey and Fr Russell Hardiman.

Some Dominican Sisters also returned to Leonora. including Sr Bernadette who was born there.

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Prelate seeks help for Lebanon's Christians

By Robert Delaney DE 11(01T (CNS) - The future of Christians throughout the Middle East depends on an independent Lebanon, and that independence is threatened without support from the US government, according to a high-ranking Lebanese prelate.

US Christians need to urge their government to stand firm for an independent Lebanon, as Middle East peace negotiations move forward, or Syria may increase its control of the country, warned Maronite Archbishop Chucrallah Harb of Jounieh in a September 20 interview at St. Maron Church, a Maronite-rite church in Detroit.

Archbishop Harb was on a three-week visit to the United States that began on September 11.

He planned to meet Maronite-rite congregations in Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Washington and New York "to let them know what's happening in Lebanon and what they can do to help."

Approximately 90 percent of Lebanon is occupied by Syria, with the other 10 percent occupied by Israel in the south of the country, according to the archbishop.

In 1976 Syria entered Lebanon to put an end, it claimed, to internal civil conflict raging among Christians, Muslims and Palestinians. The troops never left.

"We are hoping to have our independence and sovereignty respected, and be able to enjoy our rights to live as a democratic people," Archbishop Harb said.

"We desire that Syria's troops and Israel's troops should leave the country and leave

us in peace." The situation is especially urgent in the wake of recent parliamentary elections, which the archbishop charged were rigged to suppress the Christian vote and strengthen Syria's control of the Lebanese government.

"For Christians in Lebanon, things are very, very, very bad," Archbishop Harb said.

Among the hardships he cited was the loss of private-sector jobs to workers imported from Syria who are willing to work for a fraction of what Lebanese workers are used to earning. In the public sector, the situation is even worse, according to the archbishop.

Christians are now completely frozen out of senior civil service posts, and those already employed by the government are made to feel unwelcome, he said.

Pope appendix operation a success

By John Thavis ROME (CNS) - Doctors successfully removed Pope John Paul II's inflamed appendix and ruled out any more serious intestinal disorder for the 76-year-old pontiff.

The Pope regained consciousness almost immediately after the 50-minute surgery on October 8 and "greeted and thanked everyone" on the medical staff. said Dr Francesco Crucitti, who performed the operation at Rome's Gemelli hospital.

Crucitti said all of the Pope's vital signs were normal during and following the surgery.

He said the Pope might get out of bed the next day and could be dismissed from the hospital in a week or so.

"It might be even sooner. But let's not forget the Pope is in his 77th year," he said.

Crucitti said the operation confirmed what he and other doctors had diagnosed earlier this year: that the Pope was suffering

Also, he said the Lebanese army is now three-quarters Muslim.

"The government now is Muslim; the prime minister is a militant Muslim. Key posts are being taken away from Christians," he said.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese government has threatened to close down a Catholic TV network and two church-run radio stations. prompting criticism from Lebanese church leaders and Vatican Radio.

Vatican Radio's director. Father Pasquale Borgomeo, said on October 1 that the step "seems to indicate a desire to restrict freedom of expression" in Lebanon.

He called it a "very worrisome signal." especially because access to mass media in Lebanon is a key element of political and economic power "

Ecumenical tasks for future outlined

By Lois Rogers PRINCETON. New jersey (CNS) - The millennial goal of Christian unity will take real, energetic, Spirit-filled work to realise, according to Cardinal Edward Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity To propel that work, Cardinal Cassidy placed a series of challenges before an audience of nearly 300 Catholics and Protestants on September 30 at an ecumenical convocation at Princeton.

The challenges Cardinal Cassidy offered were to: study what has already been achieved and renew the ecumenical movement accordingly; clarify the goals of the movement; and finally, for the churches involved to open the door to ecumenism

wider by constantly inviting their own members to deeper involvement.

On the second challenge, to clarify goals, he said those involved in the movement must explore in greatest depth those issues which can actually be agreed upon.

"Here again, we are challenged by a diversity in expression of faith, no longer diversity but divergence," Cardinal Cassidy said.

He called the three years leading up to the millennium a "special time of grace."

He exhorted the group to "harvest into our own communities" the achievements of dialogue between Catholics and Protestants over the past three decades by way of an "official reception process" that could bring new insight to the movement.

