PERTH, WA: 27 December, 1984 — 2 January, 1985
Number 2413
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AN AUDIENCE Western Australia's Crocetti family which includes three nuns and a priest had a private audience with John Paul II. . . See story and pictures pages 2 and 3.
AMBULANCE A new Survive ambulance vehicle for use in the Aitape district of Paupa New Guinea has been handed over at the Knights of the Southern Cross West Perth headquarters. See story and picture, page 4.
A NTIOCH Maida Vale parish recently conducted its first Antioch weekend and it was judged one of the best Antioch gatherings held. See story and pictures in Youth Forum page 13.
BEFORE AND AFTER Whitfords Catholic Primary School came of age this month when its original foundation pupils from opening in 1978 had their final day before moving to high schools next year. See Parish Pump, page 16.
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A remarkable worldwide consensus exists among young people about the necessity of peace, and this constitutes a tremendous potential force for the good of all. 'But young people must not be satisfied with an instinctive desire for peace: this desire must be transformed into a firm moral conviction that encompasses the full range of human problems and builds on deeply treasured values. 'The world needs young people who have drunk deeply at the sources of truth. 'You have to listen to the truth and for this you need purity of heart; you have to understand it, and for this you need deep humility; you have to surrender to it and share it, and for this you need the strength to resist the temptations of pride, selfishness and manipulation. 'You must form in yourselves a deep sense of responsbility.
YOUTH HOLDS EACE 'KY'
VATICAN CITY: Youth holds the key to 'tomorrow's peace depending on the answers they give to two vital questions, says the pope in the traditional New Year's peace message. He tells youth not to he afraid to ask themselves and their elders "What is your idea of man?" and then to go to an even more fundamental question "Who is your God". Linking its ideas to International the Youth Year this 18th papal statement on peace since Pope Paul VI started the custom just after Vatican II says peace and injustice depend on the moral choices that face youth for their future. Urging them not to flee from responsibiity into the fantasy world of alcohol.
When The Record office opened on Monda Morning it was good news as parishes reported sell-outs of their increased C hristmas and quotas r equested more copies: Nedlands 74 extra copies; Highgate 70; Mirrabooka 60; Belmont 30; Bassendean 20.
What I see arising in you is a new awareness of your responsibility and a fresh sensitivity to the needs of your fellow human beings. You are touched by the hunger for peace that so many share with you. You are troubled by so much injustice around you. You sense overwhelming danger in the gigantic stockpiles of arms and in the threats of nuclear war. You suffer when you see widespread hunger and malnutrition. You are concerned about the environment today and for the coming generations You are threatened by unemployment, and many of you are already without work and without the prospect of meaningful employment. You are upset by the large number of people who are oppressed politically and spiritually and who cannot enjoy the exercise of their basic human rights as individuals or as a community. All this can give rise to a feeling that life has little meaning.
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drugs, uncommitted sex. CylliCiSM, indifference and even violence Pope John Paul H says: "Put yourselves on guard against the fraud of a world wanting to exploit or misdirect your energetic and powerful search for meaning and happiness." He says some parents resort to offering their children more material goods as an answer to their lives and that they are "passing on to younger generations a world that will be poor in spiritual values, poor in peace and poor in fustice." "Ask yourselves what kind of people you want yourselves and your fellow human beings to be, and
what culture you want to build." The question "Who is your God?" cannot be restricted to the sphere of a person's private existence, he added. "It is impossible to separate this question from the history of nations. Wherever the refusal of God exists a shadow of fear c.-asts is pall. "Fear is born wherever God dies in the consciences of human beings. Wherever God dies in the conscience of the human person, the death of man, the image of God inevitably follows. Upon the choices of each one of you will depend the future of your brothers and sisters.