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DIVORCE Divorce figures released this week tell a sad story according to local tribunal Brian Father judge, O 'Loughlin who explains Church attitude to this c omplex problem. Story pages 4 and 5.
v SISTERS The Sisters of the Infant Jesus have a brief history in Australia but their work throughout the rest of the world dates from the 1600's. Read about the beginnings of the Order on Pages 10 and 11.
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ABORIGINALS Christians many of churches last Sunday committed themselves to pray and fast for 40 days in the interest of good legislation being passed for Aboriginal land rights. Story Page 16.
PERTH, WA: 14 — 20 February, 1985
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Compassion means giving until it hurts; otherwise don't give, Columban missionary Father Brian Gore said in St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday. Launching the 1985 Lenten Project Compassion appeal he said: "In all honesty we cannot say, if we look Jesus in the face, that we Catholics have given until it hurts." The congregation at the 10am Mass included 110 people who will be promoting Project Compassion in their parishes. After Father Gore's homily the representatives of the 67 parishes came up to Archbishop Foley to be commissioned and receive the parish promotion kit. questioned Father Gore whether the $250,000 Project Compassion funds given by the people of Perth archdiocese in 1 984 is real compassion.
R AILWAYS Jack Byrne has had a long history with the Railways, 49 years in fact, and is a life member of the Railway Officers' Union. Bob Boyle talks to him about the old days of steam in our Today's People feature on Pages 6 and 7.
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He said that there was no question that the people in overseas countries needed financial help but t hey also wanted the better-off countries to have a change of heart. He said people could be assured by the guarantee of the archbishop that money given to Project Compassion was reaching the people they really want to help.
It was not good enough to give handouts which
tomorrow were all gone. Help had to be given to people to help themselves, to liberate themselves from injustice and suffering. Father Gore said that the Fact that two-thirds of humankind are living in poverty with undernourishment and hunger was the root of instability and
revolutionary insurrection around the world. He said that one of the priorities of Christians was to ask why this was happening; to be concerned for the fact that we are responsible for our less fortunate brothers and sisters. The Lenten appeal was a multi-pronged attack on the problem: changing ourselves in line with
Parishes plan big compassion drive for 1985
the gospel message of love and service but also offering our lives to our friends and neighbours and alleviating their situation according to our means, he said. He said the challenge was to maximise. not minimise our effort, to give until it hurts otherwise it was better not to give.
Strike CITY VATICAN (NC) — Vatican lay workers seeking a definite raise in pay have proclaimed a "state of agitation" to protest what they said was the Vatican's unresponsiveness to their requests.
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The dispute is over a basic adjustment of pay scales. which would include linking wages to the rate of inflation. Last June, as a temporary solution, the Vat ican announced that its 1800 lay workers would receive raises ranging from 8 per cent to 20 per cent.
Lenten Regulations -Ash Wednesday (February 20) is a day of fasting from food and abstinence from eating meat. All Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from the eating of meat. The period in which to fulfil the obligation of receiving Holy Communion at least once a year, commences on Ash Wednesday.
A t St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday Miss Margaret Brown of East Perth representing the Cathedral parish was one of 110 representatives from 65 parishes who received from Archbishop Foley a special parish promotion kit for Project Compassion.