Catholic novelist dies Pope John Paul II enters Rome's Gemelli Hospital on October 6 for an operation to remove his appendix.

from recurrent episodes of appendix inflammation, which produced symptoms of fever and nausea.

"The regional examination allowed us to exclude, once again, the presence of other pathologies," he said. He said he

could "categorically- rule out a tumor as a cause of the Pope's recent flare-ups.

Crucitti expressed irritation with recent Italian newspaper reports suggesting that the Pope had a more serious disease, such as cancer.

TOKYO (CNS) - Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo. who popularised religious themes in his works, died of cancer in Tokyo on September 29 at the age of 73.

Endo. who was baptised at the age of 11 along with his mother, made the tensions he felt as a Japanese and a Catholic the major theme of his work.

Endo's writings have been translated into many languages, making him one of the best-known contemporary Japanese writers

in the world. His most famous work outside of Japan is his 1966 historical novel "Silence." which deals with the apparent silence of Christ in the face of the persecution of Christians in 17th-century Japan.

The novel, which has been made into a motion picture and a play, also explores the difficulty of living an essentially Western Christianity in a non-Western environment such as his native Japanese culture.

Liturgical malaise caused partly by cultural crisis, conference told

By Erika W. Martinez SALT LAKE CITY (CNS) - Catholic liturgy today is affected by a "malaise" brought on by a cultural crisis, said the keynote speaker at the second annual meeting of the Society for Catholic Liturgy, held from September 26-29 at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City Dominican Father Aldan Nichols addressed about 50 teachers, scholars and authors from the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe who met to discuss and evaluate issues concerning "Liturgy and Beauty" in the life of the Church since the Second Vatican Council.

When cultural organisations function properly, "higher culture permeates the lower culture and informs it," Father Nichols said.

But because of the "deplorable state" of popular culture, with its emphasis on "information with shallow content," people of higher culture are more and more prone to disenchantment, he said.

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"The Christian doctrine of redemption is "It's very questionable whether our own 26 English-speaking countries. "A drive to no longer understood in the modern West," culture has the sort of depth which lends make the liturgy so clean and its meanings said the Cambridge University professor, itself fully to the representation of the so precise is a danger," said Duffy, because who has written extensively on Catholic faith," he added.

It prevents people from experiencing the doctrine and theology.

In another talk, Eamon Duffy, a lay the- deeper levels of meaning that can be And, when Christ's role is seen as that of ologian and reader in church history at derived from symbols. a "psychic healer" or seen in terms of "lib- Cambridge University, called for recogniOther speakers at the meeting included eration theology," he continued, Church tion that the aesthetic dimension of ritual Benedictine Father Anthony Ruff, of the worship loses its salvific meaning. and liturgy have been seriously ignored.

University of Graz, Austria; Sister of If the "splendor of the liturgy" is to be The making of the new "designer" litur- St. Joseph Joan Roccasalvo, a professor at recovered, a theocentric orientation of all gy "has been defective in a number of the University of Scranton, Pa.; and Fredric the arts associated with the liturgy is nec- ways," Duffy said, notably in the expung- Roberts, an anthropologist at the Universiessary, said Father Nichols. ing of ancient rites that had found their ty of Michigan.

It is vital to understand that "the form of way into Church ritual over the centuries.

Father Ruff focused on Pope Pius X's the liturgy is set by Christ and his pasch He cited four successive missal versions directives that liturgical music must be and that the visible Christ in that death and of the Candlemas liturgy, in which, he said, holy, good in form and at the service of ritresurrection is the liturgical gestalt, draw- ."complex, multilayered" ceremonies grad- ual. ing all human nature and cosmic cre- ually were removed, and instances of In general, he said, it must be appreciatation into being with it," he added. "inconsistent translations of the Latin vered by the assembly and it must be simple. sions."

Commenting on whether there are some Works of beauty can be used in worship, cultures not worthy of incorporation into "If they can't bother to get the Latin right, the liturgy, Father Nichols said not what else are they missing?" asked Duffy, Sister Roccasalvo said, "but they must every culture interprets "the world so as to referring to members of the International involve a prayerful response," for a order it to the divine. And to that extent, it's Commission on English in the Liturgy, a response only to beauty itself deprives peonot a culture in which the church can be joint effort to translate official liturgical ple of the true meaning of beauty in worfully involved." texts by Catholic bishops' conferences in ship.

