A PRESENTATION TO ST GERARD'S GIRL
St Gerard's parish Mirrabooka was to the fore this week at the Australian Jaycees Outstanding Young Australians Awards when one of the finalists Margaret Talbot found herself receiving her award from the Premier, Mr Brian Burke, also a St Gerard's parishioner, and a state award winner himself last year. One of the panel judging the 26 entrants submitted was Mrs Sue Burke. Others were Father Brian Morrison, Mr Ross McLean and the chairman Mr Peter Snow. The other four finalists who along with Margaret Talbot go to the national final in Queensland are Judith Jones of Bunbury, cricketer Dennis Lillee, drug rehabilitation worker Graham Nicholls, and pilot Brent Watson. Speaking on behalf of the judges, Father Morrison said the five qualities looked for in the finalists were: influence for good in the community, the capacity to be creative in some new or different area of community endeavour, a quality of initiative, a sense of compassion, a sense of c aring. C ommenting on the high qualities of all 26 entrants, Father Morrison said if theirs was the common lifestyle of all people, there would be no problems in this world. Margaret Talbot is a 26-year-old nursing assistant at the Inglewood Home of Peace. She gives most of her day — working and private -- to the care of the sick and underprivileged. She began her community involvement at the age of 18 as a member of the St Gerards Youth Group moving into the St Vincent De Paul Society during 1979 and from there into the St Vincents night shelter for homeless men in 1981. She always addresses herself to the common person. Always ready to assist in whatever way necessary to relieve hardship or suffering without any thought of personal reward, her work with the St Vincents epitomises her whole outlook on life. It is against this background that makes Margaret's contribution to our society most worthwhile.
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As examples of those suffering from religious persecution in the form of "permanent restriction of personal freedom or social discrimination," Pope John Paul listed "parents who a re refused the possibility of securing for their children an education built on their faith." "The French Church and the pope have strongly criticised a plan by the c ountry's socialist government to nationalise Catholic schools. "Today, to prisons, concentration camps, hard labour, expulsion from one's own country, have been added other forms o f punishment, less remarked upon but more subtle: not a bloody death, but a sort of civil death -- not only segregation in a prison or in a camp, but permanent restriction of personal freedom or social discrimination," Pope John Paul said.
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LOURDES, (NC) Illuminated by the flames of thousands of candles, Pope John Paul II called last Sunday for an end to religious persecution throughout the world. The pope closed the first day of his 30-hour visit to Lourdes by joining in the traditional nightly candlelight procession at Lourdes, one of the world's most famous Marian shrines. In an address to 200,000 people after the procession, he also pointedly criticised the government of French President Francois Mitterand, with whome he had met earlier in the day.
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