No. 3667. PERTH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1974
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Nun appointed to a special post in Aboriginal work The Archdiocese of Perth is taking a further step in its progressive programme for Aboriginal welfare with the appointment of a full-time Religious sister to carry out specialised work in the metropolitan area. Quoting an Aboriginal Her first six months will She is Sister Patricia Rafferty, a Daughter of Charity woman leader, Sister Patric- be devoted entirely to getliving at Ave Maria House, ia said that there were two ting to know the Aboriginal Highgate, who will work tasks ahead. scene in Perth and becomOne was to share the ing aware of some of its out of a special office established at 205 Royal Street, skills of one's own life with needs. the Aboriginal and a secEast Perth. Sister Patricia has been ond was not to lose credi- THE RECORD six years in W.A. during bility with the white popuCommenting on the apwhich time she spent three lation at the same time. She gave as an example pointment, Father Barry years doing home visitation in the Herne Hill and West of the latter St. Vincent de Hickey, Director of the Perth area; she had prev- Paul, a co-founder of her Catholic Family Welfare that the iously spent three years do- Congregation, who, she Bureau, said ing similar parish visitation said, who was highly placed Church in W.A. had an unin East Preston, Victoria. in the French Court but in surpassed record in the In December, to prepare the course of his work for work it had done for more herself for this special ap- the poor never lost credibil- than a century for Aborigpointment, she attended a ity with his influential ines in New Norcia, the North-West, at Wandering missionary conference in friends. and the Pallottine Centre. Sydney on the subject of FOURTH Aboriginal care. This work, he said, had This will be the fourth been patiently carried out CULTURES special activity undertaken at a time when there was Sister Patricia said that by the Daughters of Charity little public support or unit was a revelation to her since they arrived in W.A. derstanding of the Aborigto be confronted at the con- in 1956, the others being inal's difficulties. ference by militant Aborig- St. Vincent's Hospital, the ines and to have to come night shelter for women ( • Continued Page 2) to grips with the problem and the soup kitchen. of the cross-over of cultures Sister Patricia feels that ON INSIDE PAGES that took place in any mis- in a particular way she will sionary activity. be able to give support Calendar 4 "To be an effective mis- especially Aboriginal wo- Children's Mass sionary," she added, "one men and their husbands, Guidelines 6, 7 has to be able to bridge the particularly in their home Letters 11 cultural gap that separates problems. Music 8 the missionary from the She goes into this work 4 other culture into which he with no pre-conceived solu- News In Pars hopes to move and work." tions to imagined problems. Sister Philomena
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• Sister Patricia Rafferty, Daughter of Charity, standing outside the modest terrace house in Royal Street, East Perth, from which she will work in her new apostolate to metropolitan Aborigines.
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EDINBURGH. — Scotland's bishops have called for implementation of "fundamental principles of social justice" as the answer to Britain's economic ills.
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People should not have to work excessive hours to I • From "THE UNIVERSE", London earn a living wage, they say. And pensioners and People should therefore "In the application of those unabje to work should work within the framework these principles to the soluhave proper financial secdemocratically-enacted tion of our own problems of urity. laws, act with integrity in and the improvement of our In a statement released pay negotiations, observe own standard of living, we after a meeting of the en- their moral obligation to must keep in mind the tire hierarchy the bishops vote in national and trade- needs of developing counstress that the worst hit by union elections, and accept tries; no country has the the present emergency are their just share of any nec- right to a high standard of the people least able to essary hardships. living at the expense of anthemselves; protect the The statement says: "The other country's low standpoor, the aged and the in- first principle is that every ard." firm. working person has the right "Our heart goes out in to a living wage without THE PROBLEM sympathy to them all," they having to work excessive How to implement these basic prinicples without socsay. hours. "The second principle ially destructive inflation, But they are concerned concerns those who, because says the statement, is the about the future as much of sickness, retirement, un- problem which confronts as with the current crisis. employment or some other the Government, the The present problems are legitimate reason are not in trade unions and the employers' organisations alike, going to continue to face receipt of earnings. the unions, government and "Such persons nave a :Ind will continue to conemployers in the years right to financial provision front them in the years ahead "irrespective of their that will ensure for them ahead irrespective of their political persuasions," they and their dependants reas- political persuasions. say. onable comfort and security. ( • Continued Page 2)
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