International News

US bishops call for full care of ariencephalics

By Jerry Fiiteau WASHINGTON (CNS) - When an anencephalic child is born, it should receive baptism and "the comfort and palliative care appropriate to all the dying," said a statement of the US Catholic bishops' Committee on Doctrine.

The statement said abortion because of anencephaly is not morally acceptable, nor can the organs of an anencephalic infant be taken for transplants "before the donor child is certainly dead."

It called for Christian burial as a witness of the Church's respect for all human life.

"Most infants who have anencephaly do not survive for more than a few days after birth." it said.

It described anencephaly as "a congenital anomaly characterised by failure of development of the cerebral hemispheres and overlying skull and scalp, exposing the brain stem."

The two-page statement was titled "Moral Principles Concerning Infants With Anencephaly."

It was sent to all US bishops on September 20, following approval of its distribution by the Administrative Committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

In a cover memorandum Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk of Cincin-

nati, chairman of the Committee ture birth, the committee said the on Doctrine, said the committee child's probable shortness of developed the statement "to life after birth "cannot excuse underscore the value of all life in directly causing death before 'viability' or gravely endangering the the present climate."

Last year the Council on Ethical child's life after 'viability' as a and Judicial Affairs of the Ameri- result of the complications of precan Medical Association, follow- maturity."

While steps cannot be taken to ing sharp criticisms, suspended its controversial 1994 policy deci- kill the child, it said, there was no sion that would permit trans- need to use "extraordinary means plant of organs of anencephalic to prolong" its life. newborns "even before the "It is most commendable for parneonates die, as long as there is ents to wish to donate the organs parental consent and certain of an anencephalic child for transother safeguards are followed." plants that may assist other chilIt reinstated a 1988 policy which dren, but this may never be said removing such organs was permitted before the donor child ethically acceptable only after the Is certainly dead." it said. donor infant died.

"The profound and personal sufThe statement from the Com- fering of the parents of an anenmittee on Doctrine defended the cephalic child gives us cause for right to life of the anencephalic concern and calls for compaschild, before and after birth. sionate pastoral and medical It rejected "the opinion that care." the statement said. because of their apparent lack of "The mother who carries to term cognitive function. and M view of a child who will soon die deserves the probable brevity of their lives, our every possible support." it these infants are not the subject added. of human rights, or at least have "The baptism of the child lives of less meaning or purpose assures the parents of the than others." child's eternal happiness, and the "As a general rule, conditions of provision of Christian burial of the human body, regardless of the deceased infant gives witness severity, in no way compromise to the church's unconditional human dignity or human rights," respect for human life and the it said. recognition that in the face of Against doctors who counsel every human being is an abortion or inducing prema- encounter with God." it said.

Pope speaks to Redemptorists

By Lynne Well VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has encouraged Redemptorists to renew their efforts to help the world's poor and abandoned and to take inspiration from the life of the religious institute's founder.

About 6,000 priests and lay workers worldwide are members

of the Redemptorists, known formally as the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer.

In an address to the Redemptorists on September 27. the 300th anniversary of St Alphonsus' birth, the Pope said the saint's example is just as relevant today as in the 18th century.

"The world of the abandoned became the world of St Alphon-

sus.- he said. "It should remain the world of every Redemptorist as the fruit of continuous insight ... so that they can respond quickly to urgencies that arise."

"Confronted with all the .... situations of abandonment," he said. "the Church must continue the actions of the Good Shepherd, who leaves the 99 in safety. . . . in search of the one lost sheep."

Croat Caritas nun stabbed to death

By Lynne Well ROME (CNS) - Memorial services were held on October 2 for a nun who died after she was stabbed on the doorstep of a Caritas office in central BosniaHerzegovina.

The head of the national office of Caritas in Sarajevo travelled to the town where the attack occurred to attend a Mass in memory of Sister Ana jurcevic, 46.

A Caritas spokeswoman told Catholic News Service by phone that the nun had done "general work" for the relief organisation in the town of Kakanj, 20 miles northwest of the Bosnian capital.

Authorities said Sister Jurcevic was found on the evening of September 30 about 15 minutes after she had succumbed to wounds thought to have been inflicted by a knife.

The attack took place in front of

the building housing the local Caritas office, which ministers to Croats and Muslims in the region.

The Bosnian Croat nun had worked in various parts of the former Yugoslavia, but had settled in Kakanj in 1991, before the start of the war in Bosnia.

An official in the Croatian Democratic Union, the main Croat political party in Bosnia, told reporters he believed the attack to be ethnically motivated.

