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The Vatican's Secretary of State, 'Cardinal Casaroli, has forwarded a I special youth message from John Paul II to Archbishop Foley coinciding with the conclusion of the International Youth Year conference. See pages 4 and 5.
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riFormer Perth full L—Itime youth worker Linda Baker, now working in Adelaide, gave one of the keynote addresses at the Youth Conference. See story page 2.
Perth diocese raises a record sum for Catholic Missionaries. See Mission director's report page 3.
Ccx The Youth Mass at St Mary's Cathedral was a fitting climax to the International Youth Year conference. See Record reporter COLLEEN HOWARD'S story, pages 4 and 5
Record reporter BOB BOYLE talks to Vaughan Hanly, noted violinist and a leader of the state's orchestral enthusiasts. See story and pictures pa es 6 and 7.
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At St Brigid's chapel Craigie last week the community novice Sister Elsie Tagliaferri took a sheaf of wheat and handed a ribboned ear of grain to each of 50 Sisters of Mercy gathered to launch 16 sisters on their new appointments. Before Mass was celebrated by Archbishop Foley Sister Beverley Stott, congregational superior, told the sisters to reflect on their part in the coming of the Kingdom of God. They were sent, she said, to scatter the seed of God. What happened after that was not their's to fret about, she said. Archbishop Foley told the sisters their spiritual growth was like the small mustard Archbishop Foley pictured with Sisters of Mercy taking up new seed of the gospels growing into a large tree. appointments: Sister Carmel Wringe, principal of the new Catholic Christ had entered their lives at baptism primary school at Padbury; Sister Margaret Tallon, counsellor andparish and religious profession not just for them12 commencing month a worker at Newman; Sister Clare Rafferty selves but for their mission to others. leadership course at Randwick, Sister Kathryn O'Callaghan principal of Lake Gregory Aboriginal school.
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LIMA (Peru): John Paul duringPope his 11 day trip to four South American countries constantly referred to economic reform, alleviation of suffering of the poor and peaceful not revolutionary strategies to bring about change. "The Church never tires of asking for a radical redefinition of progress and development," Pope John Paul in Ecuador said at a Mass on the theme, "the world of labour."
"How long will man, and the men of the Third World, have to unjustly support precedence of economic processes over yearned for
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human rights and, in particular, the rights of workers and their families?" asked the pope. The human dignity of the worker is the principle which "should determine the potential of industrial production and of all social, political and economic processes," he said. If this principle is not followed, it means that "one wants to continue with the shocking imbalance of a small percentage of people who enjoy goods while a high percentage lack them, above all in the Third World," he added In the development of productivity, the pope defended "the principle of the priority of work over capital," but added that both are neces-
sary and should work in harmony. Labour and management should respect each other's legitimate interests and aspirations and form agreements which consider the "limit imposed by the economic situation of the country," the pope said. Earlier in Venezuela, Pope John Paul said "the primacy of economic processes over enviable human rights" has for too long caused injustice in the Third World. "Technology can become — and already has become — alienating and manipulatory to the point we must morally reject the presence of a certain technological ideology because it has • Cont page 5