The parish priest, Father Petar Jukic, told the Catholic Press Agency of Zagreb that pathologists thought the murder was committed by a professional.

A suspect in the nun's murder, Kakanj resident Josip Cokar, was arrested by police in Vitez on October 1, reported the Bosnian Croat news agency Haben.

"Cokar is a person with a police record as an alcoholic and drug addict." the agency reported of the charged man.

'Learn' from East reached through the physical world, through moral life and through contemplation.

It is through contemplation, he said, that people can enter deeply into themselves and recognise the divine image in their nature.

"Purifying themselves from sin. they meet the living God until they themselves become divine' through the gift of grace." he said.

This spiritual tradition has important significance for everyPope John Paul II rests briefly uLi, day living, he said. his general audience on October 2.

"The dominant scientific culture CASTEL GANDOLFO. Italy today places at our disposition an (CNS) - Western culture, increas- enormous quantity of informaingly dominated by scientific and tion. Yet one can see daily that technological knowledge. could this is not enough for a real learn much from Eastern spiritu- process of humanisation." he said.

He suggested that Western ality. Pope John Paul II said.

"More than ever, we need to Christians take a closer look at rediscover the dimension of Eastern spiritual methods.

The Pope returned to the theme the heart." the pontiff told several hundred pilgrims at a blessing in remarks to a group of Italian airplane pilots, saying he on September 29.

The Pope said Eastern Christian thought modern men and women spirituality offers this deeper have a "nostalgia for the "awareness of the heart." which is Absolute."

"The technological society, with much more than an investigation of personal feelings or affections. its rhythms and its increasingly He cited the traditional three artificial environments, threatens levels of awareness among East- to suffocate this genuinely human ern Christians: understanding dimension," he said.

Ratzinger warns on 90's threat to Church from relativism gy and to erase differences with other religions.

"Relativism has thus become the central VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Early this year, on a plane to Latin America, Pope John problem for the faith at the present time," Paul II dismissed liberation theology he stated.

In the cardinal's view, relativism is a bigas irrelevant.

There were a few howls of protest, but ger threat than liberation theology was a with Marxism rapidly fading many Church decade ago largely because its ideas are so Imbedded in democratic society. thinkers quietly agreed.

The key to successful modern politics, he Now Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's chief doctrinal official, has offered a said, are compromise and a rejection of more definitive obituary for this branch of absolute positions.

But now, theologians are mistakenly theological thought - and some words of applying these methods to religion and warning for the future.

He explained his position in talks in May ethics, he says.

As a result, the cardinal maintains, Jesus to Latin American bishops and in September to some 80 bishops from mission ter- is widely seen today as "one religious leader among others" and not as the living ritories.

In the 1980s, the German cardinal said, God. Likewise, concepts like the Church, liberation theology in its more radical forms was the most urgent challenge to the dogma and the sacraments are also viewed as too "unconditional," and the Church is faith.

However now, he said, the threat comes accused of intransigence and fundamenfrom relativism, or the idea that no one can talism. Cardinal Ratzinger's exposition revealed why he and other Vatican officials presume to know the true way.

Relativism may ultimately be more dan- often bristle at the terms "dialogue," "plugerous to Catholicism, he said, because it ralism," "democracy" and "multiculturalis popularised in efforts to "democratise" ism" when they are applied to the Church.

All these concepts involve an assumption the Church, to arbitrarily modify the liturBy John Thavis

of equal rank among the participants, he Agers, he said. Inevitably, Christianity is said, yet the Church can never accept seen as a "spiritual imperialism" that must putting one's faith on the same level as the be thrown off.

The cardinal said the much-reformed convictions of others.

Unfortunately, he added, many Catholics Catholic liturgy is especially vulnerable to are leaving the Church because they think New Age ideas today.

Because some Catholics are weary of the questions of doctrine should be decided by majority vote, as if the faith were some pure, spoken liturgy, they seek what is "inebriating and ecstatic." kind of party platform.

"I admit that I am exaggerating," he said.

The relativistic view, he argued, is typically Western, yet it has links to Asian reli- "But the tendencies are there."

Cardinal Ratzinger sees strong opposigious philosophy.

The cardinal warned that some Christian tion to the Gospel in the world; he calls it theologians in India, for example, "set aside a miracle that the Christian faith survives the image of Christ from its exclusive posi- In the current cultural situation. tion" and place it on the same level as IndiBut his views on the state of theology are not all doom and gloom. an saving myths.

Meanwhile, many in the West have There are hopeful signs, he said, that reaembraced New Age beliefs, described by son is opening itself up to faith.

Cardinal Ratzinger as an anti-rationalInterestingly, he avoided crediting church ist manifestation of the "everything is rela- authority for that. tive" attitude.

Rather, he said,it's the result of the human New Age followers seek a return to the being's natural yearning for the infinite mystery of the whole and the infinite, and for a God who enters into our world. through "inebriating music, rhythm, dance, This is a thinking man's faith, not blind frenetic lights and dark shadows, and in belief. the human mass," he said.

As Cardinal Ratzinger put it: "Reason will "The gods return. They have become not be saved without the faith, but the faith more believable than God- to the New without reason will not be human."

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International News

Irish leader Church Warning on law Cardinal Daly retires In Brief

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) lie head of the Catholic Church in Belarus, Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek of MinskMogilev, has warned that a proposed religious law would impose "even worse restrictions" on Catholic activities than under communism.

"Under the new law, I must obtain the authorities' consent to assign a priest to a parish and must consult with them again if I wish to move him," he said, adding that it was proposed parish priests would riot be able to celebrate Mass elsewhere in their diocese.

Special Ed ready PITTSBURGH (CNS) - A comprehensive religious education curriculum for children and adults with mental retardation has been developed for nationwide distribution in the US. The curriculum has the approval of Bishop Donald Wuerl of Pittsburgh and was prepared by the Pittsburgh Diocese's Department for Persons with Disabilities.

Bombing claim ISTANBUL (CNS) - A rebel group seeking to install a strict Islamic regime in Itu.ke, has claimed responsibility for a bombing at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul on September 30 that caused structural damage but no Injuries.

An anonymous caller claiming to be with the Islamic Great East Raiders Front. which is banned by the Thrkish government, phoned the Istanbul headquarters of Turkey's leading newspaper, Hunlet. on the day of the attack to claim it would occur.

Mines destroyed OTTAWA (CNS) - A day before Ottawa was to host an international conference on banning land mines, the federal government announced that two-thirds of Canada's stockpile of 90,000 anti-personnel land mines would be exploded.

Defence Minister David Collenette, who was removed from office on October 4, said destroying most of the mines sends a "powerful message to the world that we are committed to the eradication of these weapons."

Collenette said the remaining 30,000 mines would be eliminated during the negotiations of a treaty ban.

US Vincentians BOSTON (CNS) - Boston Cardinal Bernard Law praised members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society in the US for their ongoing service to the poor, telling them they were "helping create a civilisation of love."

He also talked to the group about the partial-birth abortion issue as well as what he called his "current preoccupation" - how cuts in foreign relief aid would affect Catholic relief agencies.

About 1,000 US Vincentians from groups from across the US gathered from September 25-29 in Boston for the society's national convention.

By Clan Molloy DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - Cardinal Cahal Daly of Armagh, Northern Ireland, the primate of all Ireland, retired on his 79th birthday on October 1.

Cardinal Daly will be remembered for his contribution to interchurch relations at a time when sectarian violence increased in Northern Ireland.

His successor, Archbishop Sean Brady of Armagh, 5Z was a parish priest in County Cavan when he was appointed coadjutor archbishop in December 1994.

Archbishop Brady is the first prelate in more than 500 years to assume the office of primate within the lifetime of his predecessor.

Cardinal Daly served from 1974 to 1984 as a member of the Vatican's Secretariat for Christian iJnity and was a papal observer at the 1978 Lambeth Conference, the general assembly of the bishops of the Anglican Communion.

He led the Church's delegation to the New Ireland Forum in 1984 and to the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in Dublin Cas-

tle earlier this year. But much of his ecumenical work has been behind the scenes.

"I am called on to be a bridgebuilder, a minister of reconciliation," he said.

"This means a bishop is called to try to explain to each community as far as he is able, and to plead for understanding of each other's case and reciprocal recognition of each other's rights."

In his 1979 pamphlet, "A Letter to a Northern Protestant," he wrote, "As a fellow northerner, I would earnestly ask you to believe that no community in Western Europe is likely to be as sympathetic and supportive toward your Protestant religious beliefs and principles as are Irish Catholics, Irish Catholics and Protestants can and must help one another to stay faithful to Christ in a world where more and more people walk away from him."

Earlier this year, Cardinal Daly was part of the interchurch team that tried to find a peaceful settlement to the Drumcree stand-off in Portadown when thousands of

Cardinal Cahal Daly

Orange men, members of a Protestant fraternity, tried to force their way through a Catholic ghetto.

Cardinal Daly had offered his resignation to the Pope four years ago when he reached the age of 75.

The offer was refused, leaving him to lead the Irish church through one of its most difficult

periods in modern history as a series of child abuse cases involving clerics came to light.

The scandals caused the cardinal much personal pain.

He repeatedly apologised for the harm caused by Church members and took the unprecedented step of appearing on a live television talk show to make his apology more widely known.

Cardinal Daly was a proud wearer of the Pioneer Pin in support of the temperance movement of the Pioneer Association.

He took great pleasure in his archdiocese's annual pilgrimage to the shrine of the Venerable Matt Talbot in inner-city Dublin, where he clearly enjoyed bantering with members of the local working class conununity.

Talbot was a reformed alcoholic and many believe his sobriety was due to a miracle.

Cardinal Daly was born in Loughguile, County Antrim. in 191Z the son of a primary school teacher in a family of seven children and ordained in 1941.

He succeeded Cardinal Tomas 0 Fiaich as primate in 1990.

Mother Teresa honoured Bethlehem turned into 'a virtual prison'

By Maureen E. Daly

WASHINGTON (CNS) - US President Clinton signed a resolution on October 1 conferring honourary US citizenship on Mother Teresa.

In a statement Clinton noted that Mother Teresa, as founder of the Missionaries of Charity, "has nursed the sick cared for the poor, and shown us, through concrete actions, how we can make real our dreams for a just and good society."

The joint resolution was introduced by Representative Michael Flanagan from Chicago.

Since 1983, Mother Teresa's order has operated a soup kitchen and shelter on Chicago's near west side in Flanagan's district.

"Honourary citizenship is symbolic," Flanagan said in a statement after the signing.

"It is a special expression of

love and respect and appreciation for contributions to this country.Mother Teresa, 86, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985.

The order operates soup kitchens, emergency shelters, homes for AlDs patients and other facilities in the United States and a number of other countries.

Flanagan's resolution stated that honourary citizenship is "an extraordinary honour not lightly conferred nor frequently granted."

Congress has voted only three times before to confer honourary citizenship, honouring Winston Churchill: Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat credited with saving 20,000 Jews from the Nazis: and William and Hannah Penn, the founders of Pennsylvania.

in 1979-83 and 1985-87. Israel imposed a closure on PalestinPROVIDENCE. R.I. (CNS) - A ian areas after late September Christian Brother living in Beth- violence left 76 Israelis and lehem said Israeli military Palestinians dead and hundreds forces have turned the town of others injured.

The riots across West Bank Into "a virtual prison." and Gaza were triggered by the Christian Brother Robert Daszkiewicz, a 58-year-old extension of an archaeological native of Providence, reported tunnel in Jerusalem.

Brother Daszkiewicz said that on the situation in Bethlehem in during the last weekend in Sepe-mail messages in late September and early October to tember, Israel "started a conThe Providence Visitor, dioce- spicuous, massive build-up and deployment of heavily san newspaper.

"Israeli military forces have armed troops. tanks and heliblocked all access to and copters and have surrounded from Bethlehem, turning this Palestinian towns and villages.

"Senior Israeli officials are town into a virtual prison," he warning that they are ready said in an October 3 message.

Brother Daszkiewicz who cur- to invade the towns which they rently works at Bethlehem Uni- left ... and disarm the Palestinversity also served in Bethlehem ian policemen," he added.

By James N. Dunbar

The Catechism of the Catholic Church The common good 1905 In keeping with the social

nature of man, the good of each individual is necessarily related to the common good, which in turn can be defined only in reference to the human person: Do not live entirely isolated, having retreated into your selves, as If you were already justified, but gather instead to seek the common good together.

1906 By common good is to be

understood "the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as Individuals, to reach their fulfilment more fully and more easily."

The common good concerns the life of all.

It calls for prudence from each, and even more from those who exercise the office of authority. It consists of three essential elements:

1907 First, the common good pre-

supposes respect for the person as such. In the name of the common good, public authorities are bound to respect the fundamental and inalienable rights of the human person.

Society should permit each of its members to fulfil his vocation. In particular, the common good resides in the conditions for the exercise of the natural freedoms indispensable for the development of the human vocation, such as "the right to act according to a sound norm of conscience and to safeguard ... privacy, and rightful freedom also in matters of religion."

1908 Second, the common good requires the social well-being and development of the group itself.

Development is the epitome of all social duties. Certainly, ills the proper function of authority to arbitrate, in the name of the common good, between various par-

ticular interests: but it should make accessible to each what is needed to lead a truly human life: food, clothing, health, work, education and culture, suitable information, the right to establish a family, and so on.

1911 Human interdependence is increasing and gradually spreading throughout the world. The unity of the human family, embracing people who enjoy equal natural dignity, implies a universal common good. This good calls for an organisation of 1909 Finally, the common good the community of nations able to requires peace, that is, the stabil- "provide for the different needs of ity and security of a just order. It men; this will involve the sphere presupposes that authority of social life to which belong should ensure by morally accept- questions of food, hygiene, eduable means the security of society cation, . . . and certain situations and its members. It is the basis of arising here and there, as for the right to legitimate personal example . . . alleviating the misandI collective defence. eries of refugees dispersed throughout the world, and assist1910 Each human community ing migrants and their families." possesses a common good which permits it to be recognised as 1912 The common good is always such; it is in the political commu- oriented towards the progress of nity that its most complete reali- persons: "The order of things sation is found. must be subordinate to the order It is the role of the state to defend of persons, and not the other way and promote the common good around." This order is founded on of civil society, its citizens, and truth, built up in justice, and aniintermediate bodies. mated by love.

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C ARMELITE FEAST A solemn Concelebrated Mass for the feast of St Teresa of Avila will be offered at the Carmelite Monastery, Adelma Rd. Nedlands, on Tuesday 15 October at 10.30am. Principal Celebrant Monsignor McCrann.

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OCTOBER Catenian's Mass, St Mary's 13 Cathedral - Archbishop Hickey 14 Official Opening of National Loss and Grief Awareness week - Sr Cecilia Murphy OP Mass for the Feast of St Teresa, 15 Carmelite Monastery, Nedlands Mgr P McCrann WA Bishops' Conference 16 Ecumenical Service for St L 17 Luke's Day - Archbishop Hickey 17/18 WACRI Conference Archbishop Hickey 18-20 Visitation, Greenmount Archbishop Hickey 20 Fishing Fleet Festival Archbishop Hickey Confirmation, Melville Rev Fr G Holohan Official Opening of Mental 21 Health Week Rev Fr M McShane SJ Catholic Women's League 22 Annual (State) Conference Archbishop Hickey 24 LifeLink Launch Archbishop's Christmas Appeal Archbishop Hickey

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n one of the seven hills of ancient Rome a pagan temple was raised and called "Ara Coeli" - The Altar of Heaven.

In Christian times this gave place to a church dedicated to Our Blessed Lady and called "Sancta Maria in Ara Coeli" In this beautiful countryside around Northampton Father LeCaille of long ago imagined this hill above the town as the altar of Heaven and he dreamed of the people ascending the hill for worship in St Mary's.

It was an inspiring concept.

The hill had already been crowned with a simple Church structure in 1867 and our picture shows the old and the young, side by side when St Mary's was blessed in 1936.

Besides being a place of devotion, every church should have a special character of its own - The Motif.

The motif of the Northampton Church is spirituality.

The sharp ridge of the steep roof cleft the blue sky like the bows of an ocean . liner; and springing yet higher from the roof the whitened spire points a finger to Heaven" (from the address of the Architect, Father John Hawes at the opening in 1936).

But further, our Church, St Mary's is a symbol in stone, of Faith in human hearts to-day and it is floodlit so that even the darkness of a sometimes cruel and greedy world cannot dim its splendour.

The Catholic community of Northampton and its surrounding area is strong and vibrant bringing to our little corner of God's world a selfless loving and a valued living that is at the same time contagious and supportive.

Placed directly on the Tourist Track to Kalbaffi, Monkey Mia, the North and wildflowers we have many visiting worshippers for Sunday Mass and it is a joy to us to hear their voices raised in praise of God. "In a spirit of hope, and focussing on Gospel values, Saint Mary's Catholic School seeks to provide a secure, happy and loving environment to enable the development of the whole child"

This statement is taken from the vision statement of our school.

As you would expect in the wide open spaces of the Midwest; Saint Mary's Parish, like our Diocese of Geraldton is huge.

Distances between Mass centres are in the order of three and four hours drive and because only some of the roads are "black-topped" an all-pervading spirit of togetherness in the parish is not easily achieved.

But we see this as a priority and even though our priests are often the only bonding messengers in our faith family we have high hopes that we will eventually overcome the tyranny of distance. Each church in the parish has its own distinctive charism and it seems, as St Paul saw it. "the members making up the Body of Christ" Our priests, Fr Des Reid, C.S.Sp. and Fr Tom Crean, C.S.Sp. belong to the Congregation of the Spiritan Missionaries once known as The Irish Holy Ghost Fathers and their zeal for the mission of the Church stretches farther than the parish limits.

Our community now has links with Spiritan Missions in Papua New Guinea and Africa and while our effort is in infancy we try to bridge the distance to help the developing church to make their world a better place.

The solid construction of St Mary's Church, Northampton, symbolises the faith it was built on.

The old and the new; the 1867 and 1936 Churches.

St Mary's, home to an unchanging faith.

Before the Church existed at Yuna, Mass was said on this rock.

A sense of parish community is strong at St Mary's.

At a glance Parish: St Mary's, Northampton.

Parish Priest: Father Des Reid CSSp. Assistant Priest Father Tom Crean CSSp. Address: Mary Street, Northampton, 3135.

Telephone: 099-34-1190.

Fax 099-34-1397 Masses: Weekdays 8.30 am.

Saturday (Vigil) 6.30 pm.

Sunday 8 am. Saturday Nanson 6 pm; Yuna 7.30 pm; Sundays Kalbarri 5 pm and Shark Bay 5 pm.

Reconciliation: 30 minutes before all Masses.

Parish School: St Mary's, Northampton.

Principal: Mr Greg Wyss.

PRAYING &THINKING WITH THE POPE Nine Seminars on the teaching of Pope John Paul ll to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of his ordination. Speakers Include Archbishop Hickey. Every Sunday 13 October -8 December at St Mary's Parish Centre, 40 Franklin St, Leederville.

Commencing at 7:30pm with Rosary.

Enquiries & programs: Thomas More Centre 321 2822.

HEARING GOD'S CALL A day of reflection and prayer for young women (ages 18-35) to explore God's call in your life today. Sunday 27 October, ' 9.00 am to 4.00pm at Mary McKillop Centre, 16 York St, South Perth WA. RSVP 20 ' Oct. Contact Sr Wendy Ph: 474 3349 Fax 368 2018 or Srs Margaret and Wendy Ph/Fax 478 1038.

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Archdiocesan Panorama MELBOURNE CUP LUNCHEON Tuesday November 5th a luncheon will be held at Little Sisters of the Poor, Home for the Aged, Rawlins St, Glendalough, commencing 10.30am. Tickets $20 per head, available at the Home or phone 341 1495. Book early - numbers limited.

ST THERESE REFLECTIONS Prayerful Reflection on the life and message of StTherese of Lisieux (1873 - 1897) in preparation for the centenary of her death. Blessing with a relic of the saint, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

Third Wednesday of Each Month at Infant

Jesus Church, Morley beginning Wednesday 16 October at 7.15pm.

Enquiries: 276 8497.

FRATERNITY OF ST PETER Fr John Rizzo of the Fraternity of St Peter is visiting Perth and will offer a sung Traditional Latin Mass with Gregorian Chant in St Mary's Cathedral, Perth on Tuesday 15 October at 7.30pm. You may meet with Fr Rizzo after Mass in the Conference Room at Mercedes College (beneath Assumption Chapel). Fr Rizzo will also offer Low Mass at St John's Pro Cathedral, Victoria Ave, Perth at 6.00pm on

Monday 14 & Wednesday 16 October.

Enquiries: Dr T Whipple Ph: 457 5860.

FAMILY QUIZ NIGHT Hosted by the Australian Family Association on Saturday 19 October at 7.30pm in the Golden Nugget Room, Gloucester Park, Nelson Crescent, East Perth (free parking within Gloucester Park's Grounds). Items for prizes & auction.

Enquiries or bookings, Ph: 321 2333.

SISTERS OF MERCY MASS The Sisters of Mercy (West Perth) invite you to a Remembrance and Thanksgiving Mass on Sunday 3 November at 3pm, St Mary's Church, Franklin St, Leederville. Afternoon tea will follow in the Parish Centre. Enquiries: Ph: 328 6991